jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a writer and blogger, I can say that this has absolutely been the case for me over the past year. Whereas before I used to blog about anything that came to mind (that wouldn't negatively impact my employment), I now weigh each blog post, Facebook post, tweet ,and non-OTR encrypted GChat (for friends who are too lazy/clueless to install OTR) carefully, employing an amount of self-censorship that I never would have thought possible before. I am even now different over text messages. I've lost my writing voice.

I was afraid to write even this post [1], which sounds ludicrous, but it's amazing how much hearing the revelations impacted me.

The irony of this situation is that, even before the Snowden leaks, I had been (and am) working on a novel about 1936 in the Soviet Union, the year before the largest of the Great Purges, and had been struggling to get a handle on how people felt about information censorship and how people found out that their government was not what it seemed.

[1] http://blog.vickiboykis.com/2013/06/being-american/
Incidentally, time.nist.gov is down. It hosts a list of leap seconds at ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list.
Because of High Frequency Trading
Is that basically a real-life Cryptonomicon?
I think this is the approach recommended by djb in http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
You can buy a box that attaches to anything you'd like to track. For example with magnets to a steel shipping container.
It has its own battery and gps and a satellite phone. It notices from the gps when the container is moving and starts sending position updates with the satellite phone. You can specify the interval, that then decides how many years the battery lasts.
Great to see this finally get out there, it's been awesome to watch this project develop!

This is also a particularly good release write-up, big ups to the team for writing about all of the components that have gone into this new release.
That is a surprisingly short code for the balancing logic.
Because 99% of the time, a project's name is not spoken out loud - it's all on the internet.

I mean I'm glad I don't have to speak "Cee-plus-plus" out loud much.
Who is this product for? The majority of expert Excel users in a company, do not know how to code. The majority of people that in a company are coding (for whatever aim) are never asked to produce business reports from excel. People who need the report (management) do not care how easy or complex it is to create it. Airtable is (somewhat) successful because it allowed a vast group of people with limited excel knowledge to create good looking reports with a simple visual interface. I think your app just gives people who know how to use (coders) it something they don't need (excel reports), or gives people who would need it (analysts, controllers, managers) something they would be scared to use (too much coding!!).
So nobody is really going to bother management with the request to try it and buy it.
Buffer overflows are well established too, not all traditions are good.
"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace."

I hadn't realised Calgacus was talking about bicycle theft!

Edit: Just to confirm, up here north of the walls (note the plural) we do actually have bicycles.
The skull works as a Faraday cage in such situations?
> AWS wrote Firecracker to run Fargate
thank you for mention that. Which projects like Firecracker, it really doesn't make sense to have Docker.
> Game industry.

Aside from that being an entire industry as opposed to a single company, are you not aware that BigCo games generally contain a developer console of some sort? Even the ones that don't provide end user access to it still usually have one buried somewhere.

Plus many of the dev tools for manipulating assets are either CLI based or have one integrated ...
This is a kernel parameter, so just set it in whatever bootloader Pop OS uses..
Best comedy video
I put some gaffer tape on the bottom of my Apple TV remote to make it obvious which end is up. I'm personally not a fan of the touchpad. In principle, it's a decent solution to the problem, but Apple's implementation is somehow not sensitive enough and too sensitive at the same time.
The author also wrote a blog post about how much he hates wearing anti-covid masks https://gavinhoward.com/2021/02/boycotting-petty-tyrant-busi.... Somehow I’m not surprised.

Also bc might not be quite the yardstick when it comes to software that needs to be secure.
Many people don't have enough money to replace their roof and go on a trip in the same period.
> Now, if I was in prison with Adam Wathan and Steve S, I’d 100% protect them in the showers if they dropped the soap.

Sorry to go on a tangent here with a commentary unrelated to the discussion at hand (which is indeed an interesting one), but can we please stop with the rape jokes. They are not funny, and may be triggering to a large portion of your readers.
That is the main reason I don't have a phone.

I know that I'm addicted to the internet and screens, and I know I'd be that guy compulsively picking up my phone every 30 seconds to see if something is going on. Doubly so if I were in a social situation where it was "easier" to stare at my phone than actually talk to humans.

I think of it a lot like a recovering alcoholic not wanting to go into a bar - it's just best to avoid the temptation altogether.

It can be inconvenient not have a phone from time to time, but overall I think my life is better without one.

Whenever I'm asked for my number and I explain I don't actually have a phone, literally every single person gushes "OMG, I wish I could get rid of mine!". That helps keeps me motivated to deal with the inconvenience. (Like people complaining about horrid hangovers to recovering alcoholics)
Being an administrator/moderator is a big responsibly. Sure, if it's a small time forum, maybe nothing really bad would happen if someone gets banned,well you know, because you wanted that way. However, different platforms can have a detrimental impact on ones life, including employment, status in the society and so on. The worst part? You don't start measuring the throne of power immediately, you gradually descend into it. You start normalizing things you couldn't just a few months ago.
I know from my own work that ultimate access and control of everything can poison most. You get these little challenges every now and then and you get tested, and eventually, depending on one's nature, you either say 'screw this,I'm not doing it' or you become a despot.
For three different “jobs”, though.
Unpaid child support will result in an arrest warrant in many states. The debt itself may be civil, but it's a crime to avoid the court mandated payments.

My father in law was in a coma for a while and the child support payments stopped and he went broke from the lack of job and medical bills. They arrested him multiple times after that because he wasn't paying. Of course that gave him a criminal record and made it much harder to get a job.
When I was fired from my first job, a friend and mentor looked at me and asked "Is this your first time getting fired?"

Everything about that question helped me gain perspective. Not only did he normalize getting fired, but he implied that getting fired multiple times in a career was quite possible and pretty independent of ones actual ability.

I haven't been fired since, but I have thought about it often. Definitely a good lesson to learn early.
Here's an interesting thought. This app is so good it could influence Apple hardware.

While I agree this is a killer app for the iOS platform, it doesn't yet have the polish that Jobs would demand for a live demo. A good deal of that is the hardware contraints of the system.

I think if you had invented a dedicated device that did nothing but this app it would sell like hotcakes, and we've heard in this forum that people are considering buying iPod touches just to give them out this app to family.

Thus if you wanted to move the needle from 'wow' to 'insanely great' it would take hardware level engineering to optimize the device, which I don't think it outside the realm of possibility.

Remember it was killer apps like quake, unreal, and crisis that moved the graphics card industry for years. This app has the potential for even broader appeal, and its successors will require even more horsepower.
I actually grew up near Chernobyl and both my parents still work there. Pretty much anyone who knows even a little about nuclear energy and does not have a political position is very much pro-nuclear.
This is on point - pollution is the loanshark in everyone's blindspot. To 'save' a dollar on renewables is to codemn your kids to pay a thousand
With all due respect, your comment suggests that you were spending beyond your means, or keeping up with the Joneses. Millions go very far if invested properly and drawn down properly so that the principal is never touched. If you're spending the millions instead, then yeah, that's definitely not gonna go far.
How do I download this video (with the subtitles if possible)? Youtube-DL doesn't help.
I think this is related to the contagion heuristic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_heuristic
I think it's hard for a lot of people to create emotionally and sexually meaningful relationships.
Unless you've had out of the ordinary incidents like being slapped, punched and so on, it's probably a lack of opportunities combined with some bad luck and maybe a lack of understanding how relationships can be "hacked" a bit to help them along.

My theory is that the way we form relationships is a combination of innate ability (1) and learned behaviour (2).

(1) is common to each human and includes things such as interpreting facial expressions, sense of touch, etc, even though I agree that conditions such as autism can have a significant negative impact here.
Still, you said you are failing, which means you are trying and you do express a desire to succeed, so I am guessing that this is not what's preventing you from succeeding, but rather it's something related to your beliefs and behaviours. Which leads me to...

(2) this behaviour is normally learned as we grow up, as a combination of advice from parents, your social circle and simply experimenting. But if one has an unusual childhood, parents that teach them "wrong" things, is e.g. bullied or simply has bad luck, they might end up either not knowing what to do to form a romantic relationship or even doing the opposite of what they should do. In which case they have to learn by themselves.
Now I don't know the particulars of your situation, but have you read available literature about how human sexuality and relationships work? e.g: Pittman's Man Enough, Miller's Mating Mind, Meston's Why Women Have Sex.
This might be a starting point in better understanding what's happening and why you find things difficult.
I feel like this would scale really poorly. But i guess they dont want to be billion dollar company so that's ok for their goals.
Generally speaking, by the point you’re trying to find an alibi for the honest-to-god criminal charge of sedition, multiple mistakes have been made.
I like his idea of having an alias to commit to when he wants to save off work.

If you combine that with a checkout (co) alias which saves the current branch and checks the latest commit message of the destination branch and 'reset HEAD~1 --mixed's when it was 'SAVEPOINT' and functionally you have regular git that allows you to move around between branches without committing first.
It's pretty well-suited as a panopticon, I guess.
"but only 6 percent say that they personally pay too little." (in taxes).

No one is stopping people who feel this way from writing a check to the government. They'll take your money just fine.
Sorry to pick nits, but you magnificently managed to completely miss his point.
With just the most minuscule bit of initial setup a simple bash function using just SSH can replicate all of the functionality (and more) of showoff.io, with just as much ease ('show 3000 subdomain') but hopefully the upcoming features will make it a more viable proposition... :)

Then again, I'm quite happy with a VPS setup since I get all of the extra benefits of having the server around...
> but damn if I can find a way to use C as a web developer

Write a web app in C? ;)

But yeah, in most cases C won't improve your productivity as a web developer. But it will certainly make you understand the computer better.

So maybe start a recreational project in C? A command line utility, a demon, a music streaming server - something not really web-dev related.
> You have to have Apache setup (which, when developing a new project, you may likely not have even reached that point).

Showoff project is definitely cool, but instead of apache, nginx installs in one command and can easily proxy like this with about 10 lines of easily googled config using 1/10 of the resources on a simple prgmr account or the like.
Read about this site before, still very unsure of how true a lot of their facts and numbers are. But they've certainly done exceptionally well.
Interesting idea, although I actually like just injecting noise (add say 500nm to all of the co-ordinates or some such) which would basically corrupt the database that this was being injected into.

On a more interesting note if you put '); droptable; into your file could you delete the receiving database? A whole new vector for SQL injection hacks I suspect.
Yes it would be really interesting to find out who those guys were, were they Proud Boys, Antifa, foreign agents, undercover domestic agents, etc?
I will one day write a piece about how the tech industry accidentally invented the superior business model. Pay workers higher and they're less likely to unionise. They're more productive (lest they lose their jobs). They don't want to leave. This works for the tech industry because technically they're not paying workers higher to be generous, it's just a different way to invest the profits back into the business, like how a car company would invest into steel infrastructure. Software doesn't need to do that, their infrastructure is employee's brains.

As it turns out, the more ethical solution tends to work better for businesses, I think. If CEO's took a cut out of their salary and the profits and reinvested it into worker salaries I am willing to bet this would make any business more productive.

You might say software employees leave and unionise anyway, but they only leave to go to better companies and their unions aren't very popular. Time will tell on that second point though.
No, people weren't allowed to post submissions there. That's what I mean by locked. I guess I should say "restricted mode" instead. From wikipedia:

"On February 26, 2020, Reddit administrators removed a number of r/The_Donald moderators "that were approving, stickying, and generally supporting content in this subreddit that breaks [Reddit's] content policy" and called the remaining moderators to choose new ones from a list of Reddit-approved individuals. About the same time, Reddit placed r/The_Donald in "Restricted mode", removing the ability to create new posts from most of its users. Since then, some users of the subreddit had moved to theDonald.win, a separate site based on Reddit's old user interface."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald

From Heavy:

https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/the-donald-subreddit-moved-to...

Reddit admins did the same to Chapo before it was banned too. They replaced a bunch of their mods, chapo just kept going though, with some new rules and stricter moderation to try and stay unbanned.
Pretty confusing to edit your post like that.
> they believed the tariff-free trade deal negotiated between the UK and EU meant there would be no extra charges

A tariff is a governmentally mandated payment required for goods to move across a border.

These people are being told by a government that they need to make a payment to have their goods move across a border.

The Brexit deal says there will be no tariffs.

How is this possible?
There was a great thread on Twitter about the infosec implications of this breach of the capitol. In short, you have to assume foreign state actors were among the people inside, and every piece of technology should be replaced.

https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/1347001812889452545?s=20
This isn't the first mass protest in DC. Why is this the first time they were able to get into the Capitol while in session?
> When people don't get it, is it their failing or mine?

I've made dozens of languages and studied thousands more.

One easy tip: show ~10 lines of code near the top of the
page, above the fold.

Without that, you'll probably never get a critical mass of
discerning critics to care, because they're too busy.

I'm very interested in your lang, both because I
like langs and like creating board games, but
gave up b/c I couldnt find code.
Just some thoughts, I can be wrong, and I probably have much less in-depth knowledge of the attack.

To call it the largest & most sophisticated ever seen sounds like ignoring some that others have mentioned here, and the fact that we don't know what others have not been publicized yet, including things like this (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/chinese-suppl... where we don't know everything, there can be debate; but given means, motive, and opportunity, I think at least keeping our eyes open and attempting to adopt wise practices based on realistic trust levels and long-term track records, could be a good idea.

Plus I question the credibility of MS on security or anything they say, given their long track record, and when compared to others (like maybe OpenBSD), and things like this as just one very recent example: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/on-vulnerabil... ...?
I'm looking at this source for California which includes imports. The main source of error is "unspecified" open market imports, but even if 100% of that is from fossil fuels, which seems unlikely, the worst-case error is another 7% of the total.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

Your understanding sounds completely fictional to me. Where did you come to believe that the primary source of imported power is Utah coal?
Oh the joys of tweenage discovery! For me it was writing programs in dbase+ and lotus123 ... much later I did MFC and a precursor whose name escapes me now... what a programming dead end that was!
Thank you for your reply :).

Supposing most people think like that, it would indeed explain why there are so little of these types of visualizations out there. The effort, as you say, is probably not worth the objective value it would create (which is why I hoped someone else had already done the work).

For me, a visualization of the breakdown of languages by application domain would have immense value, especially for broadening my perspective. As someone who never gets to toy with FPGAs in my day job for example, I would be oblivious to most of the ideas that flow into PLs for FPGAs. Why a visualization? I guess that is just taste. I find visualization a lot easier and faster to digest.

And I bet there are quite a few PLs that I have no idea about that have answers to problems I have encountered before.

And for the second type of visualization, I find those to be quite helpful in understanding and tracing back the roots of PLs. This often makes me comprehend quite quickly why things are done certain ways in different PLs. Especially looking at the main, root influence of a bunch of PLs and understanding the zeitgeist it was created in, what problem it was solving, who created it etc. give me a much deeper understanding.

So I don't think such visualization are useless, but I could probably not justify spending the amount of time it would take to create them either.
The title of the post should have been phrased for the audience of ORM users. With ActiveRecord and such `SELECT *` is the norm rather than the exception. With an ORM it's even worse as its even allocating/converting data for the fields. Learn to use `pluck` or you ORM's equivalent.
I see that, too. But I don't think it's fair to blame on ORM. I also see it happening in non-ORM code that uses the repository pattern, for example.

For example, there's nothing about the code example you give that strictly implies the use of an ORM, just the use of some sort of layered design.
Anti-trust. In fact Microsoft invested in Borland as part of a settlement for predatory hiring, IIRC.
There's a proposal to add fibers (akin to Boost.Fiber) to std C++, and of course, don't forget about coroutines :-)
See comment by brudgers in this thread that's great

They will know you spent a small amount of time, because your champion has championned you as being able to solve the problem, not "having a ready made solution".

They won't be able to ship, but unfortunately, they don't know it yet. They might fear it, but the management probably won't admit it, because if they did, they wouldn't have set themselves in this trap in the first place...

The $250hr vs $25k makes think of an anecdote about Picasso (found no credible source online about it, sorry):
During an event, he scribbled a figure on a napkin. The napkin was instanly worth serious $$$. "This will pay for my dinner" he said. The restaurant manager objected, saying "But it only took a few seconds to draw this!". No, he said, it took me my whole life.

I don't know if it's apocryphical or not, but I try to keep that in mind.
The point (important feedback) is the description doesn't stand on its own. I suspect there's actually something really neat hidden away back there, but even after a few minutes of clicking I wasn't quite sure what it was.
SSD lifespan concerns are overdone. Tech report took 100TB of constant writing to get a TLC SSD to start showing errors, and you're not likely to do that. However, by avoiding swap, you're in all likelihood causing extra reads, which also degrade performance. I advise saving your worry for other aspects, such as reliability during unexpected power loss.

http://techreport.com/review/25559/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
All I know is that Tim Ferriss, who is running a very successful podcast too, is asking for $7k to $12k per episode from a sponsor. He has up to two sponsors per episode.

https://4hb.wufoo.com/forms/the-tim-ferriss-show-sponsor-int...
"I first considered using various Arduino or Tessel configurations, but I soon came to the conclusion that the available hardware was not a good fit for my project. I needed weather resistant hardware that could operate in extreme conditions, preferably with low power consumption.

My research eventually lead me to purchase the Davis 6250 Vantage Vue for this project because it had several advantages compared to other solutions I considered."

Hmm. He wanted an off-the-shelf weather station that he connected to a RaspberryPI. Otherwise, Arduino would be a good fit too, especially if one connects various weather sensors to it. It works also in extreme conditions and has real low power consumption.

I built a weather station myself, with an Arduino UNO, connected several sensors (temperature, wind speed, wind direction, rain meter, humanity, light intensity, etc) and wrote a small webserver (ethernet shield) - total hw costs about 120$. The Arduino run without maintenance outdoors (-25° to +45° Celsius) since 2011. I built a web app that runs on a RPi that fetches the data from the Arduino web server with REST API.
The original author was looking forward to selling it. He sold it to BitTorrent. BitTorrent is looking forward to selling uTorrent to media companies for swarm-based content distribution.
Are you internet famous and have a blog that people read? Then "Yes"!