jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hacker News. Its much better in the area that matters and that we can do something about.

Twitter, if you carefully follow the right people.

NYC is a rag with a stick up its arse while foaming at the mouth over its hatred of technology and nerds because we threaten their power base.
When looking at my app's settings, it's using the honor system for these labels. Apple is giving companies a way to display privacy info on their app's page, but the labels aren't verified. Think of it the same as the app's description field.
One obscure shell not listed is Ch, https://www.softintegration.com/docs/ch/shell/

Ch is actually proprietary software, if it was free software, I would probably use it as my login shell. I spent some time writing scripts and customizing my .chrc and really enjoyed it. It's actually a C interpreter, but with shell features.
Having worked with writers in these very fields, I can assure you they write with the intention that you read the entire article and anything but reading the entire article is an unintended incomplete communication. A protocol broken, if you will. Not a conspiracy to hide the truth. Them potentially maybe donating to charity is not the lede.
Knuth, The Art Of Computer Programming V3, Sorting & Searching covered both multiply & shift and modulo prime integer hashing in some detail in its first edition written in the 1960s, published in 1973. While not "modern", Knuth has always been a bona fide classic, especially as regards hashing, and should really be cited by this survey paper, IMO. (EDIT: people now call this "Fibonacci Hashing" even though, in the source material itself, Knuth mentions many irrational numbers will do, not just his motivating choice of the golden ratio from Fibonacci numbers fame. There are blog posts about it being "the optimization that time forgot", etc.)

For not entirely clear reasons (maybe multiplier selection?), only Knuth's modulo prime suggestion "propagated" well in the 70s and 80s. This suggestion reception bias also aged poorly over ensuing decades with the CPU cost of modulo vs. multiply evolving from a 2x performance delta to more like 10x.
My machine learning crystal ball still forecasts:

- More unprofitable and VC-lead tech startups will go bankrupt.

- General tech funding crash.

- Olympics will be postponed, not cancelled.

- FAANMG companies will focus on healthcare.

- Telemedicine will rise, however will be unsustainable for startups to keep up with demand. (Off-shored to FAANMG companies instead.)

- High-street shops with no online presence will go bust.

- Reduction in emissions due to travel ban.

- Layoffs in travel, tech and retail.

- House prices will skyrocket

- Investors will invest in Healthcare-tech and Medical startups

- Crispin Odey will become a billionaire. (Shorted nearly all companies affected by COVID-19 on the stock market)

- Palantir finally gets its IPO and Airbnb be on the brink of going bust.

Perhaps these predictions are based on the fact that from the perspective from investors and businesses, being 'virus-proof' and 'FAAMNG-proof' is now considered an advantage and where seeing this in action.
Better in which terms? UX/Usability? Privacy/anonymity? Reliability? Reliability on never losing contacts/data? User-proof? As in: non-tech people will have it working well without tinkering, and they will not lose their data because they didn't to X procedure?
This feels so much like the modern day equivalent of the shoeshine boy giving stock tips in the 1920s.
They've since reinstated the account and given him premium.
If you do client side “rendering” (which means that you get page content from the server in json format, and generate the html from javascript), you have to show a placeholder until the webpage content gets generated. Otherwise the user sees an incomplete page with elements jumping around for a fraction of a second on load.

But the placeholder might get stuck if anything goes wrong.

Personally, I hate it. Better to use static html for blog content.
What I find really annoying about reddit is that inane and snarky comments are almost always at the top. You sometimes have to scroll very far to see a serious comment. I see this as a symptom of the fact the average reddit user is quite young.

However, I'll tell you a secret: the subreddit called TrueReddit does not suffer from this. It's really pleasant.
Once you've "solved" it, click the Twitter sharing button (don't worry, it doesn't share anything immediately) and extract your solution's URL from the popup.
that's interesting.. I'm in the US and the phone number is above all links, and there are no ads.
Ironi ally this edition was the first inane bought in years not because it had boobs on the cover but despite that. I bought it for departure gAte reading and had old ladies were staring at me like I was reading porn.
Exactly - people already know about the bugs. Just to give an example, the Core Duo errata list is 53 pages long and still growing:

http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/specupdt/309222.htm
I guess it depends on the app, but be warned that performance of HTML5 on mobile devices such as the iPad is orders of magnitude worse than in native apps.

So even something straightforward like, say, smoothly animating a pinch zoom on an image, is just shy of impossible on a mobile browser. Add any complexity to your scene, then try to animate it and you'll quickly start reconsidering building a native app.

Sound is another non-starter in an HTML5 app. iPhone (& iPod touch) will only play audio fullscreen. iPad's Safari will play one audio clip at a time, but only as a direct result of a user action. Video is also out, since Apple devices will only play it fullscreen.

Depending on what you're building, you might not need any form of animation or sound. But if you do, now is not the time to make the move to HTML5 if you want your thing to work on mobile devices.
Leftists are obsessed with money, but just for the record, the media rules America. Money is mainly concerned with protecting and growing itself, not ruling anything as such.
> Again, not assault and not a thug.

Again, incorrect; if a person feels assaulted because you grabbed their junk against their will, then they've been assaulted.

> If a police officer frisks you, under normal circumstances, that is both legal and expected.

Fist off, ex cop here. No, it isn't expected. Cops require cause to frisk you and generally only do it if you're suspected of something and we make an exception for police because we all agree they have to be able to do it. There is no such agreement that the TSA needs such power.

Secondly, they'll generally have a member of the same sex do the frisk because they recognize people do see being groped as being assaulted. Most people let it go because they're happy to not be in trouble, not because they like it.

> We as a society give government the right to do that.

Correct, however, the TSA is not the government. They're private thugs. And yes, many cops are thugs as well, it's why I left the profession. It's a career field full of power hungry ex jocks who think bullying people is their current sport. Most have little understanding of the law, they do whatever they're trained on the job to do with little thought of whether or not they should.
Odd, I tried "selvmord" here in Norway, and it gives

Trenger du hjelp i Norge, ringer du 116 123
Mental Helse

Must be really a thing against Danes ;)
In regards to 2, the author mentions the same concern, and a possible reason for the difference in service, way at the end:

> Or maybe my account rep with Groupon is just to blame? Perhaps Groupon grew too big, too fast, to consider the value of communication and treatment with merchants...
> I recently had to make changes to my own service because the Twitter API policy team didn't like me telling people who unfollowed them.

Just curious: which section of the Twitter API ToS do you read as restricting notifying them of people that unfollowed them? I know that the API policy explicitly prohibits automated unfollowing and restricts automated following, but haven't ever seen anything that addresses notifications of a someone unfollowing another user.
It's a software patent, so there's no need to read it in order to reach the grandparent's conclusion.
public class example
{
public static void main(String[] JAVA_LOL) throws Throwable
{
// prints "6"
System.out.println((int)6.99999);
}
}
Virgin Mobile isn't so bad, although their service in the US is lacking compared to other countries.
I was making a joke using communist terminology. To be more direct, I don't think Steve is casting a dark cloud over the community, in fact the opposite metaphor is better: he's bringing some important issues to light.
Username checks out, except that LaserDisc didn't have Macrovision.

Growing up we had a store-brand Montgomery Ward VCR with manual gain controls (video and audio). Great for copying tapes from Blockbuster.
1) by educating you will uncover latent exceptional programmers and

2) by educating you will raise educational level and make life better for everyone in country (any country).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_correlations_of_cri...

http://www.commissiononhealth.org/PDF/c270deb3-ba42-4fbd-bae...

Those two arguments are omitted from essay. I think it is a sign of sloppiness on PG's part.
A bunch of children who don't know how to use Tor (take a look at the dox from TheFinest) decide to try and compromise Tor.

Colour me surprised.

Given that a bunch affiliated with the group's names, addresses, numbers and the like have been compromised, this doesn't seem like a very smart plan.
I agree. There is all this amazing programmer talent all over then world and it's not about training, but then everyone is trying to recruit the kids from MIT and Stanford?
At this point Hack is just a marketing/media term and Lisp nerds from MIT no longer have any say in the matter. Let it go.
True. But if you do it over a long period... TOR has been around a while now. How can you possibly vet all owners? Surely most relay owners would prefer to remain anonymous.
Anyone have a direct link to the video?

I'd like to watch it, but it requires me to run some Flash plugin, which I'd like to avoid.
> If you think the U.S. is in technological decline... how come oil production has drastically increased?

I read a fair amount about energy issues, but mainly for my own understanding and less so to be able to readily explain it, so forgive me if I get something wrong and for the lack of citations, but I believe it's basically that the increase in oil production is pretty much completely due to unconventional sources like shale oil (and fracking for natural gas) which have a much lower Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI), which means they're only profitable when the price of oil is very high.

What expecting these unconventional sources to save the day fails to account for is that they are still very finite, and more importantly, that when the price of oil gets high enough, it hurts the economy, which then decreases demand for oil, which causes the price to drop, which makes it unprofitable to operate and/or develop new unconventional wells until the price rises again due to low supply. This cycle is not really compatible with a healthy economy. We are seeing the beginning of this as we speak, with oil companies laying off people because shale oil isn't profitable at current prices.

Also, the technology for shale oil and fracking has been around for a long time, so it's not exactly technological innovation, just a new source that became profitable to exploit as easily accessible oil becomes scarcer and prices are high.

> And what sort of oh-so-important research do you think we're missing out on that could be better parallelized with more funding?

Maybe space travel?

Or viable renewable energy that could actually sustain civilization?

http://energyskeptic.com/2014/science-no-single-or-combinati...
http://energyskeptic.com/2014/why-fusion-will-never-work-and...
Yes.

Arguing that paying someone to run the software for you is unethical is like arguing that paying for a well-prepared meal in a restaurant is unethical. You should source all the ingredients and prepare them in your own kitchen.

Except we're paying for the expertise of the chef. In the case of SaaS we're paying for not maintaining our own data center, system administration costs, operations costs, monitoring and security.

But the chef might not use clean food! People will get sick, the chef's reputation will suffer, and he'll go out of business.

As you say, the question is data ownership. Turning that toward the analogy, how do we verify data security such that reputation is affected? Make ethical behavior valuable (reputation) and businesses will behave ethically.
Stop trying to shove more people into the SF bay area peninsula?

A 100K/yr salary won't buy, or even rent, much of a place for a family to live in near Palo Alto or San Francisco. But it sure will in Sacramento.

... or Fresno, or Portland, or Seattle, or Denver, or Phoenix, or Boise, or Minneapolis, ...

The tech industry needs to think outside the Silicon Valley box, and consider that while people should be grouped together for networking and other multiplier effects, it might be time to have more than one town in which to do business - a location that is not so closed in with outrageous real estate costs.

I almost took a job in Mtn View a few years ago, but wanted a 50% salary increase (vs Sacramento) to compensate for housing. So, it didn't happen.
Keep in mind that a Mac can run any OS a ThinkPad can run.

You're also getting a slightly biased view of the PC market at CES. Intel announced low-end dual-core processors, so all the PC vendors announced low-end laptops. When Intel has a new quad-core processor available, expect to see some new high-end laptops.
I know BobX is supossed to be a troll language but it bothers me to no end that the example code uses <xbobendif> instead of the XML spirited </xboxif>. I believes this confirms that I suffer from OCD.
> can't reply deeper

What's that all about, then?
And in a small business (restaurants and other service providers), that will happen either intentionally or through time pressure, inexperience, etc. I tend not to like systems that rely on something like this in theory rather than operate from a stronger structure.
The name for the concept comes from the name of the HTTP-SwitchBoard extension (predecessor to uMatrix). It's skeuomorphic.

The extensions which have a switchboard like interface enable the user to block requests based on the request's domain name, the primary frame's domain-name, and also the type of request.

In contrast, extensions like NoScript have a global switch. If I allow scripts from DontBeEvil.com, they are enabled on all domains. They don't prevent XSS attacks, for example.

If there's a better name for this concept, please do suggest one.
I visited CD Baby's warehouse in Portland, Oregon a while back, so I could give each of the staff a copy of my piano CD, which has a Creative Commons license.

That warehouse is huge; most of its artists are unsigned.

I am of the opinion that the problem that the RIAA has with the internet is not copyright infringement, but that artists have found a way to earn money without being signed with RIAA member labels.
Who is to say that the mechanical turk-ers aren't AI?
But the combined expression solves exactly your problem!

You were not sure whether the increment would always happen before the assignment. In the combined expression you can simply use the pre-increment operator, which will always increment before the rest of the expression.

It's shorter, unambiguous and leaves less questions. How can something be any "cleaner" than that?

Also, the statements "array[index++]" and "array[++index]" are pretty well-understood idioms in C.
confidentiality, conflict of interest, systemic risk not insider trading: http://www.fca.org.uk/news/fca-fines-five-banks-for-fx-faili...
Not the first, this is the middle of the series, there have already been fines.
As a Scot I was interested as to why it was called Scotch tape:

The use of the term Scotch in the name was a pejorative meaning "stingy" in the 1920s and 1930s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape

[NB In the UK the equivalent product is sellotape].
This is technically correct in concept, but not in practice, as organized religion existed long before the formalization of the nation-state. In fact, one can even argue that nationalism is an agnostic subdivision of organized theology since it utilizes identical symbol worship mechanisms.
It means the internet allows people to communicate, share ideas, and form cultural bonds and identities outside of the highly-restricted context of national frameworks.
It is you who is "mind-bogglingly wrong". Perhaps you should read up a bit on real UNIX systems.

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/03
Good.

I really don't understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process.

For people who think it only happened to drug dealers who were difficult to prosecute; it happened to my elderly parents.

My grandfather died suddenly in Georgia and we were the closest family at the time. My parents packed up their car in a hurry and started from Texas down I-10. In Mississippi they ran into a drunk driving checkpoint. They, being elderly conservative Republican business owners driving a luxury sedan that never conceived that the police would not be on their side, consented to a search of their car. The police found an antique revolver (my dad is an avid collector) locked in its case in the trunk. That plus the $800 he had in his wallet as travel money was enough to get them thrown in jail for the weekend and their property seized as suspected drug dealers.

$8000 in local lawyer fees later they got their car back but the antique gun had 'gone missing' along with the cash. Their lawyer said they were lucky to get the car back.
Raindeers will love it :-)
Maybe OP, but if Elon Musk makes actual technical contributions to his companies, I'd be super impressed.
An Electric Bus or Taxi is also more important than an electric private car simply because they drive more people per hour.

1. Cycle
2. Electric Bus/Tram/Taxi
3. Electric Car/Biogas Car

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/shrink-your-travel-footprint
Don't have kids, but when your company treats tech and tech employees as a cost center, they also tend to skimp out on your office digs.

My home setup is much better than my office one. Bigger (and more) monitors, much better desk with more real estate and legroom, much better ergo chair, better lighting, etc. etc.
Building offices and commercial buildings closer to homes. Most cities are not bikeable because it's just too far to get to anything that isn't a home.
A lot less than an astronaut has when going to Mars for sure. We at least know how far away Mars is exactly, and what obstacles lie in the way, and what inhabitants it has. They just got on a boat, and pray for fair wind and good weather so they might reach india, and thank god there was a whole other continent in between.
> Signal doesn't only use firebase for the sake of Push Notifications

For what else does it use Firebase?

> Also have in mind that push notifications/firebase is unnecessary with a high priority notification, which is what e.g. other f-droid FOSS forks of other apps use instead.

That's news to me. OTOH I'm not familiar with the term "high-priority notification" outside the FCM realm. Unfortunately, a quick Google search only yielded results related to FCM. Could you explain what you mean?
The issue with this sentiment is that while some things are blatantly racist, there are other things that aren't so black and white. This is one of those slippery slopes where if left unchecked, anything and everything will be considered racist.

Also, you don't have to have good morals or even be intelligent to be good at your job. Some people are fantastic at their job, but are pretty damn "stupid" as you put it.
> Once it again becomes beneficial for your career and/or social life to participate in office culture people will come crawling back.

Half of us are introverts and don't care about that. We're either self-directed enough that doesn't matter, or else we just sacrifice that already.
I would say there's a demonetization of everything these days where so many topics are full 'us vs them' tribal ordeals now.
Cookies suck. The interface is beyond terrible, they were never scoped properly, and they don't have to be used.

Browser storage (sessionStorage, localStorage) is perfectly valid for storing an authentication token.
Add to that the hardcore brand loyalty a lot of truck owners seem to have, it really is surprising.

What else is really surprising to me is their resale value, especially when they are optioned with desirables such as 4x4 or a diesel powertrain; 10-15 year old Dodge Rams with the Cummins are still selling in the $10k+ range, with some of the nicer 10-year-old examples fetching closer to $20k, roughly half the original MSRP
I'm a customer since 2011.
I love all the features they added during these years (new UI, 2-step auth, mobile App, etc.) and the fact they actively develop their product is reassuring.
The two or three times I contacted the customer support the assistance was excellent, once I even got a response from one of the founders.

Since they switched to the new interface a few years ago they gradually turned off features from the classic interface and then they completely switched it off. I rarely used it since the new UI was introduced, but I liked to have the option for slow connections while traveling abroad.

I enjoy reading their blog and I appreciate the open source contributions.

Offline access to e-mails and calendars with official app would be nice, but I understand it's developed as a "mobile GUI" for the webmail.

The only complain I have is that they stopped offering family plans. Once a second account was +5$ [1], now I have to pay 50$ + VAT for a second e-mail address.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/pricing-legacy.html
Regardless, they should still leave and try to oppose it while working somewhere else.
Yeah honestly I understand all of the negative effects people are saying but I’ll be so glad if the username I want is released from the user that signed up, tweeted once, got hit by a spam virus in 2011, never tweeted again.

I’ve even got a few reminders in my calendar to check on the username availability on the 11th and 12th. Really hoping it’s a full on user delete rather than just making them inactive
This way of thinking works as long as you have very few bloated apps.

It stops working once it affects literally everything. 1password? Few hundred MB (unless it goes crazy into few GB sometimes). Browser? A GB or so. Some electron apps? Another GB. It really adds up, but no single app will take responsibility because "what else are you going to use the memory for?"
EV certs, for the curious, extended validation certificates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificat...
And of course there is a “Wait but Why” article about that...

PS: scroll down to “Continuity”

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html
> and doesn't make urls unshareable by existing

But when you put json in the URL, you normally do want exactly that. Making the URL shareable.
Maybe it is happening, but at much slower pace than the evolution in insects, which have a new generation every couple weeks.

GP has a good point, insect can evolve very quickly. And it is probably much easier evolutionary to adapt to light pollution (it's a software change, after all) than to insecticide (which affects cell chemistry) or complete change in habitat due to its destruction or climate change.
There is light at the end of the tunnel (I have been affected by some of the problems): the new MacBook 16" switches back to a scissor mechanism for the keyboard and brings back the escape key. If they bring those changes to the MacBook Pro, most of my hardware qualms are resolved.
Isn't that a license violation?