jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah I disagree here. The general public's knowledge on WW2 and their perception of that war usually has been very disproportionately influenced and shaped directly by the post wars memoirs of german generals & other important figures of the 3rd Reich. Which is why there are so many myths and outright falsehoods on the war (pushed by those authors to rehabilitate/distance themselves from their own actions) that are still very very widely believed to be true. It's pretty fitting that "history is written by the victors" is one of those narratives.

Plus it makes even less sense when ww2 Germany is almost always believed to have been way ahead of the allies technologically. Way more than they actually were, so unless the allies were veryyy bad at rewriting history to erase Germany's contributions... I'd probably guess It's more due to it being a very obscure technology and had almost no "cool" factor, and v. little influence on the overall technology compared to the V-2 or jet fighters
Yeah, the debate between the left and right in the US [1] is basically irrelevant to the well-being of the average person. Though, I think the distinction between authoritarian and libertarian definitely does matter. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Finland and Switzerland are both rigorously democratic: Nordic countries have strong labour unions and worker co-determination [2] to keep big businesses honest, while Switzerland has direct democracy [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-determination

[3] https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik/ue...
Because the article takes the opportunity to vent gratuitous personal bile alongside its factual claims and links. That brings out the worst in people, and it brings out the worst in people here. See my point about protecting the container above.

We don't need the callout/shaming culture on HN. If the facts in the article are important, someone else will write a factual article that doesn't have a side channel of putdowns and snark. Then we can have a thread based on that article instead.

I suppose I should add that I have no opinion about Tim's role in web governance, only about Hacker News.
Subscriptions make sense with Podcasts. It's kind of like a season pass for a TV show on iTunes. They tend to be something you follow and want each episode of rather than something you listen to once. I think this is mainly because finding something you like is difficult (good content, good hosts, good length, good production values) so you stick with it when you find it.
To all the 'oh noes - another framework people' - there's a pattern here. We're going through a transition that isn't complete.

(I might have the details wrong but here's the flavour)

Backbone was a good start - Ember and later angular offered to fulfil a genuine need but after a long period of bedding in, many people have become dissatisfied with them.

React (and a few similar frameworks that appeared around thw same time) turned everyone's head and seemed to offer a much better way forward. However it was only part of the jigsaw. It can be described as the V in MVC with some suggestions on the right way to add the M and C ('Flux').

So - what we're seeing now is a lot of people who've had time to digest React+Flux and are releasing a complete MVC package that incorporates all the lessons learnt.
Consider how long we had the "just use jQuery" phase of front-end development. It's just time for pendulum to swing back the other way.
Slightly related question: are there any standard workloads and tools out there for experimenting with elevator programming?

My apartment building has a utility elevator and two normal elevators. Each floor has two sets of call buttons. These have been programmed in different ways over the years, and I've always been curious if there was a good way to quantify the changes.
> By robustness I mean the brain is pretty hard to exploit.

As others have pointed out, the complete opposite is true.
More like, if you make your employees buy their own computers, the company saves lots of money!
We'll never completely run out of IPv4 addresses.

Meanwhile the top agencies distributing IPv4 blocks have ran out of them a decade ago.
Recently it was the time for a lower level agency to run out - for Europe.

There's a lot of things that people don't care about until it's too late. Governments are supposed to be able to plan decades in advance. And they do, for things like digital TV. (And I already gave an example of governments acting to push IPv6.)

CGNAT is causing issues in that some protocols simply don't work properly through them. IPv6 also allows for simpler networking, since you don't have to add the extra abstraction layer that is NAT.
A buffer per directory is just the right thing for dired to do, for the same kind of reason that it is right that git has a staging area. Your problem is that this behaviour causes friction with how you prefer to manage buffers. Some suggestions:

- With the regular buffer list, if you keep typing letters, the view will restrict to buffers containing that string

- All the usual selection narrowing options, e.g. Helm, work here

- You can rebind 'q' to 'kill-buffer-and-its-windows

- A lot of people like ibuffer, which allows you to group kinds of buffer in its buffer list, e.g. all dired buffers
And still there is a 'follow us on FB' button on the EFF website and this specific page, which acts as a tracker (and as such gets blocked on Firefox).
Yeah, as a bootstrapper on a shoestring budget I'm not gonna dump a load of money into eg LinkedIn ads and just hope and pray that something happened. I need to know if they worked.
Ah, so hype == love.
Generally sausages are made from offcuts. It's not like an entire pig is slaughtered, ground up, and stuffed back into its own intestines.
The problem is that many of these "toxic people" are one's relatives that you can't just easily cut out of your life. Before social media, when they started on a racist rant or something you could get them to change the topic to sports or something, but these days they get encouragement in their extreme views from lots of other people they would have never met in real life.
I could not agree more. I kept scrolling waiting to see some tables or graphs.

Sweden seems to be a COVID Rorschach test. Whatever you believe the correct response is/was you can point to Sweden to support your point. You can see it in this thread. They didn't lock down and they were fine! They didn't lock down and they had a bunch of needless deaths!
Your weight numbers could do with some units. I hope / expect you're talking 125kg down to 100kg. But I'm an Aussie living in the US so I have a clue what you mean. I suspect many Americans wouldn't.
> I got an open ended problem that would take a measure of forever to solve: Specifically to write a program (in your favorite language!) that would do natural language processing and discern emotions and feelings about subjects from text. We were supposed to include our own lexical parser.

I know of a YC alumni company that asks for a weekend project on roughly that level and when rejected candidates ask if they can upload their work to Github, the company declines because they'd "like to keep an even playing field for future candidates."

Then you're left with choosing between having an awesome project you can't show off and being an inconsiderate jerk who uploaded code despite being asked not to.

Doesn't really make one enthusiastic for the next time you're asked to do an "exercise" or a "project."
I know! It's almost like there are a bunch of different federal agencies, with different schedules and wide-ranging and sometimes contradictory sets of goals.
Yes, it's a tradeoff. Not doing TDD is trading quality for speed. See the Iron Triangle of PM: fast, good, or cheap, you can pick two at most.
Alpaca does a decent job on the API front https://alpaca.markets/
Can you explain why you think inflation is the biggest problem of mankind?
89% of horse riders were afraid of riding a train.
I wonder if it's an age thing. I'm 20, I have quite little fear and I think most of my peers feel the same way. I'm planning to buy a Tesla the second they let me buy one with bitcoin and I 100% plan to daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready, I really can't picture any of my friends being like wtf turn that shit off.

Edit: Disregard, I thought it was self driving related not full robotaxi that shit is spooky. I'd do it but I'd let other ppl do it for a few months first.
Hardware tokens like a Yubi key prevent this.
Fundamental attribution error.
And how many lines of codes that they wrote (published)? This is also a calculatable number. Dividing this by the hours, you'll see how productive they are.

My guess is somewhere like 10 lines/hour if they're lucky.
Well actually, Win10 font rendering is broken, i.e. 1 and l look completely the same on Courier New on Win10, but not on Win7 ... there are years old bug reports (it broke in some feature update), but of course those have been ignored.
IIRC the "forward slash" convention for Windows command options traces back to DOS, not VMS. Where DOS inherited the convention from I do not know.
Trying to find any live examples or sample code I ended up with this:

https://www.khronos.org/openxr/ =>
static const XrDebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagsEXT XR_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_CONFORMANCE_BIT_EXT = 0x00000008;

This is conceptually on the other end of VRML and it's not clear if 3D rendering in the browser is even one of its goals
> gaffer's tape is easily removed

I used to think this, too. Then I used it on shitty Ikea "melamine" "tables" and now my CTO has to stare at tables that look like they're missing patches of fur. At least both tables cost less than the roll of tape!
With respect, after you.

I don’t really want to out my IP address by posting anonymously. I don’t really want to link a Wikipedia account to my HN account by having you correlate content. I don’t really want to put the effort into writing something only to have it reverted by some jumped up weirdo who guards “their” page.

Reading Wikipedia is great. Edition on the other hand is, for me, a byline for hyper dramatic pseudonymous social media. I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.
Nitrome was the best! I especially loved their Steamlands game. You build these tanks to fight pirate tanks in a steampunk England.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/steamlandsplayerpack/
>The article is arguing that you aren't likely to be able to pick the ones that will grow faster than the economy as a whole over the time frame you intend, because it relies on an extreme amount of right-place-right-time luck. If you were looking for the next Beanie Baby for the last 20 years, do you think you would've found it?

While that might be true for toys, it's not entirely true for art. Some old paintings of reasonable quality which aren't already sold at exorbitant prices will go up in price because of scarcity. After the buyers will decide they can't afford the best known ones and current favorites, their attention will switch to what can afford.

For modern art you have to find quality. Because at some point in time its value will rise.

So, it's possible to knowingly buy art which will appreciate, the only question is if it will beat the stock market.

As for that, if I'll buy something, I won't do it as an investment. I will be happy to not lose money.
>Science CONFIRMS

>It’s THOUGHT that these oscillatory patterns, and an increase in gamma waves, SUGGEST memory recall

tl;dr clickbait
It was Apple that decided Flash's fate, ever since Steve Jobs refused to support it on the most important end-user platform, like, ever.

Which is funny, because for years Flash only ever ran well on Mac OS 9 in Internet Explorer 5. Any other browser/OS combo and you were looking at dropped frames, and/or audio that couldn't keep in sync with the video. It really was a tool for designers, and accordingly Mac OS was the platform that got the most love.
> Everyone alive will have pretty deeply inculcated norms around fairness, cooperation, and institutions.

Sorry, but this is extremely naive. Take some time to talk to people who live in high-crime areas and learn about what life is like without those norms. Now imagine everything 10000x worse, because modern society and infrastructure means starvation just doesn't happen all that often. People kill each other over money today, when food becomes more valuable, you don't want to be there...
I think it's the kind of essays that are in the "not even wrong realm", that yet manages to pull anyone reading this in the wrong direction.
I'm not an artist even though I spend quite some time painting, so that may be the reason for my difference of interpretation.

>the prayer beads seem uncannily real [...] Van Eyck must have spent days to stare at them (shortened)

Of course not. By the time he painted that, he was an accomplished painter. Therefore, he knew already (formally or not) to look at specular highlights, reflected lights, how the shadow works, etc. At some point, you could reduce all of the observation to light interacting with material. But like you do with math, you have a reduced number of special cases for which you can remember the result without deriving each individual steps.

>It’s longer than a normal human neck!

It's a kind of weird fetishization of "master artists". Any mistake they can make is an incredible deliberate choice.
The people who say that generally would not be able to distinguish a 'master painting' from other paintings from the same era by 'minor artists'.
They can only everything through the prism of what their art history book tell them they should think.
Why is the perspective wrong on the scallop shell, what is the statement for the sea looking like a wallpaper? Did Botticelli never see the sea before painting it?

Then going to Van Gogh. There is no consistent theory that makes a Boticelli "good" and both Van Gogh paintings "good". They obey entirely different concepts of what "art" is supposed to be.

The part about explaining how to build up concepts in programming seems way more interesting, but it seems to me that it would be much be without the analogy with art that is built upon layers of misunderstanding. To me this is exactly the kind of mental burden that I had to painfully unlearn before I could start improving in the ways of art, and reconstruct a mental model of how things actually work.
Depends on what you need. For simple stuff Wrick Editor[0] might be good enough.

[0] https://www.wickeditor.com/
> each additional speculator improves the informedness of the market overall

I don't think that can be true. Leaving bitcoin aside for a moment, if a new speculator comes into the stock market who truly believes (perhaps due to misleading marketing) that "stocks only go up". This is clearly not the case from an objective standpoint. How would the entrance of such a speculator improve the informedness of the market as a whole?
> To me Telegram is better even from a privacy point. Sure, if someone breaks into the Telegram servers can read you messages, but to me that isn't the first privacy concern.

For a lot of people, that's exactly the concern.

> Also Signal is open source but not really open. In Telegram you can use whatever client you want, in Signal you are forbidden to use anything else than the official client.

There's nothing in open source that requires people running services to allow anyone to connect to it however they like. You still have the freedom to inspect, modify, run and distribute both the server and client, so it's to see what part of that in "not really open".

> And the official client is open source, but it depends on proprietary services, like the Google Play services on Android, so you really can't use it on a 100% open source system.

I agree, this is annoying. But it depends on your threat model and it seems that most people don't see Google as the threat to protect against.

> You can't even find online the Signal apk by their choice, so the only official way is to install it from the Google Play Store

https://signal.org/android/apk/

> (and how do you verify that the apk that Google provided to you doesn't contain a backdoor?)

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Interestingly, I've had more success reporting on Instagram than Facebook...
Changing the block size was so controversial that it split the community and created years of bad blood and claims of shilling. I don't believe that the core devs are capable of making such a huge change as moving to PoS.
This is pretty cool! Do you guys know if there is a web app that lets you create dashboards like this one?
Very curious if this had any correlation with the clawback of pre-IPO shares. Essentially when Zynga wrecked the last social contract between founders and workers by taking back pay in the form of shares, they may have been doing it to restrict the effect of those workers knowledge of falling profits on the IPO price.

Mark Pincus has done more to hurt the environment of silicon valley than any figure in my recent memory.
I don't believe it is that interesting. New stories often contain information that does not directly pertain to the headline..
So dynamic programming?
http://www.gov.cn/

That will show them!

/s
It's hard for the public to care when there is no concrete evidence of harm. The government knows this and is working hard to make sure that any harm done by mass surveillance is hidden using parallel construction.

What is an interesting and useful game is to imagine a scenario which would trigger massive public outrage over the use of mass surveillance. What would really drive the point home that this is a truly dangerous amount of power? To be honest, I don't think a single major mistake with a citizen would do it (e.g. killing someone based on mass surveillance). Too many apologists would make the case that this is cherry picking and that it's just an exceptional case. A pattern of mistakes would perhaps be better (putting thousands of people on the no fly list for no reason), but these kinds of stories tend to be too cerebral for the general public to focus on (although people like Colbert and John Oliver are really good at solving that problem!)

I think the only thing that might do it would be a Watergate style scandal where one group of powerful people use the machinery to mess with another group of powerful people. Consider how much more seriously Feinstein took the CIA when it became clear they were spying on her and her staff during the torture investigations. Or Angela Merkel's reaction to her cell phone being tapped. So, unfortunately have to wait for the machinery to be wielded against the powerful because it's (clearly) easy to get away with wielding it against the rest of us.
They should redirect the attack to the server hosting the script as a friendly encouragement to use encryption.
I wonder if this is what you really believe, or if you're a shill paid to perpetuate this line of thinking to discourage/disillusion people who care about their rights.

Sure, some people don't care and are blissfully caught up in a manufactured world of consumerism, but that does not generalise to the rest of the population.
Eh, not really. Switzerland was never a member of CoCOM and only joined the Waessenar Agreement b/c there is no binding requirement for the Waessenar Agreement. Switzerland's export controls on dual-use (military and civilian) technology basically don't exist.
you should definitely align Scribophile's header center.
Caching will help you on reloads - depending on browser configurations - this cannot be relied on. It's good you now have proper thumbnails.

I took a very brief look at your HTML. I don't know why in some browsers the image wont be clickable. Having an <img> nested in an <a> should be fine. However I will say make sure your image tag is terminated properly: it should end with a trailing slash: />.

Also, you have a lot of table action going on. Whilst it's fine for your general tabular layout, there's no reason to have nested tables.

Re the sizing, without a detailed look I don't know. You are specifying td widths. These will only be honoured so far as the browser can conform to these. Resizing the window may break this for example. You could also try specifying a width for each image.

Also, re styling, a little bit of css will get you a long way.
obvious perhaps, but have you considered ebay or etsy?
If they make 3% profit per annum, and they have no growth, it would only take 3.33 years of profits for them to be able to finance 10% of stock...?

Surely this would be a better use of capital than the enormous risk of relying on commercial paper/short term credit lines?
In the not-very-likely event that anyone here hasn't already seen it, the same author's authoritative work on How To Destroy The Earth is worth a look: http://qntm.org/geocide .

(Apparently he's in the process of turning it into a book: http://qntm.org/news_book .)
I would always use font management.

No one uses 2000 fonts at the same time and with font management you can group them into different categories. Also if they are needed most applications will ask for them and activate them. So no need to keep them active all the time.

I seem to remember that windows would take longer to load if my font folder where filled with stuff but I might be wrong (it might have been the amount of files I left on my desktop)

Personally I prefer Linotype FontExplorerX http://www.fontexplorerx.com/

It exist as a free version too which is normally more then you need.
There's a kind of kudos in having been able to fool so many apparently savvy investors for so long, I guess. Most people of this type - which includes some very successful non-criminals too - seem to have the characteristic of being completely unconcerned about the victims (or "customers"), instead just seeing what they were doing as a demand and supply issue.
Why is your app sending anything over the network unencrypted? You're making HTTP requests (not HTTPS)??
You can tell who is talking with whom.
Why do you think it is the anti-GMO groups and not the other way around? I’m naturally more suspicious of the groups that have the most money invested, in the same way tobacco companies had more investments at stake than medical researchers funded by government grants, and big oil and coal have more (money) to lose than climate scientists.

Of course Monsanto et al have invested a lot of money into research that shows that GMOs are safe. That is of course not in any way proof that there is anything wrong with that research, but it definitely makes me more careful in interpreting the results.
I just had my ears cleaned and had a clump of ear wax around the size of a kidney bean come out. Quite frankly I was horrified but had had suspicions about hearing issues in the prior weeks.

The nurse essentially has an angled syringe that they use to repeatedly spray warm water at the wax until it’s dislodged. It’s not a nice sensation but tolerable.

After the procedure was done, the nurse had asked if I regularly had in ear headphones or earplugs - which was the case. So be aware of this issue.
I’m talking about workers. Machines even if they were used are also managed by workers.

The actual value generation occurred there. Not at the capital allocation point.

Church of capitalism might have convinced to otherwise. But if I pay you to carry 10kgs up a mountain I can’t then say: “I carried 10kg up a mountain” ...
If they get it wrong with under moderation then they get people complaining they're allowing nazis, spam, baby eaters, etc. This affects ads.

If they get it wrong with over moderation people just think they're stupid. This does not affect ads.
This article was written by my 16yo son, who has been taking a machine learning class with Eurisko.
How do you handle finding occurrences of a specific variable with the same name as another one? Simple text search has the power equivalence of a dull butter knife.