jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not so quick question: if this indeed does happen could more extraordinary measures possibly fix the problem? For example:

Bombs Bombs
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Or is it basically oil ocean forever? And: how catastrophic of a situation is this? Not, I would guess, an existential risk. Could it be measured in terms of percentage of world GDP that will be lost trying to fix or mitigate the symptoms? And if so, what approximate percentage would that be? Another nice thing would be if it could be measured in terms of the overall historical benefit of offshore drilling.

Edit: I'm not really suggesting bombs; that's just something off the top my head. The main idea is that I want to know if there is any potential mitigation if the story is true? And just how bad is it if there isn't?
The security industry appears to be a tightly focused oligarchy of bullshit in which the AV firms and other commercially beholden interests fart out controlled bursts of FUD, in collusion with irresponsible media, in order to convince their not-very-technologically-savvy consumers to bite on solutions that don't work, for problems that don't matter, while all the while little Bobby Tables goes about his merry business.
Ok - I haven't been following this event that much so far. Can someone tell me why the simplest solution of limiting the leak effects is not possible - namely building a large tunnel going from the surface to the leak point, making a space where the oil can safely leak, while it's being transported away? Is it the depth? area? size of the flow?
My:

- Firefox

- Gnome Terminal

- Dozens of Gnome Apps

- almost everything that is stock on recent distros

seem to disagree with you.

Yeah, emacs is the one app that I can think of that does copy-on-select, and I'm pretty sure even it can be configured to be more like Windows/GTK.
I think the biggest problem with such a design is simply people not being used to it. Once you're used to occasionally being on the left side of the road for thirty seconds twice a day, there's no downside. The first took a long time, the next few will come slowly, and then they'll become just part of the terrain like cloverleafs (bleh). I also expect their acceptance will vary geographically, like roundabouts (still bleh for me, YMMV).
> And critically by “highly recommend it to you” I do not mean “I agree with all the takes.” I think contemporary society is willing itself into a state of incredible stupidity by people wanting to evaluating the worthwhileness of reading something purely on the basis of whether or not it’s correct.

I think this is a very good point that I don't see raised very often.
What are core competencies for moving into blockchain work?
I think it's clear what he meant to say, but he used a very poor choice of words.

This is why we don't trust random thoughts by duderinos on Twitter and it's why we have people who specialize in communications.
Yea I think it is. It’s the second one I’ve seen like this on HN. Expect to see some emails come in shortly if you checked.
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I suspect that there is substantial overlap between gullible people and panic buyers.
What you say is directly contradicted by the researchers at University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, as detailed in my link above.

Can you cite a study that supports your claim?
I’d love to hear more about the QA team managing releases- how did that go?
Unfortunately many authorities are trying to stamp out public mask culture in the west before it even has a chance to properly develop. I think this is penny wise, pound foolish. It's short term thinking that optimizes for the present at the expense of the future.
Yeah, using a plus-symbol for healthcare-related things really shouldn't be protectable under trademark law, considering it's been in use since the 1864 Geneva Convention.
Wow, for some reason mashups like this make me feel distinctly weird, like two vegetables or organisms were weirdly mashed together..
So at one point NASA did have a second shuttle on standby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Contingency_mission
Yeah sorry, I'll get to it when I'm back on my laptop. On top of that I made a ridiculously stupid typo before committing so anyone who downloaded it is probably really wondering wtf right now (so if you want to try it, please redownload the release or rebuild from git: https://github.com/ianclarksmith/Bossman/releases/tag/0.0.1).

- Open the app

- Alt-click the status icon and peek at the prefs

- (Optional) If you use Terminal, set Command-Enter to

osascript /full/path/to/Bossman.app/Contents/Resources/Attach in Terminal.scpt

- Type a command and press enter. Type another command and press command+enter. You've seen the whole thing.

- Everything in a tmux-session called (by default) "bossman-app" so you don't lose history, can check up on things, etc.
Atom IRC channel

https://github.com/atom/welcome/commit/6346bb8c2e7534ae0de5e...
Regardless of what one thinks about the service vs. product discussion, it's hard to argue that no official Dropbox client released in 9 months is reasonable. Especially when important features are not in the current client (selective syncing, performance improvement...)
It's really a matter of one's approach and level of paranoia. Me? If I wasn't running Flickr (say I was running getfreckle.com), I'd probably opt for more conservative settings. I may not need to time that guy out, but I'd probably do it so I wouldn't have to worry later.

* If you configure kernel and application for small (or auto-sizing) buffers and use an event-based structure for the application*

This would be all the better.
Can anyone recommend good documentation on load balancing a LAMP app across multiple independent VPS providers?

We've had a high profile site affected by these Fremont outages so I'm thinking the only real solution is to have VPSs at Linode, Slicehost and EC2 then load balance among them. Of course, then the question is, what do you do when the load balancer goes down?
Some definitions of the word strict from the Random House Dictionary that might explain my position:

3. closely or rigorously enforced or maintained: strict silence.

5. extremely defined or conservative; narrowly or carefully limited: a strict construction of the Constitution.

8. stern; severe; austere: strict parents.

You could also think of strict as the root of "restrictive". I have a moral code which allows me to do less than you, it restricts my actions.

However it doesn't follow that my morality inherently requires me to expect it of others. That's a very western belief.
hmm, i haven't seen a lot of WTO protester types here ...

there certainly are a lot of privileged male knowledge workers here. that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad place to talk about politics, though. it depends a lot on your goals.
Sadly no mention of the Montgolfier brothers, who really opened up the sky to a lot of people's imagination back in the 18th century. Manned flight at 900m in 1784!
That might be political, but I don't think that has anything to do with technology.

I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Politics can directly relate to tech and startups.
Hi, I work with Matt at Gripe :)

Video is in development, but the system is pretty straightforward. We're integrated with Zencoder. Our clients (e.g. mobile/web) request an upload endpoint from our server (GAE). The endpoint is a pre-signed S3 upload url computed by the server. The client uploads to that url and then triggers a "process" API on our server which issues a request to Zencoder on the backend to pick up the videos from S3 and begin transcoding them. Zencoder sends back a response that allows us to associate the "video" entity in our datastore with job ids/output locations. You can set up a callback so that Zencoder will notify GAE when transcoding is complete. The output is available in S3, including thumbnails.

So I guess this is also an endorsement of Zencoder: it rocks and was very easy to integrate with!
The F35 has to spend something like 10 hours in the shop for every hour of flight time.
Seriously. Blocking the event loop isn't "an accident that can happen" in node - it's a pretty fundamental mistake.
Your link does not go to a Guardian article, it goes to a Press Association (PA) article published on the Guardian's website, and on thousands of newspaper websites.
I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it.

There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing. Rich people will give large donations regardless of the format. It wasn't because of BTC, but rather because they wanted to donate.

Some of the donation addresses received huge amounts of BTC. These obviously weren't from donations. Probably from the account holder shuffling their own money around.

I wouldn't be surprised if BTC donations were far less frequent than, say, "likes" on YouTube videos. For the average video with half a million views, ~20,000 likes isn't uncommon. And people only do that because it's free. So if, for any given "thing that half a million people look at," only about 200 of them actually donate, you can see how pitiful the returns are compared to ads. But putting up ads to profit from copyright infringement is blatantly illegal, whereas BTC donations aren't. Yet nobody will take BTC donations seriously for the same reason no one considers panhandling a sustainable living.

It probably sounds like I'm bashing Bitcoin, but I'm only trying to point out a surprising phenomenon. BTC donations seemed to have a lot of potential, yet fizzled. The reasons why are important to study.
I didn't see plug-in support in that list. Excellent, first class plug-in support is an absolute must have for a good modern text editor.
For people thinking that this is awesome, the device has received considerable criticism as being total "bullshit".

PandoDaily ran several articles[1][2] about how the device claims to do the impossible - specifically, "caloric intake" and probably "stress level".

Personally, I do think the device is snake-oil and it's better to get a Basis or a Fitbit.

[1] http://pando.com/2014/03/31/as-more-experts-dispute-gobes-bu...
[2] http://pando.com/2014/07/03/weird-after-admitting-to-pando-i...
What do you suppose Greenwald's "indignation level" would be if Wired have called him a "journalistic disgrace"?
While it may be "depressing", isn't it logically consistent with how the world appears to work?

One way to make a lot of money is to sell a lot of a product.

Most people are of "pedestrian" (average) intelligence; ergo, to sell a lot of product you must appeal to those of average intelligence.

As any industry grows you see this "regression towards the mean" - one only has to cock one's ear slightly to the side to hear the lamentation of readers, gamers and movie-buffs about how "everything has gone to the dogs".
If you are paired with the right person I believe this has the potential to drive you forward and keep you motivated. I experienced pair programming when I was still studying.

We had a lot of team assignments and when I worked with my best friend, instead of splitting the work like most of the other students, we just sat both in front of one computer and went through all of it. The one guy writing the code is always getting double-checked by the other guy and that way you eliminate most of the little bugs that slip past your judgement when you code alone.

Certainly a most enjoyable method of programming, although whether it is an economically viable strategy I could not tell.
Started at a community college @ 15, first class I signed up for was Fortran.
Found video footage of what the bird was up to while gallivanting around Shreveport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsbO_LM8Y9A
Note: the US has placed economic sanctions against Iran every single day for the last four decades - regardless of who was US president, or which party was in power.
A lot of time, money and effort invested to support a platform whos creator is unwilling to provide support.

I think it's part of the Linux ethos to run on everything, but I also think this kind of effort is ... not wasted, but I feel like it could be spent more efficiently.

Still looking forward to hear about the first successful boots and the epic reverse engineering feats.

Just wish this kind of stuff wouldn't be needed anymore and companies would just release their specs already.
I gave North Korea 1260 positive votes, because there is nothing to stop you from doing so. You're only limted to how fast you can send GETs to howwasyourgovernment.today/vote
https://ish.app/blog/app-store-removal
Could the $10 million fine be used by a future defendant to argue that the crime is not a big deal? What if members of FAANG+M decided to hack small startups or even each other?
Note: in the software world, the equivalent construction to the LFSR with "fat" polynomial is the xorshift PRNG. For more details, see the book: Numerical Recipes, 3rd edition (not 2nd ed!), Chapter 7 random numbers, section 7.1 uniform RNG - history.
You name a folder with a specific GUID and then the control panels show up inside it. It's by Microsoft.
I have heard this before. I would like to see some an inflation penetration metric for various economic actions whether those actions come from the Fed or some other group. For example, I think about the 5 billion (or more?) in bond purchases the fed recently made. How does that kind of monetary inflation penetrate into the economy? Groups that don't own stocks won't get those dollars. However, for groups that do own stocks, they will have extra money to spend and therefore push the prices of common goods up.
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Except that they're not needed to get to small and lightweight. Those qualities are driven by the size of components decreasing due to die improvements. So they can stick smaller, better components onto boards every year.

Look at enough device tear downs, and you realize that lack of repairability is more about laziness than it is about legitimate tradeoffs.
UEFI is an overly complex standard leaving ambiguities for implementations. The gains from moving to UEFI almost don't seem worth the added complexity.
Well, there is already a stranger going over your email to show ads in your client no? ;-)
I've wanted to move from Australia to Silicon Valley for a few years now. I mean, I'm an entreprenurial software engineer: it's where I'm _supposed_ to be, right?

But, over the past few years, I've learnt more and more about the US of A. And I don't like how things are done over there.

Sure, Australia isn't perfect (if I hear anyone say "Boat People" once more, I'm going to punch them right in the face), and I'm a young, single upper middle class White male: I shouldn't have any issues, right?

But that's not the point. The fact that the US and even the UK have ended up this paranoid...

I no longer want to move. Hell, I want to move back to New Zealand to be honest, if it gets any worse here in Aus.

And that's a loss for me personally, and for your country as well.

:(

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EDIT

Please convince me that it's not all that bad... that rights aren't being eroded, and that I wouldn't have to turn a blind eye to prejudiced treatment against my neighbours. Convince me that I should still come...

I really want to, but I'm honestly frightened of what might happen to me if I do.
I used to feel very strongly about these things too, but ultimately I think everybody is up to build and pursue whatever they like. We can't force other people to do things our way. We can attempt to persuade them to, or guilt-trip them to, but we can't force them to care about what we care about.

That said, humans have always have had "odd" priorities that might not make sense from the lens of rational cost-benefit analysis. Venkat Rao wrote quite an interesting piece about this- about how some people genuinely prefer the occasional escapism of movies to, say, proper sanitation.

We don't sit down and rationally work on our worst problems, we're aspirational, we're idealistic. People working on humanitarian projects have found that the threat of death and the promise of salvation from death DON'T actually stop people from defecating in the streets, etc.

It may be that people want Facebook more than they want protection from violence. That might seem utterly crazy, but it might also be true. That said, Facebook is free to do as it pleases. C'est la vie.
It's like porn. You know it when you see it.
> Only 2 lawsuits have ever challenged a DMCA takedown?

How did you extrapolate a single organization (EFF) pursuing a few cases involving a subsection of the DMCA into a blanket statement covering all DMCA takedowns?
Yes, this back-and-forth is perpetual because there's always someone who advertises Janus and there's always a need for someone else to actually say that Janus (like SPF13 and friends) is a piece of crap and that new users should never install it if they are serious about learning Vim.
This is very interesting. Is there any way one can check if one is suffering from inflammation?
That's way more heavy weight compared to regular seccomp like sandboxes that Chrome uses on Linux - and for too little gain.
What does this all matter besides a desire to pry into a random person's life? It adds nothing.
> She was unarmed, in a group of people who all looked unarmed in the video. None of them was holding a weapon

There are no firearms visible in the mob in the video; there are weapons in active use in the video (against the barricades, but if you are responsible for protection of life you can't assume that that will be abandoned once the barricade is down).

> much less training it on the police.

The police aren't the main people that the police were protecting. (That some of them were acting as literal human shields at the barricades makes that clear.)

What would you have had them do? Allow a breakthrough, reassess the intention of the mob, and if it was still an active threat start firing then, without the passive defense of th barrier? As well as endangering the lives they ought to be protecting most urgently (the ones not engaging in a violent crime), and their own lives, unless the crowd instantly became pacific after breaking through the barricade, that would have resulted in a whole lot more dead insurrectionists, because there would be no choice but to fire as fast as aim can be switched to a new target until the crowd stopped.
It’s not merely growing complexity. It’s that increasingly experts don’t share basic assumptions with the public.

Prop 16, which would repeal the affirmative action ban in California, was pushed heavily by educational experts. It failed by a large margin. Here is how the Center for New American Progress, a think tank (whose CEO will lead Biden’s OMB), responded: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecond...

This is one assertion they made to support trying again with different poll wording:

> Moreover, older voters who remember the 1996 ban may hold the misleading view that the law was a “prohibition against discrimination,” as the law’s original backers framed it in this way.

This is just a play on the fact that your average person defines “discrimination” quite literally (the majority of every racial group say race shouldn’t be even a small factor in college admissions). But educational experts often have a different view of “discrimination.” Thus it’s “misleading,” the article asserts, to say that the existing provision that bans disparate treatment by race is a ban on “discrimination.”

When experts change the meaning of commonly understood words to get a different polling result, do you think that creates trust?

(FWIW, I supported repealing the ban in California initially. But when you ask people “do you want to give some people more resources, preferential treatment, etc., in order to erase historic disparities” they say “no.” I want to do that, within reason. But it’s a dog that won’t hunt. So experts keep playing with the language, coming up with terms like “equity.” And thats made me very skeptical of trusting educational experts with these new powers.)
In theory it’s “the free market” in action. If your ideas are good and people want to hear them then you’d be able to find a platform to disseminate those ideas to an eager audience.
Please forgive this public service announcement.

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With regard to those questioning the general integrity of such a large, heterogeneous system as the US electoral process, I don’t think the relevant question is “Is there any reason to believe that some amount of voter fraud may have occurred.” Instead, we should be asking, “If voter fraud did occur, is there any reason to believe that it would disproportionately favor one party over the other?” It’s a big leap from “the system’s latent vulnerabilities likely resulted in at least some failure” to “the system’s vulnerabilities were systematically exploited to the benefit of one party.” I haven’t encountered any convincing evidence in support of the latter conclusion.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that you do not recognize the quote.
You’re talking about Trump right? Who reportedly manipulated the policing effort to prevent what happened?

His own party is disowning him after years of playing along.

This is a bit beyond violating a TOS.

Unaligned politically or voters in the other side outnumbered Trump. Yet he clings to fantasy he can just steam roll over them.

This has to be taken into a context that’s a bit more than dictionary definition of censorship.
It's not just that his article didn't predict the full extent of the coronavirus, it's that it arrogantly dismisses people who were concerned even then as suffering from a bias.

Sunstein justifies censorship with "new findings in behavioral science", I assume he means findings about biases, such as probability neglect. So this is not just a random thing he was arrogant and wrong about, it's an illustration of the perils of dismissing people you don't agree with as biased, and of using that as justification for censoring them.
You can browse the different parts of your email using Ctrl+J/K when you reach the attachment you can save it with :save
What exactly is evolving? How is the genome represented, how does it control the walking?
Why would I be able to identify headshots of female CEOs? Outside of Gates, Jobs and maybe Zuckerberg, I couldn't identify any male tech leaders by face.

One thing that I always find interesting is when I follow a tech blogger whose work I've read for years on Twitter, and finally see what they actually look like. People in technology are names and ideas to me.
Get root, create a ramdisk, copy /usr/bin/* into it, and remount it under /usr/bin/*, and now you can do as you please.
it is a slap in the face for the FBI and by extension, the us government that Apple has more respect for China then the FBI
It would be great if you can provide a shopping list. I'd like to try it.
What you're describing seems to me like blasé, and it's a fairly well-documented phenomenon.
Sure ebooks can have precise text placement, just use a PDF. As for indexed vs full text search, an eBook can have both, and many do.

No argument on the price, though it didn't hold for works out of copyright.