jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For me, I find it unsettling because it's a reminder of how ultimately we're all just compositions of atoms with electric signals in our body. While I find this immensely exciting, it unnervingly reminds me of my mortality.
It's akin to what I imagine Neo would've felt when he learnt about the Matrix. I'd like to think I'd have without a doubt taken the red pill too (like I want this kind of research to be more successful) but anything that makes the Matrix more real is unsettling.
As a non-physicist, though, that sentence is still mostly unintelligible to me. Could anybody explain it in simple terms? I don't really know what group velocity is supposed to mean, nor do I really know what the spatial structure of a light beam is.
It still is not specific to this attack.
Valuation is not the same as "yearly income". Not anywhere close to that. If you sell a company for 1 year's worth of income, you're a fool.
documents about the U.S. torturing people

Do you have a specific example of this? Every instance I have seen or heard about refers to the actions of Iraqi security forces.

hasn't had any adverse affect on the support for the war. It's proof that people just don't care.

At the risk of being mistaken for some kind of right-wing buffoon, I have to say that what I've gleaned from the Iraq war leak has had an adverse effect on my opposition to it. The sketch of what Iraq will be after the US withdraws is there and I'm not convinced it's any better. I still don't know what to do with that, but perhaps it's a sign of why many or most people don't care: there is no simple answer. That is, you can't just release a bunch of documents and end a war, because such documents will only give you a higher resolution picture of a complex reality.

I think that Wikileaks has sort of hobbled itself by relying on document bombs and overt political objectives instead of just focusing on sensemaking. They get a lot more attention this way, but much less capacity to change minds.

The need by governments to keep everything secret is a bit irrational. People don't care.

You're basing that on the mistaken assumption that the intent of all military secrecy is to withhold information from the citizens it serves and not enemies current and potential. The widespread appeal of that assumption is what WIkileaks depends on for donations but it's still bonkers.
You could write a wrapper that outputs SAX events to predetermined files or named pipes, say, selectable as command line arguments; for instance, the startElement event could be outputted to startElement.txt. Then your script can monitor these files and do the processing from there.

I'm sure there are better ways to do it, though.
I'm sorry, your settings for facebook are WAY over the top!
Common, you want to be able to access my data anytime?
What are you guys planning to do? Explain why you are asking for this. A lot of people did, I'm sure, but this is way fishy for me. I do trust dropbox (and I'm a paid user, so you have my credit card) but it is a request for access for something you do not use.

Why? Please explain!
Just a few weeks ago, my five-month-old son suddenly discovered that he had hands. He's been staring at them, intentionally grasping objects, waving and gesturing quite a bit since them. Thought of another way, just a month ago, any solution to any problem that required the use of hands was an "unknown unknown" to my son.

It's been amazing to watch my son as he discovers things most of us take for granted, as he changes "unknown unknowns" into "known unknowns" or even "known".
How much dogfood do you need to eat before you turn into a dog?
In the first year, save up 100K. In the same year, learn Options and Futures Trading from Pros and
Paper Trade religiously for the first year. If you do well there, then start with real money in the second year and see how far you go.
Sorry! I hand in my reading comprehension card forthwith :-(

However, it was all worth it for your great citation. Thanks!
> Are those actual, real concerns or just post-rationalizations and coverups for depleted stockpiles which would lead to panic buying?

It was a real concern, you could find American scientists quoted in news articles years before Covid criticizing the East Asian public for wearing masks in the face of a MERS resurgence in South Korea, for instance.

The fear of people getting infected by handling the mask was also perfectly fitting in with all the other fears about surface and fomite transmission and the obsession about washing hands and sanitizing, which as we have learned more about the disease seems to be almost entirely wasted effort.

Pretty sure what actually turned American and European opinion around on masks was noticing that South Korea, China, and Japan were all doing a lot better against Covid and were using masks widely not just in the hospital.

Also, at least in the USA a lot of government communications are subject to FOIA and no one came up with any sort of smoking gun email indicating the government knew widespread masking would help in late February/early-to-mid-March and was suppressing the truth. Whereas we got plenty of other emails about the disorganized response (search for “Red Dawn” and “coronavirus” on google).
So, that begs the question: If _my_ phone number is in someone _else's_ contacts, is it still _my_ phone number?
I'm not trolling. I'll consider doing a Reddit AMA.
File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC is empowered by law to investigate and address deceptive marketing practices such as these by Apple and AT&T.

It’s easy and takes only a few minutes to file a complaint.

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

Here’s the company info to make filling out the forms easier:

Apple
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010

AT&T
175 East Houston Street
Dallas, TX 78205-2255
210-821-4105.

I believe that the key points are:
Apple touted and advertised the $29.99 data plan as a major inducement to buy the iPad 3g.
Apple described it as a “breakthrough deal” with AT&T, leading consumers to believe that Apple had locked in the terms and price.
A key, heavily advertised, feature was the ability to jump between plans or have no 3G plan as dictated by needs and budget.
The “grandfathering” announced by AT&T forces customers to either keep an unlimited plan continuously active in order to not lose it.
The change in the plans has significant impact on the value of the device and the manner in which it can be used.
We want AT&T and Apple to honor the advertised deal, not give us money, a coupon, a refund, free service for a month, etc. (That’s what I want, anyway.)

If you’re one of the people cheering because your bill got cut by $5 per month, don’t bother with replying to this. This is a legal issue related to FTC rules and regulations on false and deceptive advertising, not whether you like the new plans better because you don’t happen to move more than 2GB per month.
I was just repeating aditya's phrase. It's a common expression and does not literally mean that you have deposited the money in a bank.
This is a great paper. It was one of my biggest inspirations for writing Ur-Scheme.
That's 3 times bigger than El Chapo's fortune. And it's still missing 900 millions!
Helmholtz equation?
I was with a startup and was the only technical member of the founding team. While the two other members personally bootstrapped the venture, I have to admit that outside of the funding, they were of very limited value during the first 6-9 months when development was the primary activity. In anything, they were a distraction because they constantly changed things, expanded scope, etc. Needless to say, it wasn't a successful venture, and from here on out, I plan to stick with only technical founders.
@spicyj -- it takes worse pictures than a point and shoot. Much worse. MP doesn't equals good quality.

However, I like my iPhone's built-in camera, because I always have it with me. But I doubt it will ever replace my SLR, or even my point&shoot (you just can't have good lens in such a small device).
Nice extension. Couple of small suggestions

- When the extension icon is clicked, a blank screen appears for a few seconds while the api is fetching the data i assume. A loading or some kind of notification would be nice.

- I am not sure if the ability to right click on profile links and opening in a new tab is disabled. Without that opening multiple profiles is pretty hard.
we have a microsite for big and tall - http://www.blanklabelbigandtall.com hopefully that should help
Ironically, I'm working on a bookkeeping project (still very early) designed around emailing in receipts from a camera phone. I have a beta signup page at getrunrate.com, and would love to talk more if you have time (my email is in my profile).
On the coding front, I'm considering learning Go. Otherwise I am looking at something soon where I'm going to need to learn better management, promotion, networking, and general people skills (in a biz context).

I'm a "just dive in and do something" learner, so that's the approach I'll take with both.
because it's not production hardware/software yet.
right?
RIGHT?
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oh god... i'm going to be really bummed out if this is actually lagging on "incredibly powerful" hardware.
No (non-chrome) distro currently works out of the box on the c720 (at least among the x64 variants). The most convenient solution at the moment involves recompiling the kernel after every security upgrade, which is hardly ideal.
That's how /r/trees came to be. There are other examples. Yes, that is how it works.
It's funny to think of cards being perceived as an American thing; I always saw the U.S. as relatively cash-oriented compared to other places. In Scandinavia you don't even buy a €3 coffee or €5 kebab without pulling out your card (the same is true in South Korea, and increasingly in Japan).
Whaat? I've had nothing but bad experiences with PayPal, and to top it off, the only actual payment method with them seems to be credit card anyways. Also, typically when using credit or debit card with European merchants, there's extra security in the form of OTP list provided by the issuer, checked during the transaction process. I understand this is not (always?) mandatory and the merchant may be storing CC numbers irresponsibly, but the direction seems to be right. What are the possible upsides of PayPal?
You've perfectly explained my daily frustration with Prettier. I am sad a few times a day about this for a project I'm on at this time.
This may be naive, but I wonder if switching the display to e-ink would help?
which is maybe why the west has been so slow to react to this pandemic - we were mostly unaffected by that one.
Hopefully taxpayers and business wont be on the hook for the loans - it's up to negotiation now. Personally I hope the large corporations getting 'bailouts' would be required to pay back with interest and or government ownership but any company under a reasonable yearly revenue would be forgiven. I don't know but I would guess they call it a loan is so treasury can leverage an appropriation into a much larger loan amount.

One of the things being negotiated right now is a loan in the amount of current payroll to smb's that would be 100% forgiven if they retain 90% employees. They're completely fucking it up right now but that would be great - if the timelines are good (e.g. keep loaning until this is over, the 90% requirement is so long as $ is loaned).

I am hoping - slight optimistic but scared nonetheless - that passes and we could use. It would remove a lot of stress and given we have low overhead (digital services) even if the worst happened it could keep us afloat almost indefinitely.

BUT fucked up partisan delay + Republicans demanding scary terms are create huge uncertainty which will likely hit markets hard tomorrow.

As written it looks like Mnuchin would have full discretion on who gets loans. Who knows what timeframe or bureaucracy needed to get loan. Even the most optimistic estimate of the individual checks is 2-4 weeks which is not quick enough. Doing a SBA loan is a huge process that takes a long time.
So, by your own admission, the critical piece of information my boss cares about must be inferred from the fact that it is absent from a sizeable pile of relatively technical details and from the fact that no detail (especially the GPL sub-component callout) implies it in turn.

Making this inference requires you to not only have outside knowledge of open source licenses and the Qt licensing situation, but to be rather confident in said outside knowledge. That's what he had trouble with.
So basically none. Not trying to be dismissive but this is going to kill way more than 44 in canada. Likely 100s if not thousands. Completely different order of magnitude.
We’re still buying fresh produce because there’s plenty of it and we don’t have a ton of space to store frozen/canned food. I’ve been washing produce with soap and water for 20 seconds and then rinsing it before eating it. We also roast most of our vegetables so the risk seems small, to me.
No Firefox support was my only complaint for Google meet. After that was fixed I never had issues again.
> it definitely feels like we're bringing our B game to one of the nastiest challenges the world has ever faced

That B game has been years in the making and predate the current administration since we exported our ability to bring our A game. Hopefully after this, these past short-sighted decisions are sharply corrected.
It's the standard xor solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm . FWIW, the other two solutions suffer from overflow errors, though the +/- can be fixed by switching to unsigned ints.
You can use Node's cluster API[1] directly or use a wrapping module such as Recluster[2]. With these, node will spawn a few children that get replaced when they die or time out (a little extra code is needed for the latter).

One can even do rolling upgrades with this for zero downtime releases.

If there is a known workload that will block for a while, one could 1) run the work in a child process, 2) consider using streams to process the data in chunks, or 3) break the work up by chaining smaller operations using "process.nextTick" to put the next operation at the end of the event loop (allows other pending operations to resume before continuing the slow/blocking work).

[1] http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/recluster
yikes. good job they were free.
What my mind fails to understand is, if the universe was infinite, how does that work with the "big bang" theory?

Apparently the universe originally (somehow) began as a point of infinite density and expanded outward from this point.

During this process, it would seem to need a defined size in order to be expanding at all. Even with the "blowing up a balloon" way of thinking of the universe, while the individual galaxies are growing further apart, the surface area is measurable (not infinite).

I am likely thinking of this incorrectly but I can't fit "infinite size" in with "expanding universe" in my head.

Unless these theories are incompatible, and to get infinite size you need the steady-state theory.
It it is self evident to people who understand security. It is far from self evident to everyone else. To many who actually need security and are given the mantra to just use signal.
I strongly don’t think that throughput is what terminal emulators should optimise for: basically no one cares about how quickly you can get a load of text you will ignore. Instead, kill the command and modify it to reduce output.

I think the right thing to optimise for is input latency.
Yes I don't mean to formalize all human life, but I bet every contract that has been created was so because people suffered from dealing with the randomness of "others". Last instance was lack of official document for inheritance in my ancestors country.. now everybody is fighting to grab his piece and nobody can resolve the issue.
> Now let's suppose for the sake of argument (and without loss of generality) that this foot fetish site were just a list of hyperlinks

That's a huge loss of generality.
> They explain a vision of the future that is improbable

We're currently heading into cyberpunk in basically every aspect except for the anarchy. More like totalitarian cyberpunk. It's left to see whether tech gives us the means for a semblance of anarchy, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
I do not understand how people believe this. News clip after news clip shows a CNN or FOX or MSNBC anchor in front of buildings that are literally on fire and they're saying "This is a protest ... it's mostly peaceful."

It's like we're watching the same exact movie and yet we're seeing two totally different films.
How many times a year do they have to wake up in the middle of the night to fix something broken?
I get frustrated by things like this, these walled gardens of people I know. I wish I could just switch to signal but I've found people would rather just not talk to me than download a new messenger app

I've settled for just talking to the people I can convince on different messengers and now have ~5 messenger apps on my phone.
Censors? I thought no politics? This thread is terrible. People who want this conversation should go to facebook or the comment section of fox news.
“Industry” is the key word. It’s all about making money from the fan base
Evans is not a US congressperson, he’s a representative in West Virginia’s state legislature. He has zero official business in the US Capitol.
I could have easily replaced "breasts" with "intercourse" and the message conveyed would be the same. Children are being exposed to exponentially more sexually charged content in the first few years of their lives than most men historically have been in their entire lives.

This isn't a case of rampant puritanism, go to Pornhub (one of the milder purveyors) and tell me that most of their front-page content is a depiction of healthy sex between two loving adults.
It's definitely possible that you were, as you put it, "ignorant of what was going on around you". I think you were at Prime Video at a time when it was really taking off, 2012-2016 was definitely a strong time for Prime Video, especially with the Twitch acquisition.

However, I was part of the Retail org between 2018-2020. I strongly back the PIP horror stories here. I don't want to share more details, because I'm still not brave enough to publicly bash an employer on the net. But I want to emphasize what I think others have also mentioned here, which is that, due to Amazon's size, there was definitely no one "Amazon culture" to speak of. The variance between orgs (and sometimes, between teams in the same org) was bafflingly huge.
The movie brings this up by Dash making the same point when he’s in the car with his mom in the first part of the movie.
> Say that we actually give up on reality and fully shift our attention to virtual worlds. How would you find a real person to marry? Do we still need houses, or just dark rooms with computers? Do we make babies in test tubes? Do we still have to exercise? Does it matter?

It matters because somebody still has to build and peovision datacenters and defend them and the borders of the country. If (reduction to absurdity) nobody ever leaves home it's going to be easy to pillage infrastructure or even people.

Furthermore our bodies don't react well at sitting down all day long, every single day. Does anybody have that kind of health data about Japanese hikikomori?

And of course extinction.
No, our methods simply can't detect narrow spikes in past data:

"no temperature variability is preserved in our reconstruction at cycles shorter than 300 years"

This means if there was temperature variation in past data current methods couldn't detect it, so the absence of spikes in the data is not proof of absence. In other words, if global warming was reversed and 200 years from now temperatures went back to pre-industrial levels it would be undetectable 10000 years into the future with our current methods.
In the end none of that really matters, as evidenced by the PFTF* bringing it into compliance with the relevant standards. The UEFI/ACPI stack is sufficiently abstract that it has allowed x86 to evolve and scale from little embedded devices like the atomic pi, to HP superdomes using the same basic OS for a couple decades.

So the low level boot mechanisms on Arm SBC's don't really matter because they are just used to boot a SBC specific UEFI image. The UEFI image then provides a standard mechanism for booting your OS of choice. The fact its taken 15+ years for the arm ecosystem to notice this, might be an interesting thing to study.

* https://github.com/pftf (SBBR-compliant (UEFI+ACPI) AArch64 firmware for the Raspberry Pi)
I'm not sure but try brew install pcre
I've had the same realisation in Japan: rail and postal services have been privatised there as well and they work supremely well. It made me think that good/bad service stems from culture more than from government vs. corporate organisation structures.
Watson Ladd has pointed out that since breaking authentication 10 years after it's been deprecated does not let you retroactively MITM someone but breaking key exchange 10 years after it's been deprecated allows decryption of stored intercepts, KEX should be stronger than certificates. So make sure your TLS server with 1024 bit key uses ECDHE or 2048 bit DHE, not plain RSA KEX.
No they would miss out on what Crystal did over the weekend and how shit-faced Jenny got.
The way these systems usually work, the call comes FROM the keypad/speakerphone at the gate, TO your home number. That's how it can recognize the DTMF and open the gate.

If the call were coming FROM his friends mobiles, TO Google Voice, how would the gate intercept the DTMF? Note that he says the group includes "the number," not "the numbers."

The original article states that it is possible to set up a system this way, such that anyone who calls gets in, but it is insecure.
Brilliant, works like a champ now!
I guess you meant UMTS, not WAP.
Anyway, time will tell.

So, for those video calls people have to use iPhones at both ends although it would be easy to do that interoperable? I am wondering what the word "open" meant on one of Steves slides sigh
Some of us meet up at Molly Magees from time to time.
This is not even close to a good, sound or technical reason.

The reason I asked is because, as far as I know, the processor and the amount of memory is the same for 1st generation and 2nd generation hardware. I wonder if Apple is artificially limiting the availability of their software just to force fashion victims to buy new hardware.

And calling the hardware base iOS has to support "massive" is quite an overstatement. That's the enormity of 7 models.
Those four words should be a developer mantra! (For some reason, we feel entitled to mental effort from others. I think it's because of our application of the Golden Rule.)
Maybe you can use async Rack or Cramp? Probably neither of them are supported on Heroku though.
It is true that this is pretty much meant to be a populized presentation but I would say it's still quite interesting (at least, for a non-psychologist). It does pack quite alot in a short and entertaining video :)

Also, I don't think Maslow's Heararchy of Needs really explains why people perform worse when they are paid more. According to it, shouldn't paying more just stop making much of a difference after a certain point?
> Maybe, but I can't think of any way to make that work.

Neither can I. If the good people of Mass want to keep electing him, there's not much that the rest of us can do.

> "bring home the bacon" guy

Supposedly pork actually kills jobs in the recipient's district.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Harvard-study-show...

Another approach, which won't ever happen because of the social dynamics, is for his fellow legislators to punish his district. The theory being "we can't make you elect someone else, but we can make you wish that you had". However, legislators don't work that way.
Great way to select people who can be lived with, aren't terrified of commitment, etc... Although there may be fidelity issues... :)