jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see it as a good argument that we don't need some special evidence to believe early modern humans and Neanderthals would have had sex (though we do need more evidence to understand if they could actually produce viable offspring), since we can look at the sexual behavior of modern humans with much more distant species.
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"Those who fight" are the ones who have power. It takes strong civilian control over army for them to not have much power.

And social status flows from power.
>The biggest problem with using SQLite in production is disaster recovery.

No, SQLite has WAL and can recover from failures.
The biggest problem with SQLite is concurrency. You can't write from multiple processes in parallel.
I tried it on www.yahoo.com (as a former Yahoo! employee) and it said that Yahoo Shine wasn't in my network. Something odd there, maybe someone listed Yahoo Shine's address as yahoo.com or something.
For those with jailbroken iPhones and SSH, the data can be accessed or copied directly. The information is stored in this file:
/private/var/root/Library/Caches/locationd/consolidated.db

The file can be viewed with any ol' SQLite browser, and the location information is stored in the "CellLocation" table.

After using an iPhone 4 since release day, I have ~1400 entries.
This is huge for Amazon, because it eliminates the one competitive advantage the Nook (and others to a lesser extent) had over the Kindle -- compatibility with libraries.

As far as the potential for format fragmentation goes, it's still the wild west as far as the relationship between libraries, publishers and e-books go.
Plus a physical copy has resale value, so when you're done with a game you can sell it or trade it to a friend.

Aside from 802.11b (and maybe the battery), the hardware is really nice. The system has a really nice solid feel to it, the screen, while not up Retina standards, is bright and more than adequate for games/movies, and the controls have a good tactile response (although the shoulder buttons are a tad awkward).

I had a PSPGo for a short period of time, and running emulators on it was fantastic. Sony seems to like the razor-blades sales model, but the homebrew community sure adds a ton of value to these devices.
Kubernetes is not too complex. There are things to learn no doubt, but it's easy to reason about once you cross the initial learning curve.

Ofcourse transitions can fail. People can think yea let's do this small thing and end up chewing off a much bigger problem than they thought they were getting into. But that problem is in the whole of tech. "Let's just use our present people and switch from all proprietary to all open source in 3 months.." yea, best of luck with that... You need a solid team and going all in on K8s is hard, you need technical talent and leadership to drive this.

Agreed, maybe it may not be for everyone. Benefits are both technical and financial, less compute resources used, more reliable deploys, more resilient services. The problems being solved by this are not trivial. There are tangible benefits. Is it a risk? Ofcourse it is. The risk is not in the technology, the risk is in the competence of the team deploying it. If it can't change and adapt, maybe a lot more fundamental things need to change in that organization than just deploying a new orchestration layer.

My only point is, this shift from dedicated servers to VMs and now to containers is a fundamental shift in how things are done. People can hate on it all they like, but it's a better way of doing things and everyone will catch-up eventually.
i think the true insanity lies within the mind of the developer whose build system depends on the number of jobs being ran in parallel..!

interesting academic exercise though. unless i'm mistaken, this will only detect up to 32 build jobs? i'd hate to see the Makefile that works for arbitrary values..
I posted this in the comments in the blog as well:

With regards to the technicalities of max_path itself... the issue is with the .NET file I/O API, which doesn't allow you to use \\?\ paths to work around it, and is too big for our team in particular to do much about. Here's a good article that might provide a little more context (it's a little old, and these "plans" they speak of never actually materialized.)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-path...

That said... we don't like it either, and we are still thinking about what we can do.
Well maybe they are just fans of a certain Football(as in "Soccer") club. Here in Germany, they often lay goat heads infront of the stadium of their rivals before matches, cause the rival's mascot is a goat, and they even have a living goat in their ttadium.
I guess it is not the company i expected. Samsung next time with linux...
Mine too and I must have spent way too many hours on it as a kid... but WHY?
The purpose of single-family voting is not to maintain sparse density, it's to keep the city white:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26252258

> If voting was mandatory in the USA this would've been fixed centuries ago.

Those negatively affected by policies like this have only been able to vote for about 50 years.
At the risk of entering the "what is money" rabbithole...

"Money", banks, and the financial system broadly are a system of laws, contracts, and faith.

Bitcoin can clearly exist outside the modern financial system as a thing that manages a distributed ledger, but any time it attempts to become "money" it is going to smash into one or more of those.

This is an example of "any regulated financial industry will need to enforce these laws, regardless of how offensive those laws are to math."

This specific issue may or may not have merit, but in the long run regulation of things that can be regulated inevitable (exchanges, things that have a physical address in countries with laws, etc).

Politicians and judges aren't really swayed by "it's MATH, bitch!" and in fact most of society isn't really run that way either.
Voting is how we got here. A city or any entity can adopt exclusionary policies based on the votes of the people who already live there, which obviously excludes the people to be excluded. What we need is the next higher level of government to set basic ground rules. There should be a state right-to-build law that automatically permits a moderate level of density. There shouldn't be any place within incorporated cities of California you can't build a four-family dwelling on a 4000-square-foot lot.
Racial inequality is not an "artificially inflated issue." Studies show that, despite reduction in de jure racism over the past 70 years, Black-white income gaps are large (with Black incomes being 19 percentile points below white incomes in the income distribution), and also persistent. Meanwhile, the incomes of other groups (Latinos, Asians) have or are in the process of converging with those of whites.

So there is a real, devilishly difficult problem here. But it's not going to be solved by telling people to "be less white." That's an insane non-solution to a real problem.
maybe they are confused between Google & GCP
Do you have any information on firms and law schools having gender balance quotas? I did a quick search but didn't find anything.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny advocates for gun rights in Russia, while comparing immigrants and Muslims from Russia's southern regions to cockroaches and suggests they need to be exterminated.

Video is in Russian.

From 2007.
Studies like this are structured from the outset to lead to trivial politically-motivated false dichotomies. It's like commissioning a study on whether reducing the number of cars would reduce the number of car accidents.

The interesting question, given that many people want cars and nobody wants car accidents, is what alternatives exist that allow you to have fewer car accidents without having fewer cars?

Because the implementation of those solutions change the original conclusion. If you have a lot of robbery homicides as a result of poverty, and keeping guns away from the perpetrators would keep them from committing as many homicides, but so would effective anti-poverty programs, one of these solutions is clearly better and obviates the need for the other.
I know the feeling all too well. In my opinion, a lot of degree courses are not fit for purpose. I studied at an ex-poly that had over 15 different Computing related courses and the only ones of real value were Computer Science and Software Engineering.

I know for a fact that some universities will consider a transfer for your final year to another course. One guy I worked with was on a HND course in Computing and he managed to get into the second year of Computer Science at Bristol University, and one managed to get into the final year at an ex-poly, again in Computer Science. It might be worth considering if you think your grades will be up to scratch.

However, to be fair, most people on here will agree that your skills show far more than what degree you have. Frankly, the value in the degree isn't necessarily the knowledge you attain, but the whole experience, as well as working on projects of a certain scale and complexity. Once you've got a job behind you, the degree is nothing more than a slip of paper.

In regards to IDE's, as long as you're using something used in industry and are using something you are comfortable in there's no need to worry. When I was a student I worked a ton of internships and picked up C# and .NET that way, so my career went down the .NET route, although I've dabbled a bit in PHP and Python where I could. If you're itching to work, then I'd highly recommend sticking with the course, and working over the summer. There are always schemes out there for students, and the experience is invaluable later on.
Can't tell fact from fiction these days. What is the credibility of investmentwatchblog.com ?
Oh so that's what this "verbatim" thing is, I'll look into it thanks.
"To my knowledge, nobody ever tested this."

I'm not talking about only internal threats, but external threats as well. I'm not sure that "nobody has tested this" but history has lots of cases of coups, invasions, etc (and probably other cases where things went differently)

The WBC is the Westboro Baptist Church, read about them and how they use freedom of speech laws.

"I don't understand why speaking about what happened to you in the past should have any consequence to you."

Because of something called Defamation. There's also the possibility of having admitted to a crime.

But yes, in the US freedom of speech is very strong, even there, it's not 100% free of consequences (which may be a good thing). In some other countries defamation laws stifle free speech.
Do you have an article or the code somewhere for all this? I'd like to try setting it up as well.
What stops them from arresting you when they just saw you breaking into the Capitol?
Also https://www.eyenuk.com/us-en/products/eyeart/
> ... goto-like control transfer which replaces the regular subroutine call.

That very much sounds like a [regular subroutine] call has been eliminated.

> Tail calls are not eliminated

This sounds like rather delicate semantics. A call has been eliminated. It was in the tail position. It was replaced by something else, which you call the "tail call". Maybe you'd prefer RSCITLEIOTC (regular subroutine call in tail location elimination in favour of tail call)?

I think tail call elimination is good enough to communicate the concept, whereas (when it's not purely an optimisation) tail call optimisation is not good enough, because calling it an "optimisation" is such a dangerous trap.
Does it bar the EU and China from conducting their own criminal investigation, ask for extradition of the management team and/or impose their own fines?
A tail call is just any call that's at the tail of a function. It might be used to refer to TCE specifically, but that's a colloquialism and would be wrong in a more technical context.
Sure. There is no way to eliminate whacko conspiracy theorists and fringe forums. They existed before social media too. The idea is that interpersonal dynamics can help manage these things: if your uncle Frank posts about chemtrails, then hopefully someone he trusts can point him in a different direction in the comments, and if not, at least the people reading it will see the comments. If Facebook just surfaces this information, you get none of this: click and boom you're in an alternative reality full of lizard people and humans in cosmic battle.
>So strong is the apologists conviction in the purity of Boeing's engineering culture that they ignore the fact that thousands of engineers worked on the 737 Max. Not a single engineer raised issues with the engineering of the aircraft. Not a single engineer wrote a blistering memo calling out its failing or quit in protest. They were all held in thrall, paralyzed and forced to go against their ethics, professionalism, decency by the power of this unholy trinity!

Why would this matter? The MCAS software is the only thing that failed. It probably only involved a dozen engineers and they did their job to a reasonable extent. What if none of them were told that the pilots are not trained to be aware of the MCAS?

The real failure is that there was a pseudo autopilot software that completely overrode pilot control. Why did it override pilot input? Because managers wanted to sell it as a 737 upgrade with 0 training required. Making the 737 MAX safe does not neccesarily require better engineering, pilot training alone would be more than enough.
>It is unbelievably, brutally difficult for all of the other non-science skills that are needed but not explicitly taught: writing grants (“grantsmanship”), getting invited to speak at conferences, building collaborative research relationships, having the political awareness to attract allies and mentors within a department or university who can help find support for you.

it is the same everywhere - be it political/government system or who gets to be a big architect, director or VP in a tech company. An ounce of political savvy and BS skills beats a kilogram of technical skills and expertise.
No, it's a great example. I use a password manager that generates strong random passwords with special characters, but still run into problems on websites:

* My password is too long
* My password doesn't contain one of their required special characters
* My password contains a special character they don't explicitly support
I've got the same thing, I'm running a 32" 4k at 1x resolution, so the desktop thinks it's 3800px wide.

I've got a hacked version of rectangle.app giving me 3x2 tiled windows. Some stuff will be in 6ths, some will be in full height 3rds. And occasionally, I'll get a spreadsheet that needs full screen.

Web browsers tend to run at normal res, terminal and emacs are using Anonymous Pro 14pt. At that size, terminal is 157x122 when running in a full height third. Works pretty well for my aging eyes.
> some guns in nearby parked truck

I imagine they're more restrictive than here, but I don't know the laws in DC. Around here finding some guns in a parked truck would not be noteworthy. Given that some of these people probably came from well outside of DC, I wouldn't be at all surprised they just drove their truck up with whatever was in it already without a thought.

Unfortunately, I also wouldn't be surprised to hear that they intentionally brought them just in case some of their buddies forgot their weapons for the coup attempt. That is, sadly, the country we've made for ourselves.
Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder, one who left Facebook post-acquisition, infused 50M USD into Signal. And, Signal is community-supported through donations. I hope that Signal remains here for a long time.
I think iMessage took off, because you don't realise it's not SMS. Open the Messages app, type a message, if there's an iDevice in the other end, BOOM, iMessage.

Where iMessage fails is when the device in the other end isn't an Apple device, or perhaps the contact previously used an iPhone, then fallback to SMS is troublesome.

Most of my familymembers will send an "SMS"... except it's via iMessage, but nobody knows or cares.
Ah yes, the platform that started with “no moderation” but had to add a rule that you can’t reply to someone with a photo of your own faeces
They're the ones who understand there's no silver bullet for all problems.
When I lived in Russia my doctor messaged me via WhatsApp. I'm American so I was a little culture shocked, I don't know if this is standard procedure or anything but it illustrates how ubiquitous WhatsApp is.

I'm so anti-Facebook now that it's a part of the way I identify myself, and for all that I can't delete it.
I maintain contact with a friend in Germany via Whatsapp or Facebook messenger, and in this case it would be possible to use email (which is not nearly as casual as firing off a message in your spare moments) or some other service but it doesn't solve the problem about friend groups.

I have friend groups around the world that my only way to participate in is Facebook. I believe moving abroad is in my future again, and Messenger is detestably the only real way to keep up with my friends back home. Leaving Facebook and Messenger is like leaving a bar I hate; I'm only here for the people and I wish we could go somewhere else.
More MIMO antennas means better resilience against interference, the higher theoretical value is a non-quantitative proxy for that.
I like matrix, and the chat feature is pretty rock solid. However for calls and sending files it's currently not as good as Signal. I quite often have an issue with calls connecting (need several tries) while I hardly ever see this with signal. Similarly, sometimes I get failed sending of files (especially if they are big) and they somehow stay as a failed message in your chat afterwards, which is really annoying.
It would (have been?) interesting to know who isn't switching anywhere (and/or not considering to switch)

Also, I can't seem to find anything about a messenger named Zom, do you mean Zoom? If so, is Zoom really something people use for the same use case as Whatsapp?
The science in this area is actually pretty low quality from a strict evidence-based medicine standpoint. It mostly consists of poorly controlled observational studies, which are only one step above the woo woo fad diets. We still don't have a solid theoretical framework for how all the pieces fit together.
I hope he gets a real trial. Because I would nullify.
Axosoft's Bug Tracker is free to use: http://www.axosoft.com/bug-tracker
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I guess this particular part has never greatly bothered me about academia, though plenty of things are quite broken and bother me.

I mainly value whatever education takes place, not the formalities, so if someone who doesn't deserve it gets a degree, who cares? I can see that for people who care about the value of the pieces of paper, it's important to keep unqualified people from getting them. I just can't bring myself to care that much about that, though. To me the important question is whether people who want to learn are able to; not whether people who don't want to learn slip through or don't slip through.

The much bigger failing in my mind isn't that cheaters aren't sufficiently punished, but that motivated students who want to learn things other than exactly what they're assigned are given virtually no assistance, and often actively discouraged (the side-projects-are-bad, keep-your-head-down-and-do-what-you're-told mentality).
Keep in mind who buys his stuff: Mostly people who don't have "the privilege of being able to devote large blocks of uninterrupted time to diving into any given area and mastering it". If you work full time and go to school, and possibly have a family, you're forced to go to school for career, not learning.
Yes! And a lot of those things are pointless, buggy busywork for the project managers involved. I’d rather well designed, minimal, fast, intuitive software with not many features over something like Xcode - packed full of buggy features that lag or crash the whole ide regularly. Polish is unsexy, but usually way more important than we give it credit for.

As they said at Zynga, move slow and fix your shit.
In the case of "tap to click", a 3 finger tap would also emulate this, or as a middle mouse click.
>"because calling the thing baseband (the "base" in "1000-base-T") somewhat stretches the definition of the word. It uses various line coding and signal processing tricks to squeeze all the bandwith out of the wire."

Interesting. Can you elaborate on why using "base" is a stretch here? I don't think I've heard this before. It's been a while since I've looked at layer 1 but isn't Ethernet just Manchester encoding? What other signal tricks are generally used?

Might you or anyone else have any good resources for Ethernet PHY circuits?
> If you said "Section 230 is a massive gift to big tech!"
> Once again, I must inform you that you are very, very wrong.

If section 230 is no big deal, let's just repeal it. What's the hoopla about it, then? Why are companies so adamant to protect it?

The section itself is very broad, but the impetus for the passing of Section 230 was to protect free speech by removing liability concerns for what others say online.

> On July 23, 2013, the attorneys general of 47 states sent Congress a letter requesting that the criminal and civil immunity in section 230 be removed. The ACLU wrote of the proposal, "If Section 230 is stripped of its protections, it wouldn't take long for the vibrant culture of free speech to disappear from the web." [1]

So, apparently big tech has killed that vibrant culture and in 2021, I think we can declare it dead. Tens of thousands of people are getting purged from social media, others alienated, ostracized, and shadow banned. There is a concerted effort to manufacture consent through targeted algorithmic hijacking of free speech. And so, we find ourselves in a situation where the current situation is UNTENABLE.

A free society cannot have its discourse completely dominated by a handful of corporations. This is a civil rights issue. I'm sorry, some people want to weasel out of this with arguments of technicality.

Technically, before labor laws were passed in the 20th century, there was nothing wrong with asking someone to work 60-70 hours a week and paying them the same rate. There was nothing illegal about paying someone 10 cents an hour prior to minimum wage laws. But we realized that some broad protection for certain workers rights were worth intervening in the free market for.

That is the issue of the 21st century. We are the content producers on social media. We should have rights to not be deplatformed. And no, it's not acceptable to arbitrarily empower a handful of corporations to decide what is acceptable speech and what is not. If the speech is not illegal, it should be protected. And in the U.S. we have broad, broad protections for speech for an extremely important reason. Cannot forget that. Too many societies have fallen to tyranny as a result of free speech restriction. Tens of millions perished for the right to speak freely. That can't be understated or forgotten. Ever. The 21st century deserves a movement for a digital bill of rights.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surv...