jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1. The evidence provided for election fraud was investigated, and no widespread fraud was found.
2. The Trump/Russia stuff was investigated because there were credible reasons to be concerned. The election fraud issue is entirely (and transparently) manufactured, and everyone in power knows it.
>direct calls to violence and to insurrection against a democracy

Did Trump really call for violence? Are those tweets still accessible somewhere? (Serious question, I did not follow his account.)
If you need to use an older version of a package and don’t have a packrat/renv lockfile already, then packrat/renv are not going to help you. mran/checkpoint could though.

I agree packrat (which I created) was a poor solution for most users. renv is far better and more usable.
They thought about it:

> Okawa, who had loaned Sega $500 million in 1999, died on March 16, 2001. Shortly before his death, he forgave Sega's debts to him and returned his $695 million worth of Sega and CSK stock, helping the company survive the third-party transition.[188][189][190] He held failed talks with Microsoft about a sale or merger with their Xbox division.[191] According to former Microsoft executive Joachim Kempin, Microsoft founder Bill Gates decided against acquiring Sega because "he didn't think that Sega had enough muscle to eventually stop Sony."[192] A business alliance with Microsoft was announced where Sega develops 11 games for the new Xbox console.[193]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega#Dreamcast_and_continuing_...
As a fellow dreamer, cool project! I’ll have to look more into it. However, I’ve been dying to ask another developer/dreamer, what are your thoughts on a video game that trains your brain to do reality checks?
The internet dependency angle is a good point to bring up, and incidentally it's why I've gotten into data hoarding or purchasing products that don't require the internet. Like you said, I can use my Switch or even my Kindle without any problem. I also play most games via emulation or buy them from GOG, which gives you completely DRM-free downloads, making it possible to just boot up a game like the old days.

I do have game pass, and the experience has been a constant reminder for why I hate a lot about the modern gaming world (with the exception of Switch, like you said). Often times when I just want to sit down and play a game, I instead have to jump through a series of hoops: download xbox update > update xbox > download game update > update game. For added fun, once in a while you even have to update your controller. Meanwhile I've never updated a switch game and always have a pleasantly plug and play experience.
This is a remarkable statement, because more people live in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont, and the purpose of a state is to serve its people, not its buildings or "resources".
Whatever you do, keep it out of the reach of kids...

Thankfully by default it only registers the fist press, till delivery resets it. But if you have one for many things and a kid goes on a tear...
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Unikernel vs Docker natrative but it feels inevitable given how the Docker crowd claimed the 'death of the hypervisor' in their early days. These two tools could probably play quite nicely together.

With that mini-rant out of the way, the really interesting thing will be examining the differences between Unikernel approaches. So far, there hasn't been scope to do that as it's been more about rasing awareness of the space in general.
Why use a todo app that requires me to grab my phone, unlock, start an app and enter a todo item, when I could instead just press a button that'll be right in front of me at the moment I notice I'll need more of some product soon?
Here's the LG Prada:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LG_prada_phone_private_pic...

http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable...

Announced Dec 2006. I'm not saying Samsung copied this phone, but if I was LG, I'd start to wonder.

BTW, best article on the issue to date.
Well, I don't care how much the waiter is paid, just as long as he's there and he doesn't mind the fact that I'm not gonna pay him ten bucks for the forty seconds he spends bringing my food out from the kitchen.
I would argue that a satisfying keyboard is also important for a software developer.

Some of the things I mentioned are probably not important for productivity. But in my case my work laptop and my personal laptop are the same. So a light-up keyboard and good speakers are nice to have when watching movies on a Friday night with my wife (For example).
Yes, there is some spatial optimization needed insofar as one would likely not want to be two acres in linear distance away from one’s infant. The habitable surface allocation could be thought of as virtual and fractional which would also account for point differences in relative value such as a natural spring, naturally occurring commodities like a gold mine or the human interest in subjective value like Hawaiian beachfront, all of which may change over time. Along the line of subjective preference is overall inter-human proximity in which some might choose higher or lower depending on intended lifestyle.

Human-avoiding life already has a hard time. The habitable surface estimate did not include many areas where the remaining ones exist, such as tundra, ice pack, mountains and deserts. Additionally inter-human proximity preference distribution will allow for additional area outside the aforementioned surface classifications.
I wasn’t talking about the general public. I was talking about the incumbents. I said competitors, not customers, and that wasn’t a corrected typo.

Edit: I responded to something that’s now been silently edited out and replaced with “others”.
As a Brazilian I can say: welcome to an unequal society, US. Yes, that's one of the symptoms, and if you look at the lives of those people serving, it's hearth-breaking.
This really depends on what exactly he's looking for. He could be asking questions in order to understand the code base and design decisions. This can be solved by running some training sessions.
However if the person just seems to be testing you that is unusual. It might be worth asking other co-workers about the behavior.
He is saying that your perspective as a Linode employee might not represent how others saw Digital Ocean at the time. Which for me is glaringly obvious from your comments.

EDIT: s/general public/others
I recently had to switch from Firefox to Edge due to how non-snappy it was with Reddit. I wish it wasn't so.
You can't go to a bank, ask them to give you all your money in cash and hide it under a mattress (not in most countries at least).

You can go to Coinbase and simply transfer all your funds to your own wallet in a matter of seconds.
I hadn't thought about that before! Very slick incentive structure there...like, build the tech to go to space and mine it and become enormously wealthy on Earth (ignoring the amount of wealth required to accomplish this).
and your point is? The fact that vaccines are here makes the COVID problem irrelevant a few years from now. That's called beating COVID.
That's the wrong question to ask. The right questions are:

1) Are there any real examples of software exploits that could have been fixed by programming language features?

2) Is there an incentive to exploit software bugs in a payment system?

To which the answers are 1) almost too many to count, and 2) yes, definitely.
I don't think that's caused from the culture around unions so much as it's caused by the culture around capitalism. There are plenty of scummy niches that people have found ways of getting paid for. Everything from consultants to show your company how to layoff people to religious leaders and snake oil salesmen and conmen. It's a big spectrum.
20+ year network engineer and programmer here.

Get a good CCNA study book (like Todd Lammle’s) and browse the first few chapters until you are satisfied. Stop when you don’t care about the chapter topics anymore.

Lammle’s book is highly-regarded and an easy read. It begins at layer 1 (electrical signals) and continues up the OSI stack.

You could even buy an old, used edition. The information you’re interested in hasn’t changed.
It will be interesting to see if these fake contacts show up in a leak somewhere someday. Almost like how people do myname+yourcompany@gmail.com, we could create similarly fake contacts to see who is selling or leaking data.
I had something similar happen to me on my Incredible once or twice. I can't remember if I hit Twitter and it went to GMail or vice versa.

It's odd that Twitter was involved for both of us. I wonder if they're doing something weird ... though I don't know any android.permission.CONQUER_OTHER_APPS permission in the API.
This is also the first YouTube video I've seen, embedded or not, where the position slider doesn't work. I also can't click to view it on YouTube.
please see my earlier response to the first response to my comment
How much stronger you'll find in a few days or weeks when you break even this scheme.
Lets say they paid their employees more, charged their clients less and then still gave something to charity. Someone would still be asking the same questions, "howcome they don't give more to employees and charge clients less?"

Will there ever be a point at which they're allowed to use their money to give to whom they see fit?
Fuck yeah Patxi's!
To add to this question, I'd love a simple primer on how the blockchain works. I understand that mining Bitcoin is the process of bruteforcing a hash function which is derived from a previous part of the blockchain. To transfer ownership / spend Bitcoin I simply have to send this string to somebody. But how does this work with Bitcoin being de-centralised? What if two or more people mine the same Bitcoin (succeed in bruteforcing the hash function) at the same time. How do you decide who is the real owner with no central authority to confirm ownership?
This is probably why they done sell (MobileCoin) to anyone in or from the US...
On their merits? Participants in a debate are not avatars of their side of the argument. One guy fails to make a counterpoint, ok. Doesn't mean he's wrong.
The simplest way is to make the transition within the company you're already working at. I have seen many software engineers convert into PMs successfully and that's usually the way they do it. It works best when you are working on some product and slowly take over more of the PM-type responsibilities, proving you can do it. With an SRE/DevOps background, it's going to be a little harder to do that.
Cult of personality holds more value than MobileCoin unfortunately.

I wish there was a way to decentralize that value :-P
Was about to type the same thing, am also pianist. Using small muscles to do repetitive things is exactly how you get RSI. Don't do stuff with small muscles that you can do with large ones.

Unfortunately, even in the piano community, this knowledge is not that widespread. Really common to see repetitive motion injuries from very finger heavy technique.
I run a product team.

I've successfully hired one person doing this transition, but that was to be a technical product manager. For everything else, I would skip your resume. If you want me to be interested, you need to be a PM for a year plus somewhere else.

My rationale:

1. as expensive and painful as eng hires are to get wrong, they have nothing on PM hires.

2. I have no idea if you actually like the work, and neither do you. It is very different from eng work.

3. I have no idea if you are capable of talking to customers and prospects. Capable can span a lot of things, but includes doesn't freeze up, can think on their feet, and doesn't say really dumb shit to customers (I have eng that got exposure to prospects and managed to talk the prospect out of buying by the way they presented info).

4. Frankly, PM roles often pay less, particularly as compared to senior eng. That fact does not work in your favor, because I'm basically guesstimating if you're worth 3-6 months of my time to spin up on a product.

Finally, your other issue may be that companies simply hire a lot more eng -- 6-10x or more.

As has been repeatedly mentioned in this thread, your best bet (imo) is to transition at your current employer.

ps -- nothing written in your post demonstrates much effort on your part. That's another huge turnoff were I to ponder investing my time into you.
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It’s interesting to see that HN people are not using Google as their primary choice, at least these that commented out. Very surprised tbh.
Excerpt from paper which was interesting

> Finally, managers often pursue conduct that harms outside victims (whether by shoddy manufacturing, false advertising, or negligent safety measures) in order to bolster their share price. The fact that investor lawsuits under these circumstances are likely to be more successful and lucrative may reinforce shareholders’ potential preference for managers to continue externalizing costs to third parties, on the assumption that if the management is not caught, their shares will increase in value, and if the management is caught, they will be able to recoup at least some of their losses through settlements after the fact.

> [...] Moreover, securities class action settlements generally “target the wrong party for sanctions;”83typically, the firm pays the settlement while the manager who actually committed the fraud is, at worst, fired.
> politician with the balls

I wish that these decisions wouldn't need to be deferred to politicians. So many of them are selfish idiots.

I'd more trust the vote of relevant medical specialists. I'd rather that these specialist provide the public the best/concise information they have and let people make informed decisions for themselves, or even have a referendum on one dose versus two, and prioritizing.

Politicians have already turned the world upside down for something that looks like it will kill two out of a thousand people when all is said and done, mostly older. Half the population is dumbfounded by their lack of perspective, the other half is scared shitless.
> read the History

Today we are enemies. It was different when the Shah was in power. I’m not talking about History. I’m talking about now.
If anyone only ever made decisions while they were perfectly fed and rested, this would be a sad, slow, boring world, because nothing would ever get done or decided. There is such a thing as urgency, and people do work beyond a 35 hour work week with evenly spaced meals, and especially during a global pandemic.

Specific to this instance, this FDA meeting was a formality -- they had already had the data for two weeks to review. The efficacy was well-known. They chose to take a 4-day holiday (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday).

People don't all of a sudden sign house contracts. They've germinated the idea, spent weeks or months working through the pros and cons, talking to their life partners and family and agent and mortgage broker. The decision is made well in advance of the actual contract signing, and all the red lines are done before you get to the actual meeting to sign on the line. Similarly with the FDA regulators, they weren't meeting to review the data for the first time and come up with a decision on the spot. This was one final step in a very long process.
> What makes things worse, Syria is sanctioned which means American companies cannot hire any Syrian because there's a legality issue. Meaning even Syrian refugees who fled the country cannot find a proper job.

My understand is that "a refugee" and having residency (permanent or not) are two separate and unrelated things.

Refugee = outside your country for a specific set of reasons you can find on Wikipedia.

What I meant was that being a refugee doesn't prevent EU companies from hiring you. I'm well aware of how terrible sanctions are, but not all EU countries have the exact same set of blockade/embargo as American ones. In general, work laws and authorization between any two countries that don't have explicit agreement tend to be difficult.
People sleep in cycles. Everyone’s timing of a cycle is different. But the average is around 90 minutes. You’ll feel dramatically better keeping your sleep to obey the boundaries of those 90 minute cycles.

Also REM occurs in the last cycles of sleep. So sleeping 4 hours with little REM and sleeping 6.5 hours with REM is like night and day.
This headline sounds like something from Steve Jackson's "Illuminati!" game.
Who needs hostages, when you can crush a whole country's economy with your thumbs? America can cause $$$ to instantly evaporate off Korea just by looking at it the wrong way. You think Korea is keeping Iran's 7 billion dollars just because we like to be a jerk?

I don't want to complain too much, because the arrangement is usually mutually beneficial (after all, if you have to keep thousands of foreign soldiers on your own soil, better to be a part of team America than team Iran or team China) - I just think it would be better if we talk about practicality instead of moral outrages.
I hope you understand that there is no debate going on between us. This is merely an outsider's understanding of how a church functions.

In the context of this thread it is irrelevant how effective / ineffective, good / bad a church is. The church is used to define an entity that represents a contrast to reddit's intended functionality.
http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/Fitness#WeightGain

In addition:
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Closer than we think, maybe, but further than Stephen Wolfram thinks.
Yup. This isn't going anywhere. We already use natural language fir programming - it's called writing a specification, which you then send to a special compiler called a programmer.

Now how many of us have seen a specification that was unambiguous, complete, and efficient? Have a look at the trouble that progammers have implemented browsers capable of passing Acid 3. And that's for a special case where the spc writers are programmer themselves, and have even provided a set of programmatic test cases to test validity.

Or alternatively, how many times have you tied to help a friend do a complex computing task (automated backups, transferring an iPod from one computer to another, whatever) and you start asking questions to find out exactly what they want, which tradeoffs they want to make etc, and they just get frustrated with you?

Those are three major flaws with natural language programming

- not even humans can correctly compile natural language specs

- it is incredibly difficult to write a natural language spec that is correct, unambiguous and efficient

- people already dislike dealing with the complexity of computer programming, even when they have a programmmer holding their hand, asking all of the right questions.
I think it is a good effort. There are many India-specific issues that are not relevant to the whole of HN, even though many Indians may find it interesting.
Theyre not too difficult to find. Good stuff on Doom9 and flowplayer forums. I realize that the appeal of zencoder is that you don't need to understand ffmpeg's elaborate settings, but its sorta fun to dig around and see what each one can do. Lots of technical algorithmic challenges in encoding.

For a good practical guide, I suggest reading this:
http://www.amazon.com/H-264-MPEG-4-Video-Compression-Generat...

It'll give you an idea of where all the settings come from.
If you really want to do a startup and want hands-on experience, clarity and opportunity then go work with a startup. Can't find a job? Do it for free! Post an 'Offer HN'.

Noting goes better than working at a startup.

Caution: Working at a startup is addictive and can hamper your employability or comfort level at a corporate.
>isn't public investment in shaky tech companies exactly what led to the early dotcom bubble?

Actually...yes.

The criticism of 'noobs will get fleeced' I think is silly. This one however, is valid. This could lead to dumbMoney sending valuations of dumbCompanies through the roof, also sending valuations of the good companies higher -- leading to a pretty nasty bubble.
It is, still, but urbandictionary users like making inaccurate definitions as an attempt at "humour"
At home TLS is fine. If you're connected to a public wifi using a VPN on top of that is a good idea because you only have to trust one VPN provider (or your own server) instead of every hotel chain, coffeeshop, etc.

> sufficient for most things on unsecured connections

WPA2 + good TLS encryption (i.e., good cyphers) should be.
Women are historically associated with being more "nurturing".

Don't you think people would prefer to see a nurturing therapist over a non-nurturing one?
That's good in that it requires a slightly more sophisticated attack, but I don't really view that as a very effective defense.

However, the bigger thing a self-signed cert allows you is the ability to verify later if your communication has been snooped by an active attacker--which is very significant. It's problematic that the communications aren't authenticated before they occur, but that doesn't mean they can't be authenticated later (via CAs or other means).
I don't know if I'd predict it, but I agree that it's hard to imagine a more transformative technology than a dramatically improved notation for something as broad as mathematics. It might mean that "notation" is actually a higher fidelity, more dynamic medium for communicating mathematical ideas only possible within computing. (See Bret Vector, etc.) One has to wonder what the world would be like if physics knowledge (at all levels) were disseminated via a medium beyond static text.
You're missing the core point. The politician doesn't need to say no to corporate money. He can, and should, say yes to all the money that any person or business wants to donate. The problem is when the politician writes into law a regulation, tariff, or rule that benefits a specific donor.

I fundraise for my kid's school. A local bank, ABC Savings, makes a considerable donation. There's no expectation that the school will pass a rule where we only accept students if their parents bank at ABC Savings. There's a difference between accepting campaign fundraising and quid pro quo.
"Once and for all" is a very, very long time. English could easily fragment (happened to Latin), or be supplanted.

For example, Persian occupied the same status that English does today in India, and was replaced pretty quickly once the British took over.
10x. I'm reading NH for less than an year :)