jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is always true, at least in the US. The police are allowed to lie to you during questioning. They are allowed to claim they have evidence that they do not have. No amount of lying on their part will invalidate any "confession" they obtain from you. But if you even inadvertently tell the police something that is untrue, you can end up in prison for that, even if you committed no other crime. NEVER talk to the police, if there is any chance they suspect you are involved with a crime.
I immediately thought of the Aztek when I saw the pop-out tent photo on the CyberTruck website.
Banks rely on a very small number of software vendors, so that the apparent abunance of bank options is all but eliminated at the middleware tier.

"What Is Your Bank’s Security Banking On?"

FIS, Fiserv or Jack Henry ... collectively control approximately 70 percent of the market for bank core processors (according to FedFIS.com, Fiserv is by far the largest).

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/what-is-your-banks-secur...

Covered at HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20203482
Now.

Seriously.
They can apply an angle grinder to a safe.

The whole point is that they can not be allowed to apply it to your head.
"Homophobic" is sometimes a problematic word. The emotion it describes is often less a sort of fear than a sort of hate. No one fears himself, but lots of people hate themselves. (One imagines this might be more common among those who torture prisoners of war.) So, the fact that Eastern European war criminals hate homosexuals does not prove that any particular Eastern European war criminals are not themselves homosexual.
You get charged with obstruction of justice or contempt of court and you will be found guilty of that crime and you will be sentenced for it.

This is the slippery slope of law where basically if they want to get you then they will get you for something.

Of course there is a simple solution. If you have "super secret" type files then you need to encrypt those files then upload them through TOR to a cloud hosting service. Of course per standard opsec protocol make sure you don't use a e-mail that is connected to you (make the e-mail account through TOR). This is how you prevent from being put in a situation where you are compelled to basically release a password.
> You really hate Tesla and prefer the current designs from GM?

I don't think this is a binary choice. It's possible to both dislike current GM designs, AND dislike Tesla's cybertruck design.

The Cybertruck appears to have been pulled directly out of a cyberpunk novel entirely formed, it does look more like a movie prop than a real vehicle.

My initial response to the design was shock and laughter that it was actually a real product. The choice of materials appears to have been a response to the trend of Tesla's getting keyed - I can imagine someone in the design meeting saying "Try keying this, motherfucker". After seeing the ATV option I asked when they're releasing the light-cycles.

I have to wonder how much the design was tested for human factors and against typical truck workloads before it was released. Tesla seem to have taken some numbers on range, towing capacity and cargo and then decided to beat them all, but without considering what else makes a truck useful.

The sloped angular back makes me wonder what it's going to be like trying to get access to anything that's stored near the back.

There's apparently built-in L-track rails on the inside of the bed, but no outside fittings, which might make it more difficult to secure coverings over any loads.

The tail gate looks like it's stupidly heavy, partly because of the rolled steel but also because of the built-in ramp. The latches don't appear to be sturdy enough to ensure any payload remains secure, either.

The 'roller shutter' cover, while looking neat looks like it'll be an early failure point with dirt and grit getting into the tracks, jamming up the works. Also, any issues with alignment (eg if a load shifts) are going to make it a pain to repair.

All the sharp corners make me wonder how often you're going to curse the designers every time you whack your arm or knee against them, and if you use it as more than something to pick up the kids from soccer in, how long until they get dented. Yes, I saw the sledgehammer trick, but that was against a panel where it had the option to flex. I dare them to try it against the open back of the tail-gate - the kind of damage you might get putting whitegoods or pallet of bricks/tiles in the back.

Speaking of sharp corners: Tesla has a (historical?) problem with tolerances on their fit and finish - I notice the doors and trailers all have a bunch of sharp corners meeting, where those things will become very visible.
And load it over the cell network with https://bellard.org/lte/
Author here. I'm going to be super shameless here and quote myself in that chapter:

> [...] we are here to learn, we want to understand how parsers work. And it’s my opinion that the best way to do that is by getting our hands dirty and writing a parser ourselves. Also, I think it’s immense fun.

In other words: use a parser generator when you need a working parser, quick. But if you want to learn how parsers work, what ASTs are, what "top-down parsing" means, etc. then I recommend you write your own. It's not that hard once the concept "clicked" and, again, it's a ton of fun :)
I do not think people will call something novel that (actually) works heresy.

Example?

What's something with resistance that was discovered in the past 20 years?

If it works, people will see that, even without a working model.

Other than silly examples like calling the Wii a Wii I can't name anything. And arguably the Wii wasn't a 'discover something new'. (I also don't count one comment about DB) Is Wikipedia an example?
I didn't say there's a technical reason, I said they want to keep their source code secret, which to me is a reasonable argument.
I don’t think the US government would use something that obvious to fool people.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/05/can-shrinki...

The problem with US CPI is that the nation isn’t moving in the same direction as a whole, with some places and populations making gains far greater than others. It’s impossible to capture this one metric.
UK government does not want people coming in on Tier 1 and compete in open market; however they do not have any problems issuing Tier 2 which is intra company transfer.Only criteria is that income of employee should not be less than £40K/year.
Do they want salaries to stabilize at £40K?
I like the "Add to Wish List" button on the website.

Please Santa, please!
They used PHP in several places, mostly presentational pages, where the only thing needed were some "includes". Most of these today are replaced by brochure [1], but the legacy remains.

[1] https://github.com/sstephenson/brochure
What has this got to do with Big Brother?

I thought geeks would be interested in statistics. Collecting aggregate information that can be quite interesting provided private data is well sanitized is a good thing.
When I said 'stronger' what I really meant was 'one with a larger number of possible hashes', so it'd be harder to resolve them. Not that it'd stop it totally, because he still knows enough about the keyspace...

Then again, crypto is not my strong point, so I should probably stop talking.
Later a worm by the name of Cheese came out that actually closed the backdoors created by the Ramen virus.

Best part.
I think part of what's so scary about institutional investors failing to understand the means by which their investments produce returns is that their very job is to act as a proxy for those that don't understand the investments. That is to say, part of their job is to mediate between investors who lack the ability to understand that they're chasing pipe dreams and the investment opportunities they're after in order to ensure that the investment doesn't implode. Sounds like the guy with 40 years on Wall St. gets this. Sounds like many of the banks didn't.
Any good advice can be abused.
craigslist's form names are unique and different on each page load
Just put a space before you execute the command, then it doesn't get saved in history. Alternatively, delete it from your history file as the other commenter suggests.
I had an on-campus interview for an internship years ago that contrasts this a bit. It was about 30 minutes and there was no second interview. There were absolutely no technical questions. I was asked about whether I had experience with Apple products and development and the interviewer wasn't too offended when I said no. Absolutely no coding. The interviewer didn't seem to really care about the job description that was posted.

I was asked about some problem solving I had to do at a previous internship and I talked about how setjmp/longjmp saved my skin once. The interviewer seemed more pleased in the fact that I was excited about the solution than the fact that I had one.

Unlike you, I found it refreshing. I got the impression that they cared more about passion than obscure technical answers. In the end, I took another offer instead but it was a difficult decision to make.
I do know that they use Riak. Not sure if that's the only store they're using.

Edit: Yep, skimming the article, I'm almost certain they're talking about Riak EnterpriseDS. Asynchronous replication between multiple datacenters, powered by an Erlang post-commit hook queue.
Yes, we were afraid that we would push the thing over its limits... thus smoking the turkey at 200-250F. For a little while (and you'll see it in the graph in the post) the thermometer registered 32F because we pushed it too far. Once we got the temp below 300F, it seemed to work just fine.
A subscription plan with heavy discounts would go a long way to making me feel better about the DRM on books.

Most books are disposable to me: a tech book that is obsolete in a year, novels that are not worth rereading, a popular career or business book I read for context. $10/book is a little too much for something I'm only going to read once.
"no educated human on the planet looks at the swastika symbol on a video game service in the year we make contact and says oh, that symbol has nothing at all in any way to do with global genocide of an entire race and, even if it did, one should totally and reasonably ignore that because it’s a symbol that was stolen or coop-ted from religions."

Really? no educated human? Well I guess I am an exception or at least was until I came to the US - because you see, I am educated and likely more highly educated than the author.

The author, most likely never having stepped outside the US, has no idea of the diversity of world sensitivities and cultures.

Does the author, for example, know of the Khmer Rouge symbol? I am educated and I didn't until I googled it..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/79176.stm

So stop using the word "planet" for the west
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> If a business can only exist if you exploit your labor force, then maybe your business shouldn't exist.

In what sense is offering someone money to do something for you exploitation?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

There are a lot of variables in play, but buying a house with a mortgage can end up being better financially than renting. There are a lot of factors to consider. If renting is worse than home ownership, and you hold off buying until you can do it without a mortgage, you may lose out. Additionally, if you can get a really low fixed-rate long-term mortgage, but you invest in long-term total market index funds, historically, you'll come out on top over having paid cash for the house.
I think much of that will flow into their GPU department. They have the node advantage compared to Nvidia (TSMC 7nm vs. TSMC 12nm) but can only match Nvidia in power consumption and performance. Once Nvidia get's to 7nm with their new architecture they will increase the gap again (unless RDNA2 which is rumored for H1 2020 brings a big efficiency and performance improvement - and not only hardware accelerated RT).
your net worth is likely still quite positive, unless your mortgage(s) is somehow much greater than the value of your house, but the mix has changed. you now have a positive asset that's mostly offset by a (negative) mortgage (and some cash). that doesn't change your (point-in-time) net worth.

over time, some of your income will be diverted to reducing the mortgage so that your net worth grows (rather than being spent). this is why houses are seen as piggy banks--they act like forced savings because the asset has relatively stable value (and can even appreciate).
Did you mean, "adheres so closely to software orthodoxy?" I only ask because it's hard to see how one could "adhere" to heterodoxy and your use of the word "but" suggests you're setting up a contrast with heresy.
Sports Night did a great job with this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9U_mslaWU

(there's something strangely meta in linking to an infringing video about copyright infringement)
exactly. its the same reason you want to have your databases and application servers in the same data center.
I'm going to release a Javascript framework and call it Brawndo.
(1) "the thing that feels least reasonable is some early-stage valuations"
Sam means here that early-stage valuations are possibly too high.

(2) "Proposition 3: The current YC Winter 2015 batch—currently worth something that rounds down to $0—will be worth at least $3B on Jan 1st, 2020."

So now (1) seems to contradict to (2): if 2020 expectation of batch worth is $3B+ then current evaluations should be higher, right?
I believe that the author is basically right.

More precisely, I think that there are three types of programmers. Those who don't know the formal theory. Those who know it but don't think in terms of complexity except when they have to. And those for whom big-O is second nature.

I believe that there is great value from having someone around who falls into the third group. (That's where I'd rate myself.) But they are rare. And there is little difference in practice between people in the first and second groups. Exactly how little difference is demonstrated by the fact that people who once took CS and then work as programmers find their memories of big-O fading over time because they aren't using it.

As for where the slippery slope ends, given the choice of having a new developer be a typical CS grad versus a beginning programmer who has mastered everything in Code Complete, I'd go for the second one every time. Obviously this isn't true if you're in an area that requires CS knowledge. But for most working developers, I think it is.
Well, I saw the title and was all prepared to link to Falso, but alas, I am beaten to the punch. However I am even more impressed by the fact that since the last time I looked at the Falso page, they now have a list of available implementations, which has already been updated now to include Coq!

Meanwhile, my three year old is now looking over my shoulder asking "What's so funny, dad? What's so funny?" and I have to admit... I have no idea how to answer that.
Present it like they do Malaysia or Indonesia... they're just not testing and not reporting.

nothing more complicated than that.
I'm betting he wore that thing for less than an hour total. In air conditioning.
Working on aggregated product search for peer-to-peer and resale marketplaces (OfferUp, eBay, Poshmark, StockX, etc): https://www.meetsuperset.com

Resale is the fastest-growing category in online retail.

1 in 3 Gen Z shoppers are on it, 60% of women consider it. On top of that, there's the Marie Kondo effect and the current macro situation. I wanted to build something that lets you search in multiple places at once, so it's faster and you don't miss out on deals. No ads, no fake reviews.

I'm hungry for feedback! This project is also a winner on https://pioneer.app :)
I wanted to improve my presentation skills. I felt my voice was too nasal and thin, I spoke too fast, and emphasised too many words.

So I approached a voice training coach. It seems everything -- from delivery, pauses, speed of delivery to sore throats -- could be improved if one could pay attention to proper breath control, and diaphragmatic breathing. I can certainly attest to that.
People need essentials, the reason things are so delayed is people like you trying to order a recorder when people need toilet paper and groceries
I always appreciate the perseverance and dedication of FOSS developers and teams. They bring a lot to the table for a whole lot of people.

But something about the fonts and the UI layout always puts me off (primarily) Linux targeted (or developed) applications. Even Windows 10 doesn’t use good fonts, IMO. I don’t know why developers can’t use good native fonts or bundle some good free fonts with the application, while also having better laid out UIs. We live in the age of 4K monitors (though most people are still on 1080p or lower) and smartphones with pretty good screens that many users are used to, and yet we have applications that look like they were developed two decades ago. Even large efforts like LibreOffice aren’t immune to these deficiencies. I’m not arguing for form over function, but definitely see a need for getting more UI designers into FOSS (I’m not one, so my contributions are limited to monetary donations to projects I like or use).

To reiterate, this is not to put down the humongous efforts (which many a times remain thankless or not adequate for putting food on the table) of FOSS developers.
Not a virologist but a (former) molecular biologist. Hayflick limit is largely controlled by telomeres; viruses do not have telomeres due to a different mechanism of replication.
Excerpts:

"Mimetic Theory rests on the assumption that all our cultural behaviors, beginning with the acquisition of language by children are imitative. He sees the world as a theatre of envy, where, like mimes, we imitate other people’s desires."

[...]

"Mimetic conflict emerges when two people desire the same, scarce resource. Like lions in a cage, we mirror our enemies, fight because of our sameness, and ascend status hierarchies instead of providing value for society. Only by observing others do we learn how and what to desire. Our Mimetic nature is simultaneously our biggest strength and biggest weakness. When it goes right, imitation is a shortcut to learning. But when it spirals out of control, Mimetic imitation leads to envy, violence, and bitter, ever-escalating violence.

Mimesis is the Greek word for imitation. Imitation is not the childish, low-level form of behavior that many people think it is. Since humanity would not exist without it, humans aren’t as independent as they think they are. Early psychologists like Sigmund Freud didn’t take imitation seriously enough. In one essay, Thiel described human brains as “gigantic imitation machines.” "

[...]

"Competition distracts us from things that are more important, meaningful, or valuable. We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. Trapped in a never-ending rat race, lawyers climbed the corporate ladder by winning favor with partners at the top. Others engaged in small acts of sabotage against their coworkers.

Law school was worse. Like lobsters in a bucket, wannabe lawyers battled for law school placement and law firm employment. Each goal led to the next. Rather than focusing their attention on the end goal of developing a legal expertise, transforming the Constitution, or rescuing the powerless from tyrannical injustice, they elbowed their peers so they could score higher than their classmates on standardized tests. The competition was zero-sum. The better one student did, the worse their peers scored."

[...]

As Julia’s story demonstrates, academic rivalries are vicious because they focus on hierarchies over knowledge. They bicker over trivial details and compete for a limited set of status-based titles. In each department, there can only be one chairman. In each university, one president. Speaking about the faculty relationships at Harvard, Henry Kissinger once said: “The battles were so ferocious because the stakes were so small.” By obsessing over their competitors, the faculty lost sight over the big picture and fought over the small scraps of superficial status games. The more they strived to be different, the more their actions mirrored each other.

Choose your enemies well. Like two children who fight for a toy, the more you fight somebody, the more you resemble your enemy."
"In an interview, Bowen said he could make 1 million masks a day if he ran his machines around the clock, a huge quantity for his firm but an amount that would barely make a dent in global demand. He’s hesitant, however, to ramp up production at the facility outside Fort Worth, scarred by the boom-bust mess that occurred after the swine flu pandemic in 2009."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/15/coronavir...
From 1986-88, I worked for Xerox AI Systems, the group that commercialized Interlisp-D. We(my personal contribution was relatively small) added Common Lisp to the system, along with SEdit, a friendlier-than-DEdit structure editor.

Interlisp-D went against the grain of most other Lisp implementations at the time:

* Byte-coded implementation interpreted in micro-code, for very compact compiled code (vs. RISC machines' larger, faster code)

* Tuned for interactive performance (vs. tuned for Gabriel benchmark performance)

* Managed code and structure editing (vs. text files and emacs)

In late 1988, Xerox tried to spin the Lisp/AI business out into a separate company named enVos. Envos crashed almost immediately:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/10590/...

Medley, the last release from enVos, hung on as a commercial product from Venue:

http://top2bottom.net/medley.html
>No, he didn't, he said "JSON without commas or braces". That makes no sense.

Strictly interpreted, no, it doesn't.

But I picked his intention, and clarified it already as: "Where JSON here is just a stand-in for "simple format with few types", not about it being parseable as JSON or anything." to the comment you've respond to :-)

>Your proposal here is just JSON that looks slightly different. The reason we don't have that is that we do have that, with isomorphic syntax, and we call it "JSON". There's nothing at all interesting about the idea of "JSON without commas" if you satisfy it by saying "we've eliminated the comma by relabeling it as a 'hyphen' in some cases and a 'tab' in the rest".

Hey, one should at least try to infer what people mean from context. Not everybody is a native speaker or the best communicator.

What the parent asks for, and it is interesting, and we should have had it, is basically "minimal, sane, YAML subset".

TOML is somewhat it.
Edward Tufte had his own information design take on this.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
How big is the part where OT is used for business, but when the OT points are cashed out folks can keep that privately? Could be hard to sway that...
You could load an xkcd comic into Inkscape or another vector graphics editor and trace it out by hand. It wouldn't take that long, and the end result would be a vector graphic that you could render to whatever size or resolution you need. (Creating a derivative work like this is allowed by the license.)
Have they stated that they're an iPhone only platform? Are there no plans to develop an Android version? A Windows version? From the blog post they say, "We’re launching first on the App Store on iPhone." implying versions for other mobile platforms will be available in the future.

Don't mistake limited resources for a decision to be iPhone only. In my experience, iPhone development tends to be significantly faster than on other platforms. Both because of the ubiquity of information about the iOS SDK and the learning curve necessary to learn a mobile platform is lower than Windows or Android.