jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And because the US, needed to certify the free falling nuclear bombs on aircraft, signaled that this certification would take way longer on non US aircraft.

Which is, more or less, the main reason.

EDIT: I think the F/A-18 is a great choice and one hell of a plane. The other options, a potentially obsolete F-15 and a maybe delivered in time F-35 aren't that great.
I'm sorry but Shopify has always been focused on profit and lock-in, which is why they don't allow tools that move customers away from the platform and will stop paying resellers (all) their recurring commission if you don't add enough new customers to the platform every year.

And now your stepping on their transaction profits which are substantial, considering the amounts they process.
AssistEdge Robotic Process Automation provides enterprise level automation in various verticals such as Telecom, Insurance, CPG and Logistics by decreasing costs and improving productivity.
> Can't just quote out of context... there's a lot of other stuff around that quote...

I try to make quotes brief. It's always easy to go to the original message and acquire the context. A small quote serves as a pointer and should not be interpreted as the whole thing.

That said, the comment stands. It's not sane to demand people to choose between what's morally right (leaking the chopper video was right) and facing capital punishment. Others in his place would have leaked only the video and not other sensitive documents and could be charged with treason the same way as someone who leaks logistics to enemy operatives.

I agree the logic is tortured, but if you found yourself trapped in the middle of an unjust war (and this one is about as unjust as wars can possibly get) maybe the only sane alternative is to do your best to try to end it by the means you have. I agree not all the data he stole and leaked is at all relevant to the American people (the ones he swore to protect, I assume) and that they could cause lots of harm.

> In practice, there's millions of moving pieces in the war, and some things like best practices for specific events can't be changed.

So, creating an impossible situation would possibly make the war impossible to fight effectively and, with some luck, end it sooner. Mind you - for the hypothetical tortured soul I imagined for this exercise, whatever causes the earliest return of the troops home is the winning scenario. Under this, it doesn't matter who wins the war, as long as it ends quickly.

Manning was reckless in both ways - leaking material he should not have leaked (along with material he really should) to people he should not trust (who is to vouch for every anonymous analyst at Wikileaks?) and then bragging to someone he should never, ever, under no circumstances, trust. I have a little, just a little, sympathy for him, for the helicopter video. I may have some more if the leaked diplomatic dispatches lead to some cleaning of foreign policy. I have no sympathy for indiscriminate release of information that may endanger personnel whose worst offense is a perhaps questionable career choice that led them to the worst possible place to be.

Exposing the dirty secrets of a dirty war is important. It may start with urinating on toilet seats, but it may as well pass through having pleasure when you take down a target and may as well as go all the way up to entering a war on known faulty intelligence.

If I had access to (for whatever reasons) sensitive information, I wouldn't tell my wife. I wouldn't tell my mother. I wouldn't write it down.

note: I did some minor edits

another note: I seriously doubt the Wikileaks folks have access to anything Really Bad Guys don't.
You just need to install it once, versus adjusting the settings twice a day.
What about the TVOM implications? There has to be some opportunity cost for both sides to playing the game. Given the potential loses involved I think it would be foolish for anyone to play the game as the seller/ coin tosser.
Not quite what the article is talking about, but one of my greatest "aha!" moments in math/code was when I realized how handy the seemingly redundant atan2 function is.
Maybe, but I can't think of any way to make that work.

A lot of politicians have been and will be losing their seats for following the lead of Barney "let's roll the dice" Frank. He's in a well gerrymandered seat (in the state that invented the process!) so he's likely to stay indefinitely, but who knows if the economy gets bad enough (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410594). One big factor here is that the whole situation has been thrown in flux with Ted Kennedy's death. He was the big "bring home the bacon" guy, there's no one last time I checked who's stepping into that role. E.g. Kerry doesn't have what it takes.
From the related "Elephants Can Dance" post:

Over the last 35 years venture capital has funded nimble new entrants...who exist to exploit discontinuities in technology or customer behavior.

http://steveblank.com/2009/06/22/2392/

The key phrase to me is, "exploit discontinuities in technology or customer behavior." The shift to mp3 and downloaded music was exactly one of these. Current pains experienced by mobile users are the small cracks which will grow into the future fault lines whose shear energies can be tapped into.
The government is going to screw up the delicate system of venture funding how, by eliminating the loophole that allows them to dodge taxes on the carry income they earn for managing other people's money?

I know there's multiple things on the table that could impact VCs (onerous reporting requirements for small investments among them), but it's hard to judge them when the valley (Arrington clearly among them) is so obviously militant about retaining bogus tax loopholes.
Seems like the website is down. Any other way to get invited?
If you're ok spending lots of money, maybe you can get a dedicated fiber line. Companies like Level3, Cogent, or XO might work, but if this place is really isolated it might be too hard. I found Level3 the easiest to talk to.
Look at Nix & NixOS: http://nixos.org/
It would be interesting to see a comparison of Bazel/Blaze to Nix.
This is excellent.

Anyone who's ever faced the daunting task of bolting TCP on top of custom datagram protocol can certainly confirm how useful a library like this is.
That would be because they are already in the US and they'd like to go somewhere besides the US. The importance of the freedom to actually leave a county when you so desire can't be overestated.
I highly recommend the books "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution" by Clayton Christensen. They basically provide answers to all of your questions. Christensen is the one who coined the term "disruption" as it applies to technology and innovation. The premise of the books are that large entrenched companies focus on larger profits and ignore off the shelf technologies that they already have in house because the potential profits seem too small. Other smaller companies start using off the shelf technologies to focus on niche customers and eventually overtake the larger companies. By the time the larger company realizes what's going on, they're playing catchup.

Nintendo used "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "Blue Ocean Strategy" (another book I highly recommend) as the basis for the development of the Wii.
If the government does things you don't like and you are allowed to leave then you can do so and it ends up being not that bad. I would say that not being allowed to leave is practically a prerequisite for having something to fear from your government.

Or did you mean the scarier things are like the Yellowstone Caldera erupting or Godzilla attacking?
I used to have the kind of heel pain that you describe when standing barefoot, and used Superfeet insoles in every pair of shoes I used. Ever since I started massaging the bottoms of my feet by "standing" (without full weight, obviously) on a 1" bounce ball and rolling it around under the arches and the front of the heel, that has almost totally gone away. The first time I did it, it was incredibly painful, but I noticed improvement almost immediately. Give it a try. I also find that massaging the soleus and gastrocniemus muscles in the calf by using the knee of the other leg helps.
This is entirely off topic and I apologize profusely. If you don't want to read an off topic post please don't continue.

I know Firefox is not as popular among the HN crowd right now but I still like using it for a variety of reasons. Flash video works very spottily on this computer because it is an older linux. When flash has decided to crap out vimeo has started showing this dialog that says I need to either get flash (which is fine) or a "HTML 5 Compliant Browser," which I have in Firefox4.

Saying FF4 is not "HTML 5 Compliant" is BS. As is pointing at Safari, as if I could use Safari. This is as bad as the old days of "This site is designed to work with IE 5.5"

/end rant

Sorry for the off topic post but seriously internet use a better less biased error message (As I am pretty sure Windows users have no wish to use Safari either).
Oh, we agree that cable companies "have the technology" and could offer the same service. But they aren't. At all. Not even close. And have no intentions of doing so. Ever.

Did I mention that all streamed movies from my cable company expire 24 hours after they start streaming? So if you start a movie at 8PM, watch the first hour until 9PM, and then you come back to it the next day to finish it... well, you better start watching before 7PM the next day, because exactly at 8PM it turns into a pumpkin and disappears. Even if you're in the middle of watching it. Brilliant! Who would ever want to watch part of a movie the next day?
You are right. Google is incompetent at customer service. At some point, enough incompetence crosses the line into "evil". Though, in this case, Google is safely in the incompetent category.
Pretending there’s real value in NFTs is 100% delusion, rationalization, and/or bandwagoning. Normally I would have no problem with a good old delusion, but this one just costs carbon emissions with play pretend upside.
> I'm not confident that nVidia'd have an easy win if they decided to sue the developer

So long as Nvidia's case doesn't get outright laughed out of court, they can throw money at their legal team until the developer goes bankrupt.
Spent a few too many moments reading and anticipating how these rainforest rocks ended up for sale on Amazon.
That was a lot cooler in my head
Too jumbled for me, and seems not quite fully baked.

I like the approach taken at bogleheads.org. Proven, simple methods adapted by many mature and wealthy people.

Please visit and share with others.
I just got a new router today to try the VR streaming from Desktop PC to my Quest 2 and it works flawlessly. Pretty exciting if it can do that it can probably do anything else. The part I don't know is what the energy use tradeoffs are. I know wifi6 is supposed to be lower energy cost?
> It gives out a phone number.

To who? The article linked is literally explaining how Signal doesn't know who your contacts are, or you.

> Why not just assume you're an adult dealing with adults and let people choose. Choose their handle,

You'll be interested to know that this is coming this year.
Focusing on the repository is a distraction.

the whole of systemd sits in a single source tree in freedesktop.org. You don't find system-networkd in one tree, udev in another, systemd-init in a third.

In contrast, each part of XFCE, the window manager, the panel, etc, sit as their own source trees within the XFCE repository.
Best thing is to go to an actual source. The NOAA has it as 4 hundredths of a degree higher.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/

"The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F), easily breaking the previous records of 2005 and 2010 by 0.04°C (0.07°F). This also marks the 38th consecutive year (since 1977) that the yearly global temperature was above average. Including 2014, 9 of the 10 warmest years in the 135-year period of record have occurred in the 21st century. 1998 currently ranks as the fourth warmest year on record.

The 2014 global average ocean temperature was also record high, at 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 16.1°C (60.9°F), breaking the previous records of 1998 and 2003 by 0.05°C (0.09°F). Notably, ENSO-neutral conditions were present during all of 2014.

The 2014 global average land surface temperature was 1.00°C (1.80°F) above the 20th century average of 8.5°C (47.3°F), the fourth highest annual value on record."
Ethically, it is not an acceptable trade off. Your question is set in the future, after the action has been shown to be a success. A choice made today cannot be made ethical retroactively because it turned out to be the right decision. And it is unlikely we can prove the action caused the success in any case, or that not performing the action might have been better (maybe a success tomorrow sets back a better approach by 50 years, causing many more deaths). The better question to ask is 'if beta testing might speed up the transition to FSD and it might reduce the number of road deaths, is it an acceptable trade off?'. At which point you are doing risk analysis and algebra. But given this is the mathematics of human life, you are still in a very dubious ethical area, and the usual answer is still no.
Educate us about file systems. I’m a little unsure of whether or not I should trust out-of-tree ZFS.

What’s the lowdown?
Just give me a 27” iMac with an M(something) Max
Last Friday I went in and got a good education on some of our physical hardware. This knowledge is only held by people that have been with the company since Spring 2020 or work in that department.

I can only imagine the amount of institutional knowledge that is being lost right now. Workers that are low to the ground and sociable who form informal bonds between departments are hurt by being limited to only online interactions, and as a result, the organization suffers too.
It's a really interesting (to me) example of how a trade can be mutually beneficial when there's no obvious difference (like trading an excess of chickens for something you lack). The odds on the bet are/can be the same for both sides yet getting insurance can make sense as can selling insurance.
consensus on the distant past isn't very interesting. The proof of work is like a data center, or by sharing a whole cow's meat -- it costs almost all or nothing, not linear in usage, but the cost is borne by some method of division across the contents.
Read the affidavit from the special agent. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1470186/downl...

"Between the 2016 hack and the present, LICHTENSTEIN and MORGAN further
engaged in a diverse array of virtual currency transactions, including transacting in numerous
altcoins, liquidating BTC through a BTC ATM,23 and purchasing non-fungible tokens (NFTs)."
When I was in high school, my friend and I played a robot fighting game, where you had some fixed energy and every action would consume some of it. My friend found a way to exercise a large number of expensive actions in one turn, resulting in energy underflow. With some care, he found a way to achieve the maximum possible energy. At no point was the energy out of bounds.

Sanity checks can detect invalid states, but not invalid calculations (which have intermediate values that may exceed the bounds - consider calculating the average stat in your Dark Souls example). You can get an unexpectedly valid state from a calculation that overflows, and thereby pass a manual safety check. Trapping arithmetic will catch these.
examples of enforcement? never heard of anyone going to jail over this.
Google is such an insane value. $5 you get GSuite, auth, drive, chat, meet, and a bunch of things.

Folks that are privacy concious are equally deluded. It's marketing and you're falling for it. ProtonMail doesn't have stellar record for privacy (or any Swiss company in general). There has been several discussions about this on HN, and otherwise where many have compared email services and rated their privacy claims. FastMail seems to be the worst of all. Migadu seems to be good but an extremely bad value for your $.

Stick with Google. It's not fashionable but a bargain. You're commodicized on the internet unless you run your own services. Don't let any marketing fool you.

I'd rather be in iron clad hands of Google's engineering and security practices than a 30 people company with no fricking clue about security. This is often not part of the discussion.
Beware that using rclone with google photos may result in lower quality images and missing metadata. Below is taken from the rclone website:

Limitations

Downloading Images

When Images are downloaded this strips EXIF location (according to the docs and my tests). This is a limitation of the Google Photos API and is covered by bug #112096115.

The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort
Downloading Videos

When videos are downloaded they are downloaded in a really compressed version of the video compared to downloading it via the Google Photos web interface. This is covered by bug #113672044.

Source: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations
Talented people are found everywhere around the world, and many are in Iran for sure. But what exactly made you expect a theocracy becoming a software powerhouse?
OpenAI did with DALL.E what I envisioned to do with AiArtist :) (https://www.aiartist.io/)

An AI to provide illustrations to your written content.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsrig/
https://twitter.com/ramsri_goutham
It's possible that Apple does a better job of making press releases appealing, but I think the more likely explanation is that this perception is just an illusion. Everyone thinks that the stuff they dislike gets more attention and more favorable treatment. This is the driving dynamic behind perceptions of ideological bias, too. I wrote a bunch about this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30351677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30346954

and there is a large quantity of past explanations here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You are arguing a minor, irrelevant, and largely incorrect point of semantics.

> Who owns the Federal Reserve?

> The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by the Federal Reserve Act to serve as the nation's central bank. The Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., is an agency of the federal government and reports to and is directly accountable to the Congress.

(emphasis added)

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
True, and with people switching jobs every 12 to 24 months (at least in the Bay Area) many of them never get to see the outcome of their choices, and don't learn from experience.
The only thing they make that's good is the stick vacuum, everything else is just trying to put their nice, fancy motors into other products.
It's all the non-sense from Pocket to access to location settings isn't getting synced, etc.; I am being unfair though, it's not a problem.
My feeling is that the price had risen expecting a more stellar result or bullish guidance. When the street didn't get that they took their profits and ran.

You can watch the same thing happen to CRM and ZM now in the days leading up to their next earnings call.
and if it was up you would have said "new information that the market was not able to price in" or "the forward guidance was good" or just congratulate the leadership
So what exactly is MasterCard offering that relates to cryptocurrencies? What I gathered from the article was “it was planning to offer support for some cryptocurrencies on its network this year”
But does not seem to go into detail further than that.
This is exactly what I mean about being stuck in the C mindset. You're looking at the problem though the lens of what this giant pile of ancient C software does.

Why should newer languages take the same approach to APIs that these old code bases did? It's not like we're porting all those programs to JS. Those C APIs were written long before hardware could provide fast good randomness, heck even before cryptography was standard practice instead of a special use case.

Not to mention in JS you can't even seed the random number generator. If you want predictable "random" numbers, you should have to jump through additional hoops. By default random numbers should be cryptographically secure.

EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that from your reported dataset, 41 of 8800 programs analyzed used srand to get a repeatable set of "random" numbers. That's 0.47%. I'm happy to break less than half a percent of software if it helps prevent the far more ubiquitous failures of software using insecure random numbers.
I think it only applies to US startups. I've seen no sign of ageism in the two UK startups I've worked for.
> And the latest (stable) version

Is Fenix even officially released? It's still called "Firefox Nightly" on Play Store AFAIK. This is kinda one of my point: when would they actually use it as Firefox proper if it's already mature?
It's indeed a huge surprise that Dropbox is alive and well in 2015 when every major titan has similar offering for free. However I didn't knew Drew Houston was still that interested in Dropbox and my impression is that there is nothing new happening at Dropbox for years from development perspective. For example, basic things like showing long file names in tablets like iPad is completely broken for years and no one is fixing it. It appears to me Drew Houston is realizing that IPO is the only option for exit and starting a huge PR effort. Be prepared for lots of articles like this in coming months.
From the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery:

https://www.entnet.org/content/coronavirus-disease-2019-reso...
To be honest it is kinda depressing, to see the numbers, and realizing that there are lives, and family members who have lost their dear ones, and may be affected behind the dots in the statistic.
Hoping and praying that people will have the necessary strength to wade this through.
Agree & upvoted; this needs to be better understood. Especially noteworthy is the section you linked to is written for health-care workers, and they’re confirming that a homemade mask is better than nothing (while also recommending the homemade mask dead last.)

Unfortuately, the CDC really is giving out conflicting guidance here. For example, higher up in the section for lay-people is this: “You do not need to wear a facemask unless you are caring for someone who is sick (and they are not able to wear a facemask). Facemasks may be in short supply and they should be saved for caregivers.” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention... (In “How to Prepare | Protect Yourself”)
You’d think he would have been able to write a lot of code in the last decade.
Appreciate this.
I hate when I type :P and it comes out as a smiling face with the tongue out. The vertical line in the P is straight...
This just made me think of boot camp (which I have not been to).

Lots of pain, followed by intense loyalty and often life-long friendships.
For some reason I have a bad feeling about this update actually getting released. I'm worried that FB is going to convince some judge to tell Apple they can't do this, and delay it for months or years. Maybe (hopefully) this is an irrational worry, but you never know the extent to which people will go when billions of dollars are on the line.