jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seconded. It's got some minor errors* and omissions, but after reading it for the concepts, I've found other data mining / machine learning books much easier to follow. The explanations are usually pretty good.

* I've been doing the exercises in Lua, and got stuck on one of them - the listed algorithm (IIRC) erroneously ended with "1 - num/denom" rather than "num/denom". It's listed correctly earlier. (I can look up the specifics later, I don't have the book with me.)
Are there plans at any point to support remote work? Seems like a very cool product but relocating is a bummer.
Perhaps. As a former orchestral musician I would say the behavior comes from the need for there to be a leader — if all that is happening is a cacophony of sound, no one has taken the reins as the tempo-keeper and everyone is either not paying attention or just confused. By joining with one of the other inputs, you create a majority or at least a plurality, and then the expectation is the other musicians will adjust to join the plurality. You might also increase volume or exaggerate movements to get everyone on board.
This is not so simple. Qubes implements security through isolation. Dom0 has not Internet access, so you can only have a backdoor in VMs. Some VMs also have no Internet access, so they're safe. Others are reset every reboot. In addition, all VMs can rely on different Linux distributions (Arch, Debian, Fedora etc.). I think Qubes provides a good defense against such attacks.

Upd:

> I've never heard of Qubes doing significant in-distro kernel hardening

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4233

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2748

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2045
The Social Dilemma should be watched by all tech developers and designers. The dramatic scenes are a bit campy but the interviews are incredible and biting.
Really glad to see it going through Iowa. RAGBRAI is such a major summer event already, it just makes good sense to build out more cycling options.
It depends on how long a game is being played, this is more like 1923 Weimar Republic than 37...
Somewhere they can afford to pay for without assistance. Putting people without means next to those with some (albeit limited, in my case) means creates an asymmetric problem.
Of course she has. In fact she indirectly confirms that the common misconceptions regurgitated about plastic do not apply here. She takes the plastic that cannot be recycled using typical methods. The reason why some types of plastic cannot be recycled is because they cannot be melted. This is true of all thermoset plastics, and it is practically true of some thermoplastics as well (at least after they have been repurposed a couple times). The only way they could be softened enough to bind with sand is by softening them in an environment with high enough pressure and temperature, but devoid of oxygen (otherwise they'd just burn).

And even if they were using melty thermoplastics, the properties will still change drastically the moment you introduce a substrate like sand or gravel and turn it into a composite. Just like how there is a massive difference between pure Portland cement (extremely brittle, with almost no load-bearing capability) and concrete, which is a composite. Nobody seems to regurgitate these rubbish misconceptions about plastic when talking about carbon fiber composites (which are held together by plastic!).

I don't think I'll ever understand the techie's tendency to think they know more about certain fields than specialists that work in those fields.
I've always felt the same way. My fingers naturally want to spread out, so pulling them close enough together to rest on the home keys causes a lot of tension.
I just received an order of their KN95 masks with headbands -- I agree about the headband style. It seems a bit easier to get a seal with, and easier on the ears. I'm pleased with them. FYI, 2021 is a 10% off coupon code atm. I received my package 6 business days after ordering.

That said, was I aware of these smaller USA n95 sellers, I might have purchased from them. But at slightly less than $1/mask delivered for these KN95s, it's still a good choice.
Probably the first tool I install on every Windows machine. It's beyond me how Microsoft has not incorporated something similar into Windows to replace its ridiculous native search.
Unfortunately, system76 developers added exactly that functionality to their firmware: https://github.com/system76/qmk_firmware/commit/a1ab70c3a28a...

So it is possible to reboot into the firmware update mode just by sending some bytes to the raw HID interface. Apparently they did not think about the security aspect of this feature.
That was last century. Now it's about blaming women for men's mistreatment of them.
When it comes to government privacy, a good argument can be that you might trust the current people in government, but does the system offer enough protections to protect against future regimes? If you're talking to someone who didnt like Trump, there are probably examples of actions he took that they would consider to be abuses (and people on the other side would probably think the same about some Democeat leaders).
I never used Mac but I recently heard from a friend that on Mac you can't press enter to open a file, instead, you need to use Ctrl+O. Like what the hell?

(I'm not saying it has to be Enter, but a two-key shortcut seems very bad for an operation that is used so often, especially considering you can't even press them with left hand!)

Same goes to Delete.
If you want to be more precise, just tally up the total number of outputs then. It won't make bitcoin more efficient as a means of payment.

> what's valuable about the observed system and its energy consumption, which is its decentralisation, censorship resistance, assurances, and trustlessness.

The thing you need to understand is that nobody cares about this, except a small fringe of libertarians and computer scientists. Sure, it's cool that it's possible but not a single one of these would come up if you ask the man in the street (or your average economist in the street for that matter) what he wants from money.

> Humble yourself and study Bitcoin

I built a prediction market that used bitcoins in 2014, and ran a small but profitable crypto quant fund a few years later. I think crypto currencies are fun and there are one or two legitimate use cases, but the way you and other zealots look at bitcoin as a kind of panacea is just insane. Your fervour borders on a religious mania.

In reality there is still almost nothing that crypto can do that anyone actually wants, and bitcoin is far from the best even at what it actually does.

And no, the fact that the price of bitcoin is high does not indicate that people think it's useful. It's still a purely speculative asset, almost nobody uses it as a medium of exchange, and those who do are either criminals or zealots. Close to zero non-criminals use it because it solves an actual problem in the real world.

Not saying this will never change, but that is where we are now, more than a decade later.
Nice! Shameless plug for a SQLite no network geocoder that uses (I believe) the same text files to seed everything.
https://github.com/NickStefan/no-network-geocoder
Have you driven near the border? Driving through west Texas I was met by stop and go traffic for 5 miles. Middle of the desert. I kept driving and realized border patrol had blocked the interstate and was diverting traffic through a checkpoint. Hundreds of cameras and drug dogs everywhere. I drove up and the agent asked me if I'm a US citizen. Then I was free to go.

It's not that simple. It's very very hard to travel if the government doesn't want you to.
I used to be in the same boat when I was self employed. My solution was to rely heavily on email (when possible). In cases where a phone call was necessary, I would mentally plot out the first 30 or so seconds. I found that 30 second prep was enough to get me over the hump of actually making the call. On those items where you are not knowledgeable, you can say "I will look into that and get back to you". I found 99% of people were fine with that answer.

edit: Remember, nobody likes to talking to random people on the phone. The other end of your conversation is probably feeling very similar to you.
Regardless of the geographic location you call home, I believe that it's not "if" but "when" the government will remove your freedom. They may do this out of "political", "religious", or any other "reason" they see fit.

The truth is that the world is changing.

People do stupid things.

You give people power and it's only a matter of time when something can go wrong.
As someone who has had a harrowing experience at an Israeli airport, I would dispute the claim that they are highly trained or even intelligent. I don't even want to recount my experience at Tel Aviv, its much milder than OP's but it spoils my mood just thinking about it.
There is no such thing as a free-market in health-care. Period.

Patients are not customers. We don't shop. And you know what the biggest tell-tale about that is? Hospitals don't advertise. Sure, you see ads for a handful of elective procedures like teeth whitening and boob jobs - but when did you see an ad for hernia surgery?

Now, it would be an interesting world where there was indeed some sort of marketplace for healthcare, where when you're doctor tells you you need something, from medication to a test, you can punch it into an app to get the best price. Providers could compete with each other on price.

But here's the thing: do we really want to buy healthcare based on price? I don't. And I know too many people in other parts of the world (Canada and Australia, to be exact) who have nothing but good things to say about their socialized healthcare.

I believe in capitalism's power to generate wealth, but I also believe that healthcare should be socialized in the US. It is horrible the way people are overcharged for procedures, and that happens because there is NO MARKET.
"My manager explained that we needed to set stretch goals that seemed impossible to fully achieve."

I wish he gave some specific examples of "impossible to fully achieve" goals that were achieved.
It's behind a registration wall. Why isn't there an iTube?
That's shitty and I still can't believe people are making excuses for this type of behavior. It's pathetic.
This is tangentally related, but I'm going to break my contract with Verizon after buying a Motorola Devour in March. I believe that Motorola and VZW have broken an implied promise to support my Android phone through the update cycle; it shipped with 1.6 and it appears that the powers that be have decided that it's not worthy of the engineering resources to get it up to 2.2, so it'll be at 1.6 forever.

I'm sorry, but a three-month old phone should not be obsolete. If I get a iPhone 4, I have every confidence that Apple will make every effort to ensure that subsequent iOS upgrades work on my phone until there's a legitimate technical reason to exclude it, not some bullshit profit/loss maximization algorithm.

The Android ecosystem will remain fragmented because every single phone+manufacturer+carrier combination requires a decision and engineering resources to upgrade. I could never recommend an Android phone to anyone but the anti-Apple hordes.
So you bought the EVO because of the video chat feature? Video chat is suddenly the most important thing a phone can do? Or does the Evo maybe have some other capabilities, that also used to be enticting (until the world learned that video chat is the only thing that matters).

Nothing against your desire for video chat, I just don't agree that having no video chat is "insane".

Also, couldn't somebody create a better app for video chat on the Evo?
He's explicitly not arguing from your perspective.

Ah, but he needs to:

If you had the choice of running a railway monopoly then you'd be crazy to throw that opportunity to price gouge customers away too.

Regular folks know this too, and no one wants to do business with a company that is perceived as making naive decisions.
I found Hannas' book boring. I much prefer John DeFrancis' The Chinese Language - Fact and Fantasy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language_facts_and_fant...) and Sampson's Writing Systems.

These are the books that taught me that Chinese writing is more usable and more adapted to the particular needs of the Chinese language than we in the West tend to believe. In particular, the phonetic element in Chinese characters is much more important than I imagined.

Also, while it is true that the road to fluent reading is much longer for the Chinese than for readers of phonemic scripts, this is partly compensated by the higher reading efficiency of fluent Chinese readers.

One way to look at Chinese writing is to see it as a highly defective phonemic writing system with semantic annotations. In other words, Chinese characters constitute a morphophonemic writing system, much like English (for/four/fore) but with a much stronger emphasis on the morphemic aspect.
PK = penalty kick
Developer support is lousy too. Sprint has a library (https://docs.google.com/View?id=dhtsnvs6_57d2hpqtgr#3_Second...) that lets you access the front-facing camera, but you can't just test at runtime to see if it's there; once you include that library, your app will fail to launch on any non-EVO. So you have to distribute a separate app for the EVO, which is mostly going to be a nonstarter.
Where do you live?
I live in the Northeast US and I can remember multiple outages for my landline over the course of 20 winters and several blizzards. Roughly 5, wasn't really keeping track.
> […] but these do not destroy the old ways.

Actually they do, indirectly. It's part of a nasty feedback cycle: the progressive centralization of the internet. The internet is supposed to have no centre. Centralizing it effectively mean shutting it down, and get back to something like AOL.

The feedback cycle itself is quite simple. First, people start not to use the whole internet. Like, they don't send e-mail (they ask their mail provider to do it for them), they don't host a web site, etc. Second, ISPs start to restrict their customers: they filter the SMTP port, they offer an asymmetric bandwidth, and some don't even give you a public IP! They get away with all those restrictions because too few people felt them in the first place. That leads to situations that would be unfathomable otherwise, like MegaUpload replacing Peer to peer for file sharing.

The ultimate conclusion of this trend is a connected world divided in 2 categories: (Big) companies, which will have full internet connexions, and the regular folk, which will have nothing but the outgoing HTTP port open. Which means that to do anything, a user will have to find some central hub first, and go through that. Facebook is one of those hubs. Facebook is part of this trend.

With a quality network, some services wouldn't have any reason to exist at all: Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, MSN, MegaUpload… Give everyone a symmetric bandwith with all ports open and a Freedom Box, and those services are all toast. Give everyone a convenient, secured, asymmetric, pseudo internet connexion, and our freedoms are toast.
Icaza has a long history of being a microsoft shill, I can't say I'm suprised to see him leap to his master's defence once again.
I remember some months (maybe more than a year ago) when there was a story about a Doom-style engine in Javascript and someone commented how sad it was that with all this powerful technology, we're getting excited about 1990s style graphics in web browsers.

I had sympathy for that but it now seems to me like web technologies are improving at such a rate that we'll hit near-native performance in a few years (of course, technologies like Google's NaCl can do that now but it would be quite something to see technologies like WebGL and Javascript close the performance gap).
The reason why the "non-stop flight" checkbox isn't checked by default on most sites is because flights with stops are much cheaper usually. Also hipmunk results are usually always more expensive than other traditional sites, at least for now. Maybe they should focus on getting the best offers, that's more important than UX on that kind of sites, I mean look at godaddy for example.
>"As part of the deal, we’ve retained Taconic Management Company to continue the leasing oversight services and management of the building on our behalf"

The building cost ~1.9 BILLION -- may be one of the most expensive real-estate deals yet.
> I think it's important that we don't accept death as inevitable, because if people don't hold out hope of conquering death, then it's less likely that we'll conquer it in time.

I agree it's important and rational to push back against death even if it's impossible to conquer death.

I think you have to believe that Life is Good, and thus we should want More Life. Life extension tech is worth pursuing because additional healthy years give us more life. That's valuable even for relatively small gains.

In fact, I think the "conquer death" argument is counter productive! Nobody has ever successfully avoided death[0]. If you start your argument with "yeah, but what if we STOPPED dying" nobody will take this seriously. Because even if you're right, it's outside the realm of literally all human experience to date, which is a lot to sell someone on.

Better to just say "life is good, here's some tech that could produce more healthy life. Want some?" Because people definitely want some. Health and Wellness is like a $3B market[1]. Why make it more complicated than that?

[0] Maybe Jesus, but if you buy that one it implies a whole different world view.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-health-wellness-market...
That looks amazing... Thanks!
Choosing to be a landlord in a city you can't afford is quite the choice, too.
Is this just an ad for their 'recovery' software?
Yeah my local school convicted a teacher after he was caught with a minor and his semen on her after she did a rape kit. Dude had been a well known and respected teacher for over 20 years.

Unions have shot themselves in the foot. They only benefit the workers and heavily fuck over customers more than they do companies. Unions were there to improve conditions and give fair wages. Not protect, like you said, incompetent workers. But it turned into that.
Being deliberately thankful.

It's easy and natural to focus on what is wrong. That is good it drives us to improve.

I learned to do more than that. At the end of the day my wife and I list of a few things we are thankful for. It turns out this makes us way happier. It's not usually big things. I list things like I'm thankful that we have time and money to have a puppy.

Life is better than we recognize.
While I think that everybody should be treated with respect, policing this via censorship is dangerous. You can't legislate away hate, as I found out when I realised that the USA is still a racist in many, many places even though the Civil Rights Act was passed over 50 years ago.
This looks great! I was a little worried about the Jelly2.
You cannot distinguish malicious from legitimate signatures. From the paper: 'This can be done in such a way that only the attacker, who made the malicious implementation, can extract the secret from the signature, and that the distribution
of malicious signatures is polynomially indistinguishable from legitimate signatures by anybody else.'
> Meanwhile, in our more "enlightened" mainstream American culture, people write angry blog posts filled with stupid impact font image macros about how they literally judged an entire medium by its cover, because the female body is offensive or something.

It is absolutely offensive when it is posed in an unreal and unnatural way with impossible proportions and impossible looks.

I get that they are comics, but a story about super girl where she has a perfect 36-24-36 with Tripple F boobs that are molded and sculpted and pointed so far north you could almost navigate by them...it...it is a bit ridiculous.

Fun to look at, yes, but they don't offer much other than a fantasy.
This is going to sound super ungrateful but...

If they already have the CA stuff ready can they just release that? I don't really care about their auto-magical tool which is meant to reconfigure your server for you. Configuring Apache/IIS etc is not that complex, the only reason I don't have a certificate on my private website is because the certificate costs more than the hosting annually (literally).

Plus I'm never going to run this tool even when it is production ready. I don't trust random tools to reconfigure my system, and would prefer to manually follow tutorials so it is easy to undo every change or at least be aware of exactly what changes got made.
If your only goal is losing weight, might as well chop off your legs, lose 50 pounds and be done with it.

Hint: nobody's goal is just weight loss.
> The steel expands in summer due to heat. Where does it go? Roads can expand using those interlocking teeth things, but hyperloop has to remain a closed system.

Feel free to disagree with whether or not the approach outlined is feasible, but this is specifically covered in the whitepaper. See page 5, section "Earthquakes and expansion joints" as well as page 28, section 4.2.3 "Pylons and tunnels".
Just let it bow up and down when it expands, and call it a rollercoaster. ;)
There were some big cultural changes, vastly increased acceptance of homosexuality and trangenderism, much less acceptance of sexism, especially in professional contexts.
Yes. It's legal and actually quite normal.

Otherwise companies would be paying for Green Cards endlessly.
Personality in my opinion and humility are the biggest two things when I care about who my team mates are. If you have more than one hot head you are not going to be happy, they will eventually clash and one or both or more will try to leave. Programming can get frustrating and stressful on its own, why add to the fire?

People learn to program over time. You want to resolve bugs the sooner the better, if you spend all day arguing or you’re working with one of those “its not my code my code is perfect” types you’re going to have to do more work to get things moving. People who think they know it all can hold you back, some devs are great at some things at the same time some at others. Find a nicely balanced team that can work together.
To parse that, are you saying that under such a circumstance, a government agency would have to provide the names of each person they suspect have that particular file? Or could they demand the names of all users that have a particular digest of that file?
I have 2 references for you:
1. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ucbpl/docs/3-Alcohol-Induced74...

2. Topic of discussion at every college party ever
I would have been more interested by the source code and some explanations...
The issue isn't QI in and of itself -- as others have said, it serves a useful purpose in protecting the personal liability of government agents acting out their official duties, which can be reasonable (one example was that a planning board member shouldn't face personal liability for denying a proposal). In my mind, there are two issues (one direct, one indirect) with QI and policing specifically:

- QI has been defined as so broadly covering the police that any situation that hasn't explicitly already been defined as an overreach or overreaction will be considered as covered by QI, so officers face little to no personal accountability.

- Police and civilian oversight boards are largely ineffective at doling out substantial punishments, so officers face little to no professional accountability. Such oversight is typically fought, and fought hard, by police unions.

As a result of this, police officers face little pushback for misbehavior, or even patterns of misbehavior. Court decisions narrowing the scope of QI as it applies to police officers (eg: any behavior by a police officer that's not "by the book" would not be considered eligible for QI) would go a long way towards providing accountability.
Fantastic, well written, detailed post, please share more of these.