jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I really love T-Mobile, but its also a validation of all the ideas that traditional telecom regulation rejects.

It's quite possible that traditional telecom regulation is ill conceived. Rural build out requirements are effectively a tax on providing service in urban areas used to subsidize providing service in rural areas. It's government interference in the market -- and maybe that's necessary to get what we want, but we should at least admit what we're doing so we can properly evaluate it.

In particular, if we want to have a subsidy for rural build outs, that doesn't automatically mean the money should come from telecommunication customers in urban areas. The premise itself is that telecommunications service is something good that we want to promote and make more affordable, so making it less affordable for urban customers in order to subsidize rural customers is robbing Peter to pay Paul. If we have to rob somebody then we should either rob somebody we don't like (e.g. tax cigarettes or gas guzzlers) or the money should come from everyone equitably via a tax on general sales/income/etc.

"Traditional telecom regulation" implies that we can't have gigabit fiber in New York City (population density ~27,500/sq mi) until it is cost effective to also install it in Loving County, Texas (population density ~0.1/sq mi). That seems significantly less desirable than, for example, setting aside a fixed amount of subsidy each year and dividing it between each carrier based on the number of citizens newly served who were not previously served at a given class of service. That way the market works and the most efficient markets are not delayed (i.e. NYC gets gigabit fiber right away) but as the low hanging fruit is picked and the number of new residents offered service per year decreases, the subsidy per each newly served resident increases until the subsidy for installing service to the last unserved resident finally exceeds the cost of installing the service.
> Challenger accident

When I was at JSC, a young engineer once referred to Challenger as an accident over lunch. An older engineer looked at him, and said very slowly "Never, ever, call it an accident. Marshall (Space Flight Center) murdered them."

As for Columbia, even if you could turn around, that approach just doesn't make sense to me either. Station keeping for that long, without the RMS? It's crazy. I would have thought they'd just take up 5 extra suits, make one approach, get them over, take CM1 & CM2, and come back later for 3 (I think 3 could get in the airlock in a pinch) and then a third pass for the last 2. Obviously missing something there if that wasn't possible.
This is not about changing orbital radius, these are relatively cheap to change. It's about changing orbital plane - for 90 degree change (i.e. polar to equatorial) roughly speaking it would require 1.4 amount of fuel to get to the orbit in the first place (and additional fuel to get this fuel to orbit).
May I suggest a simple remedy? The President can start a blog on whitehouse.gov and join the Fediverse [1].

[1]: https://fediverse.party/
> Which means that in practice, it's very debatable how much more free these decentralized platforms are

100% more freedom right there. Freedom doesn't mean you can force me to listen to you. It means I can't force you to stop.
What Mastodon enables people to do is a very direct way of stopping conversation with people that can't behave.
It's not like they aren't angry when they have a platform. The kkk folks were running people over in celebration of Trump's win.

Appeasement is a failing strategy when it comes to fascists
You must have misread my comment.
Hold platforms accountable for the radicals they create.

Imagine how different the world would be if Facebook faced consequences for the genocide it helped facilitate in Myanmar.

These companies will only ever respond to a loss of revenue, which is why you are seeing these bans now instead of 5 years ago.

Twitter helped create this mess, and now people have died and our country was a few guards and a chair barricade away from an actual coup.
7 of the last 8 elections. And yet they are the ones “out of touch”
Trump being deplatformed from Twitter is long, long overdue.

They had to rewrite their content policies to give him a loophole a long time ago, since any normal person would be banned for what he said. They recently started having to add disclaimers, because even the loophole wasn't enough to counter his wrongness and influence.
look at Ghostery - works with crome, FF etc.
Reminds me of a talk from this year's Defcon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oB28ksiIo
There's sort of the "Computer Science" vs. "Software Engineering" difference going on there.
Hack the app, hack the test suite, I meant either equally. Which I think if you read my post is pretty clear that the main dichotomy is between "hack" and "real fix" and where the hack goes hardly matters.

Nevertheless, you are arguing that because people sometimes program to benchmarks, you are apparently better off without the benchmarks. I say that's nonsense. The solution is to use the benchmarks better. Are we programmers or automatons? (Or managers?) If you're going to be that defeatist about programming you're not going to be able to be a successful programmer under any circumstances, the entire field is a minefield of superficially-appealing optimization opportunities!
I think the solutiion is that both are needed.

corporate funded news can investigate the government, and government funded news can investigate corporations.
what professional obligations specifically?
No they haven't. They still pay several developers to work on it and maintain it.
Read it again. What I wrote is that accountants are smart. They already know how to deal with numbers ad variables, and control flows are trivial to learn in something like VBA. If they don't do it it's because they don't want to, and no amount of forceful simplicity will change that. In fact, visual programming often frustrates them more than it empowers them.

murukesh_s is obviously invested in this, so he's hardly an impartial observer, whereas I don't really care one way or the other and am just relying the experience of somebody helping users with these tools.
JavaFX 15 API is compatible with that of JavaFX 8.
Fashionnova spend over 10% of their _revenue_ on Facebook Ads according to this. Is that even realistic?
Made me think of David Bowie's "Thursday's Child"

https://vimeo.com/240799507
Unfortunately, people working for our clients are not trained to do this. Or are but take the quicker option and hope that it works.
How is this any different than materials that change color or refractive index based on temperature?

Yeah it's kinda cool, but the interpretation (and title) are ridiculous.

"Semiconductor found to have different physical properties when under strong magnetic field."
> Remember when we had ICQ, and AIM, and MSN Messenger, and Gadu-Gadu, and we were dreaming of a unified messaging system?

We'll always have SMS.
I can confidently predict the author will decide that Rust has some nice attributes, but pales in comparison to D.
The twist being, Bitcoin is so far from even pseudo-anonymous that stealing the cash would have been much, much smarter. The Blockchain, it turns out, is the least anonymous way to transact. All your ledger made public forever, what could possibly go wrong?

Sure, with perfectly clean CoinJoins, mixing, etc. you might possibly be able to hide the coins, for a little while. Just don't ever try to actually, you know, spend them.
Is this similar to Mutation Testing, where the code being tested is mutated, in order to identify unspecified behavior?

Mutant is a Ruby library for this: https://github.com/mbj/mutant
Much more technical information: http://securelist.com/blog/research/69203/inside-the-equatio...
Undoing isn’t a feature of a GUI though, but rather running in a context that maintains history/state. There’s no reason a command line program couldn’t do something like this in theory.
This is really well done.

A suggestion, hopefully helpful: a better approach to securing your admin console than simply layering 2FA onto it would be to expose it to a private WireGuard network. One very easy way to do that is with Tailscale, which will hook up to your GSuite authentication --- Google's 2FA stack will be far better than anything you'd likely build on your own.

Tailscale is disgustingly simple to set up. If you're a product person, it's actually upsetting how easy they've made it to get set up.
You can write a GUI for anything, so if you are willing to spend enough time searching for software, you can solve anything with GUIs. But the big difference is with CLI, there is no need for third party software, the functionality is right there.

Here is a simple task which can easily occur in business: you have a folder with thousands of files named somewhat haphazardly. Copy all the files with have numbers 2011 to 2019 anywhere in the filename to an usb stick.
I assume so
> CEO OR CTO?

> NEED A QUICK ANALYSIS FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

Coming to this site for the first time I had no idea what your were talking about. If I had come randomly I would have left right away.

2 recommendations:

1) Put a one sentence literal no marketing description of your product at the top so I know what it does, maybe " Jig: A programmable tool for generating metrics for startups" or whatever it is.

2) Use full sentences. When the context isn't clear "CEO OR CTO?" is confusing. After establishing what the product is, then start your pitch in complete sentences :

"Are you a CEO or CTO?

etc.

Good luck!
In this case, however, scepticism is more than warranted.

Just comparing the mission statement of NeuraLink (from their homepage) with the wild claims of their most prominent founder (Musk) should make you stop and think for a second.

The actual goals are quite humble and achievable in the near term. What Musk says on Joe Rogen's podcasts and other public forums, however, is more fiction than science.

Unfortunately most publications focus on the latter and ignore the former and way too many people fall for this and seriously believe that highly invasive and risky brain surgery will become routine in just a couple of years.

We're talking about the same guy who said there could be "1 million full self-driving robo taxis on the road by 2020" during the April 2019 Tesla investor day [0]. The same guy, mind you, who's company two years later, in 2021 told regulatory bodies that their technology is only SAE level-2... [1]

The technical press back then was very sceptical about the claim as well (and it turns out they were right to do so). Autonomous cars are on a whole different level than BCI, though, and there's no breakthrough science required to achieve autonomous cars.

So in light of this I feel that scepticism has its place w.r.t. BCI and outrageous claims (e.g. streaming music directly into the brain or curing neurological diseases) about the near-term abilities and development stage of the technology.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/290029-tesla-well-have-f...

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39647/tesla-admits-current-ful...
If your goal is to build a free tool that will be used and beloved by millions, you probably need to continue building on a deeply technical foundation and blog about it the whole way. It's ancient history now but a master class of this is when Damien Katz built and live-blogged Couchbase, like 2004.

If your goal is to build an indie software business with hundreds or thousands of customers where you're making like 10-100k a month, i can give you more specific advice.

Based on your website, it's not clear what you're after.
I've mentioned it here before. I have a "cd" replacement tool for Windows. It works by writing a separate thread to cmd.exe's process and remotely running it to do things in cmd's process (change the current directory, update a few enviornment variables cmd.exe uses behind the scenes). I am flabbergasted that it works, and it still works after all of these years.
You need a GUI. The user experience of GUIs are superior to CLIs in discoverability, consistency, etc...

The only reason CLIs are still useful is because we still haven’t found a way to compose GUI applications well. We still can’t automate GUI applications, use the result of one app from another app etc... But that’s not something inherent to the GUI paradigm.
Out of curiosity, what was your new career? Have you ever returned to software engineering or considered it?
I'd argue that queues can introduce a lot of similar problems. Especially when there's slowness (backing up, slow disk etc...). Messages over tcp sent directly to the processors are not that hard to design for failures and high availability and probably your'll reduce the latency significantly.

You can also get rid of auto discovery and use config files.
The funny thing is that Dark vs Light mode is actually not an absolute.

Personally I prefer dark modes.

Currently I use light modes.

Why? Because when there is a possibility of glare, light mode dominates. By far. At work there is a high probability of glare. My quality of life improved drastically when I switched to light mode for everything. Even my terminal.

When the room is dark, dark mode is way easier on the eyes.

So really what we need isn't one preference, but a variation based on lighting conditions of the room. A color sensor on the monitor could easily determine which of the two to use.

Not practical ATM. Oh well.
Congratulations on your progress, but those numbers don't look quite right. Most people can't sustain 1000 kcal/hr for a full hour, especially not when doing circuit training. Consumer fitness tracker devices commonly overestimate calorie consumption by a significant amount.

Max heart rate doesn't really decrease with fitness unless there's some weird pathology going on. As fitness increases you can generate more power at the same heart rate, but max heart rate remains roughly the same.
Semi-related and possibly of interest: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1217389_we_live_in_public
School should just replace the final exam with one question: What is the confirmation code on the receipt from your $100 TI Education Verification?
“At the height of her popularity, an estimated three to four million people watched JenniCam.org daily”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley
Your black box is a camera. And there is a mountain of legal precedent saying that I own the copyright, and you can not.

Also, copyright applies to anything fixed in a medium of expression. You can not copyright a formula, but you can copyright its expression as soon as it is fixed in a medium. You cannot copyright the abstract idea of a graph, but you can copyright its expression or rendering once fixed in a medium.
I suspect it's ESPN and their ilk that pay a very hefty premium for the rights to distribute similar highlight reals. Why watch highly-opinionated fluff content when you can get the goods straight from youtube?

On the other hand, the NFL does a good job of making highlights available on their own site very fast, and there are a lot of youtubers using NFL film access to do in-depth breakdowns of players and games.
Been using it for a month too and found it the best terminal on Windows already - but that's not saying much. Nice velocity on the development though.
That has not been the case in the past:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/google-plans-ne...
First, will some kind of AI/Deep Learning make these ad hoc nudity detectors obsolete? How fast?

Second, does anybody seriously use this stuff? It's not hard to make synthetic images that trigger "Nudity!" but are very clearly not nude, and also not even human.
> These people went into the transaction in good faith. Now, the law gives them the right to invoke the statute of limitations, and the banks knew that when they made the loans.

First, there was no good faith. Note, not a single monthly payment was ever made. And in this case, this particular statue of limitations did not exist when the loan was signed!

Also worth pointing out, the loans are resold to the Fed, so the banks hold no liability, which I guess is why the loan servicers aren't hustling to file a proper foreclosure. It's the taxpayer on the hook for this.

I've been sharing the story, and hearing back, anecdotally, this is a well-known trick called "quiet title" and apparently a form a welfare. It would be extremely interesting to get hard stats on how often this actually happens.
Earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287514
(a) The reason we don't have submersible aircraft carriers is not lack of funding, but because actual submersible aircraft carriers are a bad idea. (It was tried)

(b) The idea that submarine tech is underfunded is...interesting.

(c) If you consider that the main purpose of an aircraft carrier is force-projection onto land via the air, I'd argue that the modified Ohio class subs discussed in the article, with room for 154 land attack cruise missiles, 60 special forces and drones, could probably count. So we do have that equivalent.

If you check the operational history of the Japanese I-400, I think you will see that it matches those current capabilities quite well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine#Operatio...

And coming back to point (a), the short-term force projection possible with a submergible aircraft carrier would be considerably less, and long-term operations would negate the advantages of being submergible.

(d) The other purpose of aircraft carriers is "showing the flag" (visibly), and for this submerged aircraft carriers are somewhat unsuitable...
Can we use this to replace android on android based smartphone?
An acronym that’s pronounceable is more likely to become popular, e.g. LAMP, CRUD, etc. I guess you could say PNGR like “pinger”, but it’s a bit awkward. So I suggest a slightly modified acronym: PRNGL, pronounced as “Pringle”. The L of course stands for Linux. So now you can tell people “it’s running on the PRNGL stack.” One downside is that PRNG is already a well-known acronym. But so is PNG, so I don’t think it’s any worse than PNGR in that respect. On the plus side, the PRNGL stack sounds pretty tasty.
Go for it! I made my own cookiecutter template for Django: https://github.com/clintonb/cookiecutter-django. My main goal was to get projects running faster. Updates every 6-12 months are fine. Alternatively, update when you are ready to start the next project, or shortly after you’ve made significant changes to the most recent project.

For example, my latest project has a React frontend. I’ll incorporate that back into my cookiecutter after I’ve worked out various issues.
First time this energetic, by an order of magnitude.

The suggestion is that they were produced by a different process that concentrated energy more than the usual sources.

It's not hard to get more total energy released, just by being bigger. To concentrate more energy into individual photons requires more intense processes.

A black hole crashing into a magnetar would cause unusually intense activity for some while.
Is there free and functional controller for HyperRAM available? In theory this type of memory is nice, but with no free IP block for this memory, it is a show stopper.
There isn’t a general rule. It depends on the website architecture.
If there is an API you can use it is better for you and less tolling on the website (given you know what you are doing), otherwise scraping it is.
It's very funny... I bet you have no problems explaining complex problems to the Junior and Senior developers, and receive high marks for knowing highly technical details.

I wonder if there is a correlation between amount of knowledge and Impostor syndrome kinda like the four stages of competence. At the beginning, you may think you know a lot but as you get further along, there's less and less confidence that comes with more knowledge.
> Why do you think you need to a general environment to develop a general algorithm?

Because intelligence is not intrinsic to the agent but the result of the agent trying to maximise rewards in an environment. In the end the driving force is survival - the agent needs only to survive, any method would do. So as soon as it overcomes a challenge it stops evolving and turns to exploiting. And the list of challenges that threaten survival does not scale to infinity. Anytime you think about intelligence you need to also think about the environment and the task otherwise it is meaningless.
Not really — Skeuomorphism refers to using existing (usually "obsolete") user interfaces as an analogy to help users understand a new UI. Artificially increasing computation time is about making users think that the computer is doing a lot of work when it's actually not.

The goal of the former (skeuomorphism) is to help users understand; the goal of the latter is to misdirect users, either 1) so they have a better experience (like Apple here) or 2) so they are willing to fork out more money. Users are willing to pay more when they think more work is being done (c.f. TurboTax "finding" the most deductions possible, or a public record website "searching" through "all the databases" for a person).
On lineageos there's an option somewhere in the system settings to make the volume buttons move the cursor when the keyboard is open.
BBVA is closing Simple too. Lucky me, I use Azlo for my business and Simple for my personal :-(.

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