jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Please educate yourself:

After Holmes' opinions in the Schenck trilogy, the law of the United States was this: you could be convicted and sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act if you criticized the war, or conscription, in a way that "obstructed" conscription, which might mean as little as convincing people to write and march and petition against it. This is the context of the "fire in a theater" quote that people so love to brandish to justify censorship. [0]

Every time this stupid meme reemerges, it serves only to identify people who have no idea what they're talking about.

[0] https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
How did what work? ACA was a thing that various corporate backers did not all agree about.

For the phenomenon I am talking about, both sides agree, and you never hear a peep about what they agreed on. For example, was any corporate officer of any large bank prosecuted for millions of counts of fraud, after 2008? For even one count? Did any single one go to prison? Tim Geithner got made SecTreas, instead.

The DoD every year utterly fails to account for how most of the money they are handed was spent. Do you imagine that is because it can't be done? That they can't follow orders? The major corporations account for more than that amount, every year, every dime.
No, coercion of the POTUS is the criminal offense.

> where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something
Wrapped is a marketing product, not a data product.

Spotify itself is not a data product.

The first rule of avoiding disappointment is managing your own expectations to align with reality.

That said, you can export more granular data Spotify has on you from your settings page[0] if you want to do your own deeper analysis on your trends and usage, etc..

0: https://www.spotify.com/account/privacy/
I'm all for free speech. But do we really need to confront public figures in front of their own home and post it on the Internet? I think everyone would be concerned, especially if you have a family. I do think people have right to some privacy especially concerning their own home.
Well, it seems if they don't influence politics that legislation like this happens.
On your M1 machine, the used kernel is /System/Library/Kernels/kernel.release.t8101.
(for T810x processors, A14 is T8101 and M1 is T8103, both share the same kernel)

The installation should be bootable by both, but not sure that the flow to bless an install done on another machine to be bootable on an other M1 one is done/fully functional yet. (on M1 machines, you need to bless external volumes before booting from them)

Booting an install done on an M1 on an x86 Mac should work already though.
Anyone can program it. Somebody did.

It's difference between writing a video game and playing it. People enjoy the experience differently from knowing that it could be written.
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Why downvote instead of engage the argument? The S&P 500 return over the last 15 years has been pretty poor. VC returns have been poor. So, empirically, we don't seem to have this divergence in recent data.
You could use a laptop with some kind of sudden motion sensor and use that to lock the machine if the machine is moved.
just practice, keep thinking and coding. in a few months u won't give a damn thing abt such coding questions.
I'm interested in learning more
Don't people who think this usually use Emacs and not any window managers?
Anecdotally, RIM has been making significant inroads amongst the smartphone-buying youth in South Africa by heavily advertising BBN and offering discounted models. Whether this will prove sticky enough in the end and whether it's applicable elsewhere are open questions, but every single one of the sub-25 year olds I know who had the choice of getting a premium phone opted for a Blackberry instead of an iPhone or Android device, and they did it purely because of BBN.
So you are assuming then that your preference over their preference would win a majority vote in congress? Local control protects liberal leaning policies as much as nutty ones.
Yeah BBSes were a lot of fun back in the day. Used to play around on alt.hackintosh on Usenet too. Fun times!
Simulated annealing was already mentioned. Also parallel tempering is very effective at finding the highest (or lowest) areas even faster.

I actually liked the analogy but applying algorithm analogies to one's life of course only goes so far. First, even if one decides to look at life as an optimisation problem, it is much more difficult than the hardest multiple objective optimisation problems. One of the reasons is that I'd equate the optimisation landscape not with static hills, but more similar to waves or sand dunes that keep shifting with time in a way that can at most give you short term predictions. We don't have the life span or processing power to use a computer algorithm to optimise a static "life" landscape, let alone a dynamic one.
Sounds exactly like Paypal.

The companies which handle your money seems to have the worst customer service. I don't understand how they get away with it in the marketplace.
There's a lot out there that can do NAT and some firewalling in software at large fractions of a gigabit/s for pretty cheap. But if you throw in QoS and queue management the CPU requirements get very high by the standards of MIPS and embedded x86. And unfortunately, none of the network acceleration hardware you'll find on any of those SoCs has anything like a hardware implementation of fq_codel or even RED.

The CeroWRT project has been searching for more than a year for a new generation of hardware to use as the platform for their development of better router software. There's nothing affordable that can keep up with the really fast DOCSIS connections available while doing anything intelligent on a per-packet basis.
Ruby (and certainly Rails) is still very much in-demand, and I'd say is still "trending" in terms of development languages. Granted, Ruby (Rails) tends to get lost in the sauce with the continual uprising of new languages and frameworks catered towards web development. However, I think that Ruby's strong community, even more-so with the Rails community, is what would make it such a good language to learn for the job market.

Aside from Rails, I think that Ruby will see even more of a surge in popularity with the recent progress in RubyMotion (they changed their pricing plans, and the platform is more easily available to the average developer now). I'm only now dipping into RubyMotion, but it's wonderful if you want to develop on the iOS or OSX platforms without getting heavily involved in learning Objective-C.

Anyways, I'm getting off-topic. Point is, I think Ruby is a very good choice. Being that Rails is the most popular framework in Ruby, Rails would be a wise choice to become familiar with too.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8722175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751747

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784342

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815100
in fact, xcode and emacs are not in same category exactly.
emacs isn't complete ide, it is full-featured text editor.
because you think it is an ide, it has some lack. if you
work on mac osx, xcode may be more appropriate for your demand.
I've seen a lot of news reports talking about people receiving $16,000 bills. Yes, that's because they're with a power company that charges the market rate for electricity. When there's a scarcity of electricity, the market rate goes way up. In fact, during those events that price increase is what encourages generators to bring on more supply to capture that revenue.

All of that in itself isn't evil. But the retailer could have been more proactive to say "During terrible winter storms, paying the market rate is a bad idea. Switch companies now." Or a better idea would have been to charge $X a day as insurance, that would cap the price per kWh to $X. That way people have certainty as to what their maximum charge is. Imagine if the power company said "Pay $10 extra a month, and we'll make sure that in an adverse event, your bill for your normally consumed 1000 kWh would be $1000".

The New Zealand electricity market is similarly deregulated like Texas and has some of the same benefits and problems. The great thing is you can choose your power retailer, that all have different types of plans that work for different people. Some only buy from 'green generators'. Some allow you to buy 'packs of electricity' in advance, a bit like buying a hedge. Imagine having 1000 kWh in your bank to spend during this peak event. Some don't charge daily rates for your holiday home. I like the innovation in the retail market.

But that doesn't prohibit transmission companies, and generators from investing in their assets. Transmission companies are a natural monopoly so should be constrained from the free market. In NZ most of those have a maximum rate of return they're allowed to extract from their assets, so their profit is restricted. In turn they lobby to invest more into their assets which in turn increases their allowed profit. This leads to an outcome of overinvestments in assets, which in Texas's case might not be such a bad thing.

Generators make their typical profit based on stable generation. They make their windfall based on adverse weather events, different hydrology, competing generator capacity going offline etc. The NZ market would have automated 5 minute auctions where the Grid Operator would purchase the cheapest bid from generators to meet the grid demand in that 5 minute block. There would also be diesel generators that would be guaranteed to provide the most expensive supply if things went wrong, so that would be the upper limit on the market.

If all of this is interesting, check out the real time market pricing at https://www.em6live.co.nz/
I admire your good-faith assumption there. Mike Rowe has no equal when it comes to mischaracterizations and straw-man arguments.
Please do remember that children are humans who still learn how to interact socially. They often lack ways to express feeling and don't yet have full impulsive control.
Last but not least, they live as their parents are.
This is usually the correct position. Regulated competition and controlled monopolies try to provide the best of both worlds. Private companies will always push for deregulation or find ways to exercise a monopolistic advantage because they are incentivized to do so. Companies should be allowed to optimize within the regulated structure set forth by government. Aside, this is why government corruption cannot be tolerated and we must have strict laws limiting lawmakers' actions when reentering the private sector and oversight when they are in the public arena. We cannot have lawmakers eroding regulations in the name of increased profit when those regulations guard the public from poor outcomes.
"Regardless of Firefox abiding by the standards (or doing what Chrome does) or not, this was always going to be the case, and so it isn't that big a deal."

The "dealedness" of this isn't a binary. One may tolerate a small amount while rejecting a large amount.

I point this out more to put the idea out there (it's an important concept even in your day-to-day job) than because I disagree with the main thrust being made here; as a uMatrix use I traded security for a functional web a long time ago. Breaking trackers is a feature, not a bug, for me. If that breaks your website, goodbye.
Yes now you are maintaining 5+ types of services for foundationdb.

While you can vertically-scale a single PostgreSQL (with failover/ha) server to 50+TB of NVME and grow until you can throw other engineers at the problem.

Example: wasabi.com uses mysql for metadata.
If you are hiring, you have to have tasks of staggered difficulty and pay by the hour. Risks still include a skilled worker being swapped out later. If you have a project with a multi-week timeline, the final product delivered at once, you are setting yourself up to get fucked.

* referring to software development. Other tasks are an order of magnitude easier to hire for.
I have no idea, but it that case, are you suggesting that her lawyer was somehow coerced into reading her statement?

Especially considering the trial just ended (ruling on the side of the "government") I would consider that sort of direct influence highly improbable, and that authenticity is more likely.

(edit: gender pronouns, thank you nemof)
I meant teenage boys. Okay, you have a
really nice daughter, cute, sweet, pretty, darling,
adorable, precious, a girl you have never
been able to say "No" to, who has had you
wrapped around her little finger since she
was six months old, great student, cooks,
sews, plays piano, great babysitter, loves
kids, popular, etc. and at 16 falls in love
with a boy 18 and wants to get married.
You "trust" him with your daughter?

That little scenario aside, the claim
in my statement is that the military
doesn't just use the strong desire
of teenage boys to be members of groups
but exploits it. The exploitation is
in basic training, etc.

It's a manipulation.

For voting, entering into contracts,
and usually even marriage, the role
of manipulation is usually much lower
and the consequences less deadly.
You went wrong the moment you used the term "surveillance state". Before, we had no numbers, so that phrase might have been justified. But now we do: The declassified court document seems to say there were about a dozen million "transactions" collected over a year. Hundreds of billions of emails are sent everyday. A very small fraction of a percent is snooped on. Is that a "surveillance state"? At what level of watchfulness does a society go from "vigilant" to "surveillance state"? There is no such measure, and the term is bandied about to generate an emotional response.

You'll never be convinced because you are, presumptively, ensconced in the safe, protective shell of a (western?) country that does not experience terrorist attacks on a regular basis. The terrorist threat is real. People die everyday in terror attacks. The "power-mad" government scenario? Lets just say in all this noise I've seen very few instances of actual abuse of power, if any.
Saying "If you don't enjoy what I enjoy there is something wrong with you" is a value judgement. Not seeing eating, or sex, or other commonly enjoyed activities as enjoyable (or simply not as priorities) does not mean you need to be fixed. Personally I love eating, but I would gladly have a substitute to take care of the nutrition aspect so I didn't have to bother about it and could eat a few times a week purely for pleasure.
Damn, he'd make more money working for McDonalds.
How much effort will they put into assuring you will sign up with your real identity? Any info on that?
"The relationship between Japanese governments and corporations is much more incestuous than their Western counterparts"

On a scale of 1 to [citation needed], guess where the answer lies.
Those are different sources. BMI = "Bundesministerium des Inneren", interior ministry. BSI = "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik", federal office of IT security. And they are not contradicting themselves. The statement they just issued reiterated Windows 8 is not safe for government and critical infrastructures.
I don't like DRM chips period. I don't care if Microsoft, NSA or whoever puts it in I'm either not buying it or if I don't have a choice I'm heating up my soldering iron.
No chip is going to stop me from installing whatever the hell I want on my computer.
I don't think making ivory illegal would fix the Problem. It would increase the value of ivory even more and make poaching more profitable.

The only real solution I see is the mass production of a synthetic that can't be identified from real ivory. This would make ivory so cheap that poaching no longer is profitable enough.
I'd forgotten about that. On the whole, it looks like, despite lower levels of immigration, Japanese engineers do not earn more than their US counterparts, which makes sense: the economy is complex, with a lot of different things factoring into how much people make.
In most cases I expect the C compiler to hoist the strlen out of the loop (I don't know whether it will in practice, but the V8 compiler for Javascript will definitely make a similar harder optimization, so it doesn't seem unlikely).
I referred to "these sorts of discussions" in my comment, not the article itself. Yeah, I only skimmed the article. Congrats, caught me!
Sun: "We put the dot into dot-com!"

Microsoft: "Oh yeah? Well we put the COM into dot-com. Pthththth!"

IBM: ”When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots. Badoom psssh!”

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...
How about speech is true and harmful?
No, but that doesn't mean they aren't just as bad.
Do state media platforms count? FDR had his radio broadcasts, the UK has the BBC, various countries have emergency broadcast systems. In any case, it's certainly not something a government would find difficult if they found a need, it's probably just too much more convenient to have media companies handle most of the time.
> Of course he didn't explicitly say "Go there and break the windows, beat some cops up and threaten our lawmakers with violence", but geez, he basically said "let's intimidate them".

Yes, if you view everything he says with the benefit of hindsight and the most uncharitable context possible, which has pretty much been the strategy from day one, you can interpret it that way. And whatever happened to the BLM riot days, where a minority of the protestors caused violence but oh no, we can't paint everyone with the same brush. You may be shocked to realize this but only a minority of the protesters actually went in to the capitol. Apparently the vast majority of the protesters weren't able to decipher Trump's coded language like seemingly everyone else can. That's really strange.

> There's a difference between encouraging joining a peaceful protest

But here's the problem: when there are repeated instances of peaceful protests devolving into looting and rioting, isn't there some point at which you should know that encouraging yet another BLM protest makes you responsible for what it turns in to?

And you kinda sidestepped the question about CHAZ. When the mayor rejects the president's offer of the National Guard to control the, ya know, illegal occupation of several city blocks and lets CHAZ continue after repeated acts of crime in the area that culminated in two deaths... why aren't they held responsible? Why is THAT considered some unforeseen consequence of protesting but Trump's is an open-and-shut case of "he knew it would happen and wanted it to"?

The mayor of Portland also rejecting Trump's NG offer and allowed rioting to continue for two months. At what point -- maybe day 35 of 60? -- does the mayor become responsible for what happened by rejecting the initial NG support?

I'm hoping you understand what I'm getting at, it's that certain people get very charitable interpretations of their actions while certain others don't.
Why don't social media companies ever deplatform university presidents, like Rafael Reif of MIT, who provide reputation laundering for brutal dictators like the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia or racketeers in the sex-trafficking business like Jeffrey Epstein by taking photos with them for the newspaper or sending them "personally signed" thank-you notes?
A quote I saw (attribution: https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1347687216303263746):

> Now that Twitter has booted Trump, the next 24 hours will be devoted exclusively to people who don't understand the First Amendment explaining the First Amendment to people who do.

With a corollary I want to add that "everyone will believe themselves to be in the latter category."

Let's just avoid social media for a while and enjoy peace of mind.
That was a scam. Follow the money. Lots of it was invested in 1990s/early 2000s, and every penny ended up in the pockets of ATT, VZN, and their executives and investment bankers. Only now, as sibling observes, common carriage and other requirements are gone.
podio.com sort of tried that.
However, given sufficiently widely distributed cameras and facial recognition, one can imagine "looking at you in public" being carried out not by particular officer but by a for loop. On everybody. All the time. Retrospective since whenever the system started slurping in everything, all the time.

Serious question - how can you hope to construct a law that addresses this perceived misuse without also stomping on other recognized rights? Long term, the paradigm in law is that whatever happens in the public eye is fair game, and I'm not sure you can put that genie back in the bottle without seriously impacting basic rights like freedom of speech (think photographers and the like).

I also don't understand on a moral/legal level how doing a thing suddenly becomes more wrong just because it can be done more accurately, at least beyond a vague feeling of "eww". A cop (or a set thereof) can already sit at an intersection and note every plate that passes by, legally, yet it's somehow wrong just because it became cheap to do? What?

I'd like to think we don't make laws based on vague feelings of "eww". I think the data is coming, you can't stop it, any attempts to do so would be ineffective and regressive, and we'd best get ready to live in a post-privacy society, where "privacy" in this case is defined as "the hope that nobody bothered to connect the dots you've been leaving visible the entire time".
A bit of anecdotal evidence; I graduated university in the UK the summer before last, and "malemployment" as defined in this article applies to almost all of my friends and classmates. I have been very lucky to land a job doing what I love. Many of my newly graduated friends are doing service jobs or doing brainless admin tasks in offices. Most are simply unemployed, they cannot bring themselves to settle for these jobs and would rather sit at home on unemployment benefit. Often these jobs only pay one or two pounds more per week than what they are receiving in benefits.

The worst thing about this situation is the sense of helplessness and having been lied to it instills in young people. We have been told by our parents, rightly or wrongly, for the first two decades of our lives that if we simply work hard in our education we will land well paid, secure jobs. This was the reward for all the hard work at school, and for all the debt uni now requires. Now these kids are graduating, and finding that their £30000 of debt and three years of hard work might get them a job in macdonalds, if they're lucky.

When you combine that with the fact that those responsible for this situation got all their education completely free and were given large grants to pay their way through, you end up with the events of last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE3IEKWu4rA
I'm glad you did comment, because I'm not an expert on browser vector graphics and didn't know this. Bookmarked with tags "canvas, vector, graphics, IE, js".
Perhaps "deal sharing with friends" may be the mashup that comes out of this. Like a 'live groupon' - get 20 people to show up at location X in the next 15 minutes, and everyone gets a free Y.