jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe each country is different, but I would hesitate before making broad assumptions.

I grew up under a communist regime in Eastern Europe. I was 20 when the revolution took place. So I think I know pretty well what the situation was during the dictatorship.

There was a pretty big difference between the official propaganda and the way people were really thinking. But it would have been very difficult for someone "from outside" to get a glimpse of what was going on behind the layers upon layers of doublethink. The risks were simply too great for anyone to open up and give a piece of their mind to a total stranger. The true dimensions of this orwellian spirit are hard to fathom without having the unmediated experience of it.

I would say that people had a pretty good idea about "life in the West". Not a perfect image, many details were certainly lacking, but overall correct. However, they would not openly discuss about those things except with close relatives or very close friends. Beyond a certain point on the social graph, the official doctrine would automatically kick in and start getting mixed into the discourse.

So take everything you hear about NK with a grain of salt.

Again, maybe I should not extrapolate like this. Maybe NK is a special case. I guess we'll find out one day, after the insanity is over and that land becomes free again.
Once a Marine, always a Marine.
Calling this a "scam" is misleading and inflammatory. eToro is exactly what it claims to be: a cryptocurrency exchange. Certainly there have been scammy exchanges that run off with people's money, but the author hasn't presented any evidence that eToro is one of those.

Brave has been completely up-front about their "sponsored images" advertising program, as you'll see if you read the entire GitHub thread. They are easy to disable, or you can choose to leave them on and get paid for having to look at them.
That’s a relatively normal binary size for a ~1 million LOC C++ server from my experience. (statically linked).
They won't start them on people younger than 60 in Italy. They will be making these decisions in Washington state, which they have been discussing and putting out in the public so we know ahead of time. All these people wanting to argue that most people dying are old are leading to one conclusion, I'll be okay, what's the big deal, I want to go out to a bar, it won't kill me, probably.

Yeah, so, you want to kill grandma and grandpa? One day you will be that old. Most people don't want people who are "old", that indefinite thing older than you, to die. But for those that don't give a shit, think practically, that the people filling up the hospital for when you get sick, or if you break your arm or get the regular flu, they will prevent you from being able to see a doctor.
Or make the offer right now to health workers who've been it's perfectly fine to interact with covid patients without any mask.

Perfection is the enemy of the good. The amount of medical waste is shocking - as if tools went from 100% effective 100% safe to 0% effective 100% at midnight.

I suppose there is a strong cover-your-ass factor at play, that can only be overridden when they have some skin in the game (as in, risk being infected due to 0 mask)
I usually try to take a charitable reading of people's online thoughts, but it's difficult to parse the difference between saying "Kids are essentially immune" and "child immunity." Kids are synonymous with children (unless Elon meant baby goats), and immune and immunity, well, if you can't agree that those are identical...
the one pic is from Philly, an ROTC exercise.
I had a need for an API middleman, recording and replaying API messages between an application and provider APIs, without setting up a local proxy. So I decided to built something myself instead of another product. As with many side projects, I'm using it to learn new skills and brush up old ones.

With working from home and schools closed, I don't have much extra time, but the restructured day does mean I have pockets of time where I'd usually be out and about but can now be used at home.
My team didn't socialize before this and aren't socializing now either. In the office we didn't even sit together! We saw eachother at standups for 15-30 mins and then whenever we needed to work together.

Now it's a conferencing call for the 15-30 mins during the day and people can contact whoever they need to work with.

I'm not even sure how socializing in a conference call works. Aren't people speaking over each other and won't it just end up with the biggest talkers taking over? Not that that is too dissimilar to face-to-face interactions..
I successfully played a market timing game with Apple stock for years. It stopped working after Steve got sick. But I’ve probably wiped out half of those gains with buying or selling some other stock right before things went sour.
Wow, good find! I'll add this set of links to the post. Quote was def there when I was first writing the post.
Their competition for those years has been companies that only producing compliance cars for the California market. Are you really the benchmark when no one else has been trying?

I do think the Model 3 caught everyone's attention though, but I'm deeply skeptical that Tesla has any significant first mover advantage. Car companies aren't exactly unique.
The only people that fail at suicide are those that didn’t truly want to die.
This is great! Transparency, accountability, predictability etc should be more prevalent in the web.
I worked at one company that used them (after a domain was disabled for high bounce rate). We found that most of the invalid emails were from transcription errors, typically typos in yahoo.com, gmail.com etc. Most don't catch the none@email.com type of errors, although frankly those are easy enough to validate yourself. My general feeling is that if you're collecting emails electronically you don't need it, but if the email list is created via someone doing data entry for paper records, then they're helpful.
I do the work I do because it allows me to donate: https://www.jefftk.com/donations

I would not do this work if I thought it was harmful, and if I decided it was harmful there are many jobs I could take instead.

I'm open to being convinced that my work is net negative! I've quit Google before: https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-wave
I think it should get to self validation.
I would have been a famous author, but pesky kids stole all my stories. I have none left and now I'm stuck being a computer programmer. If only I had embraced DRM when I had the chance! /s
Digital ocean would be $5 per month. I’m not sure what their logging/privacy policy though because I found their terms documents so broad and confusing
iirc, ublock also blocks api.google.com (i guess it's the analytics javascript files?), which incidentally, also breaks a lot of sites that uses the google common javascript library CDN (which servers stuff like jquery etc). I whitelisted it and it seems to unbreak some stuff.
That would have required a plane change maneuvre that cost much more propellent than they had on board.
Right, because someone who KILLS someone else, with a SINGLE PUNCH, should go free or get a slap on the wrist, because the mouth breathing meat head can't hold his piss?

Fuck off and go live in the united states of "i'm alright so who cares".
What prevents exchanges from adding users with negative balances?
I'd hardly call Branson or Joplin "metropolitan."

;)
I had never watched him give a presentation before.

I started at, "This is terrible, this guy is crazy"

By about halfway through though it turned into, "This guy is crazy, and I really hope he succeeds"
I want this car, but other pickups have started looking pretty decent for the past two decades now. To put it lightly, the cyber truck’s look is not conservative at all
Does that guarantee a purchase spot?
Yeah, it's like they took a Delorean, added an El Camino style bed and made the whole thing more rugged... and electric.

Gas stations? Where we're going, we don't need gas stations!
It reminds me of the walrus (https://www.google.com/search?q=carrier+command+original+wal...) in the original carrier command (https://www.myabandonware.com/game/carrier-command-m6)
Lol it's absurd to say the cheers didn't feel genuine. The crowd was insanely hype about this.
This seems to be the electric version of the hummer. Not a practical replacement to actual pickup trucks, but a lot of coolness factor for people who want it.
Apparently you've never heard of rolling coal or proud boys
Ugly, but cool. That's perfect.
This is brilliant.

All we need now is a way for it to fall back to pre-rendered static html for cases where there is no JS, and to be indexed.
> Why does DDG de-list things in the first place

I don’t think anyone wants to use a search engine that never delists anything. Ransomeware, Markov chain junk, plagiarism. A search engine that never delists anything is useless.

The problem is when delisting is used against the end-user’s interests.
Change the link in the article title to that
Well, I would say two things in response to this... that if anything the costs totaled up here are pretty inflated (read: vastly so).

First, you generally aren't going to be paying (or paying much) for reasonable connection speeds at colocation facilities. As someone noted already, many times it's included with a large enough contract. I know in my case we're essentially paying $2.5k/month for a full cabinet and a connection... essentially dirt-cheap and not in a rinky-dink colo facility either.

As for the hardware, you have to figure that to spin up 50 application servers on 50 sessions at Amazon is nowhere near the same as 50 sessions on your own hardware. If you virtualize, like the EC2 backend is of course, you're not sharing the hardware with anyone. You don't need to worry about noisy-neighbors or I/O issues if you've purchased the right hardware. Essentially I'd go out on a limb and say you could at least halve those hardware numbers.

In my experience from physical to virtualized systems, even under high-load situations 90% of your 'load' issues are not going to come from processors, but from memory limitations, so yeah... hardware costs I expect will be lower than calculated... much lower.
If I may ask something quite specific: how do you justify _automated_ transmission of DMCA take-down requests? Shouldn't a human being be reviewing them first to prevent this sort of thing? Do you guys care? I mean, who's idea was that? As a customer and a developer, I'd really like to know.
Sounds like the DMCA request was an accident. Maybe it's a form with a field "Company who requested file be removed: ".

But it's amusing nonetheless. Are there other incidents of a company serving itself DMCA requests?
"Thus far, the only thing Dropbox is purported to have done here is to politely ask a developer to remove an application; then, presumably believing that the mirror posts were simple nerd-rage, and that the author of the application agreed with Dropbox, Dropbox's CTO filed takedowns at Github"

It's the "write a sentence long enough you hope they won't reach the end" rhetorical strategy!

Lawyer: "Your honor, the only thing my client is accused of is politely asking Mr. Jones to stop talking to his girlfriend ... and then punching Smith in the nose believing he had Jones' agreement"

I have to say "well-done" (did you study with Suruman at Orthanc by any chance?).

The web is presently full of entities making egregious claims to intellectual property rights over anything and everything they happen to have touched. You should know quite well that a fair amount of property rights come whether or not a person can effectively claim them and so dropbox's claim to "own" an algorithm can never be simply irrelevant or a "figleaf".

It may not make that much difference but I think it makes some difference to cast some sunlight onto these efforts. Boring or not.
The difference between iOS and Android, design-wise, can be summed in a single word: magic. iOS aims for it. Android doesn’t want it.

Well, that is perfectly vague and wishy-washy. Does Gruber actually think that the Android team doesn't want "magic", whatever that means?

Android has a different aesthetic than iOS. You can quibble over which you think is more usable or more attractive, but just straight claiming Android doesn't want a nebulous term borrowed from Apple's ad copy is a weird way to knock the platform.
Cell tower and WiFi basestation locations.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/south-korea-europe...
wrong. the idea is that if you have a good time, yale will look the other way when it comes to your academics. the better your time, the less the school cares about your SATs. the idea is extremely applicable to everything in the real world, where excellence in one dimension compensates for mediocrity in another in the eyes of others. think attractive girls or star football players. a valuable life lesson.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your notes on the higher layers. Allow me to repost that to the discussion board on github.

I do get your point on interpretation. This work is just a starting point. I'm curious to arrive at ways to automatically select the appropriate number of factors for a specific sequence. Kind of like the elbow method for K-means clustering.
The trouble we run into is if you try to call their bluff and make them wait it out until they are actually hungry, suddenly it's bedtime and you have a kid who won't go to sleep because they didn't eat anything, and it stops being their problem and turns into a massive inconvenience for you.

But probably the better idea would just be for us to ration snacks more closely throughout the middle of the day.
Books and movies retain their core purpose: storytelling. While pornography and professional sports don't.

It's like asking someone how can they approve of steak and disapprove of marshmallows. As if they were the same thing because they both provide some calories and can be eaten.
It does probably mean they aren't an idiot though.
They passed the point of no return as soon as they started giving out business loans via Shopify Capital. This backlash against lock-in strategies will continue to dog Shopify.
money transfer on the internet that enables online sports gambling and prediction markets to levels that would make me nervous to place a short
"Clearly it's heavily used, especially in professional/corporate environments."

It's so clear that they removed it from their lineup? Clearly you're wrong. I have two Macbooks work/home, and a USB-C dock has been life changing in its awesomeness.

And yes my dock has RJ-45 ;)
“Digital twin” is such a misleading term, as it implies the ability to perfectly model a non-digital system, which is inescapably impossible.

The best we will ever be able to create is approximate models that have varying tradeoffs. The term "digital twin" obscures the fact that there are tradeoffs involved in the first place. It also causes harm to decision-makers, who ought to be able to choose which tradeoffs to make.
All of these cases are after the user has verified their email address by acknowledging an email sent to their inbox, so we can be certain that these are actually from genuine gmail.com addresses.
Just two months ago I posted this comment here on HN, bemoaning the state of laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25565148

You all have made me very, very happy this morning. This is an amazing start!
Bitcoin is an asset in the same way that a piece of paper with my signature on it is an asset. Why some people think cryptocurrencies are revolutionary is beyond my comprehension.
Their charter.
Time preference is a big component in life success. There's not a lot of practical ways to discuss this with a small child, so "save up for the bigger/better toy" is what you get. If you have better ways to teach this lesson to your kids, I highly recommend doing it.
It would be better if it didn't talk to their servers, adding more on increases the surface area and impact.

In this particular case with Safe Browsing APIs, there wasn't a 'surface area' in the way that you mean, to begin with. The article, and commenters, are incorrectly making it appear that way.
It’s funny (but not unexpected of course) to see the list of variations on Wikipedia.

In Japan they call it GAFA, missing from this list.
were any of your ancestors Pheasant Pluckers?
Agreed, it was simpler. For example, they didn't have the married/single/blind nonsense.
How do you send checks to people?

;-)
Experience from FOSDEM that happened last weekend: all talks had been pre-recorded and started exactly on time. During the talk, an active room of chat discussion. At the the end of the talks, speakers join the room to address (some of) the questions that have been raised and not already answered. Then, a separate video-conference room becomes available, for anyone who wants to continue discussing with the presenters, while the next talk starts.

The combination of prepared (async) presentations and live (synchronous) QnA sessions was a sweet spot.

And the scale... 774 talks in 108 different "rooms" (and a video-conference after each one of them). All implemented with Free Software.
Miners are selling you space in the block they're building, which you pay for with a transaction fee. But that block is getting built either way as long as it is profitable.

Putting this in terms of distributed systems, we would say that the act of mining a block is the act of executing a view change (or a leader election). We would say that transactions are the messages sent to all nodes during the epoch. Obviously a system that only executes view-changes is not an interesting system, and nor is a system that just transmits messages but cannot order them or decide which are accepted by other nodes. But my original point is, these are separate operations, and only one of them is energy-intensive.

Trying to say that both view-changes and message transmission are energy intensive because just one of them is not only belies a fundamental lack of understanding of how the system operates, but also hinders an effective regulatory response to stopping the real problem: pollution from fossil fuels.
how du u rite 'hello world' in Palantir? Asking for a frend.
> "This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of full conductors."

That's awesome)))

Reminds me of one internal soviet joke about soviet-made microchips. That things called in Russian like "сверхбольшие интегральные схемы"-"superbig integral circuts". Don't know if the West used exactly the same term or just "integral circuts", but the joke was around that "superbig" adjective: "Soviet superbig integral circuts are the biggest in the world!". And if a listener didn't readily undestand the salt, one should clarify: "They have not only 16 legs /*connectors*/ but also a 2 carry handles".
Exactly, it was a protection racket. And like all protection brackets some people romanticize them (I've come across this view multiple time in my home town, Belfast, where paramilitaries have offered this "service" to small businesses).

Also it's worth pointing out that literacy rates across Europe plummeted as the Roman empire fell apart. I read that even Charlemagne "struggled with his letters".
This is a really good article and I agree with a majority of the thesis. Basically, if you try to build a service on one of the major players platforms, you are susceptible to being cut off or damaged in one way or another. This occurred with Meerkat-Twitter, Zynga-Facebook, Demand Media-Google and many others.

However, it is possible to succeed. And the counterpoint is paypal and ebay. Most people don't remember that paypal was building their service inside of ebay and ebay was not at all friendly about it. In fact, ebay bought a rival payment company and tried to offer incentives to their sellers to switch from paypal. But paypal still won out. They key is to get major support from the platform's own users - like paypal did with ebay's sellers.

So it is possible to succeed on someone else's "p"latform.
If you're into podcasts, http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/ is doing a very comprehensive effort speaking to original sources about all things early internet.

Also the Reply All podcast has covered various quirky aspects of internet history http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/.
This article also makes it even more complicated by calling the C in CAP "atomic consistency". While technically correct as that means the same thing as linearizability, that term is rarely used in comparison. When comparing the overlapping terms in CAP and ACID it just seems excessive.
I wonder whether FB/Linkedin can manipulate the timing of negative news like this, for strategic reasons...
I recently had an idea, where a plugin could apply my coding style to code, when I open the code but when I save, it saves it back in coding style for whoever/organisation I'm working for. Didn't find a plugin that already did that, do you guys know of one?
I think you've missed sight of the point of those taxes, which is to reduce consumption of actual excess sugar, not to tax things that taste sweet.
They used to repeat the same products over and over, and now they try to never repeat a product or do variations of the product at different prices.
Considering how much effort is required to just get a handful of qbits in the lab, I find it highly unlikely that we've got heretofore undetected qbits hiding in our (and, presumably every other animal's) nervous systems.
> considering on most systems anything under a uid can debug something else under a uid

Right? Couldn't only security hardened distros like SELinux take advantage of this?

Or I suppose Docker GUI apps?
This is not true on Ubuntu 18.04. I had to use sudo or change /proc or something to use gdb on other processes running on my user.
I did not post it trying to make any prediction, I just found curious that the term “AI Winter” was coined long before. The article also highlights important historical moments for AI development and how investors appear to overreact to AI results — both good and bad.
"You can't possibly have a meaningful comparison operator, for example, that operates in constant time on unbounded integers."

We don't really deal with unbound integers worst case is something like 2^(2^1,000,000,000,000,000,000)) before we can't actually store them.

Even then log of log of N makes random numbers of that size practically constant time to compare. Put another way there is less than 1 in 2^64 you need to do more than 3 comparisons and less than one in 2^128 you need more than 4. One for length, one for the chunk which might be just one bit and one more for the next 64 bits. Sure that might happen, but reolistically random input is unlikely to need many comparisons.

Stings on the other hand are more of an issue.
Thank you very much, few others pointed out the same mistake. I'm not a native English speaker and I wrote this first on Spanish, although in Spanish is also a toy or construction toy.

I just fixed in the article without breaking the url.

Thanks again