jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having had the pleasure in training three kids how to ride a bike, forget training wheels, or taking the pedals off!

find a reasonable long grass hill - not to too steep, but steep enough to allow a kid to go down the hill riding the bike with out pedalling.

and then goto the top of the hill and let them go down the hill on the bike. Once they master the balancing part of going down, they seem to pick up the art of turning the pedals at the end of the hill to keep going (if not, explain what to do)

advantages: doesn't hurt when they fall off, gets them used to rough terrain. it becomes fun once they start to master the balancing bit
Isolationism's probably not a great idea, sure, and there might be room to argue that protectionism is typically bad policy for the US, but the argument that protectionism is bad for all states in the modern economy, or that it's bad for every trade relationship the US maintains, is much harder to support.
They don't care about Krazam, but they want this particular video to go away. People can be fickle about their music and the resulting concerts. People tend to view corporations and music (really all art) as orthogonal concepts. Art can only be tainted by corporations, therefor any kind of corporate music festival can only be subpar.

I suspect they know the accusations are fair, but were hoping nobody would call them out for it.
Or she doesn't care about computers and just wants to call her friends via Skype in a pandemic. Why would she care about becoming a better computer user?

Yes, your type of grandma exists, but I don't know her.
It's easy to criticize the chosen trade-offs, but I would argue that Linux would actually be in worse shape today if it had taken the driver ABI approach and encouraged proprietary drivers. Many drivers originally upstreamed in the 32-bit x86 era would no longer be usable on amd64 had they been 32-bit proprietary drivers, and a good number of 64-bit proprietary drivers would be useless on ARM platforms like the Raspberry Pi.

There are a lot of old computers in research laboratories running Windows XP because some proprietary driver for some important piece of equipment (like a mass spectrometer) doesn't have a 64-bit version.
> I think several will trade their M1 laptops due to the memory

They'll trade them for new M1 Macs that don't have those limitations, which are estimated to be released this year. This obviously isn't a "forever" limitation. And Apple will release Apple Silicon Macs with more memory long before any other Laptop maker releases a laptop that can compete with all the advantages of the M1.
Are you saying that companies should be forced to do business with parties they don't want to?
Olvid for me
https://olvid.io
Can you expand on what are those other channels are?

I'm geniunely curious.

Of course, probably just by virtue of being "friends" with other high net-worth individuals you will have access to financial vehicles that allow them to buy/invest without cash but I don't really know exactly how.
I had a .10 bitcoin years ago. Really wish I could get access to it now (I think it never transferred from deepbit to my wallet).
You lie again...

Directly from the transcript of the call -

Brad Raffensperger: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.
We talked to the congressmen and they were surprised. But they -- I guess, there's a person
named Mr. Brainard that came to these meetings and presented data and he said that there was
dead people. I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual numbers were two. Two. Two people that
were dead that voted. And so that's wrong. That was two.
1. China does not share liberal values. They have been genociding Uighurs for many years.

2. China is bent on expanding territory. It has border disputes with nearly all of its neighbors. https://asianews.press/2020/06/30/china-has-border-dispute-l...

3. China has threatened military action against western allies, like Taiwan.

4. China has repeatedly violated promises that its made, like the Hong Kong handover.

5. China steals sensitive technology and manufacturing plans from foreign companies. It has mandated that foreign companies establish joint ventures with Chinese companies to do business in China, with unrestricted access to all internal company documents and systems of the foreign company.
Not many articles about it yet. Here's the email I received from them:

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BBVA USA has made the strategic decision to close Simple. There is no immediate impact to your accounts at Simple and nothing you need to do at this time. Since your deposits are already housed at BBVA USA, they will remain in FDIC insured accounts there, up to the applicable limits. In the future, your Simple account will become exclusively serviced by BBVA USA, but until then you can continue to access your account and your money through the Simple app or online at simple.com. You will receive additional information in the near future about the transition of your account servicing to BBVA USA.

We want to assure you that we are committed to making this transition as smooth as possible for you, and that we will provide ongoing transparent and open communication, so you know what to expect each step of the way.

Our customer services agents will not be able to address questions about this announcement at this time. We will contact you proactively as we have more details. Please only contact customer support for your regular banking needs.

Thank you for being a Simple customer, it's been an honor to serve you.

— The Team at Simple

What does it mean for me?
You can continue to access your account and your money through the Simple app or online at simple.com and with your Simple Visa® Debit card. We will begin posting updates on the transition as we have them on simple.com.

Does this affect my stimulus payment?
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It might serve as a filter to keep away all that gold-diggers.
The courts appear to disagree with you. "Aggressively" characterizing a portion of your income as a distribution when it is really just disguised wages appears to be a losing proposition, except for the fact that you're probably not going to get audited (as long as you pay yourself a relatively significant amount as bona fide wages).

A tax planning strategy that relies on never getting audited, and that fails spectacularly when you do get audited, I think can reasonably called "cheating". I get that reasonable people can disagree on this, and I'm fine with reasonably disagreeing with you.
Except when moving, ubiquitous wifi would be better than 3G anyway. So instead of whining, let's blanket the nation with open wifi access points. This doesn't require any new lobbying or help from the mobile oligopoly.
I'm actually more worried by the fate of the planet while we let the world population explode and keep suppressing possible causes of human death. We should first get concerned about how these trillions of people will live in a dying world.

I sincerely hope these technologies will be used in the purpose of preventing the planet's doom, although I'm pretty sure they will only serve for more human selfishness, as you seem to suggest it.
Then you'd better make sure her stock vests like everyone else's.
Sorry, this is apropos of nothing, but...

<grammar fanboy>In this article Lee quotes the Light Table demo as saying that it was accomplished with "with just a few lines of CSS and JavaScript," and then remarks that "I was curious as to the contents of those 3 lines as they must be the most powerful 3 lines of code ever written. In actual fact, the JavaScript file that drives the demo is 700 lines long."

What in god's name makes people assume that "a few" means "three?" "A few" just means exactly what it says: a relatively small number. Two is actually a relatively small number in certain circumstances, so you could say "a few" to mean "two." In this circumstance, 700 lines of code could be said to be "a few" lines, because I've seen full Javascript apps that use 7000 lines.

I don't really care about the trivial Flash/HTML5 contentiousness, and I'd rather stay out of it. But I keep encountering these weird misapprehensions based on imaginary rules concerning the phrase "a few," and it seems silly to me. </grammar fanboy>
Ask your people? Most likely, everyone will want the day off. Also, 37signals does 4 day weeks and still produces enormous revenues...
My experience was even worse. After reading the TL;DR I thought the author's point was vacuous. In order to comment on it responsibly I had to read the whole article, knowing that very likely it wasn't going anywhere. I think if you're worried about how long a post is enough to add a TL;DR, you should probably edit it down.
Sure. What I meant that Apple diverged from the Xerox UI path by designing the Mac around the mouse, so that the keyboard was not necessary for any actions. Microsoft basically took up that idea wholesale, simply extending it with more widespread keyboard shortcuts (Alt key for menu accelerators) and new mouse-centric gestures like right-clicking (borrowed from elsewhere of course).

In PC history, there were two opportunities to redesign the input hardware for a new kind of GUI...

First was in 1987 when IBM introduced the PS/2. It was a play for IBM to regain control of the wild west PC clone market, and failed as that, but the PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector standards lived on for more than 15 years. If IBM had revamped the keyboard at that point with something like the Star action buttons, they would have become a part of the OS/2 GUI and subsequently Windows.

Another junction was in 1995, when Microsoft launched Windows 95 and introduced new keyboards with the Windows key. At this point Microsoft carried so much weight with OEMs that I think they would have been able to push through something more radical on the input device front, if they'd wanted.
Welcome to dialup, average latency 220 ms.
That's not you speaking as a UNIX hacker, that's you speaking as a someone who takes a permanently miserable attitude on almost everything.

How dare they describe such a holy item as an SSH client without a list of which protocol weaknesses it has taken into account! SSH isn't cheery, this is serious business! UNIX IS NOT A TOY! Harumph! Etc.
Simple. Wait until you reach such an extreme of boredom that the fear evaporates.
I see no issue with open sourcing tools to recruit developers. Honestly, that's one of the best methods I can think of.
Weird idea to think about: what if in the future most of social media consists of bots responding to what other bots have posted?
Glad to hear that you like it (:

Thank you for the links. I'll check them out.

Aaand of course, thanks for the advice. Personally, I've never been in a situation where `filter_complex` caused problems. But, I've never done some weird filtering there too, so you may be right.

I'm not saying that now, with ffcms, you should write JSONs that produce an A4 ffmpeg command. If you're doing so, something is not right.

For now, it's just a tool that helps me with timelapse creation for my fiancée. Let's see how it evolves.
Wait until the mortgage payments stop coming in and then tell me whether they need a bailout.

Edit: Why is this controversial? If people can't afford to make their mortgage payments, and political aid doesn't come through, many banks will definitely be in need of a bailout.
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I think the entire Turkey vs Syria situation is a misunderstanding of the tactical situation. Shooting down the drones would have been fairly easy, but Syria wasn't able to sortie its fighters because Turkey had F-16s on their side of the border that would fire off an AMRAAM as soon as a Syrian jet took off. The obvious counter would be anti air, but the issue is that Russia was unwilling to engage Turkish jets on Turkish territory on behalf of Syria (for obvious reasons). The real reason that Syria's tanks were destroyed is because Syria was unable to counter Turkish F-16s, not because of drones.
It is different. It's as different as books+magazines vs the internet. TV on the internet (ie, video) has basically an infinite supply. I couldn't binge 70hrs of Game of Thrones followed by 70 hours of Breaking Bad before "TV on the internet" nor could I watch an endless number of documentaries and tutorials on youtube.
No, the phone numbers and emails weren't publicly posted (globe icon), they were just meant to discover contacts.
Now the water is really muddy...

Is there a defitive book or wiki page for the whole thing regarding:
* Von Neumann's actual contribution to the so-called von Neumann architecture
Yeah, the history sync issue is a huge problem, signal doesn't even support Android BackupAgent based client side encrypted backups or device to device transfers at all which should not be difficult to add, see: https://community.signalusers.org/t/support-native-android-b...

Signal should in theory also be able to just sync/backup everything to the desktop client, this would largely solve the inability to transfer between Android and iOS issue.

I don't understand why such basic quality of life improvements have yet to be implemented, especially since they are especially desirable for less technical users.
And way less energy consumption, according to their website.
COBOL's a lot simpler in that the words are (should be) more expressive, but as it's less powerful than C it's less terse and there's a lot more reading to do. So the ability to understand a program isn't necessarily better in COBOL than in C.
A supersampling algorithm is a (de)compression algorithm. You give it an image and it gives you an "decompressed" image. It's not a very good one though.
Also after some thought, I flagged your response. I recognize that it will add scrutiny to my own. But I welcome this community’s moderation and I think the way you’ve acted is more important than my emotional reaction.
The real advantages of Vim start to become clear once you know
the basics and start to understand in how many ways you can
combine them efficiently.

You can press 'dw' to delete the word right of the cursor. 'd/]'
to delete everything from the cursor to the next closing
bracket("delete and search next ]"). 'dip' to delete the whole
paragraph around the cursor("delete in paragraph"). 'di{' to
delete everything between the closest pair of curly brackets.

And this doesn't just apply to deletion but most other
operations. Vim lets you just combine delete/copy/replace/...
commands with inputs that move your cursor, whether it's just
the current line or a whole 100-line table column. And of course
you can tell it to repeat those operations by entering a number
beforehand, or just repeat the last operation by pressing '.'.

Vim doesn't make you a 10x developer but it will make you think
"oh man, was it really that cumbersome?" whenever you go back to
a normal editor. Do you like always moving your hand to the
mouse and back when you want to select text? Probably not. Vim
makes that step completely unnecessary, among other things.

Don't get me wrong, it's not for everyone and that's fine. But
if it fits your way of doing things it's a super efficient and
flexible tool that is only limited by the user. I've been using
it for over 5 years and still learn new, clever ways of doing
things quicker.
Because there's no good business reason for Apple to do so. iMessage is a feature of iOS and MacOS. It's part of the advantage of working on those platforms.
History rhymes. Noting a pattern is insightful.
This is cute and all but so long as Android (and to a lesser extent Windows/Linux PCs) cannot run iMessage... what does any of this matter? Yeah iMessage is great between me and anyone I talk to with an iPhone, but it's still largely an Android world and in the best case scenario I can convince an Android user to install Signal, but usually not.
Yes, there were a couple of threads about this few days ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9235912
I've moved a lot in the last decade, and this is one of those predicaments I end up in the first months before I build a new social circle in the new city. I've found that my social life thrives if I can find a group with a few flaky social butterflies, who my general predictability can balance well against.

When they get some random activity in their head, they have someone to go do it with and I have that impetus to go do something outside my default patterns. It might be helpful to look at the friends and colleagues around you and see if you might need to go hunt for a little extra flavor in that mixing pot.
“NEVER LEAVE HOME AGAIN.”

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
With all those broken email readers, how can one even assume that a gif will animate when the recipient opens the email?
I killed those animations in settings the day I installed iOS 7. You should too!
It's used in Facebook's flagship product, so you can't really call it a side project.
Ha, that's definitely a unique situation. The joker inside me couldn't have resisted tossing the most obscure brain-teasers and .NET minutia at you for fun. Hopefully you wouldn't have hated me too much after that.
Defaulting to simple HTML allows one to support all incredibly niche browser. That is the beauty of protocols and standards. This is particularly relevant when it comes to accessibility. Google search results are literally lists of web links, so this is absolutely doable.

They don't do it because they are more preoccupied with extracting data about their users than they are about accessibility, and yes, this includes blind people. There is not way around it.

It is perfectly legal to be selfish, but let's not bullshit ourselves about what is really going on...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628149
try johnfenderson23 at gmail
Besides the challenges mentioned in other comments. This will probably have troubles with ranking new users, how to rank new users before they get tens or a hundred messages?

Little known fact about dating apps is that the churn is pretty high. Users try and leave within a few weeks, or a few months for the most persistent.
Money will not, and can not, do that. Only culture can do that.

And what does "enlightened" mean, anyway? Does it mean "follows my ideals"?
I agree completely. Except for one thing: "Already convicted felon or not" makes it sound as if being convicted of felony A makes it easier to handle being accused of felony B. But the opposite is the case.

Lamo could easily have been looking at a scenario where he got far worse punishment than the actual perp. Getting a conviction against a known felon is so, so easy. It's not inconceivable that he would have ended up taking the fall. Just because it happens in spy novels doesn't mean it can't happen.

As for the ethics of turning Manning over to the tender mercies of the US Government: no matter what you may think of the ethics of commiting the particular crime that Manning is accused of, there are limits to how far down the cliff you should follow a suicidal person. When you get a cold call from someone you do not know to tell you about some serious Federal crimes, there are several possibilities. One is that the caller is the real thing. Another, far more likely, is that he's mentally ill or trying to punk or scam you. Yet another is that he's a government agent trying to entrap you. But one thing is for sure: there is nothing that you, the world, or the "hacker" community will lose by turning this guy in. He's obviously an order of magnitude too indiscreet to be a good spy, he's going to succeed in getting himself caught any second now, and the only question is whether you're going down with him.
I think the argument for claiming evo-psych justifications for PUA techniques make the assumption that picking up women in bars is at all isomorphic to human sexual practices among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. You can't even find practices isomorphic to that among all (or even most) contemporary human cultures--how can you claim that as some sort of universal human thing?
Did you read the article? The discovery was accidental. There were charts secreted away by Afghan geologists during the Taliban years.

In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
Any idea where I can get an actual (home+power) screenshot from the device?
And after you paid that you'd pay half as much again for the four graphics cards you'd need to display information on it at a decent framerate. :P
Now that these wars are paying off, what's the timeframe for invading Iran? Let's face it, we all know some secret CIA operation has been drawing up detailed plans, running simulations, and playing war games with Iran for years. Now that we flank them on left and right, all they need is the right Administration. 15 years is my guess. 10 if there's a major terrorist attack that can be tied to Iran.
I'm sure it will go to the Afghan people, but guess who gets to jump to the front of the line to buy it....
Not sure that it would make a difference whether your employer has a security clearance or not. If you're following "need-to-know" doctrine, then you still wouldn't tell them.
> These are the actual hard problems of cryptocurrency and until solved it will never, and I mean never, reach mass adoption...

Let's look at these for cash, which has some level of mass adoption.

> 2. How do we stop payments to international terrorists and rogue states.

Both of these are amply funded today, so between cash and banking system, this isn't really a thing. Whatever form does work, isn't hampering adoption.

> 3. How do we stop money laundering.

(a) This is an invented problem. Just because it's propagandized in compliance training doesn't make it real, and it's unfortunate banks are having to spend time and money obliging local governments so politicians can pretend they're having an effect. (b) Neither cash nor banking system succeed at stopping it today, yet both enjoy mass adoption.

> 4. How do we stop price manipulation by fraudulent actors.

Mass adoption? See pink sheets versus mainstream stocks. Chicken and egg problem, granted.

> 5. How do we allow people who lost access to their money by negligence, fraud, theft, act of god or otherwise, access to their money again.

A friend once tossed a $100 bill from her birthday into the wood stove with birthday wrapping paper. There was no expectation this form of currency could recover access by negligence, fraud, theft, acts of god, or otherwise, yet she was thrilled to mass-adopt that $100 until it turned into ash.

> You know, the “currency” problems and not the “crypto” problems.

It doesn't seem as though these are real problems for the adopters of currency. It seems as though they're problems for authorities who wish their jobs were easier.