jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Very np, sorry... I was picturing a screen divided into columns. Each column is a stack of the various distillation levels, say most brief on top, then less brief, and so on.

Within a column, editing text in any level, updates that text in any other level it appears in. That's the transclusion. Since all levels are said to have a copy of the most-brief text, if you edit that text at any level, it's updated at all levels of that column.

When you start on your next column/version, you can easily grab text from previous version(s). And you might do that in different styles. If you copy the entire column, then the old column serves as a checkpoint, and the new for continued editing. Or copy just the most-distilled level, and then work downward, to "reconstitute in a more crystalline form". Or copy just the least-distilled level, and work upward, attempting a new distillation.[1] Or do these from a previous column instead of the most recent one. And the old columns/versions are easily accessible, to browse for inspiration, or to grab stuff from.

[1] Hmm... I guess copying just the least-distilled text "forgets" what the embedded more-distilled text regions of it were previously? So one can try playing with the "brain dump" text again, without the distraction of the previous distillation choices. Then when things settle down again, one can highlight "this region is now distillation level n".

For UI, perhaps highlight-drag-n-drop to more distilled levels? And if each level say had an "X" - delete and forget this level, then the different styles of column copying unify as "fully copy a column, and then X-away the levels/region-choices you want to discard"?

So... All levels simultaneously visible, and easily edited together. And multiple versions of them easily accessible, in support of doing multiple exploratory passes, with each pass able to easily draw from past attempts. And working in either direction: towards distillation, or building out from a more distilled seed.

That was the brainstormy vision anyway. I've no idea if it would work out. And for whom - I work in both directions (back and forth), and like a visual record as external memory (so I don't have to remember things or take notes), and like to just see it all (without view switching). Someone who doesn't want those, might find multiple columns to be distracting clutter.
That's not a counterexample. The claim was about enforcement of a law, not proposed legislation. It hasn't worked very well for other governments that have tried a similar approach, so I have little reason to believe people would just stop using E2E encryption. For a more apt example, consider digital piracy laws which are IIRC in the US explicitly ignored up to a certain number of counted (far from actual!) abuses.
You're right in that the psychological stress from uncertainty can be much more overwhelming than physiological stress from burnout. I doubt you're "immune" to burnout though.
Thanks for sharing this really looks cool. But there are some things that make me hesitate using it:

1. Maxmind: Since I don't know the company and it seems its only providing the geoip-database, my question is: Can it be disabled or left out at all?

2. Java: Its my personal preference to avoid using oracle products at all cost. Is openjdk an alternative?

3. Is the geo-graphical visualization all Pfelk can do? Is there a feature list or demo?
Economic contraction would lead to decreased lifespan. There's definitely a math problem here which optimizes for saved human life. Consider that a 100% economic contraction would result in the majority of humanity dying. 10% likely means some number of deaths among the poor (I've been the poor, there's not a lot of wiggle room when you're barely scraping by deciding between heat or food in the winter).

It's not that we can't lock down and accept economic contraction, it's that we should do the math before we commit to that path. Lockdown may be the clear winner.
Actually, to me the MS statement is the most illuminating and I'm guessing that Canonical is getting some grumpy calls from Microsoft.

This is the last part of the Microsoft statement:

"Our terms with our publishers allow them to provide customers with implementation and technical support for their products but restricts them from using contact details for marketing purposes"

Canonical then tells us that this person was a Sales Representative, and it is clear from the content that this is a message aimed towards selling. Canonical has broken Microsoft's terms. That said, I can't see where that legal restriction is (e.g. can't see anything like that in https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/marketplace-...).
NASA has a few trajectories, IMHO.

One they can become the "FCC/FAA of space". The last A is "Administration" of course. This should not be considered depressing, as the scientists and engineers currently on the front line of NASA discoveries are already often associated with other institutions and could easily follow the trend.

Two, they can become the science arm or funding agency for space-related science. This is very close to their actual role. You don't see a ton of commercial submersible traffic, for example, and Earth should definitely be considered fully commercialized and infastructure-supported, and yet NASA still funds, designs, and operates missions for Earth science. So, there's no reason to think that NASA will somehow fade into the background for good. As I've often said, if someone "solves" launch and "solves" telcom over interplanetary distances and "solves" transport of humans and "solves" logistics at a dozen AU, then NASA can finally focus on just instruments, experiments, and science. It's like you've been building your own car and highway and computer every time you want to go to work, and someone comes along with commercial versions. You are more productive.

The third trajectory is liquidation. NASA can become a funding agency like DARPA or NSF, leaning on their past glory to inspire a new generation with fancy-titled grant calls for science experiments at scale.

I personally believe it's a convex combination, and my favorite weights are about 1/5, 3/5, 1/5, meaning they'll focus mostly on deployment of science instruments supported by commercially-designed platforms, technology, etc, and release calls and grants to other institutions to propose science experiments and develop non-profitable technologies that industry will necessarily ignore.

Coincidentally, this is about how they operate on Earth.
O dear. If my calculations are correct, those guys in the street have around eight tenths of a second to get out of the way.
That's an important point: never use this trick with huge logs...
Thanks for your honest reply. It still seems like a pretty risky gamble to me (esp. since you mention no download limits), but wish you good luck with your service.
They programmed Snake and Pong within Super Mario World by pushing an overwhelming data down the controller port using 8 connections (if I have that right?!). That is some serious hacking.
Our incredible journey.
We took an Alaskan cruise last year on Princess. We left from Vancouver and our last port of call was in Whittier. Then we had to take our turn going through the train/car tunnel to Anchorage for our flight home. If you mistime your ride through the tunnel you can miss your flight. We had a really late flight so we had no problems.
> They’re radio telescopes. So instead of putting your eye to the apparatus and looking for distant stars, you listen for them.

At what wavelength do we consider it listening instead of looking? IR is still "looking". Microwaves, on the other hand, may fall under "listening".
> People using a nose also tend to “spell words out completely. They use fewer abbreviations.”

Well, that is definitely me. I refuse to abbreviate my words or my emoticons. :-)
> we're in a Windows world.

Teams runs on Linux, and almost any conceivable alternative runs on Windows. I don't see what Windows has to do with it, other than suggesting a general cultural tolerance for bad user experience.
"Only" two others, AFAIK, Jfli and FOIL:

http://jfli.sourceforge.net/
http://foil.sourceforge.net/

Both were (are? I can imagine people are still using them, Jfli in particular) interop libraries, not languages. FOIL is basically an RPC mechanism between a Common Lisp process and a JVM or CLR "host". JFli makes it reasonably easy to embed a JVM within a Common Lisp process, and thereby create Java objects from CL, call methods, and provide callbacks to Java methods written in CL.

(That's all IIRC, it's been a long time.)

I remember using JFli briefly during my later CL experimentation. Its model is very similar to jpype, which provides similar functionality for python, which was at the time my first committed step away from Java as my primary (production) language.

The prize was a sweet nylon set-up-anywhere hammock, BTW. I think Stuart was mildly irked that mine was the only hand that was up, but I thought the hammock looked neat. :-)
Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Maybe it's best to address this issue directly rather than making passive-aggressive public posts in hopes that whoever you're upset with will read them, or random strangers will agree with you.
You just go ahead and keep thinking that. There might even be an award at the end of that rainbow you are chasing. A Darwin one, but still.
For those playing along at home (like me): even though it's only to highlight the idea, there's a bug in the "Random Local Search" loop. It should be `x_try = best_x + tweak_amount...` best_x, not x. Same for y. I was wondering why it wasn't improving even with 1e10 iterations ;)
Shows up as $39k to me? It was limited to $36k last year, which wasn't much better. http://web.archive.org/web/20200415230846/https://apps.irs.g...

Perhaps the agreement is that only some software provider has to be available, not necessarily every software provider.
should be named GoogleCLI for Google Command Line Interface.

CL is reserved for OpenCL, the Open Computing Language.
OK, so pick one: http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/

Where the hell is this meme coming from that the FSF just talks the talk? Sure, that list contains a lot of incidental stuff too, but in order as they strike me, I see aspell, autoconf/autogen/automake (for better or for worse), bash, bazaar, ddd, dia, djgpp, ed (ed is the standard text editor), emacs, g++, gawk, gcc!!! (worthy of an exclamation point or three), gdb!!, gettext, gimp, glib, gmp, gnome, GNU fdisk, grub, gnumeric, gtk+... and I'm getting tired now so I'm going to stop. Except to honorably mention the last line in my browser as it now shows, the critically-important GNU Hello World.

I suppose the natural next objection is that it isn't people in the employ of the FSF who wrote every line of code of all of those programs, but I'd submit that that would be a very silly accusation to level against an aggressively-open-source organization.

You're sort of ambiguous whether "Joe Sixpack" in your post is a programmer or not, but if so, gcc and if not, Gnome are certainly in the running. FSF has more backend than frontend stuff but "Gnome" encompasses rather a lot in one word.
But doesn't your case support the hypothesis that it's interest and luck? You had the former but not the latter, of which the DOTA players did.
I like having a large, flat surface, without a bunch of clutter on the desk. It's important to make sure the desk and chair fit well together, such that your elbows and arms can rest on the table without stress. I use the Apple Magic keyboard and trackpad which lay flat on the desk, making it easy to get a comfortable position with minimal stress. Having limited clutter means I can easily move the mouse/keyboard around, switch between sitting and standing positions, and stay in a comfortable position. Additionally, I use an adjustable arm for my iMac which does not occupy desk space.

My standing desk: https://www.fully.com/jarvis-adjustable-height-desk-bamboo.h...

My adjustable chair: https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/...

My adjustable monitor arm: https://www.fully.com/accessories/monitor-arms/esi-edge-max....
What kind of question is this? Expert engineers will be paid for that knowledge in any language. Tons of complex, high performance, and high scale applications are written in Java. Half of FAANG runs on Java. Contrary to what HN thinks the world doesn't only run on python, go, and rust.
> Get background play with YouTube Premium.

Are you shitting me? I get background play with Firefox...

Also, I value my mobile transfer limits so... youtuble-dl it is.
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 I beat this game on its hardest difficulty level, even though I was not that great at chess. I just set two computer players on hardest difficulty against each other and recorded every move they made, then started a new game and played the part of the one which had won. :D
There's plenty of places/ways to distribute software anonymously. And depending on software from an anonymous identity with no trust that the registry verified who they were or if subsequent publications came from the same entity is an attack vector.

There is a time and place for anonymity, but I don't think a dependency registry is one of them (most of the time). And I think if you're going to make a new registry, such verification is a way to make yourself different.
I have a motorized sit/stand desk from uplift, an aeron chair, a monitor arm, the Microsoft 4000 ergonomic keyboard, and an anker standing mouse. Before this setup I would run into a lot of RSI problems but this combination has fixed everything.
The swiss didn't ise a classic wide phalanx formation but a more densely packed square formation. Their pikes would stand out in all directions as a sort of hedgehog. Only the corners would be a weaker point. The flanks and rear would be well covered by pikes.
I'm not the type to be into this kind of thing but that slow-motion kill was sick! He/She caught their opponent wide open AND had the presence of mind to instantly defend.
That was legit.
Mesosphere's DNS implementation (https://github.com/mesosphere/mesos-dns) helps address that problem. You can use dns routing to create an internal storage or implement a cache that routes cache misses to an external store.
>The problem is that swords don't have much effect on an armored opponent.

A sword may not be an ideal weapon against an armored opponent, but half-swording with one is still very effective...
Go with pitchforks to the city council to start with.

With other words, stop being afraid and take the risk to be attacked by security forces.

That is the only way.
"... but I'd be hard-pressed to think managing political allegiances is of interest to him."

Everyone operating at that kind of level has an interest in political allegiances (lowercase p). It's just part of the job. To not have such an interest means you'll simply be out-gamed and replaced by someone who does.
The GP was being sarcastic. The need for privacy would be small on a project that is open by it's very nature.
I think you're being too harsh. I've personally said much worse things, and it would deeply shame me to have a trivial statement (not action, statement) follow me in the media for the rest of my life. Especially if it were in a private conversation.

He was careless. Most teenagers are. He was probably not even seriously thinking when he said it. He's almost 30 now. Let's judge the man on what he says today.
I have a SPARC Ultra 30 running FreeBSD as my backup MX on the end of my ADSL line with a VT220 console and my car registration ends UNX.

You stand corrected :)
I'd be completely happy with my windows phone if only it allowed me to set custom SMS tones. I was very surprised that I like it so much. It has caused me the most frustration I have ever experienced in a phone, but I still like it.

The cheap Nokia Lumia models seem to be making it more popular. My brother and I both independently bought one, despite both being self-proclaimed apple fanboys.
Several of those jobs depend on physical strength, an area in which there are significant physiological differences between men and women. Men have more muscle mass on average both in absolute amount and as a percentage of body mass. Men have a greater capacity for muscular hypertrophy due to higher testosterone levels. There are also differences in food processing that tend to give men more muscle and more energy. See [1] for more.

Typically, there is a 40-50% difference in upper body strength, and a 20-30% difference in lower body strength. Men also have significantly higher grip strength.

Those are averages, and there is overlap, but generally the pool of people qualified for jobs that depend a lot on physical strength is simply going to have a lot more men then women.

Programming is not such a job, so you can't really look to coal miners or oil riggers to explain why there aren't more women programmers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_physio...
It seems like the percentage of people who want a physical keyboard on their phones is good deal smaller than those who don't. So it makes sense to cater to the majority initially and then if that's successful to bring out a physical keyboard variant. There's no point in saying that you would have bought the Edge if only it had a physical keyboard. You are not the target market.

Why don't you make a HN poll and find out? Link the poll to here.
Smartphones
a) should
b) should not
have a physical keyboard
Or something like that!
Again: people do a lot of dumb stuff when they're 19.

I'm assuming you've never met Mark Zuckerberg. All you have to go on are his portrayals in the media.

Have you ever said anything racist? Sexist? Discriminatory, widely insulting? Have you ever joked about things you would do to take advantage of other people?

How would you feel if any one of those things were held against you by everyone years later? I've personally said worse things, and I've later regretted them. I'd be mortifed to have them follow me for a decade. The man is turning 30 soon. It was literally a decade ago. Let it go.
A: Browser plugins did this 15 years ago on computers that were orders of magnitude slower. Doing this all in the DOM with CSS has a redonkulous overhead.

Whats even worse is that browsers have become these monolithic silo projects that only three or four companies on the planet can develop. They have become much more complex than the actual operating system. I still remember the days when a browser was mainly a layout engine, and all fancy stuff was deferred to plugins. If only we had safe sandboxing technology back then...

B: The benefit of web apps are that you just go to an URL, no installation required. And you get "sync" for free. That's about it.

The downsides are:

- They are slower (or require faster computers) because of added overhead.

- They run in the browser window (although that can actually be nice! I'd like to have native apps in tabs like in my browser sometimes)

- Making them work offline is hard. You have to put all the business logic in JS, and can't rely on the server.

- Accessing local files is hard

- Communication between apps is hard, to impossible. *

In the end you are back to mainframe computing like in the 70s, but with 3D effects.

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*) One of the biggest reasons why Windows was so successful in the enterprise? COM and Automation. You could just slap an Excel spreadsheet onto your VB application, manipulate a Corel draw file from your MFC application, create database applications basically via drag and drop, and so on. There were (are) hundreds of shops selling custom components from shiny buttons to complete business report generators. And of course you could control almost every enterprise app with a little .js or .vbs script. Sure, all that stuff was ugly, unglamourous, and buggy, but it got the work done.
Locklin explains it best in "Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit" [1]:

"quantum computing” enthusiasts expect you to overlook the fact that they haven’t a clue as to how to build and manipulate quantum coherent forms of matter necessary to achieve quantum computation. A quantum computer capable of truly factoring the number 21 is missing in action. In fact, the factoring of the number 15 into 3 and 5 is a bit of a parlour trick, as they design the experiment while knowing the answer, thus leaving out the gates required if we didn’t know how to factor 15. The actual number of gates needed to factor a n-bit number is 72 * n^3; so for 15, it’s 4 bits, 4608 gates; not happening any time soon."

[1] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
The computationally wasteful bit is a temporary problem for which solutions are already being created. The Lightning Network is one such effort.

Governments are already taking efforts to fight against crypto. The fact that bitcoin is classified as an "asset" is the government adding friction to using it. Every time you transact in bitcoin you have to put that on your taxes because there's some capital gains/loss. Of course, they don't talk about it as if that is an attack, but it is. And they wouldn't be attacking it if they weren't scared. It's surely not guaranteed, maybe not even likely, but it's still possible that we will win.
I did not suggest not doing monitoring internally, I suggested not relying on internal monitors. Because the SolarWinds hack had gone undetected on the security company's own servers and ran rampant for (weeks?) before it was detected.

As reported on "60 Minutes" yesterday.

The security company did not compartmentalize their own system. They relied on monitoring, which failed.

Furthermore, it was said on the segment that firmware on the hardware can be infected, so reinstalling the system software won't get rid of it. The obvious solution to that is to put the firmware in ROMs, so it cannot be electrically reprogrammed. But nobody does that.
>Also, Ubuntu (with GNOME), Kubuntu, and Xubuntu (but not Lubuntu...) recently switched to some new crypto greeter (the thing you put your password into to unlock your encrypted drive at boot) which glitches out very badly. On every other boot, it flickers between its graphical facade and the underlying CLI prompt, and single keypresses are interpreted as multiple ones. Lubuntu, however, uses the same crypto greeter as Manjaro seems to, which still works.

EDIT: it turns out that the falling back to the underlying CLI is the greeter's response to arrow key input (e.g., the up arrow key is "^[[A", which is multiple characters[0]). XD And, with Num Lock turned off, the numpad keys work as arrow keys.

0: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/103608
There's a big difference between a power substation and an oil refinery. And depending on how that substation was built and the decisions made it can really negatively impact someone's use of their property. In my case the substation our PUD built across the street involved denuding the entire area of trees. This is mainly a problem because the freeway is right behind the trees they removed. So removing the trees made our front yard very difficult to inhabit for long periods of time because it's so loud. I'm not the only person affected either. And I wouldn't object had they built any kind of sound isolation.

I wouldn't object to an oil refinery either if they can guarantee they won't suddenly explode and kill me while I sleep.

The fact remains that we all have to be good neighbors to each other, and that cuts both ways.
Yeah, but 'full support for Ubuntu' doesn't necessarily mean 'full support for Linux'; I've learnt that the hard way.
I'll be happy if he eradicates disease and hunger, don't get me wrong. I just don't think this is his priority.
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That's pithy and funny, but not really fair to most of the Founders. Akhil Amar's biography of the Constitution gives a readable refutation of that concept.