jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do agree with you. Maybe it's something the Internet is "doing to my brain" [1], but everyday I feel less and less inclined to resort to video when I'm actively seeking information; I guess the "new" me can't stand watching something at its own pace (or, worst, focusing on one and only one thing at once). I got too used to reading, skimming and scanning at my own pace (and no - clicking randomly at a timeline or accelerating the playback is not the same).

I've noticed this before MOOCs, actually. Take web development tutorials, for instance. A few colleagues of mine loved video tutorials from (e.g) lynda.com; I found it utterly boring and inefficient.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/...
"What would be on the news if he was a terrorist and they find out that he actually set off the explosives detector before doing his deed?"

Yeah, Schneier calls it Cover Your Ass Security. It's not super effective ..

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/cya_security_...
I kept all grounds in a ziplock freezer bag in a dark room-temp cabinet. As I went from freshest to least-fresh I found that there were flavors missing and more bitterness and acidity.

What I meant about wine is that there is a lot of stuff in the wine world that people obsess over, but is not detectable by even experts. For example, the differences in regions of origin, price of the bottle, etc. I'm not saying that everything in the wine world is BS but there is plenty of if. Even experts have been fooled with food coloring into describing white wines with adjectives normally used to describe reds.
I guess it depends on how you draw the line between scraping and hacking.
We can probably agree that if you publish a list of Marvel superheroes and I download it, that is scraping. If you put it behind password protection and I find an error and get it, then it’s hacking.

Now let’s assume you make a quiz which uses the list as answers, taking the quiz is just normal behavior, automating taking the quiz in order to extract the whole list is somewhere between hacking and scraping to me. It’s not “just scraping content” but it’s also not using a security exploit to gain unauthorized access, it’s abusing the systems intended functionality to expose content that was not intended to be published and then collecting it.

Obviously someone should’ve be able to get a Facebook account id just by providing a phone number in the first place, but if used as intended the feature is harmless, but if we want to claim this is “just scraping” then Facebook would also be claiming that the there was absolutely not issue in publishing a list of all user accounts and phone numbers in the first place.
UTF-8 is just... so well designed.

One little feature I like in particular is that if you're looking for an ASCII-7 character in a UTF-8 stream -- say, a LF or comma -- you don't have to decode the stream first because all bytes in the encoding of non-ASCII-7 characters have the high bit set. Or as Wikipedia puts it:

> Since ASCII bytes do not occur when encoding non-ASCII code points into UTF-8, UTF-8 is safe to use within most programming and document languages that interpret certain ASCII characters in a special way, such as / (slash) in filenames, \ (backslash) in escape sequences, and % in printf.

It's amazing to hear they put it together in one night at a diner! :-D
Where did you see a photo of this guy? I can’t seem to see it in the article
I'm not talking about public figures.

> I feel like the best way to deal with this situation is just to accept that its all OK.

It's not all ok. It's ok to be into feet. It's ok to be any age, race, class. It's ok to publish anything you want about yourself in any way you choose. I'm not judging or shaming any of those things.

What's NOT ok is using/sharing someone's photos without their consent. In legal terms, it's likely a violation of copyright laws. In terms of morality/decency, it's a violation of respect for another person's boundaries.
The original thesis concerns only computable functions, which are deterministic by definition. It doesn't even consider their complexity. There are extended variations of the thesis, though. The complexity variation means that any computable function in one model of computation can have only a polynomial slowdown factor in comparison with another model of computation. It's believed to be false since the raise of quantum computations.
> we humans always, without exceptions, fuck up everything that is even theoretically fuckable

Don’t mean to intrude, but it reads rather negative. Maybe you should seek help?
What you say is right, but is about copyright, not consent.
No social media collect the consent of people in the actual pictures when the person in the picture is not the one who is posting it.
Fair point. And perhaps one additional step: The more voters they have, the more money they need for the campaign.
> What do you still do manually?

If there is no car in front of you, stop and start at lights and intersections. Turn (while with FSD package it takes highway ramps automatically, it’s not reliable on any complex highway intersection). In heavy traffic, you have to change lanes manually, automatic system is not aggressive enough.
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> Never refer to a Dr. as Mr./Mrs./Ms. It just isn't done.

In fairness to Prof. Clark, it's not like he was pointing out that faux pas to someone who didn't know of his position. Jeff Atwood by this point would be well aware of Prof. Clark's qualifications.

I'm not going to say that Jeff deliberately downgraded Prof. Clark's title in his reply (as opposed to the entirely possible "I just call everyone Mr./Ms.") but given Joel Spolsky's comment elsewhere in this thread about "being nice" (note: direct quote! ;) I'm feeling some cognitive dissonance here.
For those who haven't picked up the error: Math.random() returns a value between 0 and 1, and the typecasting floors the value.
I think that's called job security in some circles. ;)
I think you're being generous to Atwood here. I don't see how he has any business deleting comments in a community that (1) he did not start* (2) he is not an active member of. I'd argue that this statement is invariant across communities - hacker or otherwise.

This really is a classic micromanagement fail.
The original action was motivated by a misguided sense of "being involved". The problem was then exacerbated by an unwillingness to accept mistakes and a sense of outrage fuelled by an ego-bruising.

*I do of course understand Atwood is one of the founders of the SE network of sites.
Can't we get Mythbusters to do it?
I'm having a hard time believing these are all actually Google Maps shots. Would have been nice if they had included a link to the image on Maps.
#17 from the end looks like the creek near Google. I'm guessing those are some of the Google Street View people in the picture (one on scooter, one with visible badge, one mad scientist long haired type) :-).
Everyone owes income taxes and Social Security/unemployment ("FICA") taxes on all of their income.

Actually, this isn't true; the Social Security portion of FICA (which is most of it) is only paid on the first $106k of your gross income (in 2010). Additionally, the word "income" in your sentence reveals some very complex questions about the differences between gross revenue, gross income, modified adjusted gross income, etc. The "income" against which you pay taxes can vary greatly from the actual cash coming into your bank account, thanks to a variety of deductions and credits. I own real estate that produces positive cashflow but I take a "loss" on it every year according to the IRS, offsetting some of my other income.

Your best advice here is to hire an accountant :)
What's the point in reading HN on paper? I would hate to type all those links manually after reading them.
Live demo URL?
The visual representation of something is integrally linked with how it works. Thinking of that as just something graphic designers do to make it pretty is in my opinion the crux of the disagreement here. I don't think that this division should exist.

I've certainly seen it performed like this. In fact, I believe it's the norm. But I also think it's the cause of many bad experiences.

The perfect flow, in my opinion, is to have the same person responsible for how it works and how it looks because the best interfaces and applications merges those two together.

Also, I largely consider wireframes and flow charts to be poor substitutions for designers capable of jumping straight from ultra-rough paper sketch to HTML. The more layers of indirection, the worse.
One thing I've noticed about OpenTable is that usually when I can't make a reservation through their service (e.g. when it says there are no available times left) I can still call the restaurant and be accommodated. After doing this a few times now, it's made me wonder about the value-added for the restaurant-goer as well as for the restaurant. It seems like in these situations, OpenTable is just getting in the way of the restaurant-customer relationship to the detriment of both.
Already looking bad, considering some of the apps up on the right hand bar. I got "Charlie bit me 3.0", "Snail race" and "Who threw poo".

Unless this is some sort of cunning parody site...
That's very impressive tech. Anything that can be charged that fast can usually also be discharged that fast, you really don't want to short one of these out.

Looking forward to the automotive adaptation of the concept.
wow, this story is incredible.

Dalia, thank you for being so honest about your experience. I have no doubt that your dedication and cheerful approach to the field will take you far.

Not gonna lie, the end made me tear up a bit. I hope you an incredible summer with your friends.
The drone swarm concept is irrelevant to the high and fast fight, but very relevant to infantry and armour. Of course HN is getting it confused. '3D printed jets!' they cry.

However smart jets will be a thing, as evidenced by the Boeing Loyal Wingman program (awful name). The uninhabited jet will push further into the engagement envelope, pull higher Gs, risk SAM lock-on to take out the SAM, fly in the dust like Tornados used to. And it will get task guidance from the X band data link from a human piloted jet. But that UAV will likely be as expensive as a regular jet (more including development cost of AI tech, retrofitting remote control into other jets).

Swarms of loitering munitions make sense in countering mobile SAM sites, as the Syrians/Russians (in Syria) and Emiratis(in Libya) are finding out -- so many Pantsir-S (SA-22) point defence systems destroyed by Turkish drones. So how long before S-400 systems (long range AAAD) get eaten?
AWS seems to realize that good service focusing on product needs will lead to more revenue in the long term.

GCP wants to front load revenue concerns, making product usage secondary.

Even apart from AWS's first-mover advantage, GCP should not be lagging as far behind as they are. Azure for example started a little later than GCP yet still appears to have more of the market.
Don't forget all the international partners. One major force behind the VTAL version were the British who wanted a new Harrier.
"I point out to him no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States, and so the idea I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uighurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful … I said, and, by the, he said, he – he gets it. Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow."

Biden talking about conversation with Xi
Why is that a tinfoil hat?

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Notably, fat retains fake estrogens such as parabens and pthalates because both are fat-soluble.

You might be accidentally making a counterpoint if it turns out that the retention of fake estrogens are what are mediating the effect.
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Han Chinese in Xinjiang today? Anglo Americans immigrating to Western North America in the 1800's? Germany's failed attempt to immigrate to eastern Europe in the 1940's? All of these are rightfully singled out in a negative light.
It's the freedom to choose. People can chooose what they consume. It's right that it's a right. But this "right" has been exploited by media $$$ to manipulate the gullible and unlearned. Sad.
'This is – to use a technical term – bullcrap.' It's moderately inspiring to read this kind of technical opinion from a technical leader.

I have heard similar objections/uneasiness concerning delivery-aligned reporting, coming especially from more junior specialists. More so within teams with broader sets of disciplines.

In addition to the need of improving their skillset and receiving tailored career guidance, there is sometimes a strong political component.
When you have a revolving door from the intelligence agencies into the news commentariat, along with speech writers/communications staff for politicians, I think that it's safe to eye "The News" as being at best an unwitting tool of state propaganda, if not an open-eyed broker/distributor of it. I could maybe cut them some slack for eagerly and uncritically repeating the feeds from "unnamed intelligence sources", but when you're paying the nominally "retired" members of the community to help craft the narrative, it's hard to view them as "mostly credible".
cheers! glad to hear that :)
One hopes that the IT dept can remote kill any connected machine - if they are up to snuff???
According to the history of Weimar Germany, this seems nothing like that, though. They enforced their views with guns. We reinforce our views with protests. Yes, there are some crazy folks with guns, but that's different than the politicians themselves having a personal military that they use to purge opponents.

However, I'd love a deep historical perspective – it would be fascinating if there were parallels to be drawn. But, are there any?
I have never lost a matrix message (but I am fed up with e2e warning and new session weird insecure messages) but I have come to the conclusion than Signal isn't reliable since it sometimes lose messages. It's no-no.
You can donate to Signal too. What has to happen until people realize they should be willing to pay a little money for a service?

We've actually witnessed that people _are_ willing to pay for streaming services like Spotify and Netflix after a long time of illegal torrents. How can we spread this sentiment towards services like email and chat too?
In tier 4 areas, which included London[1], no mixing was allowed over the Christmas period, including Christmas day.

Source: Being in London during Christmas.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55380644
The motives could be many. While Wikipedia is a so called non-profit foundation it has its one biases and various groups use it to push various agendas including political agendas.
Do you have data to support that claim, or is it just one of those thing some people chose to believe?

If we were to go and do a gitblame on the whole source tree, how high percentage would account for companies that produce/depend on DRM? 75% (majority), 25%(strong minority) or some 0.00something which barely register.
If it works, then your blocking is ineffective.

If these calls are blocked, the update will fail, as they are required.
They'll say the meter isn't working and offer a fixed rate that's usually way higher than what you should be paying. It's illegal in many jurisdictions for precisely this reason.
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... perhaps the most powerful tool that a parent and/or teacher has in the arsenal.

Grrr...mixing metaphors and it's not even New Year's Eve yet.
Fuck banning technology; isn't the logical thing to do to make it a free (i.e. tax-supported) public good, like health care should be, or roads? I mean, why should the roads be free, and the cars not?
> Taxi's will often say that their credit card machine is broken.

Then, insist that they break out the manual credit-card processor and carbon paper. If they refuse, offer to have them call the cops. Their payment-processing hardware will probably magically start working.
Vector displays don't usually handle text very well. They can draw perfect curves, but I don't think they could ever do the Bezier curves that fonts depend on.

Anyways, what you are referring to is in between vector and rasterized displays. Still very interesting. I should ask my dad about this (he worked for Textronix in the 70s).
Honestly, I think it's useful to be talking about basic income right now so that when the time arrives it's not a totally alien idea.

It would also be useful to have some small-scale prototypes running well in advance to help work out wrinkles.
I've had a very similar experience, its uncanny. I was in my 20s at the time and I was trying to fix a charging problem on this old truck I had. I decided to take it for a test ride to see if the problem is fixed. Of course it isn't and the battery dies while I am in the middle of an intersection. I have jumper cables so I pop the hood and I am standing there holding the cables trying to get someone to stop. I got people flipping me off, honking their horns, etc, no one stops.
A Mexican guy stops, family in the car, pops his hood and gives me a jump. I didn't get a chance to talk to him because I had to get the truck out of the road, but I did say thanks.
Ever since that incident I have been paying it forward. I've probably helped dozens of people since then who were broke down because that guy chose to help me. It's nice to see there are others out there paying it forward as well.
And, Apple already has a platform exclusively for curated apps: iOS. The whole notion of a "Mac App Store" revolves around curated apps on an otherwise open platform. A locked-down MacOS is really, from the perspective of consumers (the only thing that actually matters), just iOS.
I've seen that behavior here. But then, I have some beliefs that sorely challenge many HNers world views.
FWIW, there is bias in NPR/PBS/NYT/etc, but it is not in the content of the reports, but rather in what is reported.

Any news org can only cover so much, there is an (editorial) call on what to cover and what not to cover. And in that (I've seen studies years go, so not handy) there is a detectable bias.

IMO this is fine. I understand that story selection has editorial bias, even in news reporting. I compensate by reading several different sources that have different editorial slants, but still fact based reporting.
Palm and other added oils are pretty much superfluous for peanut butter though, only really added to prevent the minor inconvenience of stirring the peanut butter.
> #KillAllMen on the other hand is a very precise call to violence, and yet nobody cares about banning that on social media.

...are you quite serious? Has a single person in the world taken this as an actual call to action?
Not an expert by from my understanding bitcoin doesn't offer any reasonable transaction confirmation times and as such is of limited value as a currency. Instead it's being used as a commodity.
I disagree with where and how this industry failed the rest of people. I can quote you numerous "nerds", such as the esteemed (/s) Eric Emerson Schmidt that told us on a public podium that it is unreasonable to have "an expectation of privacy "(a technical legal phrase, btw) when using the internet. So let's not blame this on the "smart phone" and usability.

In the late 80s and 90s, we had influential technologists that sold what became the Panopticon as a liberating force that would unleash creativity and usher in a new era of freedom. Most now work for one of the FANGs. The rest made a face saving effort via EFF.

> If privacy was high-value, any privacy-conscious competitor would've taken the market by storm.

Which VCs would fund them? VCs, even our gracious hosts YCombinator, are gate keepers of who & what gets funding.

Has YCombinator, with genuine educated and well informed geeks at the helm, ever supported a decentralized proposal?

Consumers can only choose from what is on the menu.

And "privacy conscious" competitors were not on the menu. Or maybe I did miss these. This is possible, so can you point out which VC funded "privacy conscious" startups failed against competing venture funded centralized systems?

To this day, non-geeks are not aware that it is possible for them to have their social apps while insuring their privacy.
No kidding. Seems like an elegant solution to a potential problem to me. I've only used R at the "poke stick at numbers" level, but this would have been a useful addition to that trivial use.
We know that Trump asked Pence to disregard EC results. I don't understand how that could possibly be under dispute in good faith

Further, peoples' social media accounts show that a mob stormed the capitol with minimal police resistance.

It is very clear what happened here.
No, actually, "understanding" that Khameni is a "bad guy" requires accepting that received wisdom from nearly anyone in American politics or media. It is not a hard position to have; most Americans already have it without any examination.
I'd vote for Manning for President if he ever gets out of jail. The guy obviously has morals, integrity and a spine. I really think he's a hero. The government should be accountable to the people.

Think about Iraq/Afghanistan if there were WikiLeaks in 2001 would Bush have been able to get away with all the lies he told to push us into two wars? I really doubt it.

The world is safer with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks ripped off the clock of secrecy and now they have to operate in public as it should be.