jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you see any other way for it? Google and FB created an eyeball economy by supplying both the marketplace and the serving platforms, which created unsolicited Mechanical Turk army for content creation that runs on exceptionally thin margins, burning through humanity attention span.

It's no longer possible to find organic high quality ad supported content(except maybe on YouTube, it still has some great stuff). Places like HN have other motivations to keep running high quality forum but the vast majority of the content out there is made with lowest possible quality. This even goes for the news.

Lately I live in Turkey and trying to follow the Turkish media but it is so lazy or so politically motivated that I cannot take it.

Turkish mainstream media outlets no longer create articles for human consumption but for bot consumption, so the articles are unreadable due to keyword spamming. The news part is one sentence but they manage to multiply it to a wall of text through repeating the same thing using synonyms etc, it doesn't even make sense grammatically.

They also do SEO spam by generating articles from the exact same template for each popular topic. For example, if you search for opening times of a supermarket, you will have the first few pages of results filled with mainstream newspaper pages that start with "Recently people start showing interest to market opening times but is it safe to search for shop opening times? Besides, what does 'opening times' really mean? To find out about opening times continue reading". Yo Have the same format for all kind of stuff.

The incentives of the current content economy are perverse. You ether want to make it cheap as possible, just enough to lure someone to it and send them somewhere else through ad click or you want to influence someone to do something after consuming your content.
I wouldn't right now. First versions after a major update tend to be disappointing compared to what comes afterward. It's usually a good idea to wait until the next refresh.
Why would they be interested?
Given the tracking cookie situation, apps could refuse to install if that option is turned on. They can easily detect if they see a small number of contacts relative to average.

With the two address book solution, they should have no way of telling which one is the real address book.
Let us step back one. What policy in place which allows such a password in the first place?
Then you might not be able to afford to buy the company!
'Gas' is an americanism.

Europeans would say 'petrol or diesel' car, which is annoying, so ICE it is.
4. Throw away all social media. Don't get on the "look how successfull/beautiful she/he is!"-bandwagon. That only leads to misserable thoughts. This probably is a big part of the burn out-looking syndroms we keep seeing on youth
Usually you'd either track known errors in the dataset (implying that the companies had either bought it from PDL or copied the leak), or you'd ask the banks (who do have a presence) which accounts were paying them and who owned the accounts. If Bitcoin's involved at all, you assume there's something fishy going on and investigate accordingly.

(Assuming anyone were bothered enough to actually do this, of course.)
As an anecdote, I installed Vivaldi on a new laptop recently. It uses Bing as the default search engine. Previously I would always change this to Google, but this time I thought, "Hah, Google has been shit for a while now, why not give Bing a try?"
The Europe site is compliant. They allow you to refuse nonessential cookies. Most sites are not. I'm pretty sure eventually those cases will be handled.
> Did you just call Hacker News apolitical?

I don’t think he did, at least what he wrote makes no judgement either way
You hate your job, but you feel forced to do it.

And you've been like that for 13 years! Even slaves in the Bible were released after 7 years.

No wonder you're miserable. No one can do something they hate for that long without having their soul crushed.

Sorry to the people here, but I don't think meditation/diet/exercise will fix this problem.
While I’m not sure it can be considered ‘mainstream’, Firebird (www.firebirdsql.org) is well-established and can run with a server process as well as without one.

I can totally vouch for SQLite in this case, however.
Yes, I agree that there will be pressure on managers from investors, and they will try to recover their margins in several ways, but if they try to recover it from price increases beyond what the tax incidence suggests, their margins should be lower - and not higher, so they are unlikely to do that.

Now, the other effect you suggested is interesting, there are firms that exit the market because the margins are unable to give the returns that investors expect. However, this is factored in the supply curve, particularly in the long-run supply curve, so the microeconomic model still stands.
Or we could recognize that not everyone can cope with it and instead supply an error code instead of a string of technobabble.

We don't say "those people can't be helped" about people who are blind or deaf.

Well, we shouldn't. Many web designers seem to feel that way, though.
We did that here in BC, and discovered that vacancy wasn't as pervasive as many believed.
There is a famous story that the engineers wanted to way back when and Eric Schmidt managed to get them to stop by saying "Oracle is auditable" and all the engineers were like "ugh, government regulations" and that was that
This is California, where property isn't even taxed at regular rates.
> There is no separate Bixby button either on Samsung phones.

Huh. As a longtime Samsung owner, I’m surprised that the dedicated Bixby Button added alongside the existing power and volume buttons with the S8 generation is an illusion.
Have you played this game and seen how much you can customize it?

What's an anachronism in a sea of many others, if you wish to have them in your personal save games. And if you don't, you stick to whatever is historically accurate.

Not having the foresight to be aware of this matter and the issues that come with it(going as far to be be especially exclusive) as a game studio in 2020 is what they should think about the next time they set out to make a game like this.
In case you are still stuck, here's what I do. If you have questions about this, email me using the "Send Feedback" from my site. I serve the base64 of each weight and style (normal, normal italic, bold, bold italic) inside a JSON. Here's one example of the JSON I serve for the Open Sans family:

https://resumetopdf.com/fonts/OpenSans.json

And here's me embedding it and making it available to jsPDF. NOTE the font.replaceAll to remove white spaces from the font name when embedding. jsPDF has this bug (or maybe expected behavior where it can't handle white spaces in the font name):

var fontBase64 = {}

const doc = new jspdf.jsPDF({
orientation: 'p',
unit: 'mm',
format: currentresume.size,
putOnlyUsedFonts: true,
})

const fontsToEmbed = [currentresume.headingfont, currentresume.bodyfont];

for (font of fontsToEmbed) {
const fontName = font.replaceAll(' ', '')
if (!doesExist(fontBase64[fontName])) {
let response = await fetch(`https://resumetopdf.com/fonts/${fontName}.json`)
let data = await response.json()
fontBase64[fontName] = data
}
Object.keys(fontBase64[fontName]).forEach(style => {
doc.addFileToVFS(`${fontName}-${style}.ttf`, fontBase64[fontName][style])
doc.addFont(`${fontName}-${style}.ttf`, fontName, style)
})
}

Once added to jsPDF, later on you can set the font and style, weight etc:

doc.setFontSize(originalFontSizeInPt)
doc.setFont(fontFamily, fontStyle)

Also the JSON with base64 of font families is served over CloudFlare with an infinite cache - this prevents any costs on my end and also speeds up the user experience when they return to the page.
How will you reconcile recurring payments with 3D secure requirements?
You aren't doing any favors to yourself when you insult the userbase to which you direct your question.
I find it amusing that people speak of terraforming - making planets more habitable for humans - when making humans more durable is actually a lot more feasible by comparison, not to mention solves a lot of other problems at the same time.

A lot of hard problems in human space travel get much easier when you remove the constraint that human physiology must be immutable.
Start converting everything to Monero coin.
I would assume cycling safety increases proportionally with bike infrastructure. Something tells me the people dying on bicycles aren't dying from collisions with other bicyclists. If you have adequate infrastructure bike safety starts to become a marginal concern.
"Bazel has remote execution and remote caching as built-in features... If I define a build... and then define a server-side Git push hook so the remote server triggers Bazel to build, run tests, and post the results somewhere, is that a CI system? I think it is! A crude one. But I think that qualifies as a CI system."

---

Absolutely.

The advisability of rolling your own CI aside, treating CI as "just another user" has real benefits, and this was a pleasant surprise for me when using Bazel. When your run the same build command (`say bazel test //...`) across development and CI, then:

- you get to debug your build pipeline locally like code

- the CI DSL/YAML files mostly contain publishing and other CI-specific information (this feels right)

- the ability of a new user to pull the repo, build, and have everything just work, is constantly being validated by the CI. With a bespoke CI environment defined in a Docker image or YAML file this is harder.

- tangentially: the remote execution API [2] is beautiful in its simplicity it's doing a simple core job.

[1] OTOH: unless you have a vendor-everything monorepo like Google, integrating with external libraries/package managers is unnatural; hermetic toolchains are tricky; naively-written rules end up system-provided utilities that differ by host, breaking reproducibility, etc etc.

[2] https://github.com/bazelbuild-remote-apis/blob/master/build/...
Title is correctly what they called it, but it's not a really good description of the purpose of the page.

The answer to the question is "too much", and the page is mostly about dealing with that. The main answer is "making smaller serving sizes" and "Gradually reducing sugar across our entire portfolio", though they give no indication about how.

Are they talking about putting sugar substitutes in the regular drinks? I don't see that going over well. But the 100 calorie cans are a good idea, at least nutritionally. (I'm sure they're an environmental nightmare, of course.)
Hey Jordan here, one of the creators. Thanks for the feedback and questions!

On using Zoom for user testing, I think that's down to having to do remote research. I actually just did some tests over Zoom last week: had a call, had the user run through certain tasks while they screen shared, and chatted with them. It worked decently well for not being able to be there in person with them.

Totally agree that the web should be an interconnected place that builds off of itself!

These can definitely be used as a reference, but our aim is to also make them useful (for mostly younger designers) as a way to practice skills/methods. Project-based learning is very effective and this gives people a way to do that. It's not as good as learning on a real job with real data/requirements/etc, but the idea is that you can at least get some exposure to practicing some crucial skills.

There are LOTS of other countries represented in the survey, I'd suggest downloading the raw data to check it out (it's free).
That’s a good (and profound) question, not deserving of downvotes.

It turns out that the simplified paradigmatic “scientific method” is a very bad caricature of what actually happens on the cutting edge when we’re pushing the boundaries of what we understand (not just theory, but also experimental design). Even on the theoretical front, the principles might be well-understood, but making predictions requires accurately modeling all the aspects that contribute to the actual experimental measurement (and not just the simple principled part). In that sense, the border between theory and experiment is very fuzzy, and the two inevitably end-up influencing each other, and it is fundamentally unavoidable.

Unfortunately, it would require more effort on my part to articulate this, and all I can spare right now is a drive-by comment. Steven Weinberg has some very insightful thoughts on the topic, both generally and specifically in the context of particle physics, in his book “Dreams of a final theory” (chapter 5).

If you don’t have access to the book, in a pinch, you could peruse some slides that I made for a discussion: https://speakerdeck.com/sivark/walking-through-weinbergs-dre...
The general trend here seems that browser security improvements are more likely to kill core-function-of-your-app-as-a-service type software products, rather than SPAs in general or in particular.
Yeah our local town council has bike paths under dept of Recreation. So they go from nowhere to nowhere. And they get closed for 6 months because some truck got parked on it for some unrelated construction project. And they don't get repaired or even maintained adequately.
But compared to the previous 'hack' that needed a $50K radio and weeks of post-processing it's pretty good.

Especialyl since it also demonstrates how to target a particular phone - the previous GSM cracks captured all the packets on all the phones in a cell, so it was only much later you worked out which was the phone you were looking for - too late if they moved to a new cell while you were recording.
Yes and No.

I come here first, but I'm on Reddit as much. Never comment at Reddit though.

Digg is toast. Google News is just "news" so I don't really bother, and I've completely dumped all RSS readers.

I'm not going to "self filter" blogs when I can come to HN or Reddit and see what people have already "socially filtered" as the best stories for me :)
Interested to know you see the drone strike app as a left issue? I don’t think opinions on foreign intervention fall very neatly along the left-right spectrum
Thanks.

So there's a monolithic torrent, but we still need to implement a way to search for and download one specific paper, in a decentralized way?
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Do you feel guilty doing 'fun' things or is nothing fun? I have the guilt side of it. E.g. "Sure, I could go jet-skiing for a few hours but I should be productive." Is that it?
Textbooks are heavy and carrying a few of them can be burdensome. When I was a college student I walked everywhere and used e-books so I would have a lighter backpack.
Hi Raymond. Thank you for sharing your powerful story.

A loved one is going through a similar experience (though struggling with the schizophrenia spectrum). I would love to ask you a few questions but couldn't find any contact info in your profile here.

Is there a way that I can get in touch with you? (My email is in my profile; if you send me a short note so that I can have your email, I'll followup).

I particularly curious about the experiment they discussed at Fox Run, with taking you off all the drugs to reset you for a proper diagnosis. Did they try it? Did it work? Is this a standard diagnostic procedure?

Thank you.
You're wrong.

I just copied and pasted some Scheme from the net into the Gambit Scheme REPL. Worked fine. Apple did nothing to stop me, nor could they.
> am I the only person who has zero problem using a trackpad and keyboard with my hands for >=8 hours a day?

Of course not, it's just selection bias. People without similar problems don't feel the need to provide contrasting (and unavoidably boring) stories.
It's not that it was unknown and non-obvious - it's that as each successive stent was shown not be an effective treatment, cardiologists continued to operate for decades, confident that the next "new! improved!" version would work, even though none of the previous ones had.

The reasons for this are a combination of the difficulty of publishing neutral or negative results & surgeons' entirely natural inclination to do something rather than nothing, even if nothing is actually the right thing to do, because operating is what they've trained their entire lives to do.

The same thing happened with extreme chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplant as treatment for many cancers in the 80s: something like a $billion was wasted on treatments that didn't work. The reasons why it took so long to demonstrate that that particular treatment was ineffective were not entirely the same - read "The Emperor of All Maladies" for the details - but shared the optimism of doctors & patients combined with a plausible theory, which is what ultimately makes for a potentially toxic combination.
you might want to read this too:
http://www.mpi-sws.org/~turon/turon-thesis.pdf
I can't agree with you regarding the movie adaptations. They are different. Some are very good movies, but they are "inspired by" PKD's stories rather than straight adaptations.

I can get why you prefer the movies, given that you write that you prefer PKD's "straight scifi", but to me his "straight scifi" is the most boring part of his output.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is not Blade Runner. Blade Runner is a single story-strand from Androids, re-imagined. It's a better movie for it, probably, but what makes PKD's stories to me is the density, with multiple intertwined stories.

As for Exegesis, it's for the specially interested. Of course it is navel gazing - it was his attempt at making sense of his mind after a psychotic breakdown. It was never written for publication.
"It's the program that scanned the Internet in less than twelve parsecs."
Whether they are doing this effectively or not is up for debate, but certainly in any society it is part of the role of the government to protect its citizens. Certainly this job cannot be left to individuals or to private parties.
I wonder if you could just create some kind of roof over the rotors, thus negating the "attack".
In case it wasn't clear - I was agreeing with you and contributing to furthering your point! :)
When you do your timing tests make sure to do it on different files to make sure you aren't taking advantage of caching your system may be doing. That may explain some of your timing discrepancies. And when I say blazingly fast I mean that these pyscripts are nearly as fast as wc/tail.

Edit; I just tested your code and my own and against a set of files of uniform size.

time wc -l GIANTFILE1 -> 16.7 seconds

cProfile.run("for i,v in enumerate(open("GIANTFILE2")):pass") -> 18.1 seconds

cProfile.run("sum(file_block_count_lf(open('GIANTFILE3','rb')))") -> 22.9 seconds
> Always allow your users to close their account. This should remove all information about them from your service to the extent possible without disrupting the integrity of other information.

I think this would be much better if it answered the question "Why?"
> A handful of parts from radioshack, or even just an injection-capable wifi dongle, and they will drop from the sky without you leaving the ground.

Jamming RC control is not that straightforward, and for good reasons: it's common for several pilots to operate RC-controlled vehicles from single airfield simultaneously, thus RC radios evolved to avoid interference with one another.

While modern RC radios indeed usually operate on 2.4GHz band common with WiFi, they typically employ frequency-hopping spread-spectrum communications[1] that has nothing to do with WiFi and is designed with degree of robustness against interference.

Secondly, many `drones' (in this context, quad-rotors and multi-rotors) are catable of semi-autonomous operations, such as position holding, following a pre-planned flight path, and automatic return-to-base, as both aide to pilot and a natural protection against losing radio contact with the remote control.

To combat those capabilities you would have to jam GPS signal too, and most probably the end result would be drone simply drifting with wind and slowly changing altitude, instead of dropping out of the sky right away. Not to mention jamming nearby neighbours and motorists, and illegality of such jamming [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_aircraft#Freq...

[2] http://www.gps.gov/spectrum/jamming/
Done. Thanks for the heads up.
> or are people just unwilling to put up with the winters?

This is slightly related; It may not be tomorrow, next week, or next decade, but eventually, there will come a time when climate change makes living in the west and/or southwest prohibitively (or increasingly) expensive. I'm not talking full abandonment often espoused by preppers, far from it. People will continue to live in the west, it's not going to disappear. However, it will become cheaper by orders of magnitude to live and do business elsewhere in the country.

The biggest reason for this is that fresh water will be at a high premium. They're already experiencing drought issues in the west and southwest due to climate change, and I suspect places like Las Vegas will be the first to turn into a ghost town.

Many people mistakenly believe that we can pump water around the country where its needed. While we have the technology, infrastructure and motivation to do it, we don't have the legal authority. You see, a few years ago, the Great Lake states and 2 Canadian Provinces signed the great lakes water compact. It's a (federally) legally binding contract which forbids exporting the water from the great lakes out of their respective states. In short, if you want cheap water, you're going to need to move back to the midwest/north east. I'm 1000% confident that the "rust belt" will rise again. It's only a matter of time.
Get into the history of science, and it will become apparent that getting at the "truth" is one hell of an uphill climb. Whether it was The Church vs Galileo, or Keys vs Yudkin, this is an area where "authorities" have failed greatly and frequently, and honest open debate remains the most effective tool we have--albeit an imperfect one.

To appoint fucking salary-persons as the "facts" police--people more invested in steady paychecks and institutional authority rather than the study of the thing itself--will only yield error, confusion, and tyranny.
we don't know everything, but we definitely know something about current ML, and we can indeed speculate and make some educated guesses about AGI. for a random comment on the internet, that contained some interesting information. of course, an actual implementation of AGI might be anything, but the comment was broader than that
That doesn’t alway matter. Last time I was pulled over I stopped and counted to five cause the cop was sitting in the median. He pulled me over anyway to check if I was drunk (it was midnight) admitted I had stopped and let me go. But I’d still rather deal with a cop who bends the rules than a traffic enforcement company behind fifteen layers of corruption and government chaff.
Ah, wow, finally found the exact article I was looking for. This thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22492671

And then there was the genomics or DNA database or something that a couple of people were running out of their garage (well, a bit more than that) but then had to shut down after law enforcement discovered it, found it incredibly useful, and everything rapidly went sideways as "things aren't supposed to work that way"... but I'm having the hardest time finding the link for this one sadly ._.

EDIT (just within the 1hr window :): I think the second one was GEDmatch. A quick search of https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gedmatch didn't relocate what I remember reading, but I think this was it.
* is the most evil and useful thing ever created for query

plus, if you do LIKE* the performance will go nuts
1/3 is too little

No, a person making 120k$ in NY is not making 40kEUR in a western European city. Maybe half of that, sure. But not 40k (even if you account the EUR-USD diff)