jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Reprisal with out very solid proof just makes the 'repriser' look bad. Even if you can 100% prove that the attack came from with the Chinese government, all China has to do is blame ha idealistic, but naive, rogue admin and promise that steps have been taken to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Thanks for your compliments!
I don't buy as many Ebooks as I would like to for one reason: for the restrictions which have been put in place, they are too expensive.

I'm renting a (typically lower overall quality) book, but I'm having to pay the price of a new physical book (give or take a few dollars).

OK, there's two reasons: about 1/3 of the books I'd like to purchase are unavailable in Ebook form without pirating.

The value is not worth the price.
Haven't seen anyone trash Rust yet.

However, one thing I'll say is that it's a big problem for people like me if a language requires you to be smart to use it. It's really, really hard to hire only smart/experienced developers.

What I need, and what I hope Rust can be, is a language that is opinionated (in the right ways) and won't compile if an inexperienced dev tries to do something dumb.

In Rust, the fact that variables are immutable by default (but can be explicitly declared mutable) is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
> We are materially richer, but what about the social connections?

Well...Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn of course.
>Who's to say login can't become a verb?

I argue is already has
Wow, this was a gem..

What illusion does that person, fat with pot-belly, give you as you see him?
What do you think of as you see him walking along?
Does he look like a bowl of jelly?
Does he look like an inflated balloon with arms and legs dangling?
Does he look like a roly-poly?

In other words, analyze the fat person's walk and the reasons for his walking that way.... BUT DON’T STOP UNTIL YOU’VE HAD THE GROUP BRING OUT ALL THE COMEDY THAT CAN BE EXPRESSED WITH THAT FAT PERSON’S WALK; also all the character - but drive for the comedy side of the character.
The sessions are still under NDA: they've added a reminder to the front page.
> If a woman said she's interested in you, never calls back, and says SHE will call YOU, you wouldn't have hope and stay interested?

Wait, what? This is the classic way by which someone expresses that they are not interested without saying so directly. Don't call us; we'll call you.
One of the things I've learned is never report things like that to HR. Report them to the police.

The job of HR is not to help you, the employee. It is to protect the company. The more credible your complaints to HR look, especially if there was some negligence in your management chain, the more they will try to damage your story or credibility. That's their job.
Login is whatever 350 million people say it is.
"I have a cron job run `svn up` on my site every morning"

Can you really trust that not to randomly break your site? Surely you'll run into regressions or backwards-incompatibilities at some point?
"impact" is also not a verb. I'm sure Nero Wolfe would agree with me on that, if he were here today.
Forget it then. Good day everyone.
Situations like that are exactly why I try to avoid using the "~" character in strings that anybody else might have to type in. A lot of people have no idea what "tilde" means, or where the ~ key is located. The same problem crops up with ampersands, carets, and "#", for which nobody can seem to agree on a name.
"Also, my font is fixed pitch as I needed it to be that rather than proportional, so you can shave quite a bit more."

Are you taking that into account?
I swear I've seen this somewhere before...
but RN at the moment claims to support only iOS

So they're half way in their make believe
Dunno if it still is, but The Register was banned from (or stopped getting invites to) Apple press events because of their irreverent reporting of Apple and their products.

Doesn't seem to have done them any harm.
Sounds like good news. I can understand why they would choose amazon payments since amazon has more credit cards on file than anybody else including Paypal. But Amazon payments or Paypal (I am not referring to their gateway offering) is often something you use to complement a more classical credit card processor (i.e. users are able to input their CC infos directly on your site) like Stripe or Authorize.net. I really do not understand, until now, their choice of going exclusively with Amazon Payments for all this time. Preferred rates maybe?
If a waiter makes less than minimum wage from tips, the restaurant has to make up the difference. In these situations, the restaurant's margins are so thin that they'd be receiving minimum wage anyways.
> Who here is still maintaining this

Copyright © 2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved - so yes to the AOL observation.
Thank you for this recommendation. But I am a bit confused: is this a legal website? It somehow gives the impression of being one of those illegal streaming sites, trying to imitate Amazon Prime, but then again it claims to be part of "Rakuten Group", which, AFAIK is a well known Japanese company.

Am I safe if I just stream this?
Don't use such a browser then! Firefox is pretty good.

An on-device firewall can firewall individual processes and applications. An upstream / gateway firewall does not have such fine-grained control. That was my point.

Running stuff on my router is entirely possible, but I limit it to routing and running a wireguard endpoint. I prefer to run my private stuff in the confines of the home LAN.
I moved to the US in 2010, signed up for Netflix soon thereafter (it didn’t exist in Australia at that time) and have been a customer ever since. Forget movies: the big value proposition for me has always been TV. At that time it was $8/month.

We’ve had steady price increases (currently $14/month for HD) and less of that content as all the “me too” services have popped up.

I think Netflix was right that they had to produce their own content. They’ve certainly had some successes but there has been a lot of (expensive) mediocrity and sameyness to some degree. I think the biggest lesson is you can’t simply throw money at content production, which they clearly have.

At $8/month I’d probably subscribe forever but I think I’m at most 1 price hike away from canceling. I just don’t think they’ve doubled their value proposition. Like they’re in HBO territory now and HBO has a much bigger moat of high quality original content (IMHO).

Netflix may be doomed (for me) to join a sub rotations with the likes of Hulu and HBO. Prime Video may well become my only permanent fixture as Amazon Prime is just too useful to me.
It's called Hulu.
But Netflix is also losing subs. Their catalog is quite dismal beside a few blockbusters and they know it. Hope this trend reverses and they come on top
My experience is the same. Used to pirate music, then spotify was good enough not to bother anymore. Used to pirate movies and TV, now I only do it occasionally for titles I want to watch, but aren't being streamed on any service I'm subscribed to.

I'm still pissed at Disney for canceling Gina Carano, so I might pirate the next season of the mandalorian if I still care by then.
tough times for those who like political discourse and cat boys.

twitch is a cesspit, with money. all of the streamers will just keep up with boobystreaming and accidental nudes and avoid anything too tawdry offline. got to keep the tens of dollars coming in.
Right, so it's a matter of degree. A "trigger warning" policy may be sensible in some form, but can be taken too far.

Oberlin College's infamous policy [1] (now tabled) shows this dynamic at its worst, warning faculty that "anything could be a trigger" and encouraging them to "remove triggering material when it does not contribute directly to the course learning goals." Such a policy pressures faculty into avoiding controversial subjects altogether, and gives students a lever to remove content they would rather not see taught.

Happily this policy has since been revised, showing that faculty can successfully fight to maintain their academic autonomy.

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20131222174936/http:/new.oberlin....
That, and what is the end result? Maybe I missed it, but in the end I only see a picture of some rods, those connecting pieces and a cat.
You are forgetting the first lesson of economics: supply and demand. There are enough people willing to pay to cost so they will charge as much as they can get away with. The actual cost of the case is no more than $50 at most. Manufacturing in China is really really cheap.
Total kudos. Now please move onto creating a dome that can serve as a shelter. I believe, to start with, the connectors simply could be made from a thicker rubber, but of course move will be needed. Thank you for your effort.
> That there has been discussion on it all has been charitable.

Your use of the word "charitable" is different from what the principle of charity is about. I'm concerned with the latter. One good thing is that the principle applies regardless of whether or not somebody else is following it, so the excuse of but-the-other-person-started-it (even if they did start it) doesn't wash.

When people don't care to understand each other and try instead to cast the other's statements in the worst light, discussion becomes mediocre and foul. HN has a problem with this, and the principle of charity may be a tonic for it.
What they are saying is that instead of spending that money on say buying malaria meds which are then distributed by western volunteers spending that money on say grants for med and nursing schools for the local population might be a better cause for the long run even tho i might not directly save anyone for a decade or two.
I actually agree with the general premise of this criticism and have had similar thoughts about how the west had been dealing with the situation in Africa for quite some time. It seems that pretty much all the west does it to make Africa more and more dependent on external "help" than developing local resources.
You can see this across the board from cutting direct investment to undesirable governments to blocking the formation of pan-African military alliances that could provide assistance for conflicts without needed to call in 15,000 Chinese peace keepers.
On other projects especially in agriculture it seems that the West(and China too in this case) are insisting on tying African countries to life time mortgages in forms of super advanced engineered crops which African countries can't self sustain without global corporations instead of local traditional farming and homesteading which has been proven to improve communities much faster than Monsanto donating some seeds in a hope of building another captive market.
late to the party but hoping someone can answer a quick question. I'm one of those people trying to learn how to code. How i do I know i'm on track to being better than a competent programmer?
The Gates certainly have done their homework, and I believe that this is an understood issue, but they only have so many resources, and want to work on a particular set of goals.

I used to really dislike Bill Gates, Microsoft, and all that he stood for. I heard of his charity, thought "hey that's nice" but that was about it. Then, I saw him on Charlie Rose, and everything changed. He answers a lot of questions about the health care issue of impoverished nations, and shows a great deal of understanding of the problems they're dealing with, and what will happen when they do what they can. http://charlierose.com/watch/60331104
Hey I need to know what address your XRP was sent to please. If you can post that here that would be very helpful.
Seems like considerable overlap with ROMWBW[1]. Could it support modern z80 packages like the SC131[2]?

[1] https://github.com/wwarthen/RomWBW

[2] https://www.tindie.com/products/tindiescx/sc131-pocket-sized...
In 2016, Blue Origin claimed that New Glenn would fly by the end of the decade...
US sources of capital tend to have much higher time preference. Chinese sources of capital (i.e government entities) are willing to play the long game and accept below-market returns on capital for an extended period of time when it's building a strategically important industry.
Amazon used to offer corporate employees the opportunity to work in an FC for a few days. Have you done that program? If so how were the working conditions?
Interesting. You are arguing with something I've never said. I was just responding to the comment above that said "We developed two very effective vaccines using mRNA technology in a few months". That indeed those few months were about two weeks. Of course, given all the preexisting research that went into both creating the mRNA platform and the coronavirus vaccines in general. (The spike protein can be produced by itself due to the replacement of two amino acids, which allows it to keep its shape without being on the surface of the actual virus. This is a 3-4 year old result.)

So, yeah, I'm fully aware of it, I was just responding to the comment above, using the same context. (The very point of the mRNA vaccines is that they are a generic and easy to use platform where we can get a vaccine candidate very quickly.)
Thanks for clearing up the uninformed and conspiratorial world view of the BTC supporting legions.

It's fine to question these institutions, but it should be done on the basis of informed understanding, and then, the solutions arrived at from a pragmatic, informed perspective. Because once that is done, it will be clear BTC isn't really a solution to anything. Also, it's important to note the populist mania influence on these systems, to the point wherein they can quickly fall into Ponzi-like manias which defeat the purpose of the entire scheme in the first place.
Shit, just get some wheel chocks
Because chances are the the formal spec itself won't be perfect. But even if it is you still have to worry about every layer below you in the software stack on top of the hardware. You might do everything perfectly at great cost and it all gets rendered moot by spectre/meltdown/rowhammer etc.
Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Killing" is also very powerful.
I don't understand what you do but congratulations on not dying despite the apparent difficulties that have occurred thus far. Many would have given up.
Sure but any HW engineer before writing HDL will always draw up a circuit before writing the description. And given that the patent was issued in 1996 it was only like 6-7 years after Verilog became an open standard.
VERTICAL TAB is much more puzzling.
But it's somehow racist to show ID to vote.
I fundamentally disagree with the separation of life into toil and leisure. That mentality debases both acts. It implies that the more miserable our job is, the greater the moral reward we have earned. And, conversely, our leisure must be maximally hedonistic and selfish to make that suffering worthwhile.

All of our waking day is a mixture of good and bad experiences, intertwined with all manner of internal and external rewards and punishments. A hobby is just a job that pays you more in fun than cash, and a job is a weird club you go to more than you want but that pays you dues in return.

Trying to separate them into strict binary options makes it hard to build a complete, balanced life that has all of the various kinds of rewards that are meaningful to you as an individual.
I'd met Draper myself. Quite the character. Almost a phreak ....

I disagree that live-streaming everything is inevitable, in the sense that everyone will do it, under their legal or everyday identity, and a point of my upstream comment was that it seems more a phase, often (though not always) associated with youth, that people go through.

In the case of Ringley, she is "almost wholly absent from the Internet now" (2016), and in 2007: "I really am enjoying my privacy now. I don't have a web page; I don't have a MySpace page. It's a completely different feeling, and I think I'm enjoying it."

As with much else that mainstream media seems to treat as generational, the truth seems to be rather more that many behaviours tend to follow individual's life-cycles, with a few exceptions. Individual mental health can also play a role, and I believe Ringley and/or her partner had issues with depression or other conditions as well.

(Conditions themselves which appear to be far more widespread among contemporary youth than those of decades past, an exception to the rule I'd just given above, but comparable to, say, the "lost generation" following WWI in Europe.)
Are we calling those "honeypots" these days?
Yes better to put the account names up for auction and bring in some revenue.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

However stating "can't handle more than 7 objects in working memory" as fact seems a little too assertive to me :)
Humans can do it, but are usually not very good at it as the number of items goes up.
Does this support lag-free typing over slow connections?
And that's going swimmingly with global growth being the lowest since 2008 and low 2% US growth only being sustained due to insanely high fiscal deficits and monetary easing. Meanwhile business investment is in the toilet which bodes terribly for future long run growth since there is no capital deepening now.
Ive been tested, and I have hemachromatosis. That's what my next MRI is for - to check on my liver.

So far, for me, it's monitoring. Some dietary changes such as cutting back on red meat and high iron vegetables (mostly cut out spinach, which sucks because I've loved spinach my entire life, especially the Greek dish spanikopita).

My blood iron levels fluctuate a lot based upon diet. Ive mostly got it under control, but normal for me is still on the high end of the normal ramge for normal people.

It probably went undiagnosed for a long time because I used to give blood regularly, but had to stop when my work hours changed to be 7am-7pm and could not make it to a facility to donate. Thats when blood tests started ahowing a problem. Not yet to scheduled phlebotemy, but probably the best option if it becomes an issue.
It could also be your shell on the remote host taking it's time. Some distros have gotten a bit bloated.
I think you're right about OO's continued survival. I also think mikerichards is right that OO is just technicolor procedural programming. Moreover, i think these two things are related: OO is immortal in part because it's straightforward and obvious, just like procedural programming.

But i don't think Clojure is just continuing the (equally immortal!) LISP subculture. I think LISP is growing by recruiting people from OO-ish languages like Java, Python, and Ruby, rather than from existing LISPs. This is the first time in a long time that a LISP has done that. It's also the first time in a long time that a LISP has got even this glimmer of mainstream use. pg wrote 'Beating the Averages' in 2001 [1], and even after that, everyone still thought LISPers were freaks. But announce you're using Clojure in production today, and nobody bats an eye.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Isn't there a problem when you tunnel TCP over TCP with increasing window sizes (auto throttling mechanism meant to prevent packet fragmentation)?

Every time I've tried to keep a long-running ssh tunnel for printing / http, the connection degrades after a while. I'm sure there are some flags that can be set, but I thought this was the major show stopper for the "everything over shh" (since ssh uses TCP protocol)
I’m not assuming malice here you know …
It appears that they tweaked surge to appease drivers, here's a conversation between an Uber driver and Uber's head of global operations.

http://imgur.com/yG5Ny1Q

It's all speculative because how they implement surge is opaque.
Whatever the official cause of cancer it will never be food additives, processed or poor quality foods, prescription drugs, air pollution, contaminants in the water supply, contaminated vaccines (I'm a believer in vaccines so don't go there!), new car smells, pesticide residues in food and clothing, fire retardant chemicals, xenoestrogens, secondary cancers caused by chemotherapy or radiation... it will just be bad luck.
Slow SSH session is usually a DNS issue.
Often, stories get flagged of by users due to toxic comments that the story attracted. This is one of them.

And consider the possibility that your comment is in the "not intellectually stimulating" category.
Rails is very easy to set up. Easier than any other software for programmers I've used.

1. Install Ruby with your package manager or with the installer for Windows (that's just download, next next next, done).

2. In your terminal: `gem install rails`
This certainly made me giggle a bit, but I wouldn't define using FBConnect, pulling user data and pushing updates to be fully surrendering.

Fully surrendering would be more like MySpace outsourcing the social networking to FB. In the meantime, dying as they might be, I still think they have a different vibe.
Thanks for your advice. I hope my original post didn't give the impression that I thought I didn't need to keep learning - on the contrary, I need to learn a lot more than that last "10%". You've given me a lot to consider.
What are the odds that anyone would ever go to Myspace looking to see Facebook statuses? Just one more nail in the coffin I guess.
Trying to "pause" commitments would take years to implement. It would be like trying to go through the world's internet and "suspending" all user requests and server processing.

Instead the Fed and US government have a much simpler and near instant tool: act as the lender of last resort.

A bonus feature of this implementation is it costs not much money. Big corporations have lots of assets and the government is sure to be re-paid.
I think the point is that the extent of their privacy violation is using google analytics... Which is fairly benign compared to the bombastic headlines over the last few days.
> If your boss/manager/etc is excited about this feature as a way to monitor you, odds are they already have you under surveillance in a bunch of other ways. It's unfortunate that you are in this situation, and I hope you're able to find a way out of it soon (e.g. by switching teams or finding another company that values and trusts you more).

I can't stand people who get excited at the thought of tracking their employees. What's the benefit? Control? Ego?
Shouldn't the tuple for 1-based indexing be 1,n,n ?
All of the major airlines already have cargo departments (American calls it "cargo" anyway, not freight). Just for those who don't have experience in the industry. It's not like American Airlines is suddenly leasing planes to FedEx like one might guess. The unfortunate aspect is sending something through the cargo department of a passenger airline is a much bigger pain in the ass than going with UPS or FedEx. Their package tracking and delivery estimates are substandard relative to UPS/FedEx. Also they don't deliver to businesses or residences, it's airport to airport.
Anecdote: much of the software competing with Zoom has really bad accessibility for disabled users, incl. those using a screen reader, screen magnifier, keyboard-only/switch control, speech recognition, etc. This is despite the fact that some of it has been around for 10+ years, or is backed by large companies like Google.

I bring this up because that can also cause privacy issues. There are the direct concerns, like not being able to access the text of their policies or accessibly manage your preferences. But the less obvious factor is inaccessible controls to:

- verify whether or not you're streaming video;

- determine whether your microphone is muted or not;

- ... etc.

If I don't know what I'm streaming and exposing to meeting participants, I'm losing on the privacy front. So Zoom it will have to be for now, I'm afraid. If you think it has too many issues for you to be a viable product, and have the option of making an alternative more inclusive, I'm open to chat.
Thanks, I updated my link.

old link: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005666383-Show-...