jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well said. My wife and I usually say to each other "its a machine with a human interface" when we get these.

I'm so going to say "honey its for you, it's a finite state machine" next time around.
Just wait until the cam.ly team learns about login screen customization and desktop themes--it'll be like a new disto^3!
I don't think you can be just one. The work I've done solving problems gives me a generalist view, but I'm constantly dabbling; keeping my ear to the ground as it were for some idea of what the options are.

To that end a generalist has tangible real world experience with a given technology that may be applicable to multiple domains. A dabbler has a very cursory overview of the specific tech and is perhaps aware of some of the options and caveats that exist, but hasn't earned the bumps and bruises to be considered comfortable with it.
You must have had the pleasure of not looking at a system using a ton of AOP, reflection, and injection.

If anything can make looking at java using a good great debugger still a nightmare, it's AOP and other such magic...
how is the email setup? do they handle it or do you need to go through another provider?
How do you plan on determining when an item has been sold or a listing has been "fulfilled"? The only way I could think of would be to make it as easy as possible for the ad's poster to mark the listing as expired, or something.
Gotcha. Didn't read it that way originally.
It's affine. It's not linear because the offset means superposition doesn't hold.
That might be the nail in the coffin for me, where I will stop using WhatsApp
I think it was Einstein, Openheimer and others who told the U.S that there will be a nuclear arms race, way WAY before Israel acquired nukes. Let's keep up the blame game though.
I have the same bad experience with DDG and it is so slow. I found Bing relatively better and it is constantly improving with new features.
That is not a laptop, but a palmtop.

I owned one.

edit: I should have never sold it as a student. But alas.
Founder here.
The big difference is omniedge don't require your device uploading private key to our server, only your devices have the key and will be stored on your device only.
Do you believe individuals across the world should be free to travel, start and run businesses and deal with each other without unfair restrictions or penalties? If not, why?
This is wrong, the most common type of foreign investment uses "Wholly foreign-owned enterprises" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterpris...
That is why we should have a custom app for contacts with custom encryption (like keepass) to store our real contact. So not any app or apple or google has access them.

For some ppl like political of activist fundraisers, contact info privacy are utter most important. In fact some of them still store it on rolodex, and will not put any of that into digital form. And as a software developer I actually support that tremendously.
Fixed, thanks didn't know it def had to be mine. I guess it makes sense - otherwise everything would be Show HN.

For painting I think in this demo you can only use the dropdown near the load icon to upload an image that will be used as a texture. But haven't played with it enough to know if there are other ways.
I was looking through my contacts the other day, deleting some people I don't speak to any more. Its interesting that with 5 or so unique enough contacts I could be identified. If they were sufficiently unique, no one in the world could possible know those 5 people. Scary thought.
This sort of reminds me of the book "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg. In this book the author starts a series of thought experiments by constructing small "vehicles" which drive around on a table top. The vehicles start with very simple behaviors, then he applies evolution (by vehicles falling off, or being selectively removed) while adding more complex behaviors until the vehicles eventually become intelligent.

In a way the slim mold is a analogous to one of the simple vehicles that ends up becoming more intelligent through the simple mechanisms and evolution.

Book link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles
That counts for nothing if you have to rewrite everything from scratch 3/4 of the way in. Don't get me wrong, I like my iterations, but if your game runs at 20 fps it's simply not going to be good.
Countries or groups of countries don't get to impose their law on other countries.

That's called colonialism, and Europe is supposed to have given it up.
Thank you, and I hope you feel at least a little better tomorrow.

I'd like to clarify one thing that I think was nebulous in my post: while I think "the people" are the responsible party, I meant to suggest that choosing who is the responsible party at all is close to arbitrary.

That is to say, arguments over who's held responsible more reflects who we want to be responsible than who may actually be responsible, which is in fact shared among several people. (The CEO, the intern, the person who gave the intern the password, the person who configured the system to require a password that could be leaked, etc.)

We choose the CEO (or Ted Cruz, or whomever) because of our own biases, in spite of the fact that responsibility is shared, and in spite of the fact that who's "in charge" is nebulous at best.

We do the same when blaming the 12 US billionaires (or however many there are) for income inequality in the country, or blame all white people for racial injustice, and so on.

That doesn't mean there aren't responsible parties, or that people and groups should be free from criticism. The truth of the matter is that—no matter how justified it is to assign blame—it's exceedingly rare for anyone to take responsibility for their own failings.

This shouldn't necessarily contort to whom and how we assign blame. But, rather, it should inform us of the breadth of the problem, our own contributions to it, and help us become better citizens, instead of shift the blame as the CEO or Cruz did.

If we find that unpalatable, but don't acknowledge our own complicity, then all we've achieved is a pitchfork-laden witch hunt, and not actual direction towards resolution.
Oops, sorry- I noticed the link but I thought it was a HN url, like the one before... and I wondered why it was greyed-out (visited). But still I didn't check it out. My very bad.
> we do expect to return to requiring the SAT/ACT once it is possible for everyone to take them safely

Fine with this being temporary. Much less fine with the schools who have completely abandoned the SAT/ACT in the name of equality while still considering things like personal essays and extracurriculars, which are way more liable to be gamed by the wealthy than the SAT.
Nice looking and streamlined UI

However, the diff view appears wrapped on a mobile screen [1]. I'd prefer a scrolled diff, that is viewport fitting the screen, but the contents not wrapped. This would allow one to see long lines of code as is, instead of stacked in pieces.

Another wish is side-by-side diff view.

[1]: https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea/changeset/e6034764...
> High schools typically do not have graduation exams in the sense that there are standard exams that are required for your degree.

Nor do other schools...?
I'm not sure how you got from "Rust gives you more confidence but not absolute confidence and you still need the normal stable of runtime detection tooling" to "useless".
> I couldn't find the same information for Ryzen 4000 laptops

I measured an Asus Mini PC PN50 with a Ryzen 4500U. The idle power usage was 8.5 Watt for the system. This with 32GB of memory and a SATA SSD installed. It would be nice if it was lower than this, but it isn't too bad. Interestingly the machine used 1.2 Watt while off after it wasn't on power, 0.5 Watt after starting up and shutting it down.

Recently noticed some people focussing on low power but powerful 24/7 home "servers". Systems that are on 24/7, but often idle. One system used around 4.5 Watt in idle. The "brick" / power adapter often uses too much power, even when everything is off.
Is this considered stable now? Last I checked it had some problems, if fixed already that is awesome
My albeit limited experience suggests to me that there's a U-shaped curve with super-rich / powerful / "effective" people. One end of the curve is "pathological sociopath," and the other is "extremely benevolent."

I don't have enough experience to tell you which side is higher than the other, though the fact that we do not live in some kind of absolute hellhole suggests that the curve is tipped toward the right (benevolence). Yet I do get the impression that it's one extreme or another.

The sociopaths do tend to burn themselves out eventually though. There seems to be some kind of what's effectively karma, which probably comes from peoples' lies eventually catching up with them. It's overall better to be benevolent.
Strict proof of identity requirements can be an issue. Banks can be expensive at low balances due to fees.
After turning it off and turning it back on, it's now per-page. Odd. Still, annoying and pointless for my purposes.
After their dismal performance in the Iraq War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_attack_on_Karbala), I dunno if I'd point to the Apache as an example of how stealth isn't necessary...
Yeah, that's my concern.
I influence @zoecello. <3

This is quite cool, but the Login with Twitter piece needs a bit of work, the branded login page looks sketchy right now with missing images and poor UI. I almost didn't sign up due to the sketchiness of it.
No, you're right, it's only almost the entire rest of the world that works this way. Google:[berne convention].
"If my apology to Monica seemed shallow it was because I was angry about the harm she has inflicted on others on behalf of her own agenda."

This is neither an a letter of apology nor an admission of wrongdoing, it's a statement of blame.

"Thank you to all our readers, thanks to all our advertisers and writers... and to everyone who has been supportive and who has been a part of Cooks Source. To one writer in particular, Monica Gaudio, I wish you had given me a chance."

The "one writer in particular" directly after referring to the magazine's writers almost implies that she thinks Monica is one of their writers. I wonder if she thinks that the entire Internet are her writers?

I don't think that violating copyright is incurring her the wrath of the Internet. Plenty of people distribute content that isn't theirs, and usually they get sympathy when the big bad RIAA comes in. It's the fact that every time she gets called out on a mistake, she insults the victim. You can get away with being wrong or with being nasty, but not both.
Americans are spoiled. Whether you think this innovation will be useful to you personally or not, the amount of hate spewed at it is just fascinating. Think this is not useful? Don't buy it.
Google Tasks in my phone
I work as an electrical engineer on military aircraft.

High speed cabling is susceptible to all sorts of nasty "gremlins". I work with copper fibre channel runs, RF and long 1394 runs regularly. I am still preaching the gospel to other technicians and engineers that ringing this cabling out with a multimeter is NOT enough to guarantee that the signaling will get through! This article is the perfect demonstration of this. Those terminations would have rung through using a multimeter, which is just sending a very tiny DC signal, but the TDR analysis showed poor terminations. I have encountered the exact same scenario in my own work.
No one is buying that.
From looking at the Javascript injection code (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...) it seems like the quality of the script is pretty amateur.

They inject jQuery not once, but twice, and only use jQuery to make a simple XHR request. Perhaps they are worried about one instance of jQuery being taken down or made unavailable to them, but they really don't need jQuery at all for something this simple.
Well if it isn't proven it's them, just let's not assume guilty, right?
Each time i hear about DDoS attacks i wonder why we don't have serious effective mitigation strategies even though there are brilliant computer scientists out there who always come up with very smart solutions, this is a genuine question and not a rhetorical one.
That is not the same thing. This addon does not modify "image.webp.enabled" or "image.avif.enabled", it modifies the accept header. If you modify the preferences you mention you will still be served AVIF and WebP, but viewing will break...
The lawless Western town that needs a new sheriff around is a composite sketch of various places, one of which was the Barbary coast.

For instance let's go to a 1872 San Francisco chronicle article, "A Vigorous Check to Street Ruffianism The King of the Hoodlums Gets 415 Days in the County Jail--Juvenile Burglars--On the Barbary Coast"

It's a long quote but it's a good read

"...Judge Louderback in sentencing him made the following remarks: "Riley, you were born a bad man. You are one of the worst criminals at present in this city. You have appeared before the Court on all kinds of charges-vulgar and profane language, assault and battery, vagrancy, grand larceny, petty larceny, housebreaking, burglary and robbery. Citizens have refused to make complaints against you for fear you would indict some injury upon them. Men have begged officers not to subpoena them as witnesses against you for the same reason. Wives have entreated officers not to subpoena their husbands, one even going down upon her knees, for fear that you would murder her husband or commit some outrage upon his property. Wherever you have been you have proved yourself a terror to men, women and children. Your deeds of violence have acquired for you the infamous title of King of the Hoodlums."

Amazing...There's a fairly decent ~400 page 1933 book on the place named "The Barbary coast; an informal history of the San Francisco underworld" available at https://archive.org/details/barbarycoastinfo00asbu

And an Edward G Robinson (from "Little Caesar", inventor of the movie gangster) movie about it in 1935: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0026097

It's lost in the collective consciousness. There's stuff we'd find pretty hilarious looking at the archives. For instance, the city sent clergy to investigate the infidelity of the place in 1910.

For another colorful example, let's take a San Francisco chronicle article from October 8 1912 "Clergy denounces morale of city: Barbary Coast and Saloons Scored at Meeting of Juvenile Society"

"Vice conditions in San Francisco, particularly as presented by the Barbary Coast, were the subject of an address last night by Rev. Father Terrance...

"The climax of this iniquity." said the speaker, after telling about the dives in the Barbary Coast district, "Is rapped by the rapidly-multiplying dancing grills, where the dance steps indulged in are obscene, animal movements that would not be countenanced in the dominion of the Sultan at Constantinople. We have asked the Police Commissioners to separate drinking and dancing, as they have the power to do. If they fall us we must plan to carry the fight further. It is time that San Francisco ceased to be a by-word."

This spirit of San Francisco was born of the Barbary Coast
Awesome! This write up is satisfyingly detailed. Prior work in this space includes Plan9 of course, as well as the python project Outrun, which has it's own RPC-based FUSE FS: https://github.com/Overv/outrun

Other approachs to deployment in particular include the functional package managers Nix and Guix, which can create lightweight application images, and could probably be cobbled together into some sort of remote environment replication even across architectures. As I read on, I thought less about how this compares with Guix in regards to application/environment packaging and more about how these things could be glued together in interesting ways, because I think the intro leads in through slightly off-label examples, if that makes sense. Application packaging isn't what this addresses at the end of the day, but it's no less fascinating for it.
Look, I’m resigned to the fact that most of the leadership and investors in most of the companies I support are voting red. It’s in their self-interest, and the majority of them are highly ranking members of the church of self-interest; acolytes of the reverend Milton Friedman. Many of the open source projects I love most for their utility and verve are built by libertarians who aren’t very amenable to paying for social safeguards. Needless to say, my political and economic views skew elsewhere. Regardless of that, I’m going to support their services and projects on their own merits, and according to my needs and those that I perceive in others.

This is different. The Freedom Phone is another cash grab against some of the most vulnerable people in my country. Their susceptibility to manipulation has been laid bare and the wolves of the world have picked them over again and again. This is targeting marketing it is most cynical conclusions. The formula is well known: Push a high margin product and service to an addressable group. Speak to their fears and with their in-group language. Tell them exactly what they want to hear and make them scared to death to do anything but buy it. It matters not what substance is behind the product. In fact, in schemes like these, actually delivering real value is antithetical to the point: to become rich, by way of filth.

I’m not politically aligned with the group that is being targeted for The Freedom Phone. In fact, they as a group have repeatedly gone out of their way to hurt people that I care about. That said, they are people just like me and don’t deserve to be defrauded. This post did an excellent job of demonstrating how they are being lied to and that makes me mad as hell.

Based on the way they treat security and compliance from what we can see on the front end, I shudder to think what it is like on the backend. Unencrypted PII+payment methods, sloppy secrets, resale and abuse of customer data are all on the table, possibly more. The thing about these kinds of schemes is that they are almost never sustainable. Technical, social, legal, and/or financial debt will eventually cause their implosion. It’s just a matter of how many people they screw over in the process.

I’m going to spend part of my Easter Sunday sending this blog post and my thoughts to the FTC and some attorneys general. I would encourage you to do the same if you’re able and so inclined. Getting this in front of media is also valuable. Exploitation of this variety is cancerous and fully deserves to called out early and often.
This is true!

I am still working on the games, but since it took me 2 months to make the programs, I decided to print anyway.

https://punkx.org/4917/guide.html#game here I have just given examples of possible games, but I think parents will have to see what their kid responds to, as mine really like dice and modifying the code so that works for me, but for another parent they might want to make some sort of treasure hunt with the cards for example.
I was as well. Apparently it’s not true though. Here’s a record at half a million. https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/l6lpol/a_black_lo...
Must have some machine for wave pattern punching as well. But not that small tape though.
I'll bite, what's the thing?
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Also, in times of SPAs, LocalStorage, WebRTC, Parse and FireBase you can sprinkle your static web-sites with some dynamic functionality, when needed...
I seriously wonder if maybe it's just a running joke or something? Only people who work in the field or are exposed to it are somehow in on the joke?
I saw a really good paper showing how myths about UFOs almost exactly mirror the "old world" myths about "the little people" and the Faie.

The form of the myths mirrored each other almost exactly - strange night visitations, kidnappings and often sexual violations.

From memory the paper argued that they represented "the unknown" in the human psyche , and the rise of science had forced the myths to take a more scientific form.

I wish I could find the paper.

(I guess some will argue that this is actually evidence that UFOs have been visiting since prehistoric time. Enjoy, I guess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F )
Rotting trees do not turn back into the same quantity of CO2. Biomass is sequestered and buried in soil.

Seriously, this is like, fossil fuels 101 people.
Does interchange really matter when there is a train every 3 mins?

I always laugh at the idiots getting stuck in the doors after a mad dash. Can they really afford not to wait?
Not by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years.

Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
I think we should replace "10X" with "1X" and all the existing "1X" should be re-labeled "1/10X". Nothing motivates the drones like negative reinforcement.

Also, I'm hiring. ;)
Thx, will fix.
Compress the helium into tanks and use atmosphere as ballast. Ballast can be dropped by directly purging with helium. Alternatively, contain the ballast in bladders that vent as helium pressure rises. Designing flexible bladders that don't leak too badly would be an engineering problem. A terribly inefficient option would be to allow the gasses to mix and just use fractionation to separate the heavy elements when dropping ballast.
Asking for X years experience in a technology that is Y years old:

X > Y

Seeing cookie-cutter job descriptions (companies always talk about keeping CVs short, so why do they let recruiters write out template-style blocks of text try to magically explain what a great company it is without just saying the name - in fact, if you are bothered enough, you can work backwards and figure out the company)
Isn't this approach what service workers are supposed to solve (controlling the cache) ?
Thanks,
I'm currently using linode.
They are all good services, until you don't cause any trouble.
By saying trouble, I mean DMCA letter or simple subpoena and they will shut you without giving a second thought if this request even legitimate. It's not that my service will violate any of it, but I'm looking for at least fair treatment. And in this case DO almost the same as linode in my opinion.
I've heard, perhaps apocryphally, that binary blobs are one roadblock IC makers set up to keep rivals from going through their implementations and finding stuff to base patent-infringement lawsuits on. (Just as in software, there are dumb hardware patents too.) I wonder if this 3rd-party disclosure might open MT up to lawsuits.
This doesn't explain how Chrome, on a PC which is just serving a simple billboard page with some dynamic Jquery to update it, ends up using 4gb of RAM after a few hours despite no Javascript memory leaks.
Well, I don't have TekSavvy at the moment, so I can't say for sure, but I did notice that when I gave them my postal code, all the plans they showed available for my area did have that feature.

Plus they had Georges Laraque in their ads.