jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The city of Lafayette's police department (in the SF East Bay) accepts crime tip emails using a Gmail address (94549TIP@gmail.com). It's plastered on all their police cars, even though the city and police department have an official domain. Though even that is a .org domain, lovelafayette.org.
This is more likely, especially when considering that women, like minorities, are likelier to be the first to be laid off as a recession gets underway, and the last to find full-time, full-skill employment after it ends.
Are there any absolute statements that one can make about humans and human behavior? All humans have arms and legs? No. Even "All humans have brains" seems debatable after 2020 :-P.
We knew this would happen. How long until a mandatory FB account?
That's a good idea! I hadn't thought about using docker.
The bigger point is that people with power don't feel the consequences. The victims are almost always the workers.

Free trade and competition? As long as it suits the powerful.

Democracy and sovereignty? Only if they play nicely with our big players.

Human rights? If your economic interests align with ours.

It doesn't need to be like this.
America bombed the crap out of many countries throughout history. I mean wtf was Vietnam all about? Iraq didn't look that good either.
Well we all saw this coming.

This puts me personally in a very bad state as I can never stop using WhatsApp because of its popularity here(ref. Fax machine problem). It’s almost like essential service.
This still seems to be happening two years later. A person complained about seeing a book sold under their name for 550 USD. It contained gibberish and the sales were recorded as income to the IRS even though the owner of the account couldn't find out where the money went. Amazon wouldn't tell her who had opened a bank account in her name. I suppose they prefer to deal with such accounts behind the scenes.
It's ironic that you mention Hollywood, because our studios are now catering to CCP sensibilities. You'll never see a film critical of China made domestically. Our studios want access to the Chinese market and they know that if they produce such a film, they'll be blacklisted.

This is why we need top-down decoupling. China knows we're addicted, and they've got us in a good spot to continue growing off of our market.
In certain contexts (such as linear algebra), linear refers to the fact that the mapping must cross the origin.

This follows from the constraint that for a linear map f, f(a + b) = f(a) + f(b), which is not true for the farenheit-celsius example.

EDIT: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_function#As_a_linear_ma...
You'll probably tell me it is futile, but I download and archive all my mail from Gmail using Thunderbird, and make sure my Gmail account only contains the recent months' worth of email.
For Amazon it is certainly possible, imo. They just don't do it, AFAIK. An alert that you might or might not get is obviously not as reliable as a hard limit.
In Australia a manufacturer's warranty cannot override your statutory rights. The warranty rights are useful if they are better than your statutory rights though.

Apple has previously been in trouble for trying to avoid their statutory requirements here, eg http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/apple-f...
Wouldn't the definition then mean that you should say "state" or "state actor"? To attribute a worm or attack to a country would only mean that it originated there, not that it was created by the well-resourced state organization that is associated with that country (which is what the people using the "nation-state" label seek to imply).
Yup. It's a reference to Calvin and Hobbes: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DXzlDXdGjlM/UGSlryq02vI/AAAAAAAAYd...
I'd argue it is the "Hello, World" in any BMI lab. Assuming existing implants and electronics, and non-naive monkey, advanced undergrads should get it in a semester.
I'm going to make an absolutist statement for which I will probably be corrected shortly. For any given table, interactions should either be done entirely with INSERT or be done entirely with UPSERT. The two should never mix on a single table, and UPDATE should never be used.

My reasoning is that if a table represents the current state of the world, then any state changes should be made with UPSERT in order to bring the table up to date with the world. If a table represents the history of changes, then that history should be appended to with INSERT, but not modified.

I'm sure that there are other cases that I'm not currently considering, but I'm also a newbie at SQL and would love to be told of them.
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I have worked on lots of software that involves event-driven actions, and apply this concept throughout.

"Need to send a notification email when x condition becomes true". Naive way: during processing, check the condition and call the SendEmail() function. Idempotent way: Run a query that finds all x conditions, join to a list of notifications based on email+id+time, and only if there's no entry, send the notification and save it to the list.

"Send a report at midnight". Naive way: have a cron entry that runs at midnight or run a loop that checks the time, and if midnight, sends the report. Idempotent way: cross-check against a list of reports that should have been sent, and if missing, send it. Run this check every few minutes.

The nice thing about this is it doesn't stop you from also doing the event-based stuff (for "real-time" notifications, for example), so long as it's the secondary approach from design point of view. Ironically when everything is working fine, the event-driven stuff will actually be doing all the work -- but as soon as there's a failure (like, the system happens to reboot at 23:59) you'll be grateful to build this way.

I could write paragraphs about the nuance, different approaches, failure modes and the trade-offs with all this -- suffice to say treating events as optional in event-based systems has served me well.
Our local dev environment does this, but it does it by running our driver (so we can test the driver) so it's a lot more mechanism than you'd need.

You could get this done yourself pretty easily: just unpack the Docker image (there's a Docker command that does this, I forget what) onto a mounted loop device, then hand its block device off to Firecracker.

Our driver does its own local address goop, but it's not complicated (it just dumps netlink and allocates the next available subnet in a particular range).

Having said all that: there are projects that do this already; for instance, I think there's a Kata Firecracker somewhere.
Yes. In fact, Dr. Nim uses the same mechanism as Digi-Comp II, which is also mentioned in the blog post.
> If I don't remember the `df` command... what do I do apart from searching on the internet?

I'd try "ls /bin" and see if any of the names sounded familiar or possibly relevant. Or "man -k space" which shows "df (1) - report file system disk space usage" on line 24, which isn't a lot of reading.

GUI's aren't always intuitive. Nothing worse than not having the option in your right-click menu because you tried right-clicking in the left "explorer" column, but really needed to open the parent dir then right-click on the folder in the right-hand side. GUIs can be infinitely more difficult/complex.

Back in the Win95 days, I recall a case where someone couldn't figure out how to format a floppy. After struggling for hours, he did a search which found format.exe, and used it. It's hard to discover that you can right-click on the drive to get the option, because there are many things that don't show up there... You can't create partitions or change drive letters in the right-click menu there, for example, but how would you know? You've got to learn the options/capabilities for your system, whether its GUI or CLI.

What a GUI really has going for it, is that it offers a limited set of options, greatly simplifying the exploration. Something like Norton Commander, DOSBox or other limited/restricted shell (which shows only the most common commands) has similar discoverability benefits without the graphics, and still with those cli benefits available to you.
Irrelevant? You're the guy which suddenly popped up Chicago, as if that makes any sense. And for such a world-weary traveller, you should know that Iraq war wasn't that long ago; And your only reply to any arguments is to deflect. Readers can deduce for themselves what that means.
Plus it's all about profit margins. Investing in tons of testing for not enough return from users means they just won't do that.

I'd imagine you'd need multi-lingual testers to use the product too, not just a native speaker given a foreign keyboard. There's no way to find bugs an average user would face with normal use.
No tracking, easier development when without internet, less external dependencies.

You can, for example, use Google with a local fallback, for better reliability. (their CDN will fail at some time)
I use DNS to block ads when control over the HOSTS file is not available to the user.

Works across all applications, e.g. browsers, apps, and requires no installation of third party software e.g. extensions.

I'm curious: do these ad blocking "solutions" operate as businesses? Do ad servers pay to be removed from blacklists? Pardon my ignorance.
I'm working on software/tools for embedded field as well as trying to develop a wireless driver for 802.11p (automotive "WiFi").

It's actually not that expensive to get a prototype done with many of the hardware resource available for either free (as samples) or dirt cheap in small quantities.

Say you want to build a new Gaming Router, you can buy the underlying hardware to do development on for under $200 in quantities of < 10 and that will give you all the needed parts (board, radio, antennas, cables, enclosure, etc.) with the right specs to do just about anything you want. You'd then run Linux on it (OpenWRT is easy, comparatively) and wright the necessary software on top of that.

As the Ideas point #27, linked to by ig1, shows, most of the problem solving is in software.

Give you an example, I worked for a startup, 3 software guys (myself included) built a router that had all the capabilities of a Cisco small business-class router in 6 months from getting the hardware to being feature complete. No hardware people were involved. We used a crappy, 3 year-old platform that would over-heat (the SoC would start to literally smoke) if we ran more than 2 IPSec connections, but we were able to tune the kernel and our software to make it a viable product for a lot of businesses.

If you know your way around Linux, building embedded products is unbelievably simple.

If you or anyone else is interested in talking more about this field, shoot me an email (it's in my profile).
Total compensation (including all benefits) probably adds up to close to $200k/yr for Googlers in MTV. That campus is not inexpensive to operate.
Heh, I've heard that argument before, my family and everyone I knew was "elite" somehow. No, we were certainly not. Or are you saying my problem is being Jewish?

Sergei Brin, who you mention, was his family also shot? If you applied for the paperwork properly you were allowed to leave.
Something else in common with drug dealers: if you tossed this guy in jail, someone else would move happily in to fill his niche. Prohibition does not, has not, and will never work.
Just to preempt the "damned if they do, damned if they don't" type of comments that usually follow something like this, I'd like to say: "Thank you, Microsoft, for doing the right thing. Next time, try to keep your lawyers away from your press office so their frothing at the mouth can be contained before you can craft a competent response."
a fallacy, as it turned out

A falsehood. A fallacy is an argument where the conclusion does not follow from the assumptions.
By "peculiarities" I didn't mean minor implementation differences but the major ideas behind the implementation. Be reasonable here -- the differences in implementation in the DOM between Gecko and WebKit (say) are trivial compared to "type checking" vs "lack of type checking". There's a bit of subjectivity involved, agreed, but I think any reasonable person would agree about the differences.
I like the red backlight in my Max Blackbird at its lowest setting. Not essential, but kind of nice.

What I really like about it, which for some reason is relatively rare in mechanical keyboards, is the built-in USB hub. Nice for a mouse or headset dongle, especially on a port-starved machine like a Surface Pro.
I'd be very surprised if all Trump's tweets weren't scraped and saved in official archives.
Couldn’t you just as accurately say they organized peacefully at the Capitol and THEN made it non-peaceful by doing those things?
If trespassing is domestic terrorism, we might as well just tear up the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
When have we seen the loser's followers violently storm the Capitol to stop the certification of the election's votes? Never in the US.
I believe o_p meant stations that are approved by the Democratic Party. That's not at all how radio (or free speech) works.
I believe the Library of Congress archives all historically relevant tweets. Up until 2017-ish they archived every single one.
An anecdote in support of this:

My fiancee is a doctor in charge of a covid ward at our hospital, and at one point this year I heard about some studies re:vitamin D on radiolab and told her about it. She found it interesting, but told me she didn't have access to one of the studies she wanted to read.

I introduced her to sci-hub and she was blown away. She uses it fairly frequently now.

The idea that government-funded health studies are inaccessible to doctors during a pandemic is patently absurd.

Sci-hub does a lot of good.
Not to say the bans are unwarranted (they are way late, IMO), but the bans are also great one-line arguments against 230 changes.
It wasn't when the FCC established standards and it isn't now.
> How do they sound like a manager?

In short Yes. It sounds like

- They tell you what to do way more than the reverse. I'm guessing they have more autonomy in their area.

- You are a lot more worried about what they think of your performance than the reverse.

- You don't feel comfortable simply contradicting them directly.

They certainly seem to be 'wearing the pants' in your organisation. I'm not saying this a necessarily bad thing. If you are working with a Steve Jobs then being a Steve Wozniak is a pretty good move. But make sure to pay critical attention to their performance as well. The danger is that if you are working to impress them you won't notice if their performance is substandard. Salesy/Businessy types are good at tricks like that.
> I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid pdf pain' side of their business?

There's a way to answer that. What is their userbase like, and do they run Chrome? If the primary browser is still IE (and it kind of seems to me like 'easing PDF pain' is incongruous with people who have total understanding and control of their interaction with the internet) then scribd will be safe for... how long did it IE6 last? Probably about that long.
I said you can skip the backspace, not the Ctrl-A.
Heavily second the Italo Calvino recommendation. Although I love Invisible Cities, I think "If on a winter's night a traveler" is probably even better for the technically minded. It's somewhat recursive in structure, as the book is actually about reading itself. Highly recommended.
>It uses a standard Internet protocol (SIP+SRTP) as they said in the keynote.

While it draws from a lot of existing standards, it embraces and extends. It isn't interoperable with anything currently deployed.

Which is interesting because one alternative world would have seen them introducing the standard a year ago, to be met by broad acceptance and compatibility at release. They chose not to do this, meaning that early adopters enter a very scarce world.
Common sense for anyone who's had a few ideas. Which is everyone.
What happens when you browse a HTTPS website? Last time I messed with proxies, there was some caveat or something when it came to HTTPS targets.
I totally agree. Most don't stay for dinner. Many go home, have dinner with their family, and get back on line from home later. Everyone is free to do what they need to do. There is no pressure from anyone.

Google feels a lot like a college campus. Lots of people around at all hours of the day and night. People have different work schedules, but you never feel alone.
An early favorite of mine was the disk check in Ultima II. Origin used a bad sector to verify original disk scheme.

Consumer drives could not make a bad sector, only firmware modified drives could, and I didn't have one at the time.

Based on some successful cracks I did on the Apple ][, I started working through the code, only to find out they didn't check for a specific error, just an error.

Upon seeing that, I restarted my Atari with the copied disk in the drive. Ataris made a beep for each sector loaded, which was very handy. About 19, or maybe it was 23 beeps later, I opened the drive door waited for the error, closed it, and the game worked just fine.

No need for a HEX patch.
Is it running through an SSH tunnel? If not, its not remotely secure.

Switch to NX instead.
But then you're left with a smart gun that's unlockable with a simple RF generator
Why does this stuff keep showing up on HN? There is nothing that "gratifies one's intelectual curiosity" about printing the fourth amendment on clothing.
Employees should consider their options to have an expected value of $0. (With a not insignificant variance...)

There are so many ways things can fail to pan out or you can get screwed, and employees simply can't protect themselves in the way an investor or founder can. If significant participation in an exit is important to you, the only logical option is to be a founder yourself. Trying to get a payoff as an employee is little better than gambling.

My rule of thumb is that if the options influence your behavior at all, you're over-valuing them.
That article states HP competes with Oracle. How?
Went looking very a quantification of "very profitable", but got none.
> Microsoft owns the trademark to something like "Microsoft Office" not the actual word Office, right?

I think the fact there is no Sun (or Oracle, or IBM) Office speaks for itself. Specially in the case of McNeally's Sun, that would find it specially appealing to dilute the value of a Microsoft brand by naming a product as close to theirs as possible. No one did it.

People fear, understandably, Microsoft's lawyers.
Well, in theory, it should be possible to create another language that targets the Dalvik VM (or port an existing language). In practice, I don't know how easy that would be.
No worries now, the traffic shut his site down.
As a profit maximizing CEO, I would have to mollify your concerns, otherwise no one would move to the city and I would make no profits.

When buying property in Hackertopia, the tax rate would be fixed at the time of purchase. The property valuation (and thus the total amount of taxes) could fluctuate of course. The valuation would be set by a variation of the old two people dividing the pie trick. One party (perhaps the homeowner) would set a valuation for the house. The other party (the city) would have the option of buying back the property at that price.

The property ownership contract would also guarantee that the provision of vital services (electricity, gas, water, etc) be provided at non-extortionate prices (perhaps the contract would specify that the price could be no greater than cost plus 30%). Thus city government would be contractually banned from charging $1k a month for water as back door property tax.

Since the city is making money off of property values, it has an incentive to provide common services such as roads and parks that increase property prices.

A company that screws over its customers or makes promises it then revokes will not be a highly profitable company for long. For a city to be profitable, and to maintain high property, it must continually attract new residents. If the city gains a reputation for screwing its residents, demand for property will plummet, property prices will drop, tax revenues will fall, and profits will fall.

The more the city government thinks about long term profits rather than short term profits the better life will be for the residents. Ideally, the corporate charter would have some tweaks to make the corporation even more future oriented than most corporations. For instance, all stock in the company could be restricted stock that is nontransferable until the owner has owned it for ten years. Executives would also receive dividend paying, non-transferable stock instead of stock options or a pension.
Build whatever you want and then just rent the patents you need from old Nate and the gang when trouble comes calling? A few more consolidations and it'll just be a toll that every one who builds anything just has to pay.

Could it go any further wrong?
End of an era. On the bright side, more lucky companies will get to work with him!
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So I guess the point of this is to reside somewhere between facebook (rigid page layout) and a personal home page (no restrictions)? The benefits over a personal page I can see are that most of the nitty gritty has been done: built-in analytics, drag-and-drop webpage design, no hosting. Anything else?
I'm pretty sure "session-based memory management" should be "memory-based session management", ie they kept user session state in memory.
This is freak'n awesome.
User Popcorn: you are being censored. All your comments are dead on arrival.
Yes, I will probably wait for oath before signing up and checking it out.
Picasa did this ages ago.
I can't wait until my parked car gets flagged by my neighbor that doesn't like me and my insurance rates go up.
I totally agree that the practical reality matters.

However, even if our supposedly democratic and representative governments in the West are far from perfect, that isn't a good argument for unnecessarily supporting other measures that are even further from perfect as well.

It took too long to bring down the last Labour government in the UK after its succession of abuses and war-mongering, with their third term in particular a freak result of our awful electoral system, but we did kick them out eventually. And while the current coalition can now fairly be judged on its track record as we come up to our general election and its record has also been far from perfect, the influence of the minority partner (the Liberal Democrats, who had not been in government here for generations prior to 2010) is probably more clearly evident in their efforts to defend civil liberties than anywhere else.

That same Lib Dem party has been almost unbelievably naive politically since entering the government and has been so comprehensively outplayed by its coalition partner that the Lib Dems are likely to be all but wiped out at the coming election. However, the fact that the party most likely to replace them as the protest vote of choice is heavily against foreign interference in UK business and seems to have become very popular almost immediately despite most people knowing little or nothing about either the party leadership beyond one key figurehead or the party's other policies might tell us something about popular sentiment and the desire of the UK electorate not to be taken for granted by the two big (and both heavily authoritarian) parties.