jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wikileaks said when publicizing the video that the leaker himself asked for it to editorialized for largest media impact. Which kinda makes sense when reading the transcripts of idealistic Manning confessing to Lamo that he gave it to them to start "worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms"
Uhhhhh....

My Android has a pdf reader. It renders anything that fits within its memory constraints easily.

How is Kurzweil Handwaving, Inc. going to substantially improve on that? Scale it up to a nice sharp (PixelQi?) display, put it on a tablet -- presto.
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The biggest dangers are going to be non-paying clients, and leads drying up. If you can't find any leads, you'll end up spending all your "self time" eaten up with business development.
I find it interesting how much agreement there is, not just that OS X is now declining, but that Snow Leopard in particular was the high point.
This is mostly unrelated to the title, but for those of you wondering what the limit of fasting is, an interesting study on a very obese man had him on water and vitamins for over a year (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/post...).

The 3 meals a day rhetoric has been widespread (some even advocating even more than that), but it seems a bit overblown.
This is an odd definition. Apparently India and China, with their 20% savings rates, are middle class. But the far richer US (savings rate ~ 0%) is lower class?

And if the poor Americans suddenly started behaving like responsible Indians, they would become middle class?
I find that OS X (even 10.10) is perfectly usable after applying many of the famous dotfile hacks by mathias bynens: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

These restore my sanity :)
"I wish they had people in there for this last two years that could make the trains run on time, not somebody who has big ideas"

We need both. The conundrum is that improvements are done through constant iteration and ideation. Government implementation is plagued by fear of fiat and fear of failure. The implementers need to be protected by the big idea people from the skeptics.
Does anyone have a good breakdown for the claims I've seen elsewhere that tracking every plane would cost billions?
a.) Many functions in Haskell are this trivial. map, fold, etc...

b.) Functions that are non-trivial will have additional constraints often hinting exactly at what the function does.

Most important is not the fact that you can write poor Haskell code which does not exibit this self-documenting behavior, but rather that if you choose to exploit the type system it has the expressiveness to allow you to do so! (and enforce it)

If you are working with a Haskell library and see a function with the signature (IO Int) you may start to question your choice of library :)

The only problem is, once you get a taste of this power it is easy to yearn for even more such as dependent types (i.e. Agda, Idris...)
What we need is not "HTTPS Everywhere" (which I sometimes call "Security Theater Everywhere") for static content. We need content signing without encryption for bulky content. The W3C proposal for this is called "Subresource integrity" (http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/). The "integrity" attribute is applied to links, like this:

<a href="https://example.com/file.zip"
integrity="ni:///sha256skjdsfkafinqfb...ihja_gqg?ct=application/octet-stream"
download>Download!</a>

This also applies to IMG, EMBED, LINK, etc - any content.

This is a huge win for caching systems. Any cache in the path from browser to server, seeing that, can use a cached version of the content. Because cache content validity is defined by the sha256 hash, there's no cache expiration time issue. You can load JQuery once and use it all week. Caching systems can even index their cache by hash, and deliver data loaded from a different site. What a cache cannot do is change even one bit of the content. Such data tampering will be caught by the browser. (W3C is trying to figure out what to do about streaming data.)

As for "bufferbloat", that's usually mis-identifying the problem. The real problem is usually bad queue ordering at a choke-point router. FIFO queuing at a choke point will not work well. At a router where there's significantly less outgoing bandwidth than incoming bandwidth, you need some kind of fair queuing, so that big flows don't starve out little ones. Most Cisco routers support that. On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with buffering up lots of content for a single flow if you have the space. If you're loading a big image or a video stream, temporarily stashing a full TCP window of it in the router is just fine. It will be delivered and will play out eventually.

Ideally, you'd like full fair queuing, but it's somewhat computationally expensive. There are approximations to fair queuing that work reasonably well, and are being designed into DOCSIS cable routers. See (http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~jmarty/AQM/AQM-DOCSIS.pdf)
If you're using expensive bandwidth like a satellite channel to an aircraft, you definitely need something smarter than FIFO.

(I used to work on network congestion, a long time ago. See RFC 970, 1985. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc970)
> Not sure where you're pulling these 10-20 degree numbers from

Starlink uptime where I am-- SF Bay Area-- with a 35 degree elevation cutoff is 80%. 25 degree elevation cutoff is 98-99%. To get 99.5% you need to get down to 15 degrees presently.

Yes, this will improve, but for an area to share their bandwidth over multiple satellites, there'll need to be multiple satellites in the cone that that area can talk to.

> The things you mentioned were path loss,

Less path loss for a given power == more bits/Hz == more people served from one transceiver with a certain amount of bandwidth. AKA density

> no need for beam stearing

OK. That's a terminal cost issue, and isn't density. Though it's closely related to allowing the towers to have narrower coverage (e.g. sector antennae) and thus improves density.

> possibility of wired backhaul

Ground station uplink bandwidth is often limiting for Starlink. Allowing more bandwidth to the transceiver == density.

> density

Allowing densification by putting up more towers where needed == density.

> , is reasonably priced,

Right now, Starlink terminal BOM costs are likely around $2k. This can be expected to improve in the future, but electrically steered phased arrays with tons of phases are still a somewhat exotic technology. C.f. high end fixed wireless CPE selling for $200 at qty 1 retail (they, also, can be expected to improve in cost and bandwidth in the future).
I can say with unscientific specificity that for 6 months following the start of COVID, I was buried in media on both sides of the spectrum and researched as much as I could.

Right wing media was largely... not "wrong", I guess? But they didn't say a whole lot that went beyond adjective-laden editorial that was neither true nor false. (How does one quantify "a lot" or "promising", exactly?)

On the other hand, left wing media was (obviously) hugely anti-Trump, but made claims that were often entirely disingenuous and dishonest. (And in some cases, outright false.)

In both cases, neither side did a good job "reporting" the news. The right was flush with fluff, and the left chock full of half truths. In both, they simply left stuff out that was relevant.

It's hard to judge which was "worse", because both weren't honest. I'm inclined to lean on saying the left may have been worse because they engaged in an unending assault that was unquestionably more "active" at being dishonest..? But then, as Orwell said, "Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist."

So... it's just a bad look all around right now. Thank goodness for beacons like Greenwald and Taibbi. (And Catherine Herridge. And I'm sure some others I'm missing.)
Large subgroups of white nationalists looooove In-n-out. What has the company done to stop accepting them as customers?
Not that the comparison is equal, but imagine if one day the stackoverflow et al. went dark for good... (horror!)

How many important projects would suddenly need to extend their deadlines, how many hopeful interviews would go bust. How many coding approaches would have to be re-discovered or written anew based on present best-practices.

Where all that collective need for "tribal-knowledge" would channel to?
The joke in the aviation industry is "Which enterprise software runs the most airlines?.. And the punch line is Excel.
The economy boomed more with the president before that.

Look at raw gdp growth data and that was without major tax cuts. Nothing proves that the previous US president did anything more than "ride the wave".

Also, debts were greatly increased even before covid and the current president will have to fix that, again...

Additionally, lockdowns have an additional reason, namely to not overload healthcare so the situation doesn't get out of control. While rural areas can play denial, that's not an option for bigger and more dense areas/cities. A lot of hospitals were running on the edge, where >90% of capacity was for covid and delaying all other ( even urgent) surgeries.

Ps. Sweden has a very low population density. Not everything there applies elsewhere.

They even admitted they were wrong with having no lockdowns.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55347021
Nobody has every forced you to buy a Mac or iOS device, and there are thousands of other options available.
We should start calling fat people sugar.
For info, the colors (and whole style) in Signal are the same as iMessage.
Regarding the last part, have you asked if your landlord (or someone on their behalf) entered your apartment? For a newly rented out apartment, they may have had some kind of work to do or something to check over, and since you were away, may have just let themselves in.
Motivating a huge organization like Apple to produce brilliant consumer electronics products consistently is probably much, much harder than you think, else every one of Apple's competitors would have hired execs to do that for them.
Alright. It was a genuine question - ok, they said you weren't detained at the beginning, but the moment you were forbidden to use the phone and the door was guarded you effectively were. I'm just surprised that didn't trigger the "I want a lawyer/I will leave now" impulse. But I admit to not having been in the same situation myself, especially not in a dangerous country like the USA.

The symptoms you described are most probably caused by an extreme low blood-sugar level - combined with the stress of the situation, you were close to collapsing. Or it was simply shock, dangerous as well. I was glad when not reading about that collapse.

Edit: Just to make that clear - the situation wasn't your fault regardless, didn't want to imply that (just realized one could interpret my comments that way). Absolutely unacceptable treatment by both the airline and the police.
The use case for an IIFE (if you do not use its return value) is the same as for a block. It just gives you a new lexical scope and you run the code inside it. In Lua or C, you can do this with a block.

If you use the return value of an IIFE, it ends up being more like a block in an expression-oriented language like Scala or Julia.

In general, closures are like closures, but IIFEs just use a closure to do something that every other language does without one.
True, but my point was that it seems like usefulness can be created out of the think air, i.e. you don't discover it (or miss it) but instead you direct your obsession towards usefulness by adding complexity. I think maths is a great example of this, though some big part of it hasn't proved its usefulness yet.
Maybe adoption is slow because the website is a clusterfuck
Aren't nanobots a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanorobotics ?

Can't the human body be used as an antenna?

Just saying, A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
Yeah, nuclear scientists grew on trees in the USSR. Love how authoritative americans are with their stereotypes.
I would be too afraid that such cash cow dies at the time I still need it and I won't have skills to find something quickly again.
Thanks for sharing, and hope all is well now.

This also rung true for me, and is rather scary/disappointing.

I have a rule now, after experiencing cancer & failed remissions with a family member, which is to always do the deep check. Esp in any case of pain or discomfort that isn't normal.

Even a recent shoulder tear from lifting, the pain/discomfort wasn't something I had experienced before, so I went to a local ER (was worried about a dislocated shoulder). The young physician tried to usher me out with his confidence it was a normal injury most likely (he was right). I asked why not just do an x-ray and he gave me a response based on his heuristics. But the x-ray was an option if I wanted. So we did the x-ray and 20min later he was right.
Dare to find it!
What happens if we ever detect a graviton?

I never really understood this part. General relativity gives us one explanation of gravity (mass curves space-time), while quantum theory tells us that gravity arises from the exchange of particles. So... how do we reconcile? I imagine if we ever discover a unified theory, it'll manage to deal with that. But how does say string theory (for lack of other examples) reconcile these two views?

...or is it something as simple as the exchange of particles causes the warping of space >.>
Neat article. For those like me that struggle getting 170 degree water for green tea, I found a good trick which is to just put an ice cube on top of the tea, and pour the hot water on top of that. That prevents singeing the leaves that can kill a nice cup of green tea. I find it a lot more reproducible than 'waiting longer than a minute'.
It sounds like they're preparing to open this to the public. I don't know, though. We'll just have to wait and see.
Wow. And those features don't work without WiFi. Why the heck would it need an internet connection and a subscription to fry something? It already costs $1,500! You'd think maybe it would be using AI to figure out how to best fry the food or something like that, but the article also says the frying function didn't work very well...
I personally find the Mac's use of command keys to be horrendous.

Taking a screenshot? Thats the claw handed Cmd+Shift+4 or maybe even Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4. Why!? Triggering the emoji picker? Cmd+Ctrl+Space. Don't accidentally press Cmd+Option+Space or you get the world's most useless Finder window.

To make this worse, Apple sell a bunch of keyboards without the symbols printed on them. So often you have software telling you to press the ⌥, ^ and ⇧ keys when your keyboard doesn't even have labels for those symbols.

In contrast, Windows has the Windows key for interfacing with the OS and the Ctrl key for interfacing with apps. So much more logical.
Nothing. I have an address bar and a blank page.
It still took more than a minute for me to show any data, but it did work in the end.
Mushrooms in general is a very fleeting thing. For instance, when I take soil from the garden inside and use for planting it's not uncommon for a tiny mushroom to suddenly sprout, bloom, and wilt in less than a day.
Also "The Light of Other Days" by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
https://xkcd.com/416/ looks better, anyway :)
I think maybe my current application client_id is not allowed to read your data.

Usually, It will automatically parse all the channels and you don't have to choose anything after authenticate.

Maybe you should try to install in your own heroku host .
I think the most amusing detail of this story is that the stock plot shows a 12-point drop in Google's share price on the date of this story. There's even a noticeable valley in the day chart right around the time this story came out.

It's almost as if the investors are cottoning on to the storytime ...
That links does not seem to work.

There is a Useful Resources section on the sidebar of the reddit page. How would I go about requesting a link to my site in there?
Linus' beard maybe isn't yet long enough to count as "grey" but, in any case, he's not a millenial. He entered the field circa 1990, whereas this self-proclaimed greybeard author started in 1995.

So for the discussion of this article Linus is even older/greyer than the self-proclaimed "get off my lawn" author.

Zuck is a millenial but he's far more of a businessman than he is a programmer.

Zuck hasn't really programmed since Facebook took off. He's a business owner/operator, not an engineer. Writing an MVP LAMP webapp that is then fixed up by others is NOT the same as having an influence on the processes and procedures used in the construction of software--which is what the OP is complaining about.

Facebook was a business success not a technology success.
You built a beautiful project and task management tool, make a post about it, yet fail to show us what it is (e.g. link)? That's pretty much your problem right there. You need to advertise the service.
Very interesting essay. Kind of reminds me of OMeta and some of the stuff that comes out of VPRI with Alan Kay et al. But mostly the approach reminds me of OMeta's way of "absorbing the easy stuff" and "infiltrating" - but from a different (and perhaps more rigorous) angle.

Now if only the (cheap!) book on Shen was available as a DRM-free epub book.
According to http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14... it's micro usb right now but they're going to make it HDMI only eventually.
there are many lightweight polling webservers like nginx, lighttpd etc

Question from a newbie: is there any disadvantage to polling?

Allow me to digress a little. When I look at the benchmark comparisons between Apache and the new, lightweight crowd that there is no way a modest static site could serve anything reasonable back in 1995.

I realize that in 1995 there was way less traffic, but some humble sites did get thousands of visits per hour. It looks like this can very well choke an Apache server with 2010 hardware!

I guess my question could be rephrased thus: Why didn't the Apache folks take this lightweight path fifteen years ago, when it mattered much more?

Any comments will be welcome.
Hi Chris. Off the top of my head, from when I was working on a Pyramid app ~ a month ago:

- No clear visual distinction between links to glossary terms and links to further documentation. I like the glossary, but always ended up there without wanting to.

- I did find the tutorials, no issue there. (Only that the paster templates are a bit awkwardly named, but that's not a doc issue.)

- Especially the former BFG stuff, I'm thinking specifically about traversal, is explained in a way that probably makes a ton of sense to Zopeheads, but, at the time anyway, read more like a PhD thesis than like documentation.

- Again not strictly a documentation issue, but the fact that you can configure and use Pyramid in a ton of different ways means there's no straight path from getting started to actually getting something up and running, even with the tutorials. Not being opinionated about anything simply makes it very difficult to write good, forceful docs.
I miss the Something Awful vs. Ebaumsworld internet fights from back in the day.
Sounds like what people said about buying American cars in the mid 80's. It was quite possible to buy a great, reliable American car. Unfortunately, other cars in the group pulled down the perception of those cars as a group, in sharp contrast to perceptions of Japanese car makes.
And how is reporting that applications share informaiton without asking for permission fear-mongering?
I understand that your/the author's point is more subtle than "oil is infinite", but the end result is much the same (e.g. opposing energy taxes.)

You may be right: e.g. abundant nuclear power and advances in chemical engineering may render oil unnecessary before it runs out. But suppose that we really will need to continue using oil for, say, the next ten generations (e.g. for fertilizer). Do you really believe that "the market", including American politics, Saudis and several bigcos, will ensure that there will be sufficient oil for the tenth generation?
Here are some of the goals that I set for myself at the beginning of the year that I achieved:

* I self-taught myself iOS programming and got my first app on the App Store.

* I made five figures from my app store sales for the year.

* Started a successful freelancing business on the side.

* This included doing my first contract iOS app.

* Did not come off of unemployment until I found a job I really wanted instead of taking any old job that came along.

* Got a full time job doing iOS hacking.

* Read a book a week.

* Downsized my stuff by getting rid of at least one thing a week, and keeping parity when getting new stuff. (One thing in, one thing out)

What I have planned for the next year is to buy a house, lose 50 pounds, and up my app store take to six figures.
also, something no one bothers pointing out - atleast it's the case with first two generations of iphone - taking a photo with the volume button causes the user to move the camera and results in an out-of-focus image. I can't imagine the autofocus re-focuses fast enough to resolve this issue in later generation iphones.

On the plus though, for the developer, advertising the feature certainly helps drive sales; as does "negative" press on Wired like this :)
Anyone else having problems signing in? I connected my twitter account but its still thinking I'm not logged in.
I think I know who this is...

In brief, the service enables users to see & listen to what their friends are listening to, and it currently has about 10k users.
Your colleagues are lucky to have you.
I should have made it clear I was assuming that people were authenticated to their Google account. I think most people who use GMail never log out, and might not check the URL and realize they were navigating to a Google doc.
Well, the provenance and the prestige greatly affects the price of a work, that's why people care about it.

It's even less understandable with contemporary artists: some are the critics' darlings and their works sell for mind-blowing amounts, while others who are arguably equally talented can't make a living from their art. And it doesn't have to be paintings or sculpture, it's the same for e.g. musicians...
This sounds like something that I could have written, heh.

I've been lifting for around 10 odd years now with a break of a few years in between. The hardest part for me was stepping back into the gym and trying to figure out what had worked in the past. After trying out a few other workout apps, I just decided to bite the bullet and build my own. It was a really fun exercise and tracking my workouts now really motivates me to keep upping my game.

I've also opened it up to the public - registration and use is absolutely free - it's been around for 2+ years so the chances of it going dark are slim: https://ewolo.fitness :)
This is the exact reason I don’t pay for YouTube Premium despite being able to afford it and wishing to support creators.

The scummy company whose entire business is based on violating people’s privacy asks me to create an account and give out real personal information like name and address? Fuck that.

Same thing with paid newspapers, you’re trading off a pseudonymous ID gathered via cookies/browser fingerprinting against which you can defend with ad-blockers to your actual identity you give them when signing up and then logging in every single time. And Google and Facebook just leech off that since their trackers are also loaded on every page.