jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What could the pirates do? At the moment the hold the crew at gunpoint and ransom the cargo and crew for the insurance money.

With no way to stop the ship, and likely no way to easily get off, the pirates would just be passengers until the ship reached the final destination.

Most of the threat of piracy relates to the crew, not the cargo. It's not like they are lifting containers off ships or emptying oil tankers into their pirate refineries.
Another key to Last week tonight, besides its length, is also that its not on cable and doesn't have advertisers. I can hurl as much vitrol on specific companies as they possible can without getting sued...

The GM ad was so great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6IZ2TroruU
For that data to be even remotely useful, they need to look at how long time do people spend playing the game, and customer satisfaction. I do not doubt that proper demos make people buy less games, but on the other hand you have less disgruntled customers because they didn't spend 60€ on a game that isn't very good.

I seriously cannot understand why any console maker doesn't go all out and focus on the customer. Tell publishers to either make a reasonable demo, or accept that people buy the game and can get a refund if they've played it less than an hour.
Noscript is used far more widely then crazy over-engineered javascript based text delivery systems.

I run into a new website with this problem less frequently than once every few months. It's always the same few, like Time, still using their stupid hand-rolled content engines.

It's not my job to cater to special snowflake syndrome.
How do you know it's not what I want? Why do you think they should make such a decision for me?
I think that's spot on, it is all of the bells and whistles along with a fairly predictable management cost, even if you are new to AWS, that make it a safe choice for a big swath of the market.

Kudos to you for touching on containerization, I would just like to add that the many emerging platforms and tools (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B33GFtNCUAE-vEX.png:large) are rapidly starting to provide an alternative to AWS that was not there before in their ability to realize more competitively priced hosting alternatives without sacrificing on administrative overhead.
In my anecdotal experience it became harder as my twin friends grew older. They were not identical twins but many people said they look similar even though I never had an issue in recognizing them. After I returned from a one year trip abroad I met up with one of the twins. I knew which one I was meeting, but when I get into their car I was confused why the other twin was picking me up. It took me a solid minute of talking with him before I realized it actually was the twin I was supposed to meet up with. I now recognize them better again but still occasionally have a splitsecond of confusion. Their facial features, silhuetes and fashion has grown to be very similar.
This comment contains cognitive dissonance in the form of a blaming statement, which is probably why you are being DV'd. Stallman's ideologies can be viewed as political ideologies, which by definition are about people wanting to live their lives with certain types of freedom, mostly attributed to information they generate.

Your statement puts itself into conflict with those who choose this ideology because you claim it's a radio-button decision that forces choice between 'people' and 'personal information ownership'. It's not.
It's not required to be a programmer, much like learning how to drive manual is not required to be a driver.

However, if you want someone to pay you the high salary to be a race car driver, then you better know how to drive manual.

There are plenty of positions where people can program and do programming tasks without a great deal of depth of knowledge in terms of programming. And they can make a living doing this.
It is sad but true. Complexity theory isn't required to be a programmer, it isn't required to release products and that's one of the reasons why a lot of software product we directly/indirectly use everyday sucks so much.
You are looking at it from the wrong perspective. Pigeonly has a stated goal of serving more than just the prison population and the statements on their site reflect that. If you want to know more about their products then you should go go the product websites themselves[1] (that is where their customers will be looking.

https://www.fotopigeon.com/
https://www.telepigeon.com/
I think your initial reading is right; Whether the judges are correct with their dig at the US's concept of freedom of speech is a matter of debate.
Logo Writer and Turtle Graphics! Definitely brings back memories. This is great for early beginners and children. This makes me wonder about what we could create that's similar to this, but for more robust work for adults.
Adderall and modafinil are still the drugs of choice for focus. Modafinil can easily be bought online and is a favorite to many for its pleasant clear buzz and long half-life (15 hours).
is there a way to use streisand at an existing instance of EC2/DO ?
Thanks for your feedback! Next wednesday will be tweaking day. There's also more serious work to do ;)
This is bogus
I'm really surprised that this hasn't been solved by browser vendors yet.

You should be able to tell your browser about your OpenID account(s), so it can keep you logged in constantly. "Hey! Your OpenID login has expired. Please login again now, or hit 'Later' to see this prompt the next time you try to access an account."

Then, when you go to a website that supports OpenID, your browser can tell it, "Hey. Don't bother presenting us with a login prompt. Just check to see if you have any accounts associated with these OpenIDs."

Of course, it can't be that simplistic, because the site needs to verify authentication with your provider, not your potentially devious browser. But I feel like that is not a difficult problem to solve.

It's one-and-a-half steps. The first "half" step is "Logging in," because you only have to do it once per browser session. The first real step is: "Go to the site." Done.
"Returning to the original topic: When we say "People need to be held accountable for their actions", we are really saying "It is good that people punish one another." That is probably still true. But now we see more honestly the interaction of multiple parties. And we can consider the structure of those interactions."

While I don't disagree with making things more explicit, I believe the intent in the original phrasing was clear enough.

"Do we still get the good things that come from repeated games, when the punisher cannot themselves be punished?"

A lot of times, celebrities don't even get "canceled". They lie low for a bit, and come back. While it's true that sometimes the public is unfair and jumps the gun, the only thing we can do is be vocal about well... not jumping the gun on allegations.

While the populace at large can't get punished, the punishments are also much softer. Louis CK didn't go to jail- he just had his comedy career ended (rightly so). He's mostly free to do other things, especially around now that people are starting to forget. Which is also an issue of the populace at large- it has a bad memory for most people.
Profit is not equivalent to effort, that's naive. Profit occurs as much from inaction as it does action.

Profit is exploitation of needs or wants, which isn't necessarily evil. Evil is having the power to stop suffering easily without harming yourself but choosing to seek profits instead (e.g. insulin prices).

Just as we have regulations (e.g. patents) to protect business's profitability, we should have equal regulations to protect the public need.
I honestly just can't buy into high energy usage as a criticism. I think we should be focusing our efforts on massively expanding our power generation, not cutting back usage.
Smart and intelligent people, interesting and insightful articles and discussions.

Maybe only half of the articles and comments I read here are tech-related.
Depends on when you start counting your century. Once a century does not mean literally once every 100 years. These are certainly the lowest temps of this century so far.
The opening of the talent pool flows both ways. The company options are also more open to high performance engineers.
High performers are not limited by geography anymore. Many more companies are open to remote option.

This means increased competition for high performers and increase in salary.

All high performing tech engineer should interview with multiple companies and negotiate for increase in salary from all of them.

Forget this silly notion of location based COL salary adjustments. That's industry propaganda to suppress salary levels.
Before using Lendtable, a lot of our users actually were using their credit card to contribute to their 401(k) match... The reason that they switched over, credit cards charge compounding interest at 29% APR.

We charge a flat 10% simple interest + you only need to pay us back when you get your full match from your employer vs. a credit card where you need to make those payments monthly out of cash you might not have
I think the M68k version does aim for binary compatibility where practical, but outside of M68k it doesn't really make much sense as AmigaOS4 on PPC deviates quite significantly from older AmigaOS, and for the other architectures there of course isn't any AmigaOS software.
This reminds me of Casablanca:

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Likewise, it hit home for me. About 9 years ago (wow, has it been that long?), I started working on a web-based Word w/ Friends competitor. With flash dying out and not really wanting to do it with DOM elements, I took to Canvas.

I ended up engineering a fairly complex system of containers and components with mouse events, layering, conditional rendering and caching, but never finished the game.

Since then, any time I'm itching for something fun to work on, I revisit that code. I've had several attempts at moving it away from using Classes, to functional, to trying to build it in React. The last attempt led me to react-canvas, which while not exactly what I was trying to make, was close enough that I felt defeated.

That helped me realize I was more interested in the system than the game, because I could've just used react-canvas or plenty of other 2d game tools to build it, but I never chose to do so.
I often open packages so I can actually see the product before buying it (if the package is not sealed shut), and I've always wondered whether this catches the attention of people on the cameras. I've never done this in electronics stores, but for stores like Princess Auto (similar to Harbor Freight), particularly in the surplus section, it's practically required because so much stuff comes in generic boxes with no or poor pictures amd very little labelling. Other stores, too.
Sadly true. And part of the problem. There's now an expectation (at least in upper middle class areas) that kids be in formal, supervised activities 24/7.

I still remember growing up, playing around the neighborhood, and a parent would call out the front door "Danny, dinner time!" and all the kids would scatter to get home for dinner.

#getoffmylawn #wheresmycane
We all feel that way with it from time to time.
I’d put it on the other side, though after correcting for inflation maybe it’s the same thing depending on the sector.

If you’re buying a house with two incomes, you can outbid a couple with one income by a factor of two-ish. You don’t need more houses to keep up with more workers per house, so you just see prices get bid up. Eventually a house costs 1.7 full time incomes because that’s what the couple you’re bidding against probably has.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=491&rid=21

From January to December of 2020, M1 increased by $14 trillion, while M1 “only” increased by $4 trillion. So not as steep at 25%.
> How does this not equate directly to inflation?

It is, just look at equities and real estate prices. This shows that the current definition of inflation is inaccurate.
My first reply was already a bit outside my wheelhouse. I agree it seems...unlikely. Hopefully someone will chime in.
Is that really necessary? I mean, we have JIT compilers nowadays, and they all produce native code at runtime, without such tricks.
The .se domain was https://thepiratebay.se/. So I doubt that is the real deal. Check with http://iis.se
Moxie has a history of being an asshole to anyone trying to make a third-party client. They're prohibited from using the OWS servers, which do not federate (so they couldn't talk to Signal users), and Moxie has attacked third-party software over trademark issues, too. Any Signal fork is likely to be DoA, thanks to Moxie's deliberate actions.
A counter argument I'd give is has anyone ever described a TV as being too harsh, as in they can't watch it for an hour without experiencing "fatigue" that causes them to need to stop. Of course with a TV this sounds ridiculous we just want the most life like picture possible so these measurements are a great way to accomplish that.

With headphones though while something may sound more accurate it might not be enjoyable to listen to. It can be too harsh to our ears and cause listening fatigue. While the Sennheiser HD800 are a great pair of headphones I find them very difficult to listen to on a neutral amp for long periods of time. The only way I could really enjoy them was to get a warmer tube amp. In the end I replaced them with the Audeze LCD-3 which I would argue are less accurate headphones but are far more enjoyable.
Did git exist when this sponge program was written?
We now have Ruffle which does more or less what Adobe should have done 10 years ago.

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

If Adobe had seen their ban from the iPhone as a challenge to make Flash player capable of running without a plug-in they would dominate so many areas today. Flex would have become a viable platform to develop web apps/PWAs with - effectively sitting in the same position as what Flutter is doing today (Although I don’t believe Flutter is a one size fits all universal toolkit). I suppose they tried with PhoneGap but without Flash/Flex, which was their super power, they just didn’t have enough value proposition.

I suspect they saw the desktop install base of Flash Player as too important to risk loosing by marking it redundant - innovator's dilemma.

For some reason they just excepted defeat with Flash.
Thanks guys for the excellent recommendation for the stoic guide. I had a blast reading it. Even posted a review on HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907356
So pleased to see this restored! It's one of the best process visualizations I've ever seen. It's not "this is what the data means", it's "this is how an algorithm works in practice". It looks organic and there are subtleties (like the fact that the rainbow-coloured segments correspond to the data line flowing to each peer, and that the sizes of blobs on the line represent transfer speeds) that you can grasp later without distracting from the initial "aha!" moment.
The article did not make this clear, but this is non-volatile memory (according to Wikipedia). Anyone know this compares to memristors? Or is that apples and oranges?
You can turn instant preview off: http://www.google.com/preferences
Google doesn't have the social graph that Facebook does.
This is surprisingly funny...and interesting nonetheless.
I've bought physical books when a free ebook was available, for the convenience of having a good reading experience away from the computer.

However, that was before iPad. As ebook reading experiences away from the computer get better and better, there will be fewer cases where I'll by the physical book if a free ebook is available.
Currently on linux. Can't play most silverlight content. Sorry homie.
Looks like FB's internal MS exchange e-mail login page.
is this interesting?
I still am hating on steam for:

a) steam startup is the biggest contributor to starting up any game I got on steam.

b) attempting to sell a steam account results in a ban. Well actually why the hell can't one sell their steam account in the first place.

Benefits:

No CDs. Yay.

Instant buying.

Sales.

Cloud Sync so I can uninstall games to conserve space until I want to play them again.

Does not inject rootkits for DRM. (EA games still do, but thats ok I pirate those)
Flexibility, control come into play.
I dream of a day when I can turn on my television or whatever, select a season, select an episode and boom I am watching the show. For me, OnDemand is miniature to what it could be. I have more shows on my HD than any cable company would offer onDemand. I will say Netflix has a lot of content, but in terms of actually enjoying a movie you find on netflix, imho the movie will be B grade at best.
Sounds like I'm going to get bombarded by requests/wall messages telling me to buy crap because my friends did. I don't know.

Seems like facebook is late to the party - they should have partnered with groupon or livingsocial imo. Time will tell.
The only place I really miss having them is in older articles and on searchyc.com. I feel a much greater compulsion to engage each comment on its merit when voting and when reading, and I feel like reading HN has become more intellectually stimulating.

However, this is more of a problem when I'm trying to assess information in areas that I'm not already familiar with. If I'm searching for information on which DNS providers are best and I find an Ask HN from 4 months ago, I can no longer tell what the true community consensus on it is. I expect the current masking of comments will provide less biased voting, so I think displaying comment scores on stories that are more than two months old would eventually provide the best of both worlds.
Seconding this. What's so refreshing about Wordle is just how respectful it is of the user's time and attention. Beyond the "one a day, and you're done" structure, Wordle's presentation is clean, snappy, and completely relevant to the task at hand.

I like Three Magic Words's gameplay, but yeah, the presentation left a very sour taste in my mouth. I just want to solve a puzzle and that's it. No need for superfluous animation or scoring.
Every characteristic needs to be secret just in case someone decides to murder everyone with that characteristic.

If that is going to happen in the US it is probably going to be a red/blue culture war thing. Shall we eliminate campaign finance transparency?
I'm down to just my backup card in my MagSafe wallet. I'll occasionally keep my ID in there too but only if I know I'm going out to a place that needs to check a physical ID. If I could, I would do without the wallet completely.
10GBase-T SFP+ modules are a thing.
That wasn't my point. I meant the feature is available to a very small subset of our users. Then even a smaller subset chooses to use it and I believe, it's up to the form creator to add a disclaimer on why this is necessary for their use case.
> The attack vector here isn't

There are multiple attack vectors. One of them is "why did I just get another charge from that place we visited last June". Another being "oops, we plugged our pin into a skimmer", etc.

Agree that letting Visa/MC/whomever know everything about your transactions is a choice...

Otoh if they pay you 3ish % for it, you might decide you're more than happy to.
Plastic fermenters are MUCH safer (I am one of the many who have gotten minor cuts from shattering glass carboys) but just plain terrible for fermenting in. A little scratch in the wall and your sanitizing process will miss the wild yeast that grows in the scratch making the container essentially useless for fermenting with your chosen yeast only.

Also they make widemouth glass carboys which are very easy to clean. But they shatter all the same.

If your going to avoid glass go 304 stainless (SSBrewtechs BrewBucket etc.) plus it basically lasts forever.
(2) $7.50 Margaritas, 33% tip. and per the story... they were abandoned by the staff.
I like using plain PHP + PDO MySQL. I structure it so almost all files contain a single function/MySQL query, with very little dependencies. I already know how to implement core functionalities when needed (e.g. CSRF, user permissions). Why should I consider Laravel if plain PHP seems to work excellent in my case (been able to maintain the same codebase for over 9 years without issues, can quickly create a new app if needed, can reuse code from one project to another, understanding what the code does requires zero-framework knowledge, performance is as good as it can be, as every file executes only what's needed and doesn't create unnecessary abstractions, etc.)?
Wow. Glowing praise!
Good question. Opera Mobile for Android just came out and has some interesting features (tabs, bookmark sync) and SVG support, which is oddly lacking in the stock Android browser. Firefox mobile is in beta as well, with roughly equal features as Opera, plus extension support.

I'd like to see the default browser get more frequent updates, though.
++Jetty. It's also great for development as it handles hot swapping of code changes, so they can be tested immediately without a container restart.
I'm really not sure what kind of data I can use for all the statistics (not sure what kind of data they collect from everyone, except your status and achievements). But I'm hoping to make it somewhat more personal, so you could share it with your friends and stuff.

But I sure can use some help on what kind of data is interesting.
Agreed. This was a really creepy read precisely because of her black-and-white perspective, and the overemphasized near-religious importance her past self put on not eating meat (to the point of considering eating only bad meat, as if pleasure itself is evil or immoral).

I think a hidden problem that was not mentioned enough in this thread is that vegetarianism for many people (the author included) became a clear derivative of christianism (she herself ate vegan as a way to both free herself and the planet for our sins as humans).
I've been developing with jruby on GAE for about a year. http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/ There has been a good deal to learn, and some changes to adapt to along the way for the jruby library - which is to be expected. My sites are mostly noncommercial and don't get a ton of traffic, so their generous free/cheap plan was an incentive I couldn't pass up. Alternatively you can do very little for free on Heroku (the other 'free' hosting option for Ruby).

It's been a good experience overall, but this last month I have spent weeks pulling my hair out trying to do a join. I have a work-a-round in place now, so hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on.

If I do run into performance issues I may have to switch, but then it won't be to hard to migrate and I've still had a free development environment which has pushed me to learn and cost me nothing.
I call bull on this statement. I once tried to send my friend a perfectly harmless link (no spam, no viruses, no malware or anything) and I couldn't because FB blocked it. The link contained a couple of images from South Park.

I can't imagine using the new FB mail for my communication if FB will censor the crap out of it.
This is simply great, exactly what ive been looking for to log simple health/training related events.

I think that a "Home" button is missing somewhere in the interface. When I look at the Help/API/About page, I dont want to scroll down to find the "Home/Calendar" button. I clicked on "Hi Nicolas", but it brought up the settings. Maybe insert two icons there, one to go home (house-like), and one for settings? (gears-like) ?