jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even that nasty a situation is survivable with sufficient strength shelters, luck to avoid a random direct hit, and enough food and water/water supply to wait out the longer period required before evacuating the indeed "devastated landscape".

What I find weird is the attitude that it's better to die than survive with most all of your loved ones and friends, albeit at a reduced quality of life for a long time. A rather ultimate materialistic attitude, or perhaps it's as Dean Ing put it in Systemic Shock:

The American public had by turns ignored and ridiculed its cassandras: city planners, ecologists, demographers, socialists, immigrants, who had all warned against our increasing tendency to crowd into our cities. Social stress, failure of essential services, and warfare were only a few of the spectres we had granted only a passing glance. We had always found some solution to our problems, though: often at the last moment. Firmly anchored in most Americans was the tacit certainty that, even to the problem of nuclear war against population centers, there must be a uniquely American solution; we would find it.

The solution was sudden death. A hundred million Americans found it.
He is probably referring to how he took amphetamines, which aren't meth.
He was addicted to amphetamine (Benzedrine) or methylphenidate (Ritalin), not methamphetamine.
People volunteer for all sorts of reasons that fit your description -- b/c they're required by a school/frat, b/c it's a requirement (or even an elective) to earn a badge in boy/girl scouts, b/c they feel pressured by others in their community (e.g. in a church), b/c their parents made them.

You may feel that some (maybe even most) people's motivations are less pure than others, but that doesn't make their actions "not volunteer work".
Other users will see it.
Simple, don't use fake accounts? Or if you are a company, don't astroturf.

As for Parody, looks like you are fine. https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/singapore-fake...
This is the right answer. Noether's theorem can be used to derive newtons laws from symmetry properties of space alone. The article is wrong when it asserts that f=ma is taken as a given. The symmetry properties are the underlying assumptions.
Imho even more amazing are those water bridges of the Canal du Midi. Built around 1670.

https://www.beziers-in-mediterranee.com/sites/ot-beziers/fil...
Seems like Step 1 in SMS hijacking
Hinton already came out with a “groundbreaking” paper not too long ago - capsule networks.
I don’t think many ICUs or vents were around in 1889.
only enough to fill up the front page once per day? 20 tweets/day is pretty low throughput for a following list of any size at all...
my name is 2a2318da-c1a7-4416-a5c5-8acb17d9e85d.
Let’s be careful here.

Yes there are firewalls/proxies which check for validity of HTTP over port 80, though others don’t bother, or just look at the first bit of traffic for each connection.

HTTPS goes over port 443, and I imagine there are some firewalls somewhere or another which block it altogether. Probably not enough of them to worry too much about though.

Some firewalls at least make sure that traffic over port 443 does a proper SSL handshake.... after that the data is encrypted, so they have no way to tell just what’s going through.
Why? Believe me, it is not fun if your name is incompatible with computer systems.
So the usual view is that the capabilities we hear of the NSA having (keeping phone on even when it appears to be off, using GPS etc to locate the phone, transmitting microphone in the background, etc) is enabled in the baseband, when it receives coded requests from the network.

It'd be interesting if reverse engineering of the baseband could find those capabilities and see what's really possible and how it works.
My dogs, descendants of wolves, don't have hands. They do however have access to hands. They have access to a shelter that was created with tools. They ride to the vet in an automobile when they have healthcare needs.

They lay on the couch while I'm working to produce what can be transformed into protein for them. It's a pretty efficient and pretty safe strategy evolved in a few tens of thousands of years.

There was a comedic bit about dogs in New York City: If an alien saw two creatures of a different species and one was picking up the other's poop, which would it deduce was in charge?

The great-chain-of-being is the product of revelation not scientific method.
Thanks for the input man! I found your advice to be extremely helpful! And good luck with your kid, hope he grow up to be as good of a coder as his father
Even a friendly Genie superintelligence would likely not cause that IMO. It would work to remove the problems we set before it. Unless we asked it to remove culture and fun/worthwhile hobbys/activities, I don't see how it would cause issues or ennui. We would still have purpose, it would just not be focused on or influenced by those solved issues. And even if those problems are solved within our society on Earth, who knows what the future holds in terms of the wide open universe.
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/09/ballmer_throws_a_c...
True, but this header is presented to all sites visited. This wouldn't pollute Verizon's tracking (they could do this without the header). This may instead pollute the third parties which are taking advantage.
> I don't understand how the Sony hack relates to the proposed changes to the CFAA.

I'm guessing that the lobbyists behind SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, etc have been trying to push something like this for a while, but now think that the Sony hack has scared enough people that the bill can appear like it has popular support.
This paper describes one part of the fbcunn release (the fast convolution layers implemented via FFT, with the source available at https://github.com/facebook/fbcunn/tree/master/src/cuda/fft). There's a lot more in fbcunn if you want to check it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book#The_Modern...

The shortened-to-the-point-that-it's-mostly-wrong version:

Prices went up for a variety of reasons, ordinary stores stopped stocking them, and the only way the companies found to move enough issues to avoid total disaster was to target men in roughly the 14-40 age range through dedicated comic book shops, embracing, in the process, a sub-genre of "grittier" comic story lines that had gained some traction.
Drive down the wages of your most talented citizens and yes, you hurt the entire country.
It's obvious that most of the people who voted for the losing side did not show up at the protest. An even smaller fraction breached the Capitol Building.

It's interesting that you say that Biden voters feel disrespected because Trump voters protested something in the way they did. When BLM protesters vandalized (mostly poor or middle-class people's) shops, do you think it was reasonable for non-BLM people (most Trump supporters) to be outraged? If not, therein lies the problem.

BTW, there were violent riots when Trump was elected president, including in Oakland, Portland etc.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Portland,_Oregon_riots
Here is a curated selection of the logical failures in your two line comment:

* saying that economic circumstances are "oppressive," then trying to draw this to "violence"

* a claim that if a thief steals all of your stuff, you "starve" -- please give an example of one person who "starved" because BLM looters stole their stuff

* implying that being in a situation where you are "starving" is the same as actually being violently attacked, i.e. shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, etc.
There is no argument for censorship, suspension or banning, based on our 1st amendment—- on any of the multiple platforms doing so.

I came on here just to check what the “young intellectual tech” community thinks— I consider myself part of it. I’m a 20-something female who has been heavily involved in tech for my short career.

Heads up: This isn’t animal farm, this is 1984!

I never post on here and stopped reading awhile ago due to the one-minded propaganda I consistently find on the site these days (i was a lurker a longtime before i made this account) but I feel compelled to share my opinion because these times matter, and us young (and old) folks matter.

Amen and a-women? Welcome to the best addition to New Speak. Please look that up if you don’t know what it is. Have you zoomed out on how Big (and Little) Techs subtle involvement here? And how they may be affecting how you’re thinking?
I can personally say after having deleted social media for a year and combing through different sources (time consuming), I feel very differently now than I did four years, or eight years ago.

“I don’t like Trump” and “not being a Trump supporter,” the badges of honor on Hacker News. But here’s my practical advice: be very careful who you’re choosing. Everything in life is a trade off— even who’s in the White House, who’s in office, who you’re casting your votes for.

Another piece of advice: for some laughs, and practical news these days, check out AwakenwithJP and Brett Pella :-) hope your hackers but your thinking caps on and leave confirmation bias in 2020.
Um, what was the unsubscribe rate on this particular campaign?

While they converted 16% they probably alienated another 16%
Here's my Flodder Challenge (http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4d1a4f2ba860b744720000bf) solution:

~wqave~2wq@aw2@ab~ws**^]l~fe~ww@afg@aZZ

(where ^] is an esc). Currently gets a score of 41 (although I only count 38 keystrokes...)
Javascript is the one language now that is super popular (both client and server side..)
"similarly impressive" is deliberately vague; I certainly wouldn't take it to imply nearly linear.
Can't reply to your post below (don't know why) - I'm not sure how you got that link (I can't get it offered by the search, the time in it is wrong - hence the problem).

My contact details are in my profil if you can offer more information - really appreciate the input. :)
I enjoy micro-distilled liquor (mostly gin) not because it's necessarily better, but because it's different.

If I'm looking for a traditional gin, I don't think anyone's going to beat Tanqueray 10. It's solid, consistent, well-balanced, and smooth. It tastes like what traditional gin should taste like. If I'm looking for something more interesting, I might have some Sacred Gin (http://www.sacredspiritscompany.com/). It's equally as good as Tanqueray 10 (I derive a similar level of enjoyment out of drinking it), it just tastes different - and sometimes I'm in the mood for that.

Whereas major distillers are all working on perfecting a similar recipe (Tanqueray 10 tastes like a better Tanqueray, which takes like Beefeater, which tastes like Gordon's, etc.), small micro-distillers are often agile enough that they can take liberties with flavors that major producers can't.
Because by replying, you can point out flaws or disagreements in the parent post. That helps the person who wrote it get a little better.

Additionally, downvoting w/o a comment feel punitive, as opposed to corrective. It also seems a little lazy -- "I'll click the downvote arrow, but won't take any time to help them improve."
Some people - myself included - follow a style of developing code which requires you continuously moving code around, therefore speed in doing that is important. Does Erlang mode in Emacs understand Erlang's "sentences"?
Well we have to look at why the standard of living is much lower. What you would find is horrible working conditions with very little pay. Just barely enough to survive, and if you get sick, you just get fired and have to fend for yourself.

That leads to the other part of the discussion. We say giving jobs is charitable but never talk about what the jobs are and what they entail.
>Why? Because a virus engineer is always going for maximizing spread rate? Seems plausible that less-than-ideal infection rates of humans could be a feature rather than a bug.

You are correct. There is both gain of function and loss of function happening in these types of experiments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579/
NYT might be a paragon of journalism for American issues but it is hardly a good source for news about countries like China or India.

I have been following their international coverage for some time and what they have mastered is the art of misleading through omission. Whether that is intended or just by virtue of hiring journalists and op-ed writers from the same echo chamber, that I don't know. It is smart in a way actually, as they rarely write outright lies. What they will do instead is just cover the points of one side, keep doing it through several articles and someone following NYT will have a very different idea of an event.

I am not sure how NYT is gauged inside China as I can't read their social media but I am surprised NYT is treated like sacrosanct by Indians with their critical articles of the establishment being widely shared there. Just look at the coverage of the farmer protests in NYT, Guardian etc.

So when these same platforms complain about Facebook eating their lunch and allowing fake news, I have no sympathy for them as their holier than thou attitude for their own content is just off putting.
Who could've guessed? It would be interesting to see a "move slow and fix things" approach for once. But I guess it isn't compatible with ruthless expansion.
I learned from the documentary 13th (which I HIGHLY recommend) that something like 97% of people incarcerated in the US have never had a trial, because they're persuaded, manipulated or otherwise cajoled into making plea bargains.

97%!
In this video you'll learn why you should use custom http client in Angular and how you can create custom http client.
Well, yes, by the hypocrites.
The lab leak is not the only hypothesis the CCP may be seeking to avoid.

What they knew and how early they knew it is at least as significant.
> go into dark room.

If you have a computer, you probably have electric lighting. Just use that.
"I didn't see them!" is such a common response for bicyclist and pedestrian deaths, it makes me sick. In 95% of cases, drivers are either distracted, driving too fast for conditions, or not fit to be driving.
On a related note, the late Patrick Winston strongly states in his MIT AI Course that simple is not the same as trivial. Simplicity is powerful.

Simple points may sound trivial and obvious, but simple things can add up to make something magnificent.
No, In addition to what you have mentioned, and sibling comments have noted about implimentation, it is SMS that is (has been? --But i can't find info if this has been remedied) insecure as well. This is the "SimJacker" whitepaper describing technical means of hijacking among other games.

https://simjacker.com/downloads/technicalpapers/AdaptiveMobi...
This is such a great point. A lot of websites go to two opposite but equally repellent extremes with their desktop and mobile sites. For the desktop site, they will shove five pounds of crap into a two-pound bag. Then for the mobile variant, they will strip away some of the fluff, but also omit a lot of detail that actually does contribute to usability — for example, mobile sites sacrifice any ability to actually find what you're looking for a lot of the time, which is egregious because you need more help with that on the iPhone. (The standard mobile WordPress theme is a big offender on this. I want to throw my phone at the wall every time I come across a site using that theme. Tiny font, excessive padding, no navigation to speak of. Ugh!)
This looks GREAT!
Fatalism isn't much of an argument, but neither is, "I like nationalization, so I haven't thought about alternatives, and I don't think other existing federally-run health services provide any evidence about how a nationalized system might really turn out."
It seems unlikely that you as an individual would know how many other students in the class had access to that same guide. Regardless, I don't think it really matters; they should have notified the professor.
Must have been around for a while as it works in IE6 as well
you're actively trying to destroy the idea of natural language programming. you'll succeed because the idea itself means nothing unless someone implements it.

natural language programming means that you, as the human, concentrate on high-level aspects while the machine fills in the blanks (stuff you don't care about).

natural language programming... it's supposed to be a dialogue, not a specification. you say a few words and the machine creates a formal representation of that. then you're free to alter the assumptions made by the machine.

you're shaping something in broad strokes. you're designing something. you don't actually code something. you get your own private code monkey, you get to talk to him, explain your design, let him do the typing, and intervene when needed. now, that code monkey could be a machine.

i guess it takes a certain mindset to accept and rely on others (also machines) to do the grunt work. i certainly don't want to be doing repetitive grunt work if i could help it. it's fun now and then, when i have the choice. it stops being fun if i have to do it.
It seems that most successful "chicken-and-egg" sites, sites that depend on a reasonably-sized userbase before anyone would want to use it, only achieved success through astroturfing (creating fake accounts and pretending like you're someone else).

Personally I find such activity deceptive and immoral, though I don't think it's particularly grievous. Does anyone know how to start a site that depends on a significant userbase without a huge amount of astroturfing? I'd imagine the only way is to either have a lot of really good friends who will help you, pay a bunch of people to use the site until the real userbase gets large enough, or advertise very aggressively so that lots of people are using it right away.
Given that it's business school, it seems quite likely (or at least possible) that any of them who had seen the test bank in advance paid for the privilege. That does say sad things about students, but arguably it also says sad things about how things work in 'the real world,' to which students look for examples of what is socially acceptable. In the wake of the financial crisis, a great many people have drawn the inference that cheaters prosper.

Regrettably, research suggests that the problem is only going to get worse: http://josephsoninstitute.org/surveys/index.html
I would imagine they're using the Craiglist Bulk Posting API:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/bulk_posting_interface
Oauth .. I just went to check it out, http://alicious.com/img/OAuth_1290599253386.png

Ironic.
Have you tried applying to tech consultancies ? - they often hire non-CS graduates and teach them programming from the ground up.
I would say: before forcing yourself into a profession or into activities that you think are good for you, try to find out what you actually like doing.

Nothing is as devastating as having a job that you're not enthusiastic about and, vice versa, it seems that people are usually more motivated to achieve success when they're doing something they like.

You've graduated in CS, but perhaps you should look beyond the computer related stuff?
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936828

Also, a BBC report about recent events in Germany concerning Google StreetView says the veracity is disputed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/techology-11827862
I agree that wrong is difficult to define in these contexts, but remember that the only proof of the existence of the ether was that 1) light was thought to be a wave by the mathematical formulation of Maxwell, and 2) all known waves had a physical medium. That's it. It was a very ad hoc construction that immediately presented ways to test it. When it was tested by the MM experiment, it turned out to be undetectable at best, thereby exposing its weakness as a theory. Einstein didn't use the theory as a springboard because it was so good and useful; he used it as a springboard because it was so bad.
A lot of languages also get arithmetic right, for example Python.
Most languages that get it 'wrong' are low-level languages (such as C), which have a good reason, as CPUs have limited width registers.
However, I agree that there is no excuse for Javascript to not have arbitrary length integers. Then again, that language is broken and ugly in a lot of ways.
I'm getting some cognitive dissonance here, since the grandparent says [I] use delegation and you say not to run your own server and to use delegation...

Anyway, is delegation going to get better, or should I not bother setting it up and just stick to using the same password for all my non-interesting sites? In particular, is it the site I delegate to, or the site I am authenticating myself to, or both, that can screw it up?
I found the Gap Cycle rather good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle

and really quite enjoyed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nights_Dawn_Trilogy

and found pretty much everything in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_universe
to be as good as anything I've read by Heinlein, Clark et al.

Honestly, there's tons of good stuff out there, but it's just hard to separate it from the pulp. With the oldie goldies it's relatively easy because we have a few decades of people assessing those books.
We live in a society where its ok to joke approvingly about prisoner's suffering violent rape. Of course our prisons are horrible to be in.
Pinboard and Diggo sound useful. I've tried in the past to use a bibliography plugin for Firefox, but it was too cumbersome.

I would love to hear succes stories about these two products, like how having all your web information tagged, cached, and distributed across reading devices has been the secret weapon in your life or job.
Versus say taking cutting edge robotics technology and making stuff that kills people.
RMS provides a misleading definition of the term DDoS as he's adopted the view of the use of LOIC as part of the right to protest. In his eyes the groups aren't conducting a DDoS because they're simply protesting and they're consenting to use the tool.

Try telling that to Amazon. Wikileaks aside, if that happened to your site would you accept that this isn't a DDoS and is just the work of some people exercising their right to protest? Of course not.

The source of a DDoS is mostly irrelevant (beyond being distributed), it's the impact that matters, the success in the denial of service to others. The people that are using LOIC aren't protesting. They're (for the most part and certainly in the UK where the Guardian is based) committing a crime.
I wonder how casinos get away with seemingly blocking cellphone signals. In my experience whenever you go near a slot machine or table game in a casino, cell signal drops to zero.
He is already testifying before Congress. He's not exactly hidden.
Sorry, don't know the internals or thread details (though you can browse the git of course), but it does work very well. Some key points:

1. As per CL error handling/continuations, if something goes wrong you are dropped into the debugger and can live fix the problem without losing the OpenGL context (usually, I've still found ways to break things of course, since you have some more manual memory management happening with the GPU). CEPL has a 'live continue' feature that handles this for OpenGL/threads.

2. Live changing of code as in usual CL REPL works well. If you want to change stuff on the GPU, like a texture or shader, you may need to repush it to the GPU depending how your main loop draws stuff. For instance, I'll just once set a shader, so if I want to change it I'll need to explicitly update it to the GPU.

Anyway, is all rather great, can't imagine doing this stuff manually like I used to back in the C days and before real GPU programming.
True, but there should be mandatory tech licensing at least so they can't just suffocate progress.