jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Its inevitable. When todays 22yr olds hit their 30s, their documents will be handled in the cloud and accessed everywhere, including financial, medical, certificates, insurance policies etc. We might even find a way to us cloud documentation as verification, forgot your ID at home while entering a bar, just open your dropbox, box on mobile & show verified ID.
Open office + headphones negates some of the "pluses" touted by open office advocates. When I worked at Skype, the office in Palo Alto got some kudos for the "design" -- http://www.designblitzsf.com/projects/skype-hq/ being one such URL.

As far as noise goes, even with audio engineers on staff, the level of disruptive noise was horrible. People having calls at their desks, testing mobile notifications, etc. Thankfully, I worked at home 50+% of the time as getting productive work done in the office was incredibly difficult. Large open space + open office = bad idea.

Our office in Stockholm, while an open office, had many smaller sections offset by walls, break rooms, etc. It was a much better experience overall, but still not optimal.
I really hope it's something a bit more than the home battery.
I've always been fond of Albert Goldbarths' "Budget Travel Through Time and Space". He's an old timer with modern sensibilities, narratives that criss-cross eras with ease and a cosmological perspective. Science is inflected in a lot of his work.

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.

Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.

Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
Violet Jacobs, from Hallowe'en:

But gin the auld fowks' tales are richt
An ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht,
O freend o' freends! what wad I gie
To feel ye rax yer hand to me
Atween the dark an' caun'le licht?

Awa in France, across the wave,
The wee lichts burn on ilka grave,
An' you an' me their lowe hae seen--
Ye'11 mebbe hae yer Hallowe'en
Yont, whaur ye're lyin' wi' the lave.
I like Rimbaud quite a lot:

"The star wept rose-colored [. . .]"

The star wept rose-colored in the heart of your ears,
The infinite rolled white from your nape to your loins
The sea turned ruddy at your vermilion nipples
And Man bled black on your sovereign flank.

Another:

"The wolf howled under the leaves [. . .]"

The wolf howled under the leaves
As he spat out the fine feathers
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.

Lettuce and fruit
Wait only to be picked;
But the spider of the hedge
Eats only violets.

Let me sleep! Let me boil
At the altars of Solomon.
Boiling water courses over the rust,
And mixes with the Kidron.

These are translated from the French by Wallace Fowlie.
Ya, well given the propaganda this is hardly surprising...

"Nobody ever broke into someone's house in a state of diminished cognition because of gay sex...."

I... wouldn't be too sure about that.
Because the set of values that make sense as linear round counts doesn't overlap with the set that makes sense as log base two work factors. Every implementation takes the log number; it's the only number people ever discuss.
And more importantly, slack straight up stated they salt the password and use bcrypt. It's all one way hashes, no encrypting/decrypting going on.
I frequent a forum for Apple fans and I've seen there's a mix of experiences. Some people have perfectly fine experiences. Other people's computers are so messed up they're better off with an exorcist than the Genius Bar.

A lot of the problems sound like hardware problems, and it may just be a symptom of having more hardware out there. And that hardware is being used more intensely. Bad hard drives, bad RAM...it all contributes to problems. Let's not ignore very real hardware problems like the bad GPU solder joints.

The traditional advice that Macs don't get viruses still holds. But who writes "viruses" anymore? The "beginner" category has people getting all sorts of malware installed alongside pirated software, keygens, "codecs", and other things they downloaded & gave sudo access during the install. Like on other platforms, that kind of stuff is going to slow your system down & make it behave differently.

And let's be honest - there are actual bugs. Some are downright terrible. iOS 8.3 finally fixes a text selection bug that's been driving me nuts on some sites, including Hacker News. All software has bugs. Mine sure does! But it feels worse when surrounded by all the other stuff.

If you're not a developer, you get no feedback from Apple on your bug reports, which makes you feel alone in your suffering. And that may be the key for Apple right there. Break down the wall of silence, engage with people reporting bugs, and maybe individual things will seem less tragic.
Agreed. Proper security shouldn't be an optional, paid "feature".

I feel like it should be mandatory for all tiers of a product, whether they're free or not.
Felt the same way, I think we've all been in meetings like this, or at least I have. The other team starts defending their turf, and you're given a list of 400 issues of things that they do a particular way, that you don't do a particular way.
“Who watches the watchmen”
Then it's still censorship; private businesses simply have the right to censor.
That's one reason. Another reason could be that the Earth is not symmetric and the Moon is pulling it in some strange way. Or perhaps some people have installed lots of flywheel energy storage units [1] somewhere, all spinning in one direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
Does everyone saying "thoughts and prayers" after a mass shooting coordinate that all in advance as well?
It's not a weird choice, as it still shows that merely being able to find calls for violence is not sufficient for banning an app.
Its amazing you can take the message of "cops shouldn't kill people" and spin it to be about killing the cops. It's a view of the world detached from reality.
> Maybe the kernel has some subtle good reason to do it

I think OSes spread load across cores to prevent unequal heating across the chip.
As someone who was present at Google working at OAuth at the time OAuth 2.0 was negotiated: the way to interpret refresh tokens is in the context of a large organization like Google or Facebook, not a small website. A refresh token, which is powerful, would only be presented to a single endpoint which could had different logging and security considerations.

But yes, a lot of damage can be done in an access token timeout.
/* That's what he said */

Well, do you know what the Communist Party thinks?
touché. good point.

ok, so i must say web represent a very very very low priority on my internet usage. having only 'the web' would be like cable TV with only the weather channel.

No. Thanks.
There is a difference between the state overriding property law and private entities doing it. The state has monopoly on breaking laws, and in a democracy, is supposed to only do so when it serves the public they represent. It is this difference that allow the police to lock people up, or fine individuals. As you say, they use taxes, copyright, and patent law, all which override private property laws.

DRM however allows private entities to override property laws completely, while tricking the consumer. While Monsanto can with the help of the government prevent the sale of produce, they do not come in the night and steal it and sell it as their own property. They don't turn food into stone with the flick of a switch. I dislike Monsanto and I think they do trick people into a deal which is not obvious, but they are not even in the same league as DRM with 40 pages long licenses that updates dynamically which not a single person can understand.
Why is it a bad idea to parse a Turing-complete language using regex expressions? I have implemented the XScript language from Age Of Mythology and AOE3 with that approach; it seems to be quite efficient and flexible, is there something I should look out for?
If i read the description right, it took him 14 tries.
:( sell.

they already signed exclusive, worldwide, paid-for, resellable, rigths licensing with many companies (even apple, which always plays bad with providers). not sure what their end game is (production? they can't be that crazy), but definitely will not turn a profit from their trade-secret alloys recipies.
The issue is control. Albums are regularly disappearing from the Spotify catalogue, sometimes reappearing later. Sometimes specific albums in a band's history are missing because that particular label doesn't have an agreement with Spotify. And you never know if it's a crappy modern brickwalled remaster. Not to mention the woefully bad curation, mixed up artists, incorrect genres/years, you name it.

With music you buy, you are in control.

It's about quality over quantity.
Common Lisp is interesting because it has both lexical and dynamic scoping. This is a quite useful feature as functions can override config variables. The only other language that provides this kind of configuration that I know of is Scala. Scala accomplishes this through implicits, instead of dynamic variables. Implicits are more flexible, but I think there's some good arguments to be made about careful use of dynamic scoping.
As they say, the map is not the territory
The first question when I suggest ANY piece of software at ALL in my 'enterprise':

"Is it supported? Who supports it? Is the support 24x7?"

$10,000 a month, depending on the applicatin, is chump change.

Although, some people do appreciate the value of open-source when a vendor takes two months to solve a problem in their proprietary mess of 'software solutions'.
Ya using voxels was definitely a big drawback to my approach here but was more intended to just see what's possible.

I think a better approach would be something similar to the StructureNet paper I mention in the post and use graph based models to actually attempt to capture the topology. But they did it with super explicitly defined part trees as training data the hard part would be finding a way to do that in a unsupervised manner so you could actually make use of the massive amount of unlabelled 3D models available.
The article isn’t about literal similarities between the bubonic plague and the Coronavirus.
Heh, an excellent point. Obviously the sanctioner's goal is for the sanctionee's citizens to understand why the sanctions are in place, and ultimately blame their own government, but that can be a hard sell, even without a propaganda campaign.
I thought the author argued there wasn’t enough nuclear weapons to utterly destroy all the infrastructure, even in major cities. No doubt it would be really bad with tens of millions dying in the aftermath. But there would still be intact smaller cities, roads, trains, smaller airports and some industry that wasn’t targeted. Plus a shot ton of farmland and ranches.

Setting the Western world back a century is probably correct. The balance of power would shift to the global South.
Standard ML is incredibly usable but also very small (syntactically and semantically) especially compared with modern algol-family languages.

There are a couple of quality of life features missing (most notably is record update syntax), but I really enjoy that the core language has not changed in 25 years.
Hit the button on the bottom right corner of the screen. First thing I do when I get in a taxi.
Yes, but how else could the author get a political dig into the article?

A lazy writing blemish on an otherwise good article.
I've been reading poetry ever since I read one by Cocteau that physically moved me. Yes, I felt it in my body, not only in my mind. Since then, I've read too many. Here are some of my favorites. Delve deep into the greats and then the lesser known, you'll find the ones that move you.

Fernando Pessoa (if he were a french or english poet, he would be considered, I have absolutely no doubt about it, one of the greatest poets to have ever written)

W.H. Auden

Robert Desnos

Homer

Ovid

I'm not that much of a fan of beat poetry, but I recently got a hold of Mexico City Blues by Kerouac and discovered how much more I like his poetry than his prose.
>Never thought about it this way

I'm trying to be better about reading too much into a single comment, but I think this means that you either have a long-held belief on the 'war on drugs' (one way or the other) or that you've simply never given it any thought as it may be a matter which you may feel does not concern you (it actually affects almost everybody).

In either case, here are a few materials that you might find interesting.

Milton Friedman on the 'War on Drugs' (1 of 3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyystXOfDqo

Noam Chomsky on the 'War on Drugs': http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199804--.htm

To be honest, it's been a while since I've read/watched either of the above, and there might be a good amount of overlap between them.
If readers were willing to pay for good journalism, they would receive some.
Canada's largest supermarket chain recently started doing this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/loblaws-sel...
I urge you to watch this video, esp if youre an American. I'm not even a fan - not even by a mile - of Bill Maher but the man has a point when he implies that you are not going to be able to just make the other half vanish into thin air, by beating them in an election. They will still be around and you will just have to live with them, come what may.

[1]
New Rule: Let It Go | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6C1UaQKhI
I find it hard to believe the typical market for pickups would actually find this an attractive vehicle as well. I keep seeing "Masculine" referring to the design, but this looks like a fairly poor attempt at superficial masculinity, and definitely not a genuinely rugged and practical vehicle, which is what is generally considered attractive in a pickup or offroad vehicle. Purpose is the aesthetic, rather than aesthetics being the purpose.
I’m also Jewish and believe anyone even stupid misinformed people should have the right to free speech. Corporations shouldn’t have power to determine what is or isn’t true
Aside from the Hauling and Towing. The primary reason I prefer Trucks and Full Size SUV's is the Ride Height.

I am 6' 2", Climbing in and out of a Car that sits 6in's off the ground is not fun for me, and I do not want to do that every day.

I prefer lateral movements, and a Truck or Full Size SUV's standard Height is just about perfect for me
Stupid for humans, maybe, but that'd be a cool mobility platform for robots.
Definitely. Steve wouldn't be the kind of guy to get angry over this if he wasn't so passionate about building a better product. I imagine he's just as angry that the Android UI is basically a second-rate knockoff. (Sorry if this makes some people angry.) If Google had developed a UI derivative of, but also indisputably better than iPhone OS's, Jobs would have respected them for it.

I guess it's not at all clear from my comment, but I agree with lionhearted insofar as his description of Apple's (or Steve's) motives are basically right. I'm not sure if I agree with their method of retaliation (blocking AdMob from targeting), but I do think they're justified in feeling angry about having their UI innovations ripped off. They don't get to hold onto them forever, but when their work advances the industry by that much, they deserve a level of deference, the same way deserving patent-holders do.

Funnily enough, it's Microsoft that chose not to develop a derivative UI this time, with Windows Phone 7. Something tells me that that UI is going to get old fast, but at least they attempted to innovate and be original.
There are savants, undeniably. Some who cannot even have understanding (metally challenged) yet still perform.
If many coin owners share the same address, that is not very decentralized, is it?
Thats not a compression algorithm
You mean you didn't pull the latest version of the bible code from github?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brownshirt

Also terrible fashion tastes.
that was the odd thing, I use two ad blockers so was surprised to see such an obvious fake ‘VPN notification’ that I knew it was an ad or malware.
Signal may not own any MobileCoins, but the CEO of MobileCoin said:

> MobileCoin has not yet paid Signal anything for integrating MobileCoin. We intend to donate a great deal of money to Signal over the coming years.
The possibility that one should not ignore is the idea of (a) not having a full charge and (b) not being anywhere close to your home or a supercharger you can actually use.

Quick google search, in the US:

115,000 gas stations
908 Tesla charging stations

The probability of being within driving range of a gasoline station is 100 to 1, and likely better. I say this because to do the actual math you'd have to calculate distance from wherever one might be at the time of need.

I think my point stands. The electric vehicle infrastructure in the US is inadequate for mass electric vehicle adoption. This includes power generation capacity. Tesla owners currently enjoy the luxury of charge energy requirements not pushing any limits (at least none anyone is screaming about). And as I said, conveniently ignoring where energy might be coming from. Hint: It isn't all "clean".

As the fleet of electric vehicles grows and energy demands increase I fully expect charging costs to go way up. In fact, I would not be surprised at all if charging costs start approximating the cost of gasoline or diesel. This, among other things, would solve one of the biggest items of concern for our politicians, the erosion of the gasoline-based tax revenue.

The evolution of this ecosystem will be interesting to watch over the next few years. Before making the decision to wait I built a 13 kW solar array to charge the Teslas we were going to buy by using as much solar as possible. I can easily double the array size at any time. For now it powers the Haas VF2 CNC milling machine in my garage (solar powered CNC!).

Garages are not for cars. C'mon! :)
Yeah, without in any way to disclaim a rather privileged background, and without every really being outside of a engineering-adjacent space, I have had a very twisty turny path. And I don't think that's at all uncommon for a lot of people with a long career.

I think a lot of people here assume a fairly linear SWE progression beginning with a CS degree but that's not the norm for a lot of people who work in the computer industry in various roles even that didn't involve wholesale career shifts.
Regardless of what it is how many here jumping for joy if instead of a "noble security researcher" those tactics were being used against people peddling untaxed goods, rubber stamping commercial motor vehicle inspections or some other "you need to extrapolate out at least a few steps to find a victim" type crime? The government only gets away with this stuff because people turn a blind eye when its done to people they don't like.
Our company implements Holacracy which largely solves this problem.
Mercedes even equipped the new system with 24GB RAM that is probably more amount of RAM than 90% of laptops in the market today [1].

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/07/mercedes-unveils-hyperscre...
You should probably see it in terms of bottom line rather than top line, i.e. the operating margin gained on each sale is about $12M according to wikipedia, so they would need to sell 200 maxes to obtain the net cash they will use to pay the fines.
You absolutely do assume that that network is hostile/compromised. There are a number of other networks in other places where more important communications are done. It's a giant PITA, and a lot of stuff leaks from Congress because most people believe that they are too important to have to keep things secure.

Being in Congress is not an automatic ticket to having all the country's secrets on your desktop, and things actually are compartmented quite heavily when necessary.
Coming soon: Yeet Resumes - a paid service to detect ghostwritten resumes
> "Reporters are just awful human beings."

You can't make a statement like that and expect anyone to take you even remotely seriously. Here are some journalists I've particularly looked up to over the years:

[CJ Chivers]

C.J. Chivers, a former foreign correspondent, is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. His Pulitzer Prize-winning cover story for the Magazine in 2016 led to the release from an Illinois prison of an Afghan war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

[Dexter Filkins]

Dexter Price Filkins ... is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of his generation".

[Tim Hetherington]

As a freelance photographer and filmmaker, Hetherington was interested in creating diverse forms of visual narratives from long-term projects. He spent eight years focused on stories in Africa, living in both Sierra Leone and Liberia. In Liberia he covered the Second Civil War behind the lines with rebel fighters, helping to film James Brabazon’s Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004).

He was killed by shrapnel from either a mortar shell or an RPG fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war.

[Robert Fisk]

As an international correspondent, he covered the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria, the Iran–Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Fluent in Arabic, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.
Document based web ended by 1995, and by 1998 most of all major sites were webapps. Majority of document based sites were carry ons from early 90s. There was no ruby but there were PHP, Coldfusion and Java/JSP. And ASP was just released.
This is the exact reason I shut my account and have not looked back since. I actually find my life a lot more social since as well, people now email, text, skype and phone me a lot more, and it's not all on public display.

Anyone that says it's down to your friends to correctly set privacy levels is nuts, that clearly doesn't enter 90% of peoples minds.
Parsing time is irrelevant. When you bytecode-cache PHP, it is still about 3x slower than Python. And Python is slow compared to Lua, and dog-slow compared to any JITted implementations of scripting language (LuaJIT2, Spidermonkey, V8, etc).
I've posted about this before but I went to see Robin Carhart-Harris [0] talk about this in London recently. He said that the research was suggesting that the under psychedelics, the brain enters a state where it becomes more malleable and open to reconfiguration (and it actually undergoes a permanent physical change). The same thing happens under extreme trauma. While in this state, the experiences can then almost be structurally hardcoded into the mind.

So the chemicals trigger the mechanics, but the experience dictates the lasting effects.

[0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.carhart-harris
Presumably there's some reason they aren't just don't this already. I mean, I sure hope so otherwise it sounds like a rather big flaw for no reason.
I guess my hangup was on the claim that such a scheme could 'ensure' prevention of ex-filtration which, frankly, seemed laughably impossible.