jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So there might be something to the idea that you stay conscious for a bit after getting beheaded?
I seriously doubt many will remember him three years from now. The most noise about him is related to his Sweden affairs not something truly remarkable he has done.
And after listening to him on BBC I started to dislike him rather a lot.
I may be terribly wrong, but my gut feeling is that his main agenda is personal fame, or something else, not common good.
So this is basically a review of the battery life... The reviewer was basically too busy to charge the device every couple of days and then complains that the device runs out of juice? It's like he wanted the gadget to fail so he could write a review chastising it. Even worse is the fact that the little it did focus on the actual usage, was complaining about how he doesn't know what to do with the analytics' data.

Would it have been such a hard thing to do to charge the device once a day (as he probably already does with his phone) and report on the actual point of the device? We want to know if it wakes you up at the right moment, not if the analytics are useless for you and that you forget to charge gadgets.
But, I thought you weren't supposed to take people's "high-drama" into account when evaluating statements and arguments, and judge them entirely on the facts. Isn't that ad hominem as you love to point out?
When I cycled 25 miles a day, Monday to Friday, I could eat /anything/ in huge quantities without a problem. It makes sense, but not when you add up the calories; I was putting in way more than the most optimistic calculators said I was spending.

Then I moved closer to work, and had a total of maybe 20 minutes on my bike every day - but this being a cheaper bike I could leave it locked up outside (with a decent lock, natch) so it was my primary form of transport for everything - going to the shops, commuting to work or meeting friends out and about in town. I was still eating whatever I wanted albeit in slightly smaller portions without putting on a pound.

Whilst it's interesting and valuable science to discover quite what on earth goes on when we eat things, if your biggest concern is not putting on weight, why not do exercise that makes you sweat for 20 or 30 minutes 5 days a week? Seems much easier to me - and satisfying because you don't have to deny yourself anything!
Posts like these make me wish a friends&family round was a viable option for me. Right now my startup is in the sort of place where most of our focus should be going to the product, it's live, but not quite launched. We have a lot of great feedback that we really want to execute on before doing a proper launch.

And on the other hand being live, but not quite launched, is giving us a lot of scaling issues. You might as well say it's becoming a bit costly to run everything ... and we can only live without money for so long. That's why we're starting to devote half of our time to freelancing, just to put food on the table. This in turn affects the execution I mentioned.

Of course instead of freelancing we could completely stop executing and go for a round of fundraising ... but surely there's a chicken&egg problem hiding in there somewhere. Thing is, we have some soft-circled angels/VC's ... but we can only handle those so fast next to executing on the vision and putting food on the table.

Ok, rant over, not really certain whether it's on topic or not.
Relevant: "Why KeyKOS is fascinating" - https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41
Generally true. It gets more complicated if they have medical issues or a disability.
I bet an online poll asking “do you use the Internet?” would probably also get on the order of 7% negative responses.
That's also not an option for people, can you imagine that?

I feel like we're going down one of those "I'm not sure how to tell you that other people's lives aren't as simple as you make them out to be." kind of conversation.
Signal doesn't--and can't--somehow magically prevent people from backing up their messages insecurely. That they don't support being backed up by normal backup methods on iOS--including highly-secure ones--is a missing feature (and a devastating one at that: people expect to have access to their old messages) more than a security measure. Consider this: the existence of a popular tool that helps people back up their Signal messages wouldn't somehow cause it to be accurate to claim there is a "backdoor" in Signal.
Stickers probably were much easier and quicker to implement and they're important for many people. It's not a difficult decision.
Are they actively seeking and rewarding only those types of content? That isn't being answered anywhere as far as I can tell. "Actively seeking and rewarding" could be anything. Is offering a platform actively seeking and rewarding? I don't know much about Substack or the people on there so genuinely curious.
Good advice. It’s a novel, after all. It’s great fun, and some of the best English prose I have ever encountered.

The linked site is a fantastic resource. This is the kind of thing the WWW was invented for (OK, not literally). Click on the notes to satisfy your curiosity, but not because you think you need to know all these details to enjoy the book.

From the site:

“Must one walk the streets of Dublin to find order in the protagonists’ meanderings?”

The last time I read the whole thing I did just this, but on a contemporaneous map, marking the paths of the two main characters in different colors, following a suggestion of Nabokov’s in his lecture on Ulysses (probably one of the few pieces of criticism of this book worth reading). I recommend it!
I think the website is rather recent. She does a much better job explaining soil health in an instructive setting.
> In 2010 Congress passed FATCA [1], which forced financial institutions in foreign countries to give up information on assets held by US nationals in their borders.

With the unintended side effect that it can make it incredibly hard, if not impossible, for an American citizen to open a bank account in another country. Even if she's a resident in that country.
"We don't have exceptional programmers and hence we may be fucked" sounds like an excuse to me. A successful manager or leader is supposed to make an average team do great things. If a manager starts moaning for lack of great talent, I would suspect he is looking for excuses. Perhaps some introspection is needed.
indeed, Amazing work. Among other projects, EFF has been waging war on patent trolls well before the subject was general knowledge.
Illegal behaviour is often what causes improvements of society.
Absolutely, sativa, that was how I described it to friends. It's just remarkable to have that same positive feel of THC that lasts for 12 hours without the downsides of THC....plus the sensory + imaginative + dissociating qualities mentioned above, very good experience for me.
I've read it as we repeat a cycle where people are always far up on top and the only way to break that cycle is to be content with more or less everyone being in or near the middle.

Or put another way: So long as there is a high that people can day dream about becoming then there will never be equality for the majority of people. Otherwise people will get into the high places, slam the door shut as soon as they can, and the fighting and day dreaming will continue.
Not true. The top vote getter might siphon off enough votes from their party's second place finisher that it drops them to fourth overall. Some of the voters will have "wasted" their vote on the party leader who would've been elected anyway even if they voted for the next highest party candidate. Think of two parties splitting the vote 60/40 overall. One party's votes are split 45/15, the other's 20/20. In a "top 3" scenario, the minority party gets two spots to the majority party's one.
So in the US, if a professional photogropher puts a camera on a tripod, composes the image, adjusts the metering, sets up some lighting and then says "hey, can you push this shutter bulb for me?" Do I own the copyright?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12185586

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812055

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8161316

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726213
Given the effort Intuit puts into fighting off free e-filing, they'd be conflicted adding that question I think.
If they haven't done something like that already I'm sure they will soon. The argument being made "Facebook should have known" seems silly on the surface but the law's the law.

I'm sure they'll find the absolute minimum way to remain compliant going forward.
Yup.

I don't know, I'm obviously not the target for that kind of cult-of-personality marketing strategy, but I think it's a huge waste of time and as a stock holder it makes me grit my teeth every time.

I don't really mind the occasional interview, I think that's important for a business leader to do, especially a large publicly traded one, but at the same time, prancing around in high-end boutique clothes is not where I want my corporate leaders to be spending their time.

(and before you complain that I'm trying to dictate what they do in their free-time, I'm not, these magazine covers and interviews are very much part of their corporate work)
>why does your wife need a different word?

Because stories like yours, in context, tend to say (in subtext or not) "I was sad once but then I did X and I was fine, so what are you whining about? Just go do X!" This often includes an implication that the depressed person should not receive empathy, comfort, or even respect because their failure to make themselves 'snap out of it' indicates a moral weakness that ought to be punished. The statement may or may not include something along the lines of "she just likes drama" or "she just wants attention."

From the perspective of someone with a more or less normal emotional range, this kind of makes internal sense. You've been sad before, you equate that with the depressed person's mental state, and then you think, "Wait, when I was sad, at least I didn't Y or mope around in front of my friends or ask for disability accomodiations, etc. That person is weak and needy and whining." If your experiences were, in fact, equivalent, that might be valid.

But they are not. Not close. Not by several orders of magnitude. It's like seeing someone throw up and chiding them for not knowing their limits, when in fact they are in chemotherapy.
Just a question: why should your friends want to work on side projects? Or, why do you believe your friends should want to work on side projects?
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I agree with all of that in spirit, but I don't think the "under your reasonsing" part accurately reflected my reasoning (maybe it reflected a inference or a poorly chosen word). Incitement intends the act to occur while illegal, and I didn't mean to argue that such a thing should be legal.
https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDisting...
You ever wonder if there's some kind of bias? Like successful people people (not a typo) will be more outgoing and likely to give advice. A successful tech focused person might not be blogging and giving unsolicited advice.
Why can't you just reserve portions of the usable RAM for the checksum bits?

You could even potentially have different parity levels for different applications depending on need.
I meant for a real thing I would sell or use :) but I will!
> I'd love to see an experiment around such code bubbles, but taken to further extremes. Make it easier to pop up bubbles with a single function, that can optionally be expanded to cover more - and also, importantly, shrunk down to cover less. Let me see and retain the graph of connections on the screen.

I also want the same for web sites.

With the old Firefox extension API that should have been doable.

(I caught myself considering Palemoon yesterday.)
Maybe the right needs to understand that no corporation is required to give them their platform.

It isn’t “censorship” to toss your ass off Twitter for violating their TOS. It is censorship for the government to demand Twitter shut ya down

See the distinction?
Gee, talk about a massive "pot to kettle" story.
> Therefore the platforms are complying.

Are you saying companies should comply with whatever market pressures they have regardless of the outcome (given a free market)? Because oil companies have an interesting history of abusing this. Surely there is a line, however blurry, that companies shouldn't be crossing if they want to keep the greater good in mind.

Given that many of these tech "platforms" are worldwide, and have slowly dominated the world's userbase BEFORE changing their policies, it's easy to see they might have already crossed that line, we're just not sure exactly how yet (at least imho).
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693147 are abusive regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Comments like this are abusive regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure if any complaint was dismissed solely on the basis of the evidence, and not also because the plaintiff also failed to do other things like show that the court actually had article 3 jurisdiction, but certainly many courts found the evidence and legal arguments lacking enough to dismiss the case, in addition to finding that it would independently need to be dismissed for other reasons.

For example, see section F starting on page 22 of this ruling https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1255923...

The legal arguments being so bad that they failed procedural is not a defense for the Trump side, it's a demonstration of how badly they are failing to make a case at all. The easiest part of an allegation of fraud is to not fail on procedural grounds.

Edit: I mean - actually - easier than that is not being so aware that your evidence is lacking that you try and claim a case is and isn't about fraud in the same oral argument - but that's just a particularly special brand of incompetence and flailing that I've never heard of outside of the Trump campaign lawsuits... https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/hear-it-for-yourself-r...
Seems like a waste of disk space to archive all those tweets from the Stable Genius. I guess that will have to do as his "presidential library"?
Folks take the part where T stated at the in-person event (IIRC) to "go wild".

So, he didn't say "do an insurrection" he said those other - on the margin things (are those the things called dog whistles?) like "go wild" and "we will never back down" and the like.
The streets where the rally took place, and the streets in front of WH, Capitol building are her turf.

There were huge protests there this summer, so she knows the story.

It just seems odd and that there's not more discussion specifically about this what with a lot of blame and finger pointing going on.
As well as dark it’s infuriating if scroll isn’t handled correctly. Reddit does this thing where they with you again then bust your scroll position.
I mean, if you think that a land that is filled with 20th century cities and has a documented history of being highly populated for thousands of years is the same thing as a continent that is practically empty, I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah, he was already booking it.

This looks like it was an air combat exercise. At the very start of the video (0:07) you see a big round circle and some lines that are spread a the top and close together at the bottom. That's the EEGS gunsight, and in the censored portions of the screen is likely the bandit/hostile he was tracking. (Exercise of course.)

Either his target slips out of gun range or he switches to a different mode, but regardless it looks like he pursues, rolls 90 degrees and
"buries the stick in his lap" (F-16 has a side stick that doesn't move, but whatever. =). I'm told you have to be careful with this, and probably in the F-16 doubly so. (As C.W. Lemonine has said in a few of his videos, the F-16 will try to kill you.) In the top left of the HUD, straight up from the "C" is a decimal number showing the Gs on the aircraft, and it climbs rapidly from 3-4G up to 9G. He loses about 100knots of airspeed (still pretty fast though!) but then you hear that exhale around 0:18 and he starts to slip off the horizontal and enter that dive. His 9G turn probably is what knocked him out, and yeah, breaks Mach 1 briefly as he heads downward.

Then as ya said, he pulls another 9G when the system pulls him out of the dive.

The "knock it off" calls after are to indicate that they're not fighting anymore. As I understand, that's not slang, that's the actual terminology used.

Crazy stuff.
Well, different purposes and target audiences. Pascal was very much intended to be used in education, including as first programming language, while Delphi clearly targeted small-shop / individual professional software developers.
>The root of the F-35 program's problems is a cost plus style contract that gave Lockheed every incentive to overrun

I’m fond of the saying “once you understand people’s incentives, you understand everything” as it applies to contracting.

I will add, however, that fixed price contracts have their own problems as it relates to cutting corners. E.g., it can put downward pressure on retaining talent and performing best practices because it incentivizes under-bidding and then cutting corners to make a profit. E.g., “you cobbled together some VBA in a spreadsheet once 20 years ago and will work for pennies? Congratulations, you’re our new head of software development!”

A lot of the problems can be attributed to poor contract/spec management and poor oversight. Part of the key is having good requirements and also the contractual teeth/intestinal fortitude to hold contractors feet to the fire
You're giving NASA way, way, way too much credit. The organization was a clusterfuck from the very beginning. The only reason they managed to get anything done is because top brass quickly figured out that they are primarily a presidential vanity project.

There are some great interviews from the 70s on YouTube with some of the first high ranking officials within NASA speaking rather candidly about how terrible it was there. Everyone hated them: Congress, Military Brass, the American public.
I sold at $60. Go me.
I don't know. There aren't that many people in them.
I find it interesting that they specifically mention "TrueCrypt support". What does this support entail?
On Linux, hovering the mouse over the icon displays the version. It's also greyed-out on the Prefs/General page.

I grab debs directly from their repo, but it's still on 0.7.110. Not that it matters for me.
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> I rarely buy anything [at Borders]. Why would I when I can get the same book half price [...]?

Because you've made use of the facilities at Borders that make them need to charge you more -- the physical store with a stock of physical books and actual staff who can help you if you can't find something or want extra information. You've derived a tangible benefit from your use of those facilities: you've found some books that interest you, and established that some others aren't worth what they cost.

Sure, no one is then forcing you to buy the books in Borders; neither the police nor Borders staff will give you any trouble for freeloading. And it's not actually against the law. If that's all you care about, fair enough. But it's not like there are no reasons for buying things in a bookshop when you've benefited from the things they offer and Amazon doesn't.

Another reason: If you find Borders useful, then you'd probably prefer them to stay in business. You might want to help with that. Again, no one's forcing you to, and you may just not care much about the tragedy-of-the-commons effect that may ensue when you and others don't. But it's a reason.

> Borders doesn't offer enough additional value to make me feel bad about this.

You can give them some but not all of the additional value by buying some but not all of those books from Borders. For instance, the ones where the price premium compared to Amazon is smaller.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not saying "Bricks-and-mortar good, online bad". I buy a lot of books on line, more than I buy in physical bookshops. Amazon offers useful services that Borders doesn't -- customer reviews, the recommendation system, and so on. If you've benefited from those, that's a reason to buy from Amazon.)
One could make the case that they are in fact volunteering for their servitude.

There are strict criteria, which you have to go out of your way to meet, that determine whether you're eligible to get in to a prison. It's easy to make the argument that everybody there is there by choice.
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What you miss out on from an undergraduate CS degree is a survey of the field—the original poster already likely has specialized knowledge, but is missing the general knowledge breadth that you get through academic subjects that don't have immediate application to your own work projects. So your question isn't helpful, or rather its answer should be "the kind of programmer who would better be able to answer that question."
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The way the article describes what he said seems slightly confusing and it didn't make sense until I watched the video:

> Then he said: “It was basically three years of intelligence training, teaching normies how to do intelligence work. It was basically what I was doing anonymously before.“

> Realizing his mistake, Watkins quickly added, “...but never as Q.”

I didn't understand why "was doing anonymously before" would imply that he was Q but watching the video it sounds like what actually happened was that he said:

> It was basically what I was doing anonymously before but never as Q

All at once without pausing, but after that he realized his mistake and there was a long pause before he burst out laughing. Based on this it seems like when he said "was doing anonymously... but never as Q" the first time he had meant "was doing but not yet as Q" (meaning that he started posting as Q after that). Then he continues "never as Q, because I'm not Q" and it appears that this time he was making a halfhearted attempt to pretend that when he said "never as Q" he meant "I have never posted as Q."

It's confusing because if he hadn't started laughing it wouldn't have been totally clear that he had accidentally admitted being Q because of the somewhat ambiguous way the first sentence was worded.
Looking at the full breakdown [0], a bunch of middle eastern countries have near 100% breach. It seems like they were the target, and all the other countries were just collateral damage maybe? Canada, US, UK, all sitting around 10-20%.

[0] https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/afa08373-621e-4e...
> So the client is open source and guarantees end-to-end encryption regardless of what the server does. Ok, then I honestly don't care. Why should I?

You should because any successful centralized messenger is one update away from becoming entirely closed source.

If Signal will reach say a billion users it will be able to do that without significant userbase loss, due to network effect.

> safety characteristics, which as stated are apparently ensured by the client regardless of what the server does

In reality, the contact social graph and the frequency and pattern of messages between users is leaked.

Any global observer can do a correlation attack thanks to the centralized servers (and absence of onion routing).