jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What separates piano and OS hscking from making dinner, for you? What is mundane versus interesting?

It seems to reduce the problem back to what might lead to a useful discovery versus what won't. But piano is likely in the latter category, given that its obsessed about so often over centuries. Maybe the time for OS hacking to lead to discoveries is on its way out, as well.

Obsessive cooking might be more likely to be fruitful, come to think of it. We have changing ideas about food production and nutrition; and more enabling technologies around for new ideas.

(I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with obsessing about things that won't lead to discoveries. They could be useful in a more mundane way, or be useless but still engaging.)
Not everyone shares your moral sentiments. I find your view elitist and unfair towards jefftk, who has been extremely open and amiable.
Would it be possible for you to link to the GitHub issue for that crash?
I think they just mean it's healthier than not biking to work.
Yes, XML and RDF use unique namespaces, both using URIs. You can even convert a OID to a URI or a UUID to a URI (both using the "urn:" scheme), so if the format requires a URI as a unique identifier, you can still use a OID or UUID instead if you want to do. (You can also convert a UUID to a OID and then the resulting OID to a URI, which isn't normally helpful because the resulting URI is different from the one directly from the UUID.)
Do you have any issue with the ESP for high bounced rate? If yes, then cleansing is a good way to recover from it.

Otherwise, your list is just fine and you do not need to have email validation.
Very nice read.

Basically, when a MacBook is booted it allows random code to be executed from an attached Thunderbolt device (in a form of a legacy mechanism of Option ROM). The Option ROM is loaded unconditionally, including the case when the host system is rebooted to update its firmware. During such upgrade its primary on-board ROM is writable, so the exploit can write itself in it, replace RSA key used to verify firmware upgrades and thus prevent re-flashing the host with any official updates. Additionally, all this is possible because ROM includes only rudimentary self-integrity checks (in a form of CRC32) and proper crypto-signature checks are only applied during the update and not on every boot.

This particular exploit is pluggable by making firmware not use Option ROM during upgrades, which is a fix being deployed by Apple. Meanwhile you may want to superglue your TB port.
Unfortunately, as is the case with all social networks, the functionality is secondary. Ubiquity is the game and sometimes that momentum is established just by being first.
Let me enhance the argument
Joe Shmoe: "I recently read that dark net users are 90% pedophiles. So is this an email service for pedophiles only?"
ha! that's great. i don't think i'm going to do that though.
yes, absolutely. when you do something every day for 25 years, you get good at. i could not do it one bit when i started out. it's a learned skill not something you are born with
Nah, Enron's prominence is purely political, it was useful for various narratives. There are far worse examples, and Mt. Gox sounds like it's in the running.

E.g. there's cheating on your general ledger (which at 50,000 feet might be the sort of thing Enron did), then there's not keeping a general ledger at all, which is being posited in this discussion.

Even I, who's never run a company, but did watch my parents run some while I was growing up, know how essential it is to keep a general ledger. Otherwise you have no real idea what your financial state is.
+1. Also, these are not so easy to bypass for people with not-so-high level of technical skills.
Love this.

But would prefer the icons to not shrink. Keep it simple with the bend.
The MPEGLA site has this caveat " Up to and through date of last patent expiration" and I'm wondering if anyone knows that date? I couldn't find the definitive list of patents in the license product on any of the 'open' pages.

On each pool, there's a prominent link for the patent list applicable to the pool. For example, the patent list for the AVC pool is here: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.asp...

It's not secret, or 'closed'.
I would definitely read it, but not sure about contributing. Is the goal to be like wikipedia, open sourced and vehemently anti-commerce, or to be "TechCrunch for the internet of things" where you have a daily blog with news and a more permanent "Crunchbase" database?
International trade tends to drift to the most stable currency's which is why things are moving the the EURO. Then again the EU is the worlds largest economy so there could be some truth in your assumptions.
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> When Google announced its launch city for Google Fiber – Kansas City – it was a sensation. And the very next day the Kansas City Council authorized a contract with Google for the service.

Kansas City is desperate. If Google comes calling, they will sign a contract, whether or not it's actually good for the city, they'll figure "Hey, Google's coming and asking, it's Google, we won't say no!"

This is not really a good thing. This particular contract may be great for KC, but it's not because you can just always trust Google and sign whatever they put in front of you. But many desparate cities will.
I recognize this as a valuable counter point to the "move fast and break things" ethos, but I disagree with the framing. A while ago I learned about a model of "error budgets" from google[1] which really resonated with me. You want errors to happen sufficiently infrequently that when the user encounters an issue it usually isn't your fault (instead something with the user's hardware, or their ISP, etc). Optimizing beyond this point is a waste of time because you can't eliminate errors that are outside the control of your system. It provides a very well defined framework for how to define the threshold of "does this matter enough to slow down and fix it".

[1]: https://sre.google/sre-book/embracing-risk/
http://archive.is/kCc8P
recently uninstalled my iphone youtube app after it showed me an ad for a personnalized hoddie with my family name written on it.

No idea where they got the info from, but i can't imagine anything more personnal to leak to an advertizer...

Congrats google, you're ruining the internet

Next step is to move away from gmail.
I would pay $10 if the author got at least payed $8 out of that. But since authors get payed nothing, I rather download the work from some other site and send the author a thank you mail if I really liked their work.
> Why is receiving $0.001 a matter of urgency that can't wait until tomorrow?

I'm not making a value judgement whether this is utopian or dystopian but imagine streaming money. Instead of paying for the use of something in advance and in coarse-grained chunks (driving through a tunnel, running on a treadmill in a gym, watching netflix, parking somewhere, etc...) you'd instead stream money throughout usage. On-demand with continuous settlement for the duration.
afaik there is nothing preventing this from being on the mac app store.

The iPhone app store is so strict because they really want to keep the platform locked down, with no possibility for 3rd party app stores. Although even then there's weird exceptions - Roblox seems to be allowed.

That cat is out of the bag on MacOS, though, and at least for now it seems Apple is keeping it that way - iPadOS is going to be their locked down work OS.
Lots of interesting news this morning from Blue Origin's normally quiet press room. Also of note is a series of videos showing progress at their Cape Canaveral rocket factory & launch facility:

The stage 1 simulator, and integration & test facilities: https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1364968313047162880?s=...

"Tank Cleaning and Testing" facility: https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1364968720364429317?s=...

Launch Complex 36: https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1364969291746074628?s=...

It's exciting to see BO making progress on their campaign to catch SpaceX in the commercial launch space. I'm curious whether the slow, deliberative approach they show here will pay off in reliability, ability to scale, etc once they start putting kgs in orbit.
The reality is that these manufacturers aren't making their own WiFi chips. They all use the same few WiFi chips from the same few vendors.

There is room for variation in how the products are implemented, but there's no real reason why a consumer router shouldn't be delivering the same high rates unless there was something else weird going on.
Stiff springs. Look it up.
Personally, I'm most glad to see that Applicative is finally a superclass of Monad.
I noticed this also. A shame really since they were so much better than their russian counterparts. Those guys were REALLY well briefed and had lots of different strings of argument ready.
Actually, I've been really interested in getting into beer! How easy is it to get started? How long did it take you to get good results?
Yup, by "still" I didn't mean since 1949, just recent years. But this was in the context of online propaganda, which is a recent enough phenomenon to begin with :)
That Rails is a Ghetto piece is filled with personal insults, gripes, anger, accusations that people are slighting him or intending to slight him. There seems to be one critique of Rails buried in all that, that DHH may have been running a Rails app that required many restarts a day. I only had the patience to get through the anger and the personal stuff because I really wanted to actually read the piece before I replied to your post.

When you spew that much anger into the world you're going to rub people the wrong way and concern others that if things start to go slightly south you're next to go on the shit list.

I already feel like I'm posting too much in this thread about a particular individual that I've only had a few interactions with on Twitter, but as a programmer it's extremely important to me that discourse between programmers is considerate. If you can't or won't express yourself without endless anger and personal insults, why is it the responsibility of other people to be patient with your tantrums?
The goal could as well be to increase reliability at the cost of productivity.
The CL reader by default[1] converts unescaped characters to uppercase, but only when parsing tokens. The CL printer by default[2] converts everything it prints to lowercase. CL people seem to adopt these conventions as well, although they have been known to :capitalize Lisp on occasion.

[1] http://l1sp.org/cl/2.2

[2] http://l1sp.org/cl/*print-case*
Agreed, I was quite happy to see Apple use the most current IETF standards, alas with some secret sauce (the missing 1%). However, the fact that FaceTime only works through Apple's SIP and NAT traversal infrastructure (assumed, since they seem to use TURN) effectively makes them the owners of all FaceTime users identity.

We will have to see how much they open things up. My guess would be that they allow others to make FaceTime clients, but keep control of the server side.

In theory, Apple could make an end-run around the telcos, since they will eventually have a huge directory of phone numbers and email addresses for all FaceTime users. At that point the carriers truly become a dumb pipe. Maybe that is Apple's plan, after all.
> Based on what he saw, after long introspection, he applied for conscientious objector status.

Successfully? I'd think it would be much harder to do so after initially agreeing to fight.
I just noticed it when checking on my iphone. That's all I know. Couldn't wait to share the news.
Only those with lobbying clout get bailouts. See the situation of the small businesses now...
Facebook, Google, and other aggregators entice developers into using their APIs (or even their ad platforms). The developers get use of a nice analytics package, authentication, or other features, and in exchange Facebook and Google use those APIs to exfiltrate data from your device.

They can tie all of this data neatly together using an identifier which Apple has to date provided as an opt-out service. Apple is now changing this to opt-in, so all these developers who have included APIs which are sneaking data out to the Google and Facebook will need to include a pop-up to get permissions to tie their data to the rest of Google and Facebook’s acquired knowledge about you.
What do you mean? Networking is definitely done in binary standards. Your router/switch/NIC is almost definitely rated in a bitrate standard.
I feel like I’ve learned more from your website and your source code in a few hours than I otherwise would have from years of study.

You have a real talent for distilling the complex into something simple. It’s apparent in the purpose of your programs, in your writing, and in your source code. Thank you so much!

Basics of computing architecture that I didn’t especially think were too complex for me to learn, but we’re too abstracted for me to become interested in, are laid bare in each one of these programs and their source. This is all incredibly exciting.
DeFi loans and platforms like blockfi let you borrow against your BTC.
> Lay people cannot dictate how technology must work.

That's an extraordinarily elitist view that, frankly, raises my hackles. It's worth remembering that the entire framing of entire political systems was and is done by non-technical "lay" people.

> It's simply not appropriate to assume that just because a lay person wants something to be true, that it must somehow be possible to actually do.

That's got everything backward. Regulation is about limiting technology's intrusion into our lives, technology that did not exist just short years and decades ago. Since we lived without this technology (by definition) since the dawn of man, clearly it is technically feasible.

The attitude above is basically arguing for a technocracy where the "lay" people just have to suck it up and accept whatever their overlords thrust on them. Hint: it's gonna be heavily weighted to those overlords making money and taking choice away.
I also find it unbelievable to have so much code for a single app, this is approaching the level of magnitude of OS code bases: if you think that the entire Linux kernel is around 28M lines so roughly 15x the Uber app.

The binary size is also from the same ballpark as the entire Windows 98 needed for installation.

I'm glad Uber is doing something about this, but in my opinion Apple should tackle this across their entire ecosystem at the toolchain level, devices with less than 64GB of storage can quickly run out of space with just a handful of applications installed.

Unfortunately it's in Apple's interest that people buy devices with more storage, so I don't expect them to invest much effort in this.
We think we shipped the fix. Is the issue still occurring for you?
There is a delightfully awful feature in audis where you can draw letters on a sort of touchpad and it works out what they are correctly a good 10% of the time. It's a cool tech I guess, but a really quite awful idea for cars, both in terms of UX and keeping concentration on the road.
"Incognito" just means "in disguise". But think about a halo-ween party. If you see a guy wearing a horse's head in the kitchen then later in the living room you'd guess he's the same guy.
I don't think the consensus here is particularly strong in any direction.

As for reasons, it varies by person, but a few common reasons for not being hugely in favor of "intellectual property" despite working in an intellectual area:

1. Even if well-meaning originally, intellectual property may actually harm innovation and innovators in certain areas (especially with the terrible state of patent law, but also with very long copyright terms).

2. Not everyone buys the analogy with property (many libertarians, for example, don't). That doesn't mean copyright should be abolished (even if it's not really property, it could still be a useful concept), but it does put it in a different category.

3. Objections to the manner in which governmental police and investigatory power is used to enforce it. Unlike with normal property, fully enforcing intellectual property laws requires quite invasive government powers, since people can violate them without even venturing off their own property (copying music between USB drives, say).

4. Objections to the collateral damage caused by private-sector attempts to control copying, either technical measures like DRM, or contract-law measures like EULAs, especially since these restrictions tend to be aimed at stopping even legitimate tinkering, which is important to many hackers.

I would tone down the language if I were you, though, if you want to have an actual discussion (if this was just an opportunity for a rant, then never mind). Your post comes off as condescending and belligerent, yet you don't appear to actually have a strong command of the relevant issues or even awareness of the arguments, which is a poor combination.
I think the salary thing is almost orthogonal to good culture; there's lots of crappy companies out there paying good or great salaries.

The granting autonomy thing is probably the most important one, but that's really hard to do if you don't already have a good culture. It requires a lot of trust and respect that crappy companies just don't have.

As for keeping the hiring bar uncompromisingly high, that's a chicken and egg problem for many companies, because they don't have a good enough reputation to attract the best talent in the first place.
That's true for the short tail of big issues, but for the vast majority of smaller issues it's completely false. There are many issues where the government is willing to listen to grassroots activists, but there just aren't enough of them. A good example of this is drug law reform. State politicians have been generally willing to implement well written medical marijuana laws from grass roots organizations, but the problem is that there are probably less than 100 competent people working on this full time. Over 60% of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana, but all of the drug law reform organizations combined get only 10k or so donations per year, and the vast majority of these donations are for only five dollars. (Despite the fact that roughly 85% of Americans under age 55 have smoked weed.) And this is an issue that's harder than most because of all the interference from the federal government. Anyway my point is that for most issues you actually can get the law rewritten in your state if you're actually willing to go out and put in the effort.
I would like to point out that this link takes you to what is only the last quarter of this massive site dedicated to Pac-Man. Wow.
It's highly likely. The issue is that she probably signed a contract stating that the green card would be paid off at the end of the year/2 years/some period of time. Similarly to a signing bonus, you have to pay it back if you don't fulfill the terms.

In the future I'd advise your friend to read over any contracts, and ask about anything you don't understand. Reading it over with a lawyer may also be beneficial. Your friend is in an unfortunate situation, but at this point it's probably too late to fix.
It's just another lisp, right? Common lisp already fixes it (or never broke it in the first place):

> cat test.lisp
(prin1 "hello, world")

> time clisp test.lisp
"hello, world"

real	0m0.019s
user	0m0.011s
sys	0m0.008s

> cat test.clj
(print "hello, world\n")

> time clojure test.clj
hello, world

real	0m0.929s
user	0m1.283s
sys	0m0.046s
We'll have to deal with the next invasive device and the next invasive airport profiling proposal in any case. So yes we have to confront the issues head-on -- and we also want to win this battle so that we're in a better shape for the next one. Why is it short-sited to include anti-corruption and transparency advocates in the coalition here?

The REAL ID battle of 2007 is a good template for privacy and civil liberties successes. The coalition involved privacy and civil liberties organizations, security experts, libertarians, progressives, migrant rights activists, fiscal conservatives, agriculturalists, transgendered people, biblical literalists, and states-right'ers. A lot of people believe that we won largely on the cost issues.

By contrast, activism against the PATRIOT Act and FISA hasn't assembled that broad coalition. And guess what? Thus far we've lost.

So yes, I certainly agree that it's critical to confront the privacy issues head-on -- and there's plenty of that going on too. I just don't think that's the only way to approach it.
What is interesting about this is that the huge numbers being thrown around by the gorvernment for the last three (or so) years have numbed us to the point where such an absurd number as $200M/day does not trip the BS meter at first utterance.
Anki is the one you are probably thinking about. There are others that do the
same kinds of things. These include Mnemosyne ("http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/), and SuperMemo ("http://www.supermemo.com/).

For a longer list and an explanation of the science behind the software,
go to Wikipedia and search for "spaced repetition".
You say that - but what if the checkers players move in?
You could have gang war
It's only at RC3 right now. Why would you expect an unstable spec to be static?
if you ignore webforms C# doesn't have the "bloat load" Java has really.
How are the slides created?
Certainly there's that risk. But saying that only millionaire's are 'smart enough' to invest in private companies seems worse.
The problem is a weakened or lack of reliable Linux support. This is an unofficial hack for an Apple platform notorious for having little open documentation or good interoperability with anything non-Apple. It's always going to be an uphill battle to reliably support Linux because Apple themselves don't seem to care (at the moment at least). Investing in Linux integration for a more supportive hardware vendor instead should yield better Linux outcomes without Apple's baggage.
A company is not a person.
Whoops. Wasn't actually trying to say that. But thanks for the explanation.
Ahh thanks for that, I hadn't seen this post. And the comment thread perfectly summarizes and addresses some of my shock and questions when I read the article.

Just insane the amount of numbers a site this Shared is throwing around.
Heart disease and obesity are not infectious, so one person's actions do not threaten another person's health.
You're not necessarily wrong but $170M completed and $275M still in alpha are two pretty considerable differences. Given that one extra piece of context, I'm perfectly willing to scoff at that number.

I find it interesting that there are currently zero Bethesda games on the list despite their fairly broad scopes, which is... telling, considering the reputation of their games. That said, I have doubts that ES6 will hit $300M. Maybe ES7 as you say, but that's not the next Elder Scrolls game.
Turn your handwriting into a real font that you can use
That is awesome. Wikipedia definitely need a better editor too.

Props on using dat too. We need less centralization.
In most countries it takes way more ethics work than “you installed the app yourself” to get a human study approved.

It’s not unreasonable for Apple to demand similar steps.
A lot of this post seems to be loosely plagiarized from the "Eat Dirt" chapter of the CFAR handbook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UZYBtOJ3QZ7FTI_4eKjVzBSNUqC...

Not good!

Edit: he does link to it in the post. But if you read his post then read the CFAR "Eat Dirt" chapter it'll leave you unsettled.