jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On top of that. All that state is written to disk, and if someone else goes romping through where you've written your hibernate state to, you get a corrupted state to restore to.
The headline is /r/savedyoaclick bait.

It's trichloroethylene, but only maybe?
Nope, everything monetary was just as agreed. It's an interesting take and I haven't though about it this way. I have always seen it as a sign of mistrust from the company, which had its consequences on morale etc.
It is indeed a runaway train, and there are three groups it might hit. Homeowners, lenders, or taxpayers. Pick your poison.
>I find that I rely on my hearing nearly as much as my eyesight. Especially to detect dangerous conditions that demand quick decisions, I find that hearing is the most important of the senses.

Would that still be true if you had eyes pointed in all directions? Hearing is 360 degrees, and so is automotive vision/lidar.
How we value people in other countries is up to us.
I only meant to joke. Very cool that you get to work with such a machine!
Man, I’m getting old. Back in the day, we had Trillian and Pidgin for that, among others.

I think the newer services are less interested in integrating or have weird and unique features that are harder to implement.

I agree though, it would be nice to be able to have Matrix, Discord, Telegram, Signal all on one program and with all their established features.
Unlike the Neo, the Yubikey 5 uses a chip from Infineon: http://www.hexview.com/~scl/neo5/.
This is a bad idea for Apple. We don't need electric or self-driving cars. We need cities designed for walking and biking. Our society is choked with multi-lane roads and giant parking lots everywhere, making all other transportation options infeasible.

We will not solve the climate crisis if everyone is carried around in a 4000 lb steel cage.
For most people, white collar crime is relatively abstract. Something to be outraged about when you hear it on the news, but not something that you can feel affecting you personally. Blue collar crime, especially the kind that occurs at a personal level, is more visceral. People really want to see those people kept away from them, more than they want to see rehabilitation. Whether rehabilitation would lead to better long-term outcomes gets ignored.

The Boeing situation is a little different, of course, since it really did kill a bunch of people.
I'm also a huge fan of keeping things simple. But there is a reason we are having this conversation here, and not in the comments section of his blog.

Comments are something I consider pretty vital to even a basic blog now. And so he's kind of missed the mark for me.
Echoing the sentiments elsewhere in the thread, the office of the President has official avenues such as the White House Press Corps and EAS. I don't think Twitter has a particular duty to preserve or distribute the content of any user no matter who they are. It might be different if this was in the terms of service, or if it was something the executive branch was paying for.

If they changed their business practices to the model used by other network service providers commonly afforded neutral carrier status (i.e. SaaS, ISPs), then I think there might be a case for your second point.
I lived in Brazil's capital, Brasília, for many years. Illegal land grabs were very, very common there. This wasn't in the jungle. This was a modern city, and there were as many middle class and upper middle class land grabbers as poor ones. This infuriated me. Since the upper middle class neighborhoods were becoming too expensive to buy into, rich people simply invaded protected land and started building there. Or owners of large farmland transformed the land into urban plots and sold the plots illegally, mostly to rich middle and upper middle class people. And everyone knew it was illegal. Everyone. Still to this day, a decade later, I still know people who have very nice homes in very nice neighborhoods, and they still don't have an official, legal land title. They have some semi-bogus, semi-official 'land use' sort of document, and they can't legalize it, and it is all a complicated legal mess, but hey, they got to buy very cheap land and live the middle class dream, right? Who cares if it was illegal, who cares if it the land was supposed to be preserved. And these are the same people who complain that we have corrupt politicians. Really, these are the same people. Everyone in Brazil blames our problems on corrupt politicians, but everyone pulls this kind of 'semi-legal' crap. That's why Brazil sucks. Too bad it's very, very good also.
I disagree; all communication has a purpose, but manipulation is communication that intentionally conceals it's true purpose and tries to deceive you. For example, saying "buy tickets for concert of band X at venue Y at time Z" or "if you have haemorrhoids, buy drug W", are "good", non-manipulative ads. On the other hand, "click here to earn 1000 a day", "you are 1000th visitor, you win", or displaying an image of a happy family in an attempt to anchor your brand to the viewer's idea of happiness is "bad", manipulative kind of advertising.

I don't oppose "good" advertising; I just think it should be limited (to information boards, Google, Craigslist, ...). However, most advertising is the bad kind, and I categorically oppose it.
TBH HN is a milder Reddit but it flows on the same river.

Whenever you create an unpopular post your karma goes down. I have no adblocked the karma display because I will not be judged for my posts.
Should I get shadow banned I'll create a new account.

Why HN? Being an old Isonews member I like the orange.
And even if the quality has degraded there are still some interesting posts here.
I'm also not a "slashdot" I'm a "hacker", well I don't call myself hacker but commonly hacker is synonymous for creator, developer, entrepreneur.
Slashdot never mattered in my world. The internet is a tool, a means to and end, not the center of my life.
I don't even remember when I first stumbled upon HN. Was it on Google+?
I miss Google+ and the spirit and people it had. I felt right at home.
Unlike Facebook where is never really fit in. A platform for consumers and their producers but more consumers who have no clue about the creative spirit. How I despise Facebook. Then Google+ became more like it instead of continuing with doing its own thing. The final UI changes made it as terrible as Facebook.
The post was the main attraction and comments and discussions were no longer wanted.
And when it died there was Reddit which was and still is the worst Troll-infested... platform of stupid.
And there was HN, which I always viewed as being too much ivory tower/first world problems, but compared it has the most interesting topics.
Twitter then is a platform for the permanently "how dare you" crowd. Someone always has something to bitch about. And while many seem to like it, I never could, smartphone stupidity.

And HN then, old school, low effort design. Not the best input methods. But interesting enough and more positive than reading mainstream news, which in the last 2 years and nowadays especially is unbearable.
That's also why I strongly react when I see a propaganda post for either side of the war, which doesn't really concern me. Idc about it. It's all lies anyway. What's the relevance for a IT tech news site? None.
Ok if it gets IT techy but a ship sinking? idgaf.
If you ask me, the Ukraine is being used so the "west" can sell weapons. 1000 million € loan and more from Germany alone... anyhow not on topic.

HN without karma would be an improvement. I will not change my ways or truth just because someone with a larger pot thinks they have more power or the right to judge.

Why is there no Google+ replacement? A social network for devs, artists, businessmen, but not big businesses, where you can stay up to date on the latest in tech and directly talk to people without having to "friend" them and where you're not judged and censored via "karma". Not owned by big tech. Where the focus in on discussion and meeting people and not POST BIG comment small but all equal.
You'd be mostly reading code and writing <100 lines of C, much of which would be copypasta. I'm not convinced having the familiar editor would be that big of a deal here.
Yes, I do this as part of my job.

I help manage a system that does something like this for a large network operator.
We have test phones that run TWAMP, RFC 6349 and iperf (and a few other tests) on a routine schedule to special test servers. generating data which you will never ever see.

But you could do something similar if you had the desire. I have yet to see anyone do that yet.

All network providers have various throttling systems set up to limit your throughput, that is pretty universal, and, most of such systems are intentionally bypassed based for speed tests. They know the 5 tuples for all the speed test servers and bypass throttling for those test.

Yes, speed tests are rigged, think, Volkswagen Diesel, an inside joke pretty widely known in the industry.
I agree with that. In that case savings would be the goods that remain unused or at least left in a condition that did not put their value at risk (e.g. eating the tomatoes). A properly canned food can be a great store of value for a decade or longer and is a hedge against inflation, however are suboptimal after a point due to their volume and mass. An entire pantry may be the equivalent value of one oz of gold, for example, though with more immediate utility.
agree iperf to a server is a good test as long as the 5 tuple is rotated so they dont figure it out.
In this context I'd say: writing a piece of software (programming) vs modifying an existing, large project in a clean and correct way (engineering).

I can write a pretty good standalone tool to solve a problem, but throw me into an unfamiliar code base and ask me to make a significant change that meets all the necessary style/correctness criteria is a whole 'nother level, at least in an hour interview.
The single best language learning resource I found when studying Japanese was Mangajin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangajin

They did both English comics translated to Japanese:

https://i.redd.it/x7f4zzk9dff01.png

And Japanese manga translated to English:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/mangajin-48-in-2021--382806655...

With word for word translations, romanized transliteration, and extensive notes. They also had lots of articles on Japanese culture, advertisements, etc.

I couldn't wait for the next issue to come out. I wonder if there's any equivalent for learning other languages through comics?
I would gladly “pay” the same price or higher for Uber than for a taxi. A better service should cost more.

Then again, when I’m using Uber it’s either for business travel (someone else’s money) or vacation (not price sensitive).
I agree with you in theory but I'll point out you do measure bounce rate and reoccuring vs new visitors and staying time at the same time to give you that exact view.

But I agree they measure the wrong end points or rather they measure too many end points for me to make sense of which one is better. The goal of overall traffic sometimes works against keeping bounce rates low or staying time high.

In the end you would think products sold matters. But an over promising website will over hype and under deliver causing returns or bad reviews which may affect future sales. The message has to describe the product but still meet the market's demand.
the game was tested on

Chrome 10
Safari 5
Firefox 4
Opera 11

some users with IE9 reported some errors, I couldn't debug because i'm on OSX. Please let me know if there're any cheap methods to get an IE9.
What do you think about Steve Albini's rant on the music industry?
Has the distribution of who gets what changed much in the last 20 years?

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
I really like what they are doing in Nemerle 2. http://code.google.com/p/nemerle-2/ (Not associated in any way)
Time to get back in the DeLorean?
Kindle delivery is baked into the rake Amazon takes off the top, along with their 30%.

If you opt or prince into the 35% royalty model (i.e., 65% to AMZN) then they are graciously willing to absorb that cost themselves.
It was a classic disruption innovation case. Anyone who knows what that means, they would've known that RIM and Nokia will be in trouble ever since the first iPhone came out.

But specifically, RIM is in trouble because either they didn't see the industry change towards touchscreen devices fast enough, or they didn't care until recently. Why wouldn't they care? Because until recently their financials were reaching records after records, and they thought that's the only metric for the company's future success. "Hey, why would we ever change when we're making so much money with out old ways?". The problem is disruptive innovations and market shifts like these are very misleading for incumbents. The disruptive products don't start hurting the incumbent's financials until it's already too late to change. That's why they have to start changing fast as soon as they notice the change catching on in their industry, even if they are making a lot of money from the old way.
They'd have to prove you disclosed it. As has been discussed here recently, there are plenty of ways to do that among colleagues while maintaining plausible denial.
Can you elaborate on the specifics of the scalability problems, and how the different databases do differently on them? It's an interesting subject.

We're having scalability problems with our RDBMS, but it's something RDBMSs in general don't solve.
> security of your communication

Unless one is a security expert I highly doubt that a home-grown IRC system will be more secure than a professionally-run operation, other than simply being more obscure and not on a hacker's radar.
I freely admit that hardware tokens may be more secure, but the more 2FA that uses the standard implemented by Google Authenticator the happier I am. Plus, in my mind it would be cheaper and easier to implement a software only process than to try and convince a CFO that buying, shipping and managing little pieces of hardware will have sufficient ROI.

I also am not holding my breath for even the software 2FA since quite a few of my financial institutions won't even let me use punctuation in my password. Yes, the irony of implementing 2FA lowering the risk of a simple password isn't lost in me.
Seems to be treading a lot of the same ground as OData.
Well, let's imagine an attack scenario.

As an attacker, I get SQL access to your DB (meaning no access to the encryption key). I then download the user names, and the hashes. I then attack the hashes offline. I recover only the weakest few percent (since you're using bcrypt). But since the weakest few are those most likely to be re-used (both by different users and by a single user across sites), they are going to be both more valuable to me and easier for the next steps:

Then, I take the highest frequency passwords and the user table, and I start validating them online in your system. Now if I do that too quickly, you'll notice and I'll be shut down. And if I do that all from the same IP, I'll be shut down.

But what if I had a botnet that I could distribute the load across. What if I kept my request rate small enough to stay under the radar of even a moderate scale system.

I would expect to start seeing meaningful results within days.

If you had 1000 users, then I could surmise that you don't have much traffic, and hence keep the request rate down to perhaps 100 per day. In 10 days I'd have at least a few u/p combinations that I know for a fact worked.

If you had 1000000 users, I could ramp it up quite a bit higher, to perhaps 1000 or 10000 per day.

And since they all came from separate IP addresses, it could be rather difficult for you to tell an attack was going on unless you were looking specifically for it.

Does that mean you should stop immediately? No. It's not that bad of a scheme. But be aware that it doesn't give you (or your users) the level of protection that it may look like on the surface.
#7 Doesn't use the Internet?
The market cap concept is known pretty well to an educated visitor from 1915, exchanges had been in existence for more than two hundred years then. The number may seem big at first, but after explaining inflation impact and may be expressing this number as percent of GDP, this, too, does not seem to be far-fetched.
You'll probably get a chuckle out of the first five-or-so paragraphs of:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

The referenced paper can be found here: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm
I was a TDCJ officer for a couple of years (almost twenty years ago), and I am not a bit surprised to learn that some inmates have reconfigured their radios to transmit. I never saw a transmitter, but I did find a number of tattoo guns which were usually manufactured from the impedance matching transformers that were used to get radio reception inside the units. There are some very inventive people incarcerated and they obviously had a lot of time on their hands. The bit about the guards being clueless is largely true as well. Even though the radios were in a translucent housing so that they could not be used to conceal contraband, most officers were not trained or otherwise able to identify a radio that had been modified, especially if carefully done. Officers were instructed to confiscate any radio that was modified, but this policy was often ignored. Supervising inmate housing is one of the least desirable assignments. It's also often the case that if a housing unit isn't causing too much trouble that enforcement might be relaxed as it can be more disruptive than just letting some of it go. The design of many Texas prisons requires officers to walk down a long corridor ~24 to 34 cells per tier, allowing ample time for inmates at the ends to stow contraband.

A point of trivia here that isn't related to making AM transmitters but still interesting is that the type of radios that were really coveted by inmates were the ones that had a particular Sony PLL IC, I can't recall the part number but it is fairly famous for being a very good receiver with high sensitivity.
How much of a commodity is your work? Are you doing work that most web devs could do? For example vanilla PHP is easier to find than a cutting edge SPA developer who knows the latest frameworks, architecting important services, etc.

How good are your communication skills? In consulting/freelance/contract this is huge. You will never be able to charge as much as someone who has great rapport with the customer, articulates points in a clear way, and shows understanding of the big picture goals.

How big are the companies you work with? As a rule of thumb small companies are not usually paying the highest rates. Small companies have more interesting work, but pick your poison.

What percentile are you capabilities in? This requires some brutal self honesty but usually it's harder to get top rates if you are not at the top of your field.

Do you try to work remote? Jobs usually pay more if you are willing to stay on site most of the time. Hate this but it's true.

Do you have an impressive portfolio of work to show? When people see it do they "ok, thanks", or do they say "wow that's really cool"?

The good news is you can change and improve everything on this list.
I'll just leave this here: http://seir.sei.cmu.edu/sheard/Life%20Cycle%20Silver%20Bulle...
Note: Rust 1.0 does not mean feature complete, it means backwards compatible. A lot of the builtin libraries and features (eg compiler plugins) will not be available for use in 1.0 Rust (only in the nightlies)

1.0 Rust gives an option for people wanting to use it in production, and as far as comparing it with C goes it has a lot more functionality, but there is still a long way to go before the "stable" Rust has all the awesomeness that Rust nightlies have right now.
Access Code looks pretty interesting. I'm going to see if I can find some similar programs offered that I'm qualified for. Some require funding that I do not have, however, so I don't know I would do that. I would need to do some sort of Kickstarter or take out a loan.
I can beat that a skosh. Here is adblock safari (granted this was with adblock on and safari running a while).

http://imgur.com/J1rP6V0

Safari+adblock+ any amount of tabs+history = I want 64g of ram on my laptop stat.
Why are there THREE stories about this on the front page of HACKER NEWS?!

THREE!
I don't know, I think the new nano is too small. Apple did a good job with the UI-on-a-postage-stamp, but the thing is just physically too small to hold and use with one hand. If the body were a bit longer so you could hold it with your fingers and use your thumb to navigate, that would be better. IMHO.
There is an 'Include comments' checkbox which does exactly this.
I think this is more like the end of the end... The traditional model is dead for many years already.
I must mention that The slide idea is taken from (http://hackerslide.com) by `peterc'
I don't think I agree that the next Java will come out of OSS community. I think the reason Java has become what it is has to do with the safety (no matter how illusionary that safety is) of a big company behind it.
How often have you told groups to quit, even one year later?
The creative director, "aurich", has been completely spoiling Ars readers. He's been around for a while, but I swear he keeps getting better. e.g. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/major-online... and http://arstechnica.com/business/guides/2011/04/physical-to-v... and http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/04/npd-physical-media... and those are just from the front page right now.
I care, if its old. The knowing the age of data is very valuable when judging its relevance.
I did, more or less, but I was pretty motivated. If I hadn't been so strongly motivated, I wouldn't have been able to do it at all. As it was, I switched to taking calculus classes at the first opportunity.

The funny thing is, though, I did a lot better on the AP exam than the kids who did take a calculus class, the same class I would have taken if I'd finished the prerequisite class in time. And, after a semester of taking it in a class, I'd pretty much lost interest.

("more or less": This was in high school. I failed to put in much time on it during the summer, since I was busy traveling to Japan and falling in love, so I signed up for "study hall" as an elective, and spent that time studying calculus with a textbook. The structured time without much distraction was very helpful in making it through enough of the book to do well on the exam.)

What are some other topics that you very rarely see people learn other than by schooling? Machine learning, physics, surgery?
Really? And you think they won't assume you're some nasty hacker trying to angle for weak laws so you can just get away with more of this demonic evil hateful hacking thing that you do? Hoodlum! The incompetency here is not striking in the fact there's apparently been no change since 1984.