jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There’s something similar for the UK here[0], but my guess is that most people don’t care beyond “defence”, which in the UK is 5% and the US is 15%. As others have mentioned though, there’s potentially a pretty good multiplier effect [1] on military hardware acquisition.

0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spendi...

1: https://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Managing_the_economy/The_m...
Energy level is an indicator to UFOs.
i used the following to renew for 7.48$ or something ..

OK412
I think you're 100% on the mark here. Also, it may be to Chinas advantage to have North Korea the way it is now because it gives them bargaining power.
Would this also mean new C programming libraries for the FPGA?
We decided to use Java and especially Wicket for our startup tasqade.com last year. I must say, I am still more than happy with this decision. Wicket is an awesome, growing framework, which made our lives so much easier. The clear seperation of code and html is just wonderful.

Secondly, we are Berlin based. Security and stability is such a big issue in German companies. You might agree or disagree if it is really true for Java software to be safer or more reliable, but just mentioning "Java" helps to sell to those companies.
Really, downvoted? The people here are ridiculous. I'm fucking done. Peace out.
Not sure Play will scale using Excepitons for flow management.
You can now login with Facebook as well.
Regarding vim and "normal people" shortcuts, if 'source mswin.vim' doesn't work for you, here are the mappings I have in my .vimrc to give it the normal CTRL-C, CTRL-X, and CTRL-V, as well as sharing the clipboard with windows:

" share clipboard
set clipboard=unnamed

" CTRL-V is Paste in insert mode
imap <C-V>	"+gpa
" CTRL-C is Copy, CTRL-X is Cut, in visual mode
vmap <C-C>	"+y
vmap <C-x>	"+d
" Use CTRL-Q to do what CTRL-V used to do
noremap <C-Q>	<C-V>
fixes facebook's attempts to autoplay videos too
See "http://www.areweprivateyet.com/"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7234463

Look at the source code for DoNotTrackMe. It sends detailed info on what pages you've visited back to Abine.
Yes, if you have access to YouTube you'd know it's not even a functional lane assist.
Do you think there'd be a way to generate the puzzles that make a case like this is impossible? Like with this puzzle it's a 50/50 gamble whether you get it all in one guess or not
I think TWMs work well for a mostly TUI-based workflow and DEs for a mostly GUI-based workflow.

I have both workflows on separate machines. Each works well for what I want to do and I am comfortable in either environment.

- Arch + DWM + St + LibreWolf (for scripting and networking)
- Linux Mint + Cinnamon + Terminator + Web Apps (daily-driver at the office)
All this changes is how CF connects to the server. Like the rest of CF, outside of using Spectrum Enterprise (which enables TCP 443 tunneling), CF removes TLS at their servers and inspects the traffic so all of its caching/firewall/etc features can be applied. It does add it back when talking to a tunnel, so it’s non plaintext on the wire.
React marketing insisted on being a library for too long and Vue is distinguishing itself by saying they aren't a library, they're a framework.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KBHvaAWJOA
The problem is that which microbes do the job depends on how much oxygen is available. If there's not enough, like when buried, the decomposition is anerobic. This produces a lot more methane than aerobic decomposition.
You're either luckier than me, had the wisdom to choose better workplaces, or both.

The same way it has worked well for the ~30 years of
my career before slack-obsession. Have something to
discuss, put it on the calendar for the relevant people.

In my ~20 years in the industry, instead of politely scheduling discussions for the future, people did one or both of the following:

1. Physically walked over to my desk and interrupted me in person

2. Sent me an email, often expecting a near-instant reply, requiring me to choose between "getting work done" and "monitoring my email."

This is why I feel that it's more about company culture than the tools themselves.

To be clear, a couple years back I did work at a company with a horrible Slack culture. I don't mean to defend Slack per se, and I definitely don't think it's the answer, but I don't think it's the problem either. Inconsiderate coworkers gonna be inconsiderate.

Curiously, in decades past we always used IRC
which is basically same thing as slack. But
IRC never grew this culture of obligated
insta-response, it was more for chatter that
one could read or ignore depending on how busy.

Amen. This is why I strongly feel it's a culture issue and not a technology thing.

"Back in the day," generally it was the tech/engineer types using IRC. We all generally understood the concept of focus time and understood that IRC should not be used with the expectation of synchronous responses.

Now, with Slack, we have a lot of corporate/managerial/whatever types using an IRC-like tool, and they often just don't "get it." Much like my elderly father initially struggled to understand that text messaging wasn't something that guaranteed an instant response.
LulzSec also used Cloudflare back in the day. CF made a statement after that became public and said they take a neutral stance regarding who decides to use their service and that they don't proactively regulate the sites that do. As they shouldn't.
I'm surprised Apple doesn't allow iAds to run natively as opposed to only HTML/JS. I mean, I'm sure once they open it up to everyone there will still be an approval process anyway, a la the App Store, so what would be the downside?

You could do a lot of cool, eye catching graphical stuff (3D, etc) that wouldn't suffer slowdown and would probably even use less memory (if well designed). Plus ad designers would have the full native UI library at their fingertips.

Anyone know why they aren't allowing this?
1) There is no We.

If you want to change something, then it's up to you to do it. It's hard work, but it can be done. Plus, we will never agree with you (because there is too big a range of views to ever be put under a name like we).

2) You are very wrong about the change that has happened.

In the 2004 election Howard Dean was the early favorite for the Democratic primaries because of his huge internet following. In the 2008 election Barak Obama won the democratic nomination and the presidency on a campaign mostly financed by individual donations over the internet. In the 2010 mid-term elections Tea-Party backed Republicans won a huge number of seats based on the Tea Party organizing support on the internet.

3) Change happens in the small. If you want to change everything, find one, small, specific thing and work at it every day until you change it. You'd be surprised at how much else you'd change along the way.
You can read Leonard Read's masterful 1958 essay on the miracle of something as humble as a pencil ("I, Pencil") here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
if you got the IT skills, you'll be just fine in a tech hub like austin. check out all the startups crunchbase has within a 30mi radius: http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/companies/596363

i get the impression @joshuabaer is one of the guys at the center of the austin tech scene. prob a great place to start. (i think he's the main guy behind capital factory among other things)

on a related note, if we move our operation from athens, ga, austin is absolutely in our collective top 3 considerations.
go for it man...we might just see you out there in 2011 ;)

-adam
I've been on winter break from school for the past two weeks, and I've been spending a lot of my time beginning to fix bugs in Chromium, and I've also been honing my graphic/web design skills, studying type, element placement, CSS, JQuery etc.

I also have the TI Launchpad that I still haven't done anything with.
Our crowd can be a snippy bunch sometimes.
Jesus.

Just how incompetent were the people behind this OS?
Most people are not deep - They don't really think - They just blindly try to adhere to various stereotypes.

Everyone does that to some extent (including me) but there are many levels. Some people don't think even at the most trivial levels...

For example, if someone identifies as a 'Geek' - They will often convince themselves that they like Star Wars, Legos, Sci-Fi, comic books, etc... But in reality, they really never actually gave these topics any thought based on their own individual merits.
Not all EC2 & EBS instances are down. I have several in US-east-1a and 1 is down, while all of the others are working.
The Droid has a physical keyboard. The platform can support both physical and software keyboards quite easily.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora

What 'sub-optimal' hide-away was available to bin Laden?
I took it to mean that he has to think and experiment each time he's learning a new shortcut, not each time he uses the shortcut. (Because I've had the same experience.)
Many countries have same-sex unions/partnerships and some even proper marriage but Iceland has the first openly gay head of state.
I think the main reason the FBI got involved was not because the leak was massive or damaging, but to figure out whether he actually broke any laws. Or more realistically, to find something to charge him with.
I've purchased a house with no agents involved and I've sold a house using flat-fee listings with no seller agent, but with a buyer agent.

When I purchased the house, I paid a lawyer $50 to give me a fill-in-the-blank purchase agreement, review it with me, and make a few small edits. Real estate transactions are very standardized and you can go to any local lawyer and figure out the paperwork with fees that don't come close to what an agent will take. If you're a buyer and you're taking out a mortgage to buy the property, then the bank is going to force you to follow a prescribed set of guidelines and will line up all the legal stuff for you for closing, and will at least tell you what paperwork they need from you before they can begin the closing process, including stuff like lead paint disclosure.
> CHAR_BIT is a minimum of 1 byte (8 bits), but is not guaranteed to be 1.

It seems like you are conflating things. One is, a char does not have to be an octet. That is correct.

The other is the unit for sizeof(char) is always and everywhere 1. That is, the size of everything else is measured relative to char.

Please do see C FAQ[1]. In addition, please see 6.5.3.4.2 in [2]:

> When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1.

It does not matter if char is 11 bits therefore not an octet. That means you are in a universe where a byte is 11 bits long, sizeof(char) is still 1 as far as your program and the compiler are concerned.

Note that the same is true in C++ as well:

> Depending on the computer architecture, a byte may consist of 8 or more bits, the exact number being recorded in CHAR_BIT. sizeof(char), sizeof(char8_t), sizeof(signed char),sizeof(unsigned char), and sizeof(std::byte) are always equal to 1.

HTH.

[1]: http://c-faq.com/charstring/wchar.html

[2]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf

[3]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/sizeof
He only tweeted memes about dogecoin. And after the SEC filing about their Bitcoin plans, it makes sense why he didn’t tweet about Bitcoin before it
I’ll check it out! Fwiw I work on Cardano but higher up the stack than networking, so I’m not 100% sure what happens there except for what I see as a ‘user’ of it.
This "debunk" is bunk in at of itself - have you actually looked at the presented arguments? They are ridiculous and make no sense whatsoever (e.g. comparing PoW with literal gold mining - as if gold were a currency...).
Hundreds of PoW altcoins disagree.
PoS is not a coin distribution method either.
Here's how things are looking in 2021:

(1) Scalability Issues

Solved - there's a plethora of high-throughput chains in development, either based on sharding or pipelining/MVCC/optimistic concurrency. Some projects like Solana use GPUs and JIT compilation to achieve well beyond 50k tps in a distributed network.

(2) Lack Of Intuitive Private Key Management

Little progress. Ledger and other hardware wallets make things easier, but it's still far from intuitive. Non-technical holders typically use centralized custody providers.

(3) Contract Security

Some progress. Smart contract exploits still happen almost every week, but there's a robust set of best practices, safe-by-default standard libraries, and specialized auditing companies which make it much easier to write bug-free contracts, if you're willing to invest the time and effort.

(4) Consensus Algorithms Are Wack

Solved very thoroughly. There has been significant progress in byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, like Tendermint consensus[1] used in the Cosmos ecosystem, providing strong consistency and instant finality.

(5) Privacy

Many developments around zero-knowledge proofs and similar methods, but I don't know how viable those are.

(6) Price Volatility

There's a number of trustworthy stablecoins like USDC pegged to fiat currencies. Other than that, tokens are still highly volatile and only useful as a high-risk investment.

[1]: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9769
This was also an objection I had to the argument that were are not that many readers in SV after all. The number readers matters at lot less than the influence they have.
Changing advertisements, to take credit for views and clicks, would be quite beneficial. This would could go un-noticed by the viewer for a long time too. I would not be surprised if a lot of these free proxy servers do just that.
Maybe they should have another metric that if you click on a second result after the first result, then the first result should get penalized a little. Repeat steps for 'n' clicked results.
Calling something a conspiracy theory is not an argument, and I'm not sure what the scare quotes around 'agenda' are supposed to communicate to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Please, tell us more about compensations and preferences.
That's my point: Without CLA there's enough wiggle room for several armies of lawyers to squeeze through and attack you like a flock of piranhas. The other problem is that contributors might feel cheated - the implied contract was that they contribute to an OS project, not help lift a commercial project off the ground. OTOH, I have no idea how big outside contribution was. It's certainly a little shaky with a lot of pitfalls and I certainly don't hope that anyone feels inclined to challenge the commercial version, but we've all seen how well that went with VLC and the app-store version :(
https://xkcd.com/598/
Those people need to think a bit harder before smashing out some automagical API that things will rely on for basically forever.
Yes, "interment camp" is a euphemism for "concentration camp", but to be fair at about the same time "concentration camp" become a euphemism for "death camp".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment#Concentration_camp
I worked on airframe design in the 1970s. The ethos of design to withstand failure was well-entrenched then, and goes back a long way in the airframe industry.

The key idea is nobody has managed to design parts that won't fail. But they have figured out how to design highly reliable systems out of parts that fail.
In India, "health insurance" has very little impact. It is essentially for hospitalization. This is the ideal situation as per the article: let healthcare negotiate with patients.

But look at the downsides: no standardization of procedures or facilities, price gouging is common and doctors+hospitals controlling prices.

The fallacy here is that the patients can shop and bargain for care they need. It isn't so in so many situations due many distortions in free market utopia. Perhaps, someone needs to hack a new solution to insurance.
It is called participating in good faith according to the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
When you burn someone in TF2, they scream.
I don't believe YT transcodes during upload, since last I checked they are doing 2-pass encoding (its been awhile though).

However they do examine the buffer during an upload. Try uploading an MOV with bad edit points, they will warn you about A/V sync issues before the upload is complete. I assume they also abort uploads for invalid files.
Actually Mac monitors are OK for print since print doesn't have the range of colors that a display has. What they are not ok for is designing for designed intended for screens.

I wasn't really talking about performance on Mac vs Windows. Photoshop on Mac is buggier, designed poorly, and very flakey overall. I have used both platforms. I own both platforms.
Yes, and by the way they could put video NOT in autostart mode, so that when you open a dozen links from an aggregator like HN, there isn't some guy's voice or worse, cheezy demo music blaring from the PC coming from an unknown tab deep down the stack.
There is no sane reason to load external scripts from a CDN rather than your own host.
maybe cost in system resources? EMACS used to require a lot of RAM ("Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping").
So you can't show that Ofcom has acted improperly.

> Suddenly Ofcom finds

It wasn't sudden at all. CGTN was given plenty of opportunity to maintain its licence. CGTN chose not to.
Not to be snarky, but what’s more important for an air purifier than it’s ability to clean the air? Signal your affluence?
Sure, that is a great feature but that doesn't really need that much data besides listen data that they need to save anyway (I am assuming).
Much like the SCO UNIX zombie dragging itself out of its grave and harassing the living once more, I suspect this is not the last we've heard of this.

Oracle is simply too clever by far to allow a silly impediment like the US Supreme Court to stop it.
This ruling doesn't really change anything with respect to CPU instructions. The fair use defense doesn't cover patents.

Patents are what are generally what is used by Intel, etc to protect (and license) new CPU instructions and provide protection for novel ideas/inventions for up to 20 years.

Copyright generally protects specific expressions/implementations of an idea and last up to 95 years for corporate patents, or 70 years + the lifetime of the author for individual patents.

For completeness there is also trademarks which cover names and logos which can last indefinitely, as long as they are in commercial use.

The text of a CPU instruction specification would be covered by copyright, the algorithm for implementing the instruction by a patent, and the branding (ex: MMX) by trademark.
I don't think Uber/Lyft wants to take the responsibility of ADA compliance, because that is implying that their drivers are employees.
There is a gap in the market in general for "health testers".

I want a $1 chip I can put a bit of an Apple on and have it tell me how many pesticides, how organic, and stuff like that.

It seems all the tech is possible for that kind of thing (microfluidics, micro gas spectrometry), but there isn't a big enough market to sell it all for rock bottom prices
I’d say keep that one. It’s a fun little bit of meta
I'm terrified of heights, I probably shouldn't get a job as a window cleaner. Not every window cleaner has a thousand companies trying to hire them either.
As "cat cowsay" tells me that cowsay is an executable, I wouldn't expect "sh cowsay" to work in any event.
It's a social news site low risk target for that sort of thing. When it started the aggregate tech level was high enough that pretty much everyone knew to use a different password on each site as a best practice. Now not so much. In any event he was busy and decided that it was a low enough risk for the password to be sent in the clear as the damage that could potentially be caused is low. (a few bunk comments, changing the email address/password, etc....) At least that is what I recall him posting here before when this question came up before.
Nope, only blue badges.
You might like this guide then:

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
My response was to a comment, which is apparently now deleted, and not to the article itself.
but the debt...market cap is meaningless in these situations
What a wonderful piece. The argument that space exploration is a catalyst to new discoveries was very well put, but what struck me most was the contrast between peaceful space exploration and earthly wars. He made the letter very easy to relate to.
Most like, HN doesn't encourage random pop-culture references that don't actually add anything to the conversation.
I see that trend in a lot of occupations. My father was a union Electrician and never turned down overtime. Well he
got everything he wanted, but he didn't value his family or
friends. It was all about the job.(He took it very seriously). He took an early retirement because he could, but soon afterwards learning that no one was waiting for his
company--he wished he didn't put so much energy into
his job. He died a few years into retirement--very bitter.
Yes--I tried to be a good son, but I really didn't like the person he became; I tried to bring him into my life, but nothing ever worked out between us. He changed when he got
sick, and wished he didn't live for future, and treated his kids with honest love(at least I want to think he made a effort?)
At which location is that?
You really did a good job at convincing me.

- assume my "filters" are wrong. A difference of opinions doesn't mean my filters are wrong. It simply means I made different conclusions. If you want to support AOC and her policies, go for it. I won't partake.

- believe I'm in a bubble. Right. That's why I'm on HN; because I'm in a bubble and you think exactly as I do?

- Now I believe in a flat earth. That's just a wasted comment.

- Pointing to the "New Deal" that "saved the middle class". It's highly debatable if the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression or not. While it helped many Americans keep food on the table, no doubt, it didn't stop the Great Depression. Regardless, I can turn around and say, I want the "____ New Deal", and it must be good because that's what I called it? That's a laughable concept.

By your measure, healthcare actually became more affordable after the Affordable Healthcare Act became law - because that's the title of the law?

Regardless, I agree that the infrastructure can be improved. My state is already doing it. They've rebuilt an interchange in record time because a bridge wall collapsed. What is your state doing?

Stating that everyone should have access to "high-quality health care" or "economic security" isn't an olive branch. Obviously no one disagrees with that. The discussion is "how", and that's the only important discussion to have.

But, if you want to stick with mudslinging and belittling those who disagree with you, go for it.
If it doesn't understand meaning and context, it can't work.

It will over-report on video of baby's first bath, beach volleyball, and high school wrestling; it will under-report on many of the kinkier or more subtle forms of porn.

Humans get this stuff wrong all the time simply by having different cultural contexts; there's no way the 2022 state of the art is up to the challenge.