jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thank fucking god. These tech companies were complicit in an incompetent but serious insurrection attempt. Better late than never, but they must have known things were going to get bad.

The right and the associated white supremists have far too much freedom to spread disinformation, racism and hatred.

I'm sure we'll see free speech absolutists in arms about this, but today is a good day for democracy.
How do you receive phone calls etc.? Does it redirect to your phone like Google Voice for example?
Great TDD demo by Toran Billups from EmberConf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1vcg_XSR8
Very cool. What tooling are you using? I've found the world of FPGA tools to be bewildering to the point that I've abandoned my projects and my Nexys3 languishes in a drawer.
Is it protocol at this point to always redirect from HTTP to HTTPS? Is there an RFC for that?
To quote Johannes Schindelin [1] :

This all just proves again that there can be no perfect merge strategy;
you'll always have to verify that the right thing was done.

[1] - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10574...
The problem with visions is that being a visionary is even harder than keeping to a diet.

If it's a good vision everyone will think you're crazy, if it's an awesome vision you probably are crazy, if it's an incredible vision you probably won't live long enough to enjoy its coming to fruition.

But always keep in mind that even a vision isn't everything, because a vision without execution is merely hallucination.

Personally I try to have a good mix of both. A vision and then a bunch of ideas around the vision to keep me excited, energetic and up all night. It might not be the most efficient of ways, but it sure helps deal with an internet-reduced attention span.
I don't know this is true for sure, perhaps introducing the patch would increase it's quality. If someone offered such a patch we could discuss, instead the article only shows the broken test case. It's almost a darcs plug without and reasoning.
warning: paypal gripe ahead

looks like a great idea (his game) so I decide for $6 it's worth a shot. My only payment choice is cc via PayPal, but PayPal are demanding my home address ("Please note we do not accept PO Boxes. If we are unable to match your address against Australia Post records, we may ask you to verify it by providing documentation."), full name and valid home phone number.

Sorry, but they're not getting them. I'm still interested in the game though.
I look at prison as separating people with anti-social behaviour from the rest of society. Rehabilitation/punishment for the individual is irrelevant.
No, the 1920-21 was.
this is a very insightful look at how people have changed their belief in what safe money is. In a lot of ways, money is a story of trust -- it's what you believe that other people will believe is true, is true. And when that fundamental belief of 'safe asset' moves from cash under the mattress, to cash in a savings account, to cash in an index fund, to cash in a cryptocurrency -- well, the ramifications are massive.
Yeah - I generally agree with you.

In the review business it's better to be playing the long-term game if you're building a real audience. In Wirecutter's case their long term advantage is to make good reviews without regard to the affiliate payment.

There are already thousands of other websites that are just disguised ads. Wirecutter's differentiating features is that they don't do that.

They still have some reviews I think are pretty mediocre or products they chose that I think are bad, but generally I think they're worth looking at.
So what if it's a problem? Are these game companies entitled to stop cheating by any means necessary? No. It's my computer and game companies have no right to tell me what I can or can't do with it.

If I want to cheat at their game, that's my right. The game is running on my computer and I should be able to modify anything I want whenever I want. Cheating at games is just an exercise in computer freedom. It shouldn't be prohibited to begin with as a matter of principle.

I actually have little interest in cheating though. What happens often enough is these anti-cheat services will scan my processes, detect my development tools or virtual machines and label me a cheater because of them. Some games literally refuse to even start because of this. They also ensure a lack of Linux compatibility due to their proprietary Windows drivers.

> so at the very least it doesn't do anything obviously malicious and likely doesn't have glaring security issues

Remember capcom.sys?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheWack0lian/status/7793978407622...
https://github.com/cbaggers/cepl
https://youtu.be/6pMyhrDcMzw
Looking for crypto secure code by searching on npm?

:facepalm:

Seriously.
>That completely got wrong what the Medieval period really was - the transition from Roman imperial rule to early-modern European states, and a small industrial revolution in technology including agriculture and navigation.

The Dark Ages are from ~500AD to ~900AD and as a term were first used in the 14th century. I don't know how else you would describe a period in which population was reduced to less than a quarter of what it had been at the peak of the Pax Romana.
You mean the influence where they sacked Constantinople in 1453 after centuries of attempts, destroying the Christian Byzantine empire and sending huge numbers of Byzantine writers and intellectuals fleeing to settle in Europe?
I'm an individual contributor in product management, so not in people management. Amazon / AWS is a challenging work environment, just like most other tech companies. In my opinion, that is also why so many people want to work for FAANG & Co, as you generally get to work on really interesting but also challenging things. I'd say that bursts of intense working periods are par for the course in FAANG & Co, but it also depends on your own ability to handle our self-service culture (which I find empowering). The culture is certainly peculiar but each large tech company has their own culture that works really well for some and doesn't jive with others. Just speaking for myself here, but I have learned a ton professionally and personally, work(ed) with inspiring people and had the best work-life balance of my career so far. Don't want to sound like a shill here - I'm certainly aware that in a company the size of Amazon there will be good and bad pockets, I just happened to work with good teams so far.
Nah, I don’t feel that way because I think the pool of candidates is often so big that everyone will be competent. Anyway, in this case, though, your idea is reinforced because the SF USD board is actually people more politically savvy than smart. For evidence, I present the Clarendon school renaming.
One's a dictionary (unordered, simple unique keys), and one's a list (ordered, arbitrary contents, no uniqueness constraints). Schemas may enforce more, but those are the intrinsic qualities.

I agree that use varies widely, but the difference is fairly clear. The existence of nonsense doesn't mean one can't make good decisions.
You appear to be blaming the person being run into, which is almost always wrong (at least in Michigan)

ITYM people in larger cars can't see what's going on in front of them (side-impact) and when in traffic, larger vehicles can't stop in time.
No, you're not the only one who feels that way
NixOS sparks joy for me, especially when reverting do different systems like you would git checkout a commit
That is pretty much how it’s done today. Global transactions are authorised in real time and then settled periodically. If I remember correctly, Visa does a settlement every 3 or 4 hours, then each of the merchants and other processors in the chain run their own schedule, so it can take a few days for balances to correctly reflect a transaction.

I remember being very impressed by Spanner when I first heard about it, but as you can see in the OP, it does make a lot of consistency guarantees through sheer brute force. It simply throws power/resources at problems which would generally be considered impractical when normally designing a distributed system. An approach which does of course have its limits (not to say it isn’t still impressive, it’s a great system).
I've had my moments during all this too, no worries.

> I should have made clear that I think you have poor judgement if you think this is a good idea to use unverified healthcare data to base any decisions on that could cause people severe harm or the restriction of their rights.

Check out this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-fever-...

> Just last Saturday, Kinsa’s data indicated an unusual rise in fevers in South Florida, even though it was not known to be a Covid-19 epicenter. Within days, testing showed that South Florida had indeed become an epicenter.

You buried the lede a bit on your prior experience (that's significant context!) but I'm not advocating anything more than data collection in the interest of identifying mass trends and hotspots.

I also disagree that the US' current inept response means software engineers have a moral duty not to hand them any complicated information (if I understood you correctly) but am having a harder time phrasing that.
You're not going to get more than 2-3 hours of work done, sorry. You might be able to do an hour or two after the kids are asleep, but then you won't be able to do chores and eventually you'll get tired/irritable/immuno-suppressed.
Also BestBuy is doing delivery. Just ordered something last night and got it today. Lets keep as many retail options available to ensure there is no retail single point of failure.
I don't know how you understood my comment to mean that we should be withdrawing education from students who are able to access it. Remedy in these situations typically looks like making up lost educational hours and paying for internet access for students who are unable to afford it.
Everyone has just seen the PM saying to stay home. If you get fired from that job, you don't want it.
> but for a study with a small number of sites where the patients are treated with the drug, there's enough inter-site variability that may obscure any effect, or create a false effect.

The simple solution is to spread it over enough sites so that the law of large numbers quantifies that variability into the dataset. For example if we run trials over 10 hospitals in 20 different states, 200 sites in the dataset would almost certainly capture inter-site variance.
You absolutely cannot be a remarkable clinician without engaging primary literature. Not sure where that claim comes from. Physicians need to know how to interpret and criticize findings from clinical trials to incorporate into their practice and communicate with patients. Plenty get away without doing that, but they are not counted among the best of us.
I'm always a little jealous when I see what people do with emacs. But I've never liked using emacs, so I've resigned myself to a permanent, mild case of emacs envy.

I think you could get approximately his same functionality with a terminal (e.g urxvt) and tmux for the splitting. In fact I do essentially that at work on Windows, from a cygwin terminal and tmux. When it fits whatever workflow I'm doing from within cygwin, I'll launch the occasional Windows program from there; the rest of the corporate Outlook, IE etc is done normally from Windows.

At home on Linux I get my basic window splitting from my window manager, i3wm. If I need more terminal-ish splitting I'll run tmux in a urxvt.

... still jealous of emacs though.
I don't find it surprising at all that the rats that feed on the scraps of human food are getting obese - they get the same trans fats, refined carbs and sugars and other stuff that people get.
Laboratory animals, again, are fed by humans. Are they fed strictly following the natural diet of fresh food they would eat in the wild? I doubt that - most likely at least some of it is substituted with cheaper option.

From my point of view, searching for a malicious virus that somehow makes us obese or some other obscure reason is just overcomplicating the issue.

When eating at our canteen at work I can peek into people's plates and the reflection of their choice of food on their size is fairly obvious in most cases.

Edit: just heard the sound of munching, which reminded me of an anectode: a colleague of mine quit smoking a couple of months ago. Now it looks like every time he feels like smoking a cig, he's eating a cookie instead. He also recently complained that after having a stable weight for years, he suddenly gained 5 kilos. Hmm, either he got stung by that virus, or too many cookies - pick your choice ...
This seems like a pretty common misconception about the kindle. I've never come across a book I couldn't read on my kindle. Just give it plain text and it's happy.
I didn't say we don't know how it works, we don't even know if it works.
Agreed, the article makes too many conclusions from too few studies without sufficiently many independently reproduced results. Yet again I am happy that I've read http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html .
I'm teaching my 11 year old cousin how to program and for now I'm just focusing on getting him familiar with the terminology and the thought process.

I'm using railsforzombies.org as a starting point because it has everything in one place and is noob-proof. We watch the video and then he tries to do the exercises. Along the way I relate OOP concepts to things that he's interested in..and zombies because who's not interested in zombies?
The big problem with totalitarianism, in practice, is that there is no perfect leader (and even if there were, his or her successors would not be). Any defense of totalitarianism is totally dependent on believing the Platonic noble lie that your leaders are simply better than you, which violates what we know of human nature. If you decide to do everything Bob tells you, sure, he might force you to eat right — but he'll also force you to wash his car and leave your wife with him for the weekend.
I still think Bloomberg should be sued for that. if due process finds that they had justifiable basis at the time, then fine. but if not this is grounds for libel. we can't have our top publications running around randomly throwing out accusations with zero consequences.

freedom of the press is important to me, but they also need to hold up their end of the bargain and have integrity and responsibility for their platform.
Why do M1 Macs (which are supposed to be new) even have Thunderbolt 3 ports? I would expect Thunderbolt 4 these days.
Correct, but the spirit of the law says that it should be universally accepted. Otherwise we'll all end up like in Orban's Hungary, with almost all the media technically in private hands but practically speaking in Orban's pockets (if I'm not mistaken a similar thing is now happening in Poland).
>There are both right and left leaning subs on reddit and it works ok.

But for any given sub that isn't political, there probably are not right and left-leaning subs. And given that viewpoint-based moderation is overwhelmingly-common on Reddit, this means that on non-politics based subreddits then engaging on any political issue as a right-leaning individual carries a decent risk of getting some sort of wrongthink ban. It's extremely common, sadly, and even though one can avoid politics entirely it's hard to just watch people circlejerk and mock people who hold your views when these issues do arise.
You are simply biased and this unable to perceive the situation objectively. The issue of social platforms silencing 'wrong' political positions is far more reaching than the current problem with trump, with potential dire consequences.

For now, the situation plays into your liking, because you think 'Trump is a bad actor'. But what would you sing when you'll be supporting the bad actor?

Simple example: Russian opposition is considered 'bad actors' in Russia by privately owned (by friends of Putin) tech giants, and is silenced on local social media.
"But when he went to the station, Mr. Matzneff had a talisman in his pocket: an article praising him by President François Mitterrand."

Only difference in the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was that he obtained his "thank-you note" from the president of MIT, rather than the president of France.

@Rafael Reif: hope you enjoyed the article ... because you should be on trial too!
UBI is efficient because the bureaucratic structure and approach to managing peoples incentives for them is so poorly thought out and inefficient that more of money gets allocated properly if you give it to the recipient directly and basically just hope their incentives align with yours indirectly rather than micromanaging their lives indirectly with conditional benefits to force some appearance of gains in your measured metrics.
This is fantastic. I usually loathe youtube videos and ADD out of them after a few seconds. I watched this to the end, stopping frequently and trying out new things in org-mode.

You taught me a lot, thank you very much. Do you have a favourite charity I can donate to?
Money is not the only incentive, but it's a very important one.
No. It's never been easier to make high quality software. I can run my own cloud environment, make quality user interfaces, integrate with third party providers to trivially do previously highly messy things like accept payments or send text messages, all as a solo developer.

Not because I'm particularly good but because a lot of the foundational work is now available with `git clone`.

There's a lot of crap around of course, but that's always been the case.
Academia, for all its faults, is still an excellent system for collecting those who are obsessive about s subject (at least for a certain set of “established” subjects.) It’s preposterously difficult to do the PhD-through-tenure course if you’re not obsessed, and it certainly isn’t the financially optimal career path; if someone has made it through that system, you can be sure they’re happy sitting and doing their subject all day, for days.
I honestly noticed it only today, after complimenting for providing the list of previous discussions
A more descriptive title would help
I wonder how they considered dust (dust storms) in their design of the mars helicopter.
Guix performed the bootstrap from mrustc 0.8 for rust 1.19 all the way to rust 1.28 in 2018: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/

Since them they've bootstrapped this all the way to 1.50: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

The work done here is non trivial, this chain of versions are required for the final binary to be reproducible.
You know, I was very interested to hear how you’d respond, thinking you’d surely have substantive counterpoints or address the core argument.

This is probably the worst response possible, and makes me believe GP is correct, because you don’t have any real response to their critiques.
Why wasn’t Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy Services overturned on 1A grounds?

“... if they are neutral platforms, they should have immunity from litigation. If they are publishers making editorial choices, then they should relinquish this valuable exemption. They can’t claim that Section 230 immunity is necessary to protect free speech, while they shape, control, and censor the speech on their platforms. Either the courts or Congress should clarify the matter.”

https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-1588...
The problem here isn't a lack of optimization, it's a lack of profiling. Premature optimization is a problem because you will waste time and create more complex code optimizing in places that don't actually need it, since it's not always intuitive what your biggest contributors to inefficiency are. Instead of optimizing right away, you should profile your code and figure out where you need to optimize. The problem is that they didn't do that.
And the white and asian parents will probably pay for alternatives while the black and hispanic kids probably won't have that option.

It really is the worse outcome here.
In most American states the customer is entitled, by law, to the lowest advertised or marked price. The store must honor that price.

In some cities, they're required to give the customer the item for free if the price at the register doesn't match what's on the product or on the shelf. My grandmother was notorious for holding up checkout lines for this reason.
I give you folks a lot of credit for building a professional ecosystem on top of a brilliant but constantly moving target (FFMPEG). Well done.
It's definitely a Pikachu call-out. See the mouse logo and the lightning favico.
Cool, Arcan looks a lot more viable for me than wayland
>What secrets lurk in your DMs, Messenger and Signal history? Does your draft blog post actually contain some amazingly insightful observation?

Things that need to stay secret. That's why they are secrets. If my passing means that these things are no longer accessible to anyone ever again? Perfect. Works as intended.
Dark Crystal [https://darkcrystal.pw/] does Shamir Secret Sharing over several protocols.
If everything is a lie, then "everything is a lie" is a lie.
Not to sound flip, but if you're concerned about law enforcement tracking your movements, you should leave the phone at home.
I understand being cynical but in this case the keyword is anonymous. The encryption is for protecting in transit like you said.

In order to populate their wi-fi/location database they really don't have to send over a person's IP to the server. In fact its something they don't want I would assume as it adds absolutely no value to the data. They already know who you are and where you are don't they?
"Realize, now, what a crazy position we were in."
You were allowed to bring in your own hardware and use it. Lucky.
TCP latency is problematical so at Sococo we do our own protocols under UDP. Different problems, sure, but latency is not one of them. And with voice its important to keep working on the latency issue.
From a pure energy efficiency perspective, it's not. A more relevant parameter might be energy return per human energy input, where letting plants do their thing and then using them is pretty darn efficient.
Also be sure to strip EXIF data since it can contain an original thumbnail. Not all image editors update the thumbnail with changes.
So can this be done with just a regular camera without depth perception?
Adding messaging to C to create Objective-C must be one of the most elegant language hacks ever. Brad Cox and Stepstone deserve all the credit not Apple (NeXT).
GNUStep is LGPL, which is less strict that GPL. Applications can link dynamically to LGPL libraries without needing to adopt the license.
It's likely much simpler than that. Stop eating and subsidizing cheap carbohydrates - acquire health.
Right now its Kinect only--but it's called DepthJS versus KinectJS because we'll eventually infer depth using web cams.
And really, he has no idea what's going to happen to those slides, who else will see them, or what misconstrued message may come across in the absence of the talk itself.
I'm a vegetarian, and there are only two foods that I miss eating: burgers and sushi. I tried the Impossible Whopper and it was better than I remember the regular Whopper tasting. Offering it could be a really powerful force in pushing the food industry away from meat. I think Burger King is helping the cause enormously by offering it, and I'd be sad if its efforts were blocked by a frivolous lawsuit.
The voice-over voice in the video on the landing page is terrible. Sorry :(
Kind of. IPv6 addresses are for the most part worthless. They're only useful to shed load for CGNAT but that's only workable if you can configure the end user devices, hence why it's taken off with carriers.