jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't make any sense. You're saying you have made some sort of value judgement, presumably based on logic and information, but if someone sends you a piece of propaganda you'd totally change your position? You don' t play poker, do you?

Sending out propaganda is a new piece of information. When someone is trying really hard to get you to believe something, or act in a particular way, that in and of itself is informative. You don't play Magic The Gathering, do you?
What is this low-quality cynicism? Why do you think that it's his service?
> What are the chances that in an environment where the USD is not usable, there is an available network and electricity that makes bitcoin usable?

The post you replied to said unstable or high inflation, not unusable. An unstable dollar will not instantly bring about the apocalypse, there are plenty of real life examples of unstable, high inflation currencies. The currencies took years to fully fail.

Not to mention, a few years of hyper-inflation don't even imply that the currency will fail.
My wife works at some huge company, and is so forced to use IE6. Apparently Google Maps and many other useful websites don't work anymore and crash the browser (No, I didn't care enough to check :). So yes, the end really is near.
The slip coach concept involves simply decoupling the last coach of the train so that it coasts into the station, therefore there is no equivalent for pick-ups - you can't just couple a coach to a fast moving train.
A google search finds more than 1,000,000 pages infected:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=http%3A%2F%...
In near future, after IE9 has been launched, every major browser has (sort of) CSS3/HTML5 support. To prevent IE7 & IE8 becoming the new "IE6" for the next half decade, it's important to let them die. As a web developer, prefer graceful degration over pixel perfection. Let everybody access the content, but require a modern browser for eye-candy. People will upgrade (even corporations!), if they were not given another option.
Then the train stops? This is intended to reduce the time to stop at small stations.

There is ample time as people are loading onto the slip coach to discover that the train needs to stop, although I think in practice this would never happen (the train operators would never be surprised by a large number of people trying to get off all at once).
It comes from Apple and is bsd-licensed. In this community, this passes for "enhancements" over gdb. Yes, this is a bitter comment about the HN community state of mind.
You know, he never really seemed happy in those stories. Except maybe the time he trolled the academy with a "featherless biped".
China will be kicked from the internet at about the same time US and their NSA will be kicked.

Which is quite unlikely. We don't kick out USA because NSA breaks into backbone routers, steal encryption codes from sim cards, and steal traffic from google search, Gmail and Facebook. China attacks github, and the reaction will be likely the same.

At some point, it is going to make a economical sense to issue a treaty against this kind of behaviors. A treaty that forbids attacking fellow nations infrastructure and businesses over the Internet will benefit everyone, and it is going to take a long time before it is commonly understood.
In terms of game mechanics, badges != leaderboards.

Your system might have worked better without the leaderboard, but with the badges?
Someone needs to introduce them to Donald Knuth.
I'm betting, without even hearing the album, but based on his prior work, that the album is chock full of samples he couldn't get cleared but wanted to include, so he decided to just release it anyway. And, as mentioned above, he's not the first person to be in that situation.
I'd love it, but their "currently on air" selection is much too limited, more limited than the free version.
Other distributions favored Gnome, like Fedora and RedHat, which has been dominating the enterprise. And maybe I'm wrong, but compared to other distros, Kubuntu was always in good shape. Back in the day when Canonical was distributing CDs, I got one as well with Kubuntu on it, so it was officially supported.

For me I used to prefer Gnome because of the apps I was using. OpenOffice or Firefox seemed to be out of place in KDE. Plus I preferred a simpler environment, of course nowadays they've gone overboard.
You say that population decreased by half, but that may not mean much if they were overpopulated by 100%. What about the incidence of disease among elk populations and livestock? One of the supposed benefits from reintroducing wolves is the positive effects for bears and coyotes as well as keeping overpopulated prey species populations down.

I'm obviously a proponent of the reintroduction of wolves to their traditional habitat where possible, but I do have some sympathy to the concerns you've expressed.
How vulnerable would this nanoscale etching be to damage? Would a scratch or abrasion ruin its hydrophobic properties?
There's a military base in use by rebels just 500m from the site of the attack. It looks like the Ukrainian military or the volunteer battalions missed their target. But I'm not here to convince you of anything, seeing as you've already made up your mind.
Agreed. A single kitchen sink page would be enough for now, just to get a feel for the base styles.
Frameworks are most often a bad idea. Use libraries instead.

Sometimes they are useful though. For instance, they make sense when routing. But in those cases, they should more like libraries as well: more lightweight. Something like Express or Koa.js but more lightweight.
Do you have any cases where NSA illegal wiretaps were used as evidence in court in a standard trial like this against a U.S. citizen? If the FBI said well our evidence is a confidential informant that would not be valid as the defense has a right to cross examine witnesses and evidence.

This guy pled guilty. Maybe it was due to fear of courts handling tech cases, or maybe it was due to the fact that there was a large amount of evidence that he committed a crime that was not simply reporting.
For non-government purposes this ID can be useful. But it is not a replacement for legal ID. It's worth pursuing for edge cases, but let's not pretend it will protect people.

This whole thing is an attempt at a technological fix for a non-technological problem. It's not practical to 'route around' bad or missing government. The logistics behind each one of these issues goes far beyond having a simple ID.
"Controversial new bill proposes higher tax for smaller businesses & start-ups".
Good point.

If the person signs up to the site's mailing list after coming from Adwords, and eventually becomes a member, will Adwords record this conversion?
does this work well for mobile sites? like in jquery mobile?
Would you like to instead:

talk about how to pivot yanukovychleaks.org to a billion dollar startup idea.

Critique their choice of web framework.

Talk about how to optimize bandwidth usage.

Critique other design choices, usage/non-usage of CSS

Discuss SEO strategies?

Other?
It means subsistence at someone else's benefit.
Thanks for the links. It's always somewhat gratifying to find my cynicism well-placed. But depressing all the same...

Is there a word for that? Something like "Schadenfreude", but including yourself in the suffering, and taking the "joy" as some form of second-rate consolation?
Ads are a form of manipulation that somehow we have been convinced is acceptable for the mere act of reading.
Well that's a direct translation of the name and using the Czech/Slovak version of Lawrence/Laurence/Laurent.

Rieka = river

Svaty = saint

Vavřinec = lawrence

A bit of fiddling around to connect the words together correctly (slavic languages are odd in this regard) and you get "Rieka svätého Vavrinca"

note: I speak awful Czech and even worse Slovak :)
No it's really like that. Advertisers habe the possibility to get white listed. But they have to pay for it.
Got a MacKeeper adware popup when clicking the logo :/
Token auth in flask is something I was going to work on soon. It should be straightforward to use a decorator to protect restricted pages. One thing I am absolutely not clear yet is how you keep the user logged if the token expires after x seconds. I mean, if the user is using the app, somehow the token expiring date should be constantly updated, right?

All this would be amazing coupled with angularjs…

Edit
Oh, and I join the question: what about flask-restful?
My town and the town next to it have 25,000 households. If you want to provide 50 mbit/sec to 20% of households, while oversubscribing by 50x, ... you've basically used up 20-40% of a simultaneous-overhead-satellite.

At any time, you can expect there will be dozens of towns of my size in the footprint.

(And, well, most of the time, the entire SF Bay Area, and the Monterey metropolitan area).

Starlink can sell tons of subscriptions, but they can't address suburban connectivity issues.

An alternative analysis, looking at the FCC RDOF areas where funds were awarded to Starlink (completely unserved by broadband-- very low density areas) areas says that Starlink can address around 50% of these households -- not counting any capacity sold to nearby users in cities or towns -- and provide 15mbps peak hour usage-- which is expected to be typical peak hour usage in a few years. https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10208168836021/FBA_LEO_RDOF_Ass...

P.S. I see your edit and that now you're making an economic argument. I totally think Starlink can be profitable. I don't think Starlink can address anything but the least dense areas and occasional fill-in in other areas, but these are still very large potential markets. As to supporting a very dense network... there are reasonable limits on how many satellites we can expect to have overhead.

P.P.S. gbps not GBps. Currently thought to be 10gbps, but also it's thought they will not have much issue reaching to 20gbps.
It's largely figurative anyway so it's still valid. But, if I were to change it, one thing that's dramatically different from the era of Heinlein's youth is that the world is a much smaller place that it once must have seemed. Global communication is trivial, cultures are blending together, travel to anywhere is within the reach of the general population, and the activities of civilization are great enough to affect the ecology of the planet as a whole. So the two new additions I'd add are "survive and thrive in any culture" and "understand civilizational trends", whether they be political, ecological, technological, or otherwise.
anybody connect programs using 'shared memory'? guess there is a POSIX compliant way to do it cross platform?
Is electricity really that cheap in the USA? The cheapest price I've found for my city here in Germany is like 0,24 EUR. And this is already including a new customer discount and cashback. Not even guaranteed green energy...

0,24 EUR is currently ~0,29 USD. That's 0,29 USD for my cheapest price against your most expensive price with 0,20 USD.
I reckon it was more about internal employees abusing their permissions and access to customer data and being sloppy when attempting to extract it.
A whole lot of Ubers big spenders. On a individual basis, but I know many consultants/sales people traveling all over the world that spend hundreds or thousands on ubers a month and want the ease of use. Those are Ubers profitable customers buying lux/black cars etc. in addition to many wealth families that use Uber all over the world in vacation. They should be solving for those customers over a customer worried about an extra 50 or 100mb even on their phone
I'm confused.

I thought Google Analytics tracked you within a site, and that it's fundamentally not really any different from analyzing server logs except the logs are simply hosted in Google's cloud and visualized using Google's tools. I realize it uses cookies but that's to build analytics around sequences of user actions, since many users can be collapsed into a single IP. Privately hosted analytics software needs to use cookies to achieve the same thing as well.

Google Analytics doesn't have anything to do with building an advertising profile around users, correct?

I know it's popular to hate on Google but does this achieve anything against tracking users across sites in order to build advertising profiles? I was under the impression all the profile-building people object to was done via the pages with ads themselves.

Is Google Analytics actually an evil tool? Or is just "evil by association" because Google ads track users across sites, and Google Analytics also does "tracking" albeit a different kind? I'm just wondering if this is actually anything substantive, or if it's more symbolic.

Edit: wow those were some FAST downvotes. I'm just asking some basic questions to understand how meaningful this is, folks. Hopefully nobody's taking offense.
>The real question is if it makes more money than it costs in electricity.

profit implies that costs are taken into account. If I plug 2 MH/s, 30W, $0.1/kWh into a mining calculator I get a profit of 11 cents per day against 18 cents of revenue.
> we don't currently support Apply Pay through Insight. Apple does not allow a regular WKWebView to use Apple Pay, just Safari and SFSafariViewController

Apple added Apple Pay to WKWebView in iOS 13. Release notes are here:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...

It won’t work for you out of the box because you inject scripts onto the page, which automatically disables Apple Pay for that view. But I expect you can do something useful here, like detect when a page is attempting to use Apple Pay and present a new view with injected scripts disabled and a note to the user about what has happened. Having Apple Pay work in an unmodified WKWebView is probably better than not having it work in a modified WKWebView.
Quick, rough calculations suggest to me that the RTX 3080 is about what you need to turn a profit - based on 200k annual revenue you need 600k in hardware. Three years to pay itself off - about the lifetime of the hardware, my guess. That's if you could find the hardware - and I didn't include stuff like motherboard/rack/etc.

If it's that hard to make a profit on the RTX 3080 then I doubt the M1 Mac Mini was ever in the running.
I view articles like this as a call for research to evaluate a hypothesis. Nothing wrong with writing a hypothesis. I don't think it's an easy thing to write since there are significant numbers of vehicles currently using touchscreens.
Fantastic article. It’s endearing to see the human side of the legendary researchers. I really like the end quote “ it’s been a long time since we accomplished something “. Every great achiever feels this inherent urge to do. Vacations become boring quickly. Elon Musk has mentioned he would rather be working on problems than sit on a beach.
Once you learn it it's pretty straightforward. K8s has a very simple underlying architecture. It's intimidating at first, but yields to study and care.
The current version of this website is so shaddy and specifically geared to destroy the original concept of tabs being easy to copy and edit. This website is now the antithesis of where it started. It is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the modern web.
The only thing about remote work that is different than local work is communication paradigms. Specifically, whereas you could normally poke your head around a corner and interrupt someone to ask them something trivial, with remote work it's harder to forcibly intrude on them and get instant feedback. And I think that's what people have a hard time grasping: how to 'work' without instant feedback?

Of course we all own a telephone, so the instantaneous-ness is always there. But timezones create a mandatory delay to availability which can't be easily worked around. So whereas people are normally very accustomed to working via a continuous flow of real time communication, they now have to learn to communicate via delays and compartmentalize decisions and production.

Some people can't deal with this. So they start to find ways of splitting up work by location. But eventually, things get out of sync, because they never learned how to communicate in a new way. This then creates things like a mandatory daily meeting just to figure out what's changed in the last 24 hours, or red tape designed to keep people from making decisions on their own, or a lack of any kind of tape, or a breakdown in leadership, or the inability to accomplish tasks independently, or lowered morale, etc. This lack of being able to cope with communicating and working asynchronously is, I believe, a sort of stagnating death spiral that (without seriously competent self-starting workaholics) just results in mismanagement and tepid progress.

As a contrary example I like to use the open source development world. They work on different parts of different projects in different regions all the time. They self-organize and come to consensus quickly, and are led by a small team of well established hierarchy that makes quick, decisive executive decisions. There is basically no bone-headed executive level muddling with your work, nor contemptible middle-managers fighting for power, nor tepid low-level engineers waiting for someone to make a decision. Everyone just gets shit done because they all have one goal: to ship a good product. That's all very nice because you aren't part of a corporation, and you feel like your contribution matters more.

But in a corporation, you have to deal with all the usual corporation bullshit, in addition to now working asynchronously. I think this is where the big breakdown occurs in practice; two different sets of problems (asynchronous communication, and corporate bullshit) add up to a more complicated way of working. If you're very lucky, everyone will be able to work the same way and things will go smoothly. But in practice, not everyone works the same way, and thus bugs crop up in the work due to process incompatibility.

So why is remote engineering difficult? It's not; it's just a specific skillset.
Clicking away the warning is a bad reflex, you're human too. It's not a reflex you want.
Have you ever looked at the commits dates?

https://gpgtools.org/

https://gpgtools.org/opensource.html

https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGMail/commits/dev

https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGKeychainAccess/commits/dev

https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGServices

https://github.com/GPGTools/MacGPG2/commits/dev
>For the record, I appreciate your technical critiques! But you seem to take a perverse delight in being the critic.

Ok, so you enjoy the technical content but disagree with the tone [1]? I can understand that. I genuinely feel sorry I don't have the time to build rapport. Many other bloggers regurgitate things we all agree on and make everyone feel warm and fuzzy inside. I figure that enough people already do this that I only need to chime in when the group-think is headed south.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham's_Hierarchy_o...
The company as a whole is successful. The shareholders were not successful, at least those who put money in post 2015 [0]

[0]https://craft.co/uber/funding-rounds
Sources? Examples? Grammar?
No-shop means you accept a term sheet that includes a clause that stops you from talking to other potential investors.
nice tool for Google Docs
windows only, but still looks like a great product.
The dry climate has another side-effect, of making it OK for collectors and car aficionados to drive their old cars around. It's not unusual in LA, away from the coast, to see '32 Fords ("deuce coupe") and classic hot rods from the 60s and 70s (like GTOs, Darts, and Impalas) being driven around casually.
No offence to Opera, but I don't consider it a major browser when it has about 1-2% market share depending on who you ask.

I confess to being wrong about Safari, though, if you consider its 5-9% enough to count: I first saw details of WebKit2 about a year ago, and hadn't realised that it's not going in until Safari 6, which in turn isn't expected until OS X Lion some time this summer.

Nevertheless, I stand by my original point: IE, Firefox and Chrome between them represent by far the lion's share of the browser market, and IE and Chrome have both had a separate process model for some time now.
Kind of weird to have an article about alternative lending and big data, and not mention Lending Club? The are the biggest player in the space by far and IPOed only last month...
<quote>Eight months later it still bothers me, because I should have seen it coming, and because I wasn't able to change it, nor did I find a way to turn it to my advantage.</quote>
I'm dealing this due to a failed project (last year was spent on it).
I (and other team members) did see it coming though. I'm still sad/mad that our higher ups didn't heed credible guidance.
Paywall complaints, which this is a variant of, are off topic here. They're always the same, which means they just add noise. HN is a site for diffs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> the ultimate conclusion is that those in control just enjoy the exercise of power. (See: the humiliation of Abi Khan)

I think the people selling the 'adult channels' in that episode mainly want money, which they know the masses will provide. It's not so much a criticism of those in power as the whole system, including those who watch all the humiliation (the x-factor show and the rough sex show) and make these things financially viable.

Random other Black Mirror trivia: the guy who rallies against the system and then becomes part of it seems to be Charlie Brooker reflecting on himself. People tuned in to Black Mirror to see a David Cameron clone fuck a pig (yes that was actually the plot) in much the same way they tune in to the humiliation channels in 15 Million Merits.
I think two important points which distinguish many implausible conspiracy theories from real conspiracies are 1) disregard for what humans are actually capable of doing and 2) not having any reasonable motive to attribute to the purported conspirators.

Any theory which alleges that some group of people secretly controls the world falls under #1. Trying to keep just 50 or 100 people organized and getting them to all do what you want is incredibly hard, let alone the entire world.

An example of #2: Here in Zambia, when the government started offering free COVID-19 vaccines, various conspiracy theories spread on social media: some said that anyone who accepted the vaccine would turn into a chimpanzee, others said that their bodies would become magnetic and attract iron objects, while others said that vaccinated persons would become sterile and be unable to produce children.

I don't think any advocate of these theories ever explained why the government would want to turn their citizens into chimpanzees, though.
This is why NA is not really under threat.

Europe, on the other hand really should be preparing for the possibility of an attack. Which is where we get into trouble -- European NATO members _believe_ they are under the 'MAD' umbrella, but Putin doesn't believe it. And so they really should prepare their infrastructures for that possibility, rather than just waving it away as an impossibility.
It seems unlikely that that's really what she meant to say, but I watched the video and it's hard to come up with something else that she meant to say.