jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We won't have general human-comparable AI or autonomous driving (or we will briefly until a few tragic things happen and people come to their senses). Enthusiasts think we will, but people underestimate what real intelligence requires and confuse it with training complex statistical models.

They call it AI, but the "intelligence" there is just a name.
We're talking about compensation for a specific type of work whose market value is above $100/hour.
Buying weapons from your global security partners is part of a larger geopolitical picture/strategy. The cost is almost secondary. Look at who the US sells weapons to, what countries are banned by us weapons export ban laws. Look at who Russia sells weapons to. There is not a whole lot of overlap between the two countries.

Posting countries and dollar figures is part of the picture, but does not tell the whole story.
How is it fair that two houses built side by side in the same year with the same floorplan might have one pay literally 10x the property tax than the other, merely because it changed hands? What's worse, the 10x house actually realized those capital gains, so the state also got that cash.
They should be congratulated and promoted. Failing is courageous - you can move to next better thing from the learnings. F36 ???
I think the lack of pressure on Mozilla has prevented them from innovating at the level necessary to sustain themselves if Google pulled the rug from under them. It might be good for them if they put 50% or so of their revenue in an endowment for sustaining Mozilla and forced themselves to exist on a fixed budget.

There are excellent engineers working at Mozilla - the fact that there hasn't been a substantial new product from Mozilla in the past decade is really a shame.
>Close. Alabama Senator Shelby is the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and the Chairman of its Defense Subcommittee

Nitpick here. Senator Shelby was the chairman of those committees, now he's the ranking member[0][1].

That said, he was the chairman for many years.

[0] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/

[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittees/defense
For those interested, someone has been maintaining a list of such acqui-hires:

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Solar orbit probes don't count - that's Earth orbit plus a small impulse and a battery. All the hard problems are in mining, manufacturing, and life support - the things the grandparent post was talking about.

Although in this instance, that probe is destined for L1, which is still in Earth orbit. (The Lagrange points are where you are simultaneously in orbit around two bodies - Earth and the sun, here)
Why not use http://smarden.org/runit/runit-init.8.html and run my_init from runit?
For all it's faults, I used to love writing VRML. In fact it was probably the last time I got giddy with excitement when talking about the internet as everything since has just been a case of trying to get web applications to catch up with desktop application.

I also agree that the world just wasn't ready for VRML. It was so far ahead of it's time that it even pre-dated 3D hardware accelerated graphics chips coming as standard on desktop PCs!
Step 2 could be:

You get a job offer without sending an application.

You get a contract offer out of the blue.

You hear of some great event, you would have missed otherwise.

You get invited somewhere, you would not have had access to.

You have more people to pitch for funding/investment.

You have more people to show your side project to.

In general, I think it mostly increase the amount of opportunities you receive. Note that most of those opportunities are probably crap/spam. Nevertheless, if you found a profitable game, it helps to play it more often.
Absolutely agree that this is an incredibly hard skill in any medium, digital or otherwise.

It's also possible that Van Eyck may have perceived the world the same way we do, and the inclusion of small details such as the beads came only due to his artistic choice of tools. Conversely if you were trained to the same tool for sketching you would be forced to include the beads by way of process -- even if you had not noticed them before.
So many creative and interesting games and animations were hosted on sites like this and Newgrounds. I spent so much time on these sites growing up that they shaped my interests, hobbies and gave me a sense of community. It's sad to see these parts of the internet slowly disappear and I'm glad Newgrounds is still able to harbor a niche community for now.
Could it also be used to check whether all security related patches have actually been added to a kernel source tree? For example flag which commits are missing when cherry picking patches into a particular kernel release ...
I just tried opening twitter instead in a different container. It has 2 bottom bars, more wasted space between tweets. If I go one page down on Nitter, I can almost fully read the end of the final tweet. When I do the same on Twitter, there are 7 tweets not visible.
COVID-19 policies in different states is completely irrelevant to the 2020 census -- the census was done using pre-pandemic data. Hence why I consider the results highly misleading relative to our current world.
I'm betting they are probably less nutritious too.
I agree that the discussion about pandemic lockdowns is more complex. Good and honest people can look at the same data and disagree on how to handle something like this, even individuals who share the same age and health related covid risks. Some mitigation measures work better than others. Lockdowns have a negative impact, and this needs to be taken into account also.

I think a lot has to do with quantifying the risk. We don't mandate masks during flu season. Covid has killed 10 times as many people per year in the U.S. than a bad flu season. Somewhere in between is where we as a society have drawn the line, at least on short notice for a scary new virus. And that line is in a state of flux, given better treatments, vaccines, less deadly variants, and lockdown fatigue, etc. It seems that the numbers matter when it comes to these issues, which is why we don't lock down or mandate masks every year for the flu and other diseases.

If the numbers matter then it is a shame that the media didn't do a better job of informing people. It seems that the headlines were focused on worst case scenarios, anecdotes, and controversy at the expense of probabilities, perspective, and measurements.

Personally I wish that we could have given N95 masks, which effectively protect the wearer, to everyone who felt vulnerable and was unable to isolate.
Naver in South Korea. Google's been struggling to get its market share for the last few years without much success.
True. But this article was about Bcrypt, so I'm writing that instead of Scrypt.

Edit: I defer to tptacek.
On a mac you might want to try

cat /dev/urandom | openssl base64 | head -c 12; echo;

Which can give you a nice random string.
No, I believe it was because he tried to publish his dataset. As Loic said, "Data out only for Facebook."

The worst part of the whole debacle was that Facebook's robots.txt file explicitly allowed the crawling of this data.
There is nothing to buy with your social safety net payments unless investors are taking risks on the businesses that make and sell it. You can't just abolish private property from within capitalism and leave it there. Once you have taken that step you have to go all the way to state-controlled production.

Although again, the Georgist point is that this is specifically not true for land: the land is there whether you invest in it or not.
Yes that is true. The application needs to be confirmed. But it is not the business of any country other than the ones in the club and the country that applies.

Russia behaves like an abusive parent that says that their adult daughter cannot hang out with her friends.
Aging boomers retiring to a state with no income tax don't care about 50 years out.
It so blatantly violates what a reasonable person would suppose is just to the extent that such actions being legal would in effect mean we had in effect jettisoned every bit of the soul and spirit of the law in favor of spurious interpretations that could be thinly used to justify what is done if and only if one is a sociopath with no conception of the purpose or spirit of the law.
I feel like the open-source compatibility paradigm really started right after PowerShell
> On a good monitor, the color contrast between #ffffff and #000000 is far beyond the contrast possible in nature.

No, it is not.

> No reflective material can reach those colors or that contrast.

Even if that was true, nature includes light sources as well as reflective materials.
One reason is that a big community effort to rewrite the suspend-to-disk layer, which made it more reliable, called TuxOnIce, was kept out of the mainline kernel for a number of reasons, and thus a lot of "community energy" for solving the problem has been sapped out. Also, this is a uniquely "desktop Linux" problem, so exactly the kind of problem that rarely gets commercially sponsored developer hours thrown at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuxOnIce
I said 'older', meaning everyone that is worried about young and foolish people influencing the outcomes of elections, not 'old people'.
My old T420 couldn't sleep overnight in Windows 7 (something would trigger a resume), but would sleep fine under Linux and FreeBSD.
I mean there's nothing hypocritical here. What you said is like saying "in a war shooting the opposing side is hypocritical since you aren't shooting your own soldiers". Obviously you only penalize one side.
"can't handle" is super subjective. Sure a GUI can have every feature available and be super capable. But it can also lead to it taking 10+ clicks to do something, and another 10+ clicks to do it again. Super painful.

So just because companies have proven that GUI is successful and capable, it's still possible that it "can't handle" a lot of things nearly as effectively as CLI in some cases.
It's originally from Plan9, which predates Google.
Wouldn't use expect the cool kids to all be using Twisted then?

I get the impression that most web devs wants to keep up with the latest tech, and by most counts Python is old now.
If they don't take care of their early employee's by doing things right then its huge red flag
The passive funds were interested in gme when it was not volatile. They predicted low volatility and downward prices so they shorted it. Reddit saw that if they get enough people to buy the stock then the short sellers have to cover their positions at a loss. Then the people who bought are left holding a worthless stock which some can sell at the top to make some money but most will be left holding once the stock goes back down. Some people actually make money in this scheme so everyone thinks it is going to be them.
Sukshma
Do you really think that if they had had brown skin instead of white we would be having this conversation at all?
I think that kind of donation exposure would open you to some legal risks. Now you're some kind of visible commercial entity, not just some random IP address in the tracker response.
Take a look at the "daily new deaths" graphs for each of those countries on the site you linked. All four of those countries fall to near zero over the summer. Their first-wave lockdowns worked, eventually. The USA's did not; people just kept getting infected all summer long.

The second wave has hit hard, but deaths in Slovenia, Belgium, and Italy are at this point all trending back downward. USA's are not. Extend those graphs out and we'll be well ahead in deaths before long. The UK isn't trending down either, but their leadership is suffering from a lot of the same problems as the USA's with not taking this seriously.

Also note that all four of those countries are reporting fewer infections than the USA - their deaths per capita come from higher case fatality rates. This suggests that the death rate has more to do with their hospital systems being worse-positioned to handle the influx of patients than how the spread was managed.
> They are being deplatformed because their speech is violent and damaging—in many cases it’s literal incitement to violence.

"in defense of looting"

And while I'm at it - why isn't China being deplatformed?

They literally just posted on their embassy twitter account saying they fixed minority women who were "baby-making machines."

One can only guess they mean sterilization.

It's obvious who's allowed to be inhumane and who isn't.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/chinese-embassy-tweet-u...
If someone vastly more powerful than me doesn’t want me to know something, then it piques my interest and I seek it out.

I also have a flaw - I’m more amenable to ideas I’m familiar with.

I suspect other people act likewise.
in response to (a). I think too much censorship is bad, but there is some amount of censorship in every country in the world.

We do censor speech in the USA. IMO we could go a little further without being at all "Orwellian".

Many countries with very high levels of freedom from government intervention and freedom to vote and express themselves (mostly in Europe) have much stricter views on what constitutes speech that should be censored around hate speech and overly nationalistic speech.

FWIW, while many of those countries take a stricter stance on hate speech, most of them also have a much _less_ strict stance than the USA on other forms of free expression, like nudity and swear words.
How come theres no Smell Transfer Protocol yet
It's amazing what inventions people create about Israel while excusing an outright theocracy which executes violators of its religious laws (ok, some women who'd like to not wear a head cover just get 20 years in prison). Is the welfare of Iranians entirely secondary to yet another hopeless campaign against Israel?
The point is, those justifications do exist. If they didn't, then why spend a bunch of money on an SUV when one can buy a sedan on the cheap?

If a sedan satisfied my needs, then I'd be driving a sedan. It doesn't, and therefore I don't.
There's a good reason terminals can't just skip ahead, even if we ignore ANSI/vt100/etc escape sequences, even "plain text" is not so plain.

Some applications output a few lines, then many MBs of "\rcurrent progress: xx.xxx%" that constantly overwrites itself.

Rendering is just not linear.
For those with issues reading the site

https://outline.com/CyzVvN
Exactly, this is what I'm talking about! To be clear, I'm not saying the case in question is fine. If you condemn usage of your image in porn magazines, you should condemn it in other situations as well, as long as the for-profit nature of the usage is not the only thing that bothers you.
If we have a pesky test suite with failing latency tests https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen
> Is this worldwide or US?

Worldwide. SMS is just like e-mail, you can put anything you want in the sender field. You should absolutely not trust SMS.
WikiFeet itself feels very "old internet": a basic site about a very narrow niche, user-powered, with no pretensions and no hope of making any money.
Interesting. Some random website is hacked and user account and passwords are revealed. In the user accounts notice there is a "bob@nvidia.com" with associated password. If you are the hacker, might as well type that in to nvidia's corporate system right?

Scary.
@insin This project is an opportunity for me to make some production-ready thing on Flux/React.
I'm new to it.

I have two stores, one for the news stories, and one for the comments. And then a smaller one for the notifications.
I don't use any state in the components. Everything propagates from the top level and the stores.

The counter component doesn't have a state, but when it sees an update, it just adds/removes a class and that's how you get the animation.
It appeared that you were trying to minimize taking out a hit on someone because, to paraphrase, "the police started it." If that isn't what you were doing, my bad, but if it was, then my comment was as designed.
If Plato were alive today, he would categorically deny that...
Here at Sococo we hope to be that team! We're in several time zones, 6 states and three countries. Not to a billion yet; not hardly. But growing!
Ah, I understand. It reminds me of how the `cut` function could be used in Scheme.
Not to diminish the achievements of the opticians working on the JWST, but you can obtain the same level of perfection at home, using everyday tools. However, you'll be working on a much smaller surface.

Make your own telescope mirror. To pass the tests, it must follow the ideal surface with an error less than lambda/4, where lambda is the wavelength of visible light. In practice, that's 0.1 microns or less. Also, the density of scratches and pits must be very low (not detectable by usual means).

It's totally doable by hand, working in your garage, on a piece of glass the size of a dinner plate. It just takes a very, very long time, at least on first attempt. My first telescope took over a year (admittedly, I took too many breaks, and then I did a lot of experiments with the techniques).

http://florin.myip.org/blog/150-mm-f8-mirror-25-mm-pyrex-pol...
The industry surrounding those markets (imagine bankers, financiers, lawyers, salespeople, corporate representatives and an entire swath of service people supporting these guys) creates wealth and employment.

Having top stock markets (and commodities markets) accelerates local economies and makes the city/country more important globally. See NYC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and in fact even London.

The more the listed companies you have, the more of all of the above jobs.
So something like:

If the metal structure holding the instrument cluster and infotainment unit fell apart after 6 years and the manufacturer charged the customer to fix it?

That also wouldn't be ok.
I use https://docs.rs/frunk/0.3.1/frunk/ to get around this in the meantime.
The reclaiming thing is terrible, but let's not get the populist (election year) comments on dividend tax into the same discussion. By all objective means the Netherlands is one of the top tax havens of Europe, and it's bringing in lots and lots of money. Charging 1% effective tax on Apple, Starbucks etc is really great for the Netherlands and reduces the amount of tax paid by citizens.

Somehow half the general public cheers for the left opposition parties that want to remove these tax breaks because "it's not fair Apple is paying so little". But anyone with any economical sense understands that removing these tax breaks means Apple (and the rest) will leave Amsterdam. They have no significant operations there, just a postbox for the low taxes. The end result is that Dutch citizens will have to pay more tax.

The government knows this very well, but they can't publicly be very vocal about it because being a tax haven isn't very friendly to other countries that are missing out on taxes because of it.

So long story short: If you're Dutch stop complaining, you're saving tax. If you're any other European: you have every right to point out the Netherlands as a tax haven.
Read the history section, it's mentioned couple of times that the computers were clones of Apple II and IBM PC
I'll offer a counterpoint that humour containing a kernel of truth, or simply tickling enough grey matter to be stimulating, especially when coupled to topical opinion or informative substance, however obliquely, or by contrapunctus an uncomfortable notion delivered via a candy-coating of levity, is often appreciated, and although I am not generally concerned with the integer popularity contest it is helpful feedback for training one's temporal lobe, and I will reveal that on this occasion the jest has strong positive reinforcement, most likely due to diffusely enclosing a distorted subtext of real events and the innate conflict of reconciling this to the mock-paranoiac narrative, but perhaps also due to the coupling thereof to the construction of a pun, and further observe that my own stumbling path to exploring which modes of wit might be appreciated on this forum, vs those rejected as noise, has been largely empirical, and years in the walking, and remains an ongoing process for the ages, and although I cannot claim to have discovered a global maxima, but instead have merely blindly grasped the whimsical elephant, I would question whether the existence and forms of comedy could be otherwise derived from first principles or any other means, all of which is to breathlessly recommend: go ahead, crack a joke, see what happens.
And conveniently for my point, 2020 saw the largest stock and bond issuances of all time.
Don't invest in what you don't understand is the #1 rule of investing. If you jump off the deep end without knowing what's at the bottom, you are at a high risk of losing what you put in. New technology always comes with this risk. That's kind of why most don't touch crypto - its far too technically complex for them to even comprehend the risks.

If you've followed crypto and blockchain for long enough though, you realize that the risks are high and the value is low. It's a shitty technology, and a shitty investment. The cryptoverse is filled with volatility, no real-world "thing" to tie value back to, and scams upon scams.

Blockchain is an innefficient, energy-guzzling excuse for a database. Oh but you forgot its decentralized So what? Most applications don't need decentralization - it makes them inefficient and slow. Why do you think the general trend of the world has been centralization into hubs, cities, and services? Here's a nice refuter of the blockchain hype:

http://doyouneedablockchain.com/

And of course, the classic:

https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1019987651301081089
> The long surviving theme parks are the front end for larger organizations. Universal Studios in Orlando. Sea World as marine mammal research centers. And of course Disney's lands and worlds.

The plan is to work in collaboration with large organisations who have interest in the out come of this type of activity.

> Do you have enough money to survive an event like the pandemic?

Event like the pandemic is the best time to start a business that takes some time to setup.
I picked two or three random stories, and learned a lot just from that, be it technology I didn't know about or just some trick for debugging. Recommended.
The doctors are likely doing the intelligent thing, not necessarily hoarding. They should know that antivirals tend to work only at disease onset or as preventives. The production of these drugs can be ramped up very quickly so the amount these doctors took from the supply should be immaterial - esp. in the US where testing is limited to later stage patients when antivirals are less likely to help.
I'm pretty sure I stole of off the guy who wrote Source Vault SCM but his name escapes me.
Ah yes. Always remember, "weather isn't climate", except when it's warmer, then it is.
I think you are correct in so far as if you read many of his stories it does seem that he uses the same narrative style over and over-- I thought his short stories were okay but I wouldn't recommend them to people, mostly for similar reasons.

I don't think it distracts from the quality of BoTN, which stands on its own, and does a much better job of using this style.

That Catholic sentence is awful, thankfully there aren't in Catholics in BoTN.
Travel was less common and slower, but that hardly matters. All it takes is one index case to start exponential spread in each population center. Even in 1889 steamships and railroads were common and allowed people to travel hundreds of miles per day. There's no way to prove it now but I suspect the worldwide infection rate was quite high within a year.
> It's cheaper to not make it work for anything else.

It's done also to protect the brand, make it fancy, exclusive and costly for sure. Some fashion brands even destroys tons of wear just to not let them out with cheap price. "Walled garden" is very helpful here.