jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Locked down PCs and Macs. AMD and Intel and Apple are making security in their CPUs to lock down the computer. This locks out libre Operating systems like Linux from installing on them. It limits what the user can install and locks down the OS so it can only be installed from an official source not compiled from a tarball or downloaded off the Internet. I found that part of his speech to be interesting.
It obviously has not shut down discussion or argument.

Here you are. Discussing and arguing.

Good on you.
If "3 hours" is "such pressure" for you, then maybe some teams are not a good fit for you?

For example, I have broken the build in the past - and this prevents everyone else on your team from merging PRs. In this case the expectation was that I fix it "soon" - once I finish my current meeting/lunch/conversation.

If someone is prone to breaking down from pressure given 3 hour deadline, they would have a breakdown right there.
I think the point here was "see if you might already have enough space to spare", not "get extra space for the sake of a home gym".
> I just tried the cloudflare Speedtest and it doesn’t read low, in fact it read higher than what’s possible.

Perhaps there is a confusion between megabytes, and megabits.
One who passed 6th grade civics might also understand that the concept of “censorship” does not exclusively refer to US Government violations of the 1st Amendment, or even necessarily to government actions at all. Nor does the concept of “freedom of speech” begin and end with the US 1st Amendment.

Then again, this tweet from Jack has nothing whatsoever to do with any of that.
The Wayback Machine interface breaks.
Hacker News is a marketing campaign for a VC fund. Slashdot is a business.

Different motivations give different options and lead to different outcomes. Personally I find HN a worse community because the motives are hidden/glossed over.
Simple; The Page layouts.

There is nothing else other than relevant content and the density of information per page is very high. Hence no distractions.
Then she can sell her horse.

Good relationships require clear communication and some semblance of equality.

If you're serious about staying with her, then you need to balance your needs against hers. It's a perfectly valid thing to say "I hate my job. I'm looking for one I enjoy more that pays less. If that happens, I won't be able to pay for your horse. If you want to keep your horse, we need to find a way to balance the budget."

Either she cares about you and has never developed financial muscles, in which case you two can get through with some hard decisions and be happier.

Or she doesn't care about you, and you should split.

(Said as a child of divorce)
I live in Norway now and I can see a lot of the changes you mention

Correlation does not imply causation

One may observe change, but attributing that change one way, or another is a different matter.

500 years is insignificant when it comes to the planet, the sun, and other factors that cand cause variance over longer spans of time.

I do not think we know enough yet about those systems to say with 100% certainly what the cause is, esp. when explaining it with extremely short-term attributes.

When science has more than one theory for something you can elect to pick one of them, a couple other, or none ago with that based on your own research, the media you chose to consume and your background and friends.

Most science these days is so complicated that it is always based on a choice to believe. Unless you PhD in many fields there is no way ou can know for sure if something is correct.
Even if someone gives you nice diagrams.

Can you really understand and repeat the diagrams?

I have never seen an electron.
Nor have I never seen an atom.
And I certainly haves never seen a quark or a boson,
or a gravition (that last one nobody has seen yet).

I have seen diagrams and I have seen simplified forumulas
that even I can understand.

Dark matter is one hypothesis I hope is replaced by
something more elegant. I cant see, scientist cant
see it. You elect if you believe in it or not.

(There has been some recent proof based on gravitational
measurements and there have been a theory now that dark matter
is just all the matter that never formed into planets)

Even in my own field of study of computer science, there are many things I do not understand now, and really grasping it would require another doctorate.

All that long stuff just to say that for a lot of science
for the vast majority it is a matter of belief.

Now if I am not sure if all the changes in climate can be blamed on human impact.

I do not think that is relevant to whether we need
to cut emissions and pollution.

We need to do that no matter what.

If 30 years in the future, if I am still alive, and scientist
puzzle out that based on new theories, models and evidence the majority of changes had nothing to with human interference we will be much better off in a cleaner and less polluted world

Is burning coal casuing a lot of health issues now?
Yes it is. Then we stop doing that.

Is breathing air filled with polluted smog or car emissions
pleasant and good for you? No, we need to do something about it.

Almost all issues that people want to change that climate scientists may or may not be climate change, but you can break it down further to arrive at the exact same conclusions for nearly all of it.

It is a win / win no matter what.
Only somewhat. As new features become more common the old ones that were harder to use become less important. C++11 has made a big impact on the type of C++ you see in the real world, now that it is 9 years old we can see change. The change wasn't overnight, but it is there.
(All the news I'm finding is that it was just one day.)
People with emotional disorders either do not define boundaries or do not define them effectively, and they often do not respect others boundaries.

You could use this analogy to imagine an ad agency as an emotionally disordered person, and you wouldn't be too far off the mark.

Advertisers DO NOT GIVE A CRAP if you are offended, or annoyed, or troubled. All they care about is if they send out 10,000 ads, they get enough increased sales to offset the costs of the ads.

That's the fundamental algorithm behind all the fancy AI technology.
Yes, there also exists readable Lisp: https://readable.sourceforge.io/
Or Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub, a floppy disk.
Getting into Germany is easier than into Austria for a non-eu. Check details for red-white-red card, though. But it takes a few months from what I hear.
The difference being the people working on the ticketing system already have domain knowledge as well as knowledge of the system you are reporting a bug on.
This library works great with Flux Stores and async validation with React. I was searching far and wide for a good validation library that used plain Javascript objects and did Async validation. This is it. Documentation is great.
It's an amazing idea, but it needs to be fleshed out to see what's possible.

Peoples extensions will just fake tweets. Or a single bot running through many IPs can just harvest them all.

This can be solved.

But Twitter is a incredibly complex database with a lot of the data and data structure unable to be seen.

This would take years of engineering work and would assumably break copyright or maybe IP or patents.

If it's enough to scare Twitter shareholders it might allow a cut price sale. But what a MVP would be is unknown off this article.
Samsung (and other) smart TVs have begun the evolution towards the "brains" of the TV being a dongle.

The key is probably to get that interface standardized so you can buy one of their smart TVs and plug in your own, dumb dongle for nerds and hackers.
Dude get some chickens. My cost per dozen is around $3 at current feed prices and 60% laying rate. If you feed them your kitchen scraps the feed cost is even lower.

The eggs you get that dont peel well are fresh. Less than 2 weeks old. Home grown eggs are the same way until they age and dry out a bit.
Another project : http://sonargnulinux.com/
At some point, i started to think of subtracting as finding the difference, and dividing as finding the ratio. Those seem much less negative; indeed, they feel like going to a (very slightly!) higher level of abstraction.
Sounds like some solid DD to me
The term has drifted away from its original, more diverse or general meaning. There are groups on both sides of the spectrum that want its meaning to be narrow, when in fact its proponents have diverse and conflicting ideas and goals.
I suspect you meant for Dall-E specifically, but this is their repo. Found on their about page.

https://github.com/openai/
United States' post-deal demands were not nuclear. They were regarding Iran's missile program.
USA has a dedicated website : https://analytics.usa.gov/

I don't know if the data is from GA or a custom made solution
Basically restart the modem by cutting the power every time the connection is flaky. With a very complicated setup.

Cutting power repeatedly a large number of times is a great way of eventually bricking the box.

This modem has an admin web interface. The author could have used it to trigger a restart.

The whole thing could have been automated with just a pi at 100 times less cost, effort and risks.
We have no data for mRNA vaccines except those trials. We don't know if the historical data on traditional vaccines are applicable here. As such, it is also possible that a single dose isn't good enough or a single dose is good enough but only for a couple months. We just don't know and it would be way worse if it turns out we have to re-vaccinate everyone because we were impatient.
"Matt disagrees with one of the conclusions drawn in the paper that shareholders have a perverse incentive to invest in companies that do bad things because they are compensated their loses when the stock goes down. He disagrees because their are compensated with money that the company has which already belongs to the shareholders."

This may be a romantic notion that I misunderstand but isn't there a mechanism wherein I, an aggrieved (citizen/neighbor/bystander/victim) can buy a single share in a public company and then, as a shareholder, speak and/or protest at the annual meeting and cause all manner of discomfort, public reckoning, etc.

Does that work the way I think it does or am I caught in some hollywood trope ?
Does this work the same way in Europe?
Please don't fulminate on HN. If you want to express a contrarian view, that's fine, but do it thoughtfully and substantively. Posting like this just starts flamewars and discredits your view more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cool! I've only received a few spam texts. I'll add this as a potential feature.

Are the text messages from short-code numbers (e.g "3948") or are they long-code number (e.g "555-555-1234")?
good point. I wonder if you can ask for notifications rather than checking for changes (eg, inotify, fseventsd) remotely?
Sad to see this downvoted.
Great job, guys! I have a lot of fun with this app. Something about the 3 second countdown when you open the app actually gets me to take selfies whereas I usually hate taking selfies.
I think we might be due for an update to Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment:

"Every program attempts to expand until it can process _payments_. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
>since you don't have a right to fly

We are still being deprived of our liberty without due process, making it unconstitutional.
"developing on GAE introduced such a design complexity that working around it pushes us 5 months behind schedule"

This is the core of all their problems. It is a mindset incompatibility between these app designers and GAE.

The GAE APIs and rules are actually pretty simple and well defined. It works really well, but only if you work WITH those rules. You have to adopt the GAE application design philosophy.

If you don't, and if you work AGAINST the rules and best practices set by GAE then you are in trouble. Big trouble. This is what happened here.

I understand this is easy to say afterwards. And you can't really blame them for finding out the hard way.

Note that the same applies to for example all the great services that Amazon Web Services provides; they only work if you build your apps with the Amazon specific design approach in mind. Things like eventual consistency, expect things to fail, don't do large amounts of work in single jobs. Etc. Etc.

These appoaches suck more or less if you come from a 'total control over a bunch of machines' background. But they are so needed to scale.
Always striving to collect and share the best and most compelling observations and evidence can go a long way.
Ah, that's correct, my mistake. Scribd can burn in Gehenna, or rot in Dahiyat a-Salam. Either way works for me.
I'm not making any claims on whether or not they should be able to patent these things. That's not the point. At all.

Before arguing the validity of patents, the point you were trying to make is that Apple has a "how dare they" attitude towards Microsoft and Google as they enter into markets which Apple first resides. I'm saying it's not that. They expect others to come into the PC market, they expect others to come into the touchscreen smartphone market. When they get there, they compete with them. Their tiff with Microsoft in the 90's, in my opinion, was not that they made an OS with a GUI, rather that they made an inferior OS with a GUI which lacked originality and innovation and ended up with 95% market share.
They're in the wiki. Maybe I should link to them from the read me...
For unix systems with X, you copy the text by selecting it. So when you want to paste a URL, selecting the old URL to delete it will overwrite the copied URL. You would need to delete it first, and then copy the URL you are after.
Original emacs manual cover: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/its-cover.png
As for imperial motivations, I think that's the strongest claim I made.

I think there are generally two perspectives on US intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan:

The idealist perspective is that we invaded to thwart evil and to decrease the chances of domestic terrorism in the US.

The realist perspective is that wars are not about good and evil but about land and resources, and that the rest of the rhetoric is just a veneer added to help sell the war.

Iraq is the most valuable piece of land in the middle east. Afghanistan is also tremendously valuable. Perhaps my mention of them being the 51st and 52nd US states was hyperbole, but clearly the US wants to install client regimes in both places.

What are the characteristics of a client regime? Democracy is not usually valued all that much (hence our removal of democratically elected leaders around the world), thuggery is tolerated (hence the bribing of Afghan warlords, etc.) and all that is expected is that the state do the US's bidding in exchange for military protection and often aid.

In terms of military strategy, all this makes sense. You want to use soft power... better to bribe some warlords than to risk American lives, etc. Better to install a client regime that will prevent a possible enemy from consolidating power, etc.

The issue I have with this is that most people fail to see this as the brutal power projection of a massive empire.

In my opinion, we can't have it both ways... we can't be a pluralistic, free society and also cause so much suffering via our imperial "churn".

If you read the essay that Condi wrote in Foreign Affairs a few years ago in which she described in detail the "Bush Doctrine", you'll notice that she musters her significant academic training in an attempt to merge the notion of free society values with imperial power projection.

In my view, any explanation boils down to saying "We're going to civilize those savages, even if we have to kill quite a few to do so".

At this point, the side-effects of past Imperial actions are nearly impossible to differentiate from organic events. What we do know is that Al Qaida was largely a consequence of US efforts to use soft power to kick the Soviets out of Afghanistan, that Saddam had received significant military aid from the US, and that the US overthrew democratically elected regimes in Iran.

None of it was done for any abstract value such as freedom, but simply to control a very valuable area and attempt to create client regimes there (or prevent others from doing so), since such machinations are cheaper than US soldiers' lives and represent the use of "economy of force" compared to all-out war/conquest.
agreed that the coverage in this article was very superficial. hopefully they'll look more deeply at it one of these days.
I've used up my 5 free views on the economist... anybody have a link that avoids that problem?
I'm not talking about strict laws, just the rule of law. The supremacy of the state over any challengers. In both Singapore and India, strong, effective government has enabled economic development. Vis-a-vis India, it's government isn't as effective as those in the West, but it's an interesting reference point, because India has been much more successful than neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh. 100 years ago the wealth difference between the countries was nothing to speak of, but India has been more successful in developing its civil institutions and has been rewarded for that success economically.
Question: Is it possible to wear a chest/back-strapped device which contains an electronically-controlled gyroscope that helps the rider stay balanced?
Amazing how much large scale structure is visible in that image.
You're really twisting my words quite a bit here. We give out a very greatly simplified version of a real (solved) problem so that we're screening for skills relevant to the position, not because we need people to work for free.

I just don't see a couple hours spent on a interview programming assignment as being any different from the 5-6 hours you spend in the office being interviewed, which by the way, you don't get paid for either (excepting reimbursements, etc).
Using Vim mode in other editors is like replacing all your silverware with only spoons. It's much nicer, shinier silverware, and everything's going great at first, until I subconsciously reach for a knife.
The only actors in the position to help here are the carriers and platform owners. Perhaps a joint venture between Apple and Google to hold each other accountable? I don't trust the carriers to get this right.
It could be a problem with developing specifically with scala, right now I'm running on a linux VM with only 6gb of ram and no issues at all (I do have an SSD now but even before with a mechanical disk it wasn't slow)

I also used it on windows 7 with 8gb of ram and no speed issues either, always developing java or android (ends up being java)
Opened a sample and it works really well. Why not upload to Github so people can contribute?
This poll says 32% are in the 19-24 range, and 35% in the 25-30 range:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923
It bothers me that three people have (as I perceived it) now commented on this thread suggesting that there's nothing wrong with talking politics on HN. That's a shift in the norms of the site. We're talking about something that is specifically called out in the guidelines as off-topic.

No wonder there are so many TSA stories on the front page.
> "Belief" is widely accepted to mean holding a proposition regardless of evidence

No, "belief" and "evidence" are orthogonal.
"I had two hundred days of uptime on Greedo," Van said. Greedo was the oldest server in the rack, from the days when they'd named the boxes after Star Wars characters. Now they were all named after Smurfs, and they were running out of Smurfs and had started in on McDonaldland characters, starting with Van's laptop, Mayor McCheese.
"Greedo will rise again," Felix said. "I've got a 486 downstairs with over five years of uptime. It's going to break my heart to reboot it."
"What the everlasting shit do you use a 486 for?"
"Nothing. But who shuts down a machine with five years uptime? That's like euthanizing your grandmother."

Cory rocks.
> It removes comments from where they should be, on the destination site. When you read a blog post, then click back, then comment, you’ve greatly reduced your chance of speaking to the author.

Commenting on the blog is close to worthless, for several reasons.

1. Most blogging software has atrocious handling of comments. Even such a basic feature as threading within the comment stream is often missing.

2. There often is not any kind of way to vote on comments so as to make it easy for people to find the good comments.

3. Bloggers are often one-hit wonders. They write one good blog post that makes it to sites like HN and Reddit, and then fade back into their normal obscurity. This makes it much less likely for a community of regular commentators to form around any particular blog. On sites like HN, one starts to recognize the frequent commentators, and see what they think on a variety of different comments.

There are often times where the comments here or on Reddit are sufficiently informative that I don't even get around to clicking through to the original article.
> Politics is involved with _everything_ the world has to offer

There's a difference between something that happens to be politics and touches very directly on subjects germane to this site, and inviting in politics articles of every shape and form.

> Without this kind of discussion, people involved in the tech industry are destined to become unthinking drones

Uh, no we aren't. Our lives do not revolve around this site and many of us manage to think about politics, economics, history, bicycle racing, and many other fascinating topics without discussing them here.
Did I miss something? It doesn't say why Jobs is a better wizard than Potter, does it?
Reminds of Zed Shaw's Utu (AFAIK inactive). That concept had recursive hate, and real names, if I remember correctly.

But honestly, that leads to very complicated systems, lots of angry banned people, … anonymity, in moderation, is good.
These problems are more closely related than you imagine. In particular, when you change a program, there is often necessarily more information you must give the computer in order to make the corresponding change in the proof. That additional burden is creativity, and is in many cases unavoidable.

With good proof repair techniques you can fix the proof almost fully automatically in a way that mimics the change in the program, but then just ask the programmer a few questions to give the needed creativity to fix the proofs. As far as easy to understand goes, then, that "just" comes down to good UX for asking those questions. (Still not solved!)

Here is the state of the art right now (my most recent paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00774

Lots left to do but the dream is quite realistic.
You can get access to some of the data through the University of Chicago, but it is super restricted (as required by their source):

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/kilts/datasets/nielsen...

Good luck, this type of data is really really guarded as it is ridiculously valuable.
> Imagine being able to quickly and easily add your own custom programs to your iPhone without asking anyone's permission though?

Cool? I'm a software engineer and I have no desire to do this. The number of people who care about this feature is vanishingly low. I think it is reasonable to lament losing a particular feature for tinkerers, but it becomes unreasonable to demand that businesses cater to this very small niche.

> Adding these abilities certainly would not be the downfall of phone ecosystems as we know them. People that want convenience wouldn't leave their app store.

Downfall? No. But locked down systems are a somewhat effective way of keeping badware off of devices for the masses.