jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article begs the question: Will it be completely free or behind yet another artificial but officially-sanctioned paywall and login like PACER.gov? The article clearly didn't any meaningful research because PACER and similar state/federal outsourced/homegrown paywalls are bullshit, and likely why SCOTUS advocated a separate system. The key is whether it will truly provide free and open access to decisions and documents. If not, it would be another Not Invented Here duplication of PACER. (Let's assume it won't be as crappy as PACER, because SCOTUS is presumed to contain a measure of common-sense.)

The bigger meta question is: why are courts still allowed to monetize the automated services that are provided at neglible unit cost? Just because lawyers are often chisels doesn't mean the government is allowed to profit from the restriction of access to the people's information, and that automated processes (downloading PDFs) are no longer equivocable to manually making copies of thousands of pages of documents. This puts an undue burden on most people that don't have millions of dollars to throw around and it puts up a barrier to actual transparency of legal artifacts. These sorts of things should be free, but the article does neither explicitly state nor implicitly hint to the cost of this yet-to-be-named SCOTUS system.

Even more meta: Shouldn't civil rights include the freedom to access all public information produced by a government with minimal (at cost of delivery) or no cost?

(IANALBIPOOTI)
This machine would probably be really useful for analyzing genetic data :-)
So true. Sometimes I tell the new kids about this in terms of the differences between then and now: "No, you don't understand, I don't know all this shit because I'm awesome, I know all this because getting a computer working and online in the late 80s/early 90s required knowing just about everything. Everything. Right down to when you needed to park the fucking hard drive." It was all one big roll.

I know the long-beards would scoff at that a bit but, you know, it is what it is. Even in the early 90s you had to know almost all facets of things just to get it working.
Sounds nice. Are you using the original HN code?
I should have added that I was faster and didn't even need to watch the keyboard. There was that short period (where phones were acceptable for kids and there were no real smartphones yet) where kids in school were texting blind to each other under their tables (peaking only to read of course).
That's a great idea. Two suggestions though:

- this only seems to search the page title. As such it provides a limited value;

- I'd love to be able to navigate through results using my keyboard;
Imagine all the information they can collect about what Microsoft is doing/planning.
The east side isn't seattle, and many of those small cities lack the poor neighborhoods that would make universal service so unecononimical. So why not? But man, living in Bellevue feels a bit depressing. The cooler but smaller Google office is in Fremont right?
yea, I'd second the xss, since using rails one sanitize call should be enough.
Amen. I imagine they'll have a post on the Telegraph article in a week or so.
Hi all, lots of English speaking Twitter users believe that English is widely spoken around the world… and on Twitter. Surprising fact: only a little over 30% of tweets are in English! So I've built Aloha Followers. It scans a few thousands of your followers in real-time and extract their languages. It’s there to show you how diverse the language map is even for your Twitter account. And for businesses, it could mean that they should tweet in other languages to get their followers more engaged!

Enjoy and let me know if you encounter any issue with it.
http://www.mpoweruk.com/shock.htm

20-50 mA - Can't breathe. Paralysis of the chest muscles. Possibly Fatal
The research in AI directly coincided with the development of early computer systems. Lisp and friends (and small but important ideas that come with it ranging from string interning to garbage collection to the macro system to the fundamental idea of compilers and interpreters etc) was contributed to by people mostly involved with Symbolic AI research.

The early programming language parsing research is the direct product of researchers working on natural language processing, and in fact the BNF form was developed for natural languages but later adapted and improved for programming languages.

The idea of Logic programming with prolog and friends comes directly from AI research.

Most of the search algorithms we use unknowingly in various machines have origins in the first AI wave.

The human computer interaction research directly dealt with development of fundamental ideas on speech synthesis, graphical user interfaces and computer graphics.

All in all, The field of applied AI and Computers developed together and a lot of early ideas spearheaded by AI transferred into fundamental general computing, ideas so trivial we do not even think about them now. But they were not so trivial when they were developed, specifically for AI
My son is about 18 months old and we are bringing him up bilingually. He is currently very echolalic. It is fascinating.

He copies things he hears, normally one or two of the words from sentences people say around him. You can also give him new words and he repeats them almost exactly.

I spend lots of the limited time I get with him pointing at things and telling him what they are. He loves these word games too. We also look at lots of picture books, but he seems to take in more when we just "talk".

I really love this period of the children growing up. They haven't quite reached that 'terrible twos' stage yet.
At least here in Belgium, I do not remember there being consistent and uniform unit pricing before the directive was issued in 1998. From my point of view, the directive appears to have improved things so I would not characterize it as "a huge waste of time", quite the opposite.
Bingo. I worked for 4 years as a data scientist for city governments, and there is so much low hanging fruit to be captured simply with better data management. The analysis/modeling almost feels perfunctory once you have the data system in the state you need.
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Um.... you perhaps know less than you think you do about what "close US allies" do and do not engage in behind closed doors. Half of the reason Five Eyes even exists is to reduce the threat of espionage conducted by close allies.
Math is mostly about communication with other people.

Only recently have computer proofs become somewhat accepted. The holy grail is still to find simple proofs to interesting problems to enlighten people.
> For me, that's not a feature, it's an oddity that I have to work around.

Well, I would venture a guess that you should have looked up the language's name and its meaning, then the entire focus of PHP might not come as much of a surprise.
$10/month is just for the 'Pro tier' which gives you ""4K""

But the implementation is shitty and it depends on the game and the devs on how "4K" the title is. Some games have no pro tier version, and some have like 1440p30. The free tier is 1080p60ish and you pay for the games you want.

Input latency is really a non-issue. I don't think there's more to it. It's just not something you have to think about — until you do, but it's been pretty rare for me.

Also you can play it on every desktop platform via Chrome, and via Safari on iPads and iPhones. Works on Android too.

And of course Google is going to kill it probably soon :)
Can any of these DIY filters eliminate the odours from cooking fish ? I love fish but I cant stand the smell of it cooking -- it literally gets into everything.
In my experience ( as a developer) this doesn't work in practice, since mirroring an actual, complete bunch of production systems in a large company is a difficult task unto itself! More often than not, you end up with a staging environment as per the security guys recommendations, but which is unfortunately barely usable.

It also makes investigating difficult bugs extremely difficult (staging tends to be slightly different from prod, smaller as well, different hardware, network, etc) since you can't reproduce them, and your prod team can't help you much, since what you need is actual full box access to poke around.

I agree with you on the compliance point.
There is lots of lithium. But lithium is kind of a tricky, its almost more chemical then a base metal. Qualifying a new lithium extraction technology is tricky, and every brine is different.

Lithium is not tricky to find, its trick to extract and purify and the it takes a while to qualify it with battery companies. Doing all that takes a while and doing it cheap is not easy.

So lithium prices, might still go up because getting high quality supply into the supply chain is not easy.

Check out:

https://www.benchmarkminerals.com/

The have a large number of videos, where many of the upcoming lithium producers present their projects.

The economical ways currently are:

- Spodumene (lithium in hard rock minerals)

- Brine (lithium in a salty water underground pond)

What is being developed for next generations:

- Clay (sedentary deposits)

- Deep Geothermal Brine (like Brine but much deeper down)

What is being worked on is Direct Lithium extraction, that means to get lithium directly from the brine (or leached from the clay) rather then putting it into evaporation ponds.

If you want real detail from an expert on lithium, check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfffip_4C80
For nsswitch, yes it should be a daemon. The current design maps in all sorts of unrelated (and potentially incompatible) junk into you process' address space. Far cleaner just to query over a socket. Doesn't need to be a system-wide daemon; it could just as easily be fired up on demand within a session (as in setsid) and shared between processes.
Don't forget 1.44M floppies.
>My problem here is google's attempt to correlate incognito users to their non-incognito history.

To a web server incognito mode isn't a thing. It's a client only thing. You don't know if a user is using incognito mode, or if they just cleared their cookies / cache. There's no way to know the user's intent.
Wait. I guess.
Immigrants can't vote. Only citizens can vote.
They are decoupled from society because they see a dimming of the white hegemony that has lit their world for centuries. No amount of listening to their Jim Crow rhetoric will ever change that.
Agreed. Ours is a system of Darwinism. We provide a very high bar to clear to accuse someone of cheating and it's not often cleared. However, the opportunity is always there to fix vulnerabilities for the next election (see: Russian interference). You can't be mad if you lose, you just have to make sure it doesn't happen again (for the same reason).

See:

- Hanging chads (ballot got fixed)

- Gerrymandering (currently getting legislated away)

- Russian interference (more oversight currently)

- Electronic voting machines (no longer used...oh wait)
>Keeping around old messages more or less negates the value of forward secrecy.

Why? Can you please explain as my understanding of perfect forward secrecy is that should not matter. I'm not a crypto expert so perhaps I've overlooked something?
Also lets forget that in the summer of 2020, there was nationwide protest that included arson, looting, and violent confrontation with police. Almost all of it coordinated on the same social media properties.
At least my plan assumes I won't have a family. Kids make this nearly impossible. While I can up and move to Costa Rica tomorrow( assuming their wasn't a pandemic ) , you can't exactly just tell your wife and kids to pack it up( and expect to remained married).
I’ve yet to see a single right-leaning voice that was silenced for being right-leaning. Without exception, every one I’ve seen silenced was for calling for violence, using ethnic slurs, or otherwise violating the site’s ToS. It seems possible to me, even likely, that if more right-leaning accounts are being banned then it’s because more of them are breaking the rules.

Also, I find the idea of classifying FB as left-leaning to be laughable.
According to some reports, the problem was in fact predicted, and that's why the National Guard chose not to prepare for forceful confrontation. Not wanting photos of armed uniformed soldiers in state buildings or some such.
I agree with this take. It's possible that after a year of particularly intense criticism of police department's actions vs protesters across the country they didn't want to appear to be over-reacting (which could fan all kinds of flames) and didn't expect the crowds to be quite so wild.

I don't know what kinds of contingency planning may have taken place, but ultimately this event seems to have been ended and cleaned up pretty quickly compared to some other demonstrations we've seen recently.
A text editor in a browser? There seems a lot of excitement about it but I can't work out why - can anyone explain? I'm not trying to be argumentative; I really am curious!
It's for editing text and there appears to be massive excitement about it....?
Location: Toronto, ON ( Canada)

Remote: No. (though perfectly willing to work on a trial basis remotely before relocating.)

Willing to relocate: Yes (US and Canada only - If you are based in US, I will expect efforts from you to apply for a US visa that leads to a P.R. A TN permit for Candians like me can be used as a stop gap measure.)

Technologies: Web, Android(out of touch) and Windows desktop apps. 15 years (if that matters)of experience on the web(from frontend to back, though my pref is mostly backend). See résumé link below for further details.

Résumé/CV: http://tinyurl.com/n5bdsd9 (downloadable in .doc, github code also available)

Email: dennis_quicksort-1@yahoo.com
This discussion might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8811019

tldr: one issue might be that some of the movers and shakers in SF are anti-remote work. That seems to help make it part of the culture.

But read it anyway, because maybe it will help you make progress on finding remote work.

Best of luck.
I enjoyed the audio-book read by Gibson itself,it was excellent.

Me too. For others who might be curious, it can be obtained from [1]. The source is legally dubious, but Gibson's narration doesn't seem to be commercially available at the moment.

[1] http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audi...
> If we are goign to get something like Do Not Track, then it should have been drafted out of the public eye, had a nice short period for public comment and then recieved some sort of backing in law.

I'm confused by this—how would drafting the law / specification / whatever out of the public eye have helped the process?
Thanks for this. Becoming a parent is also part of my considerations.
Perfectly pitched and perfectly constructed!
You have TRULY misquoted the author. Actually you did not, you said something entirely different.

He said "let's ban this," with this referring to Uber. Secondly even if he said "let's ban ANY techno...," he did add "Unless/until every ..," which is more than a valid argument.
> So we're trying to show you ads that you want to see, rather than ads that try to provoke you into clicking (like Buzzfeed articles)

Huh, really? Then why aren't you actually doing that?

http://imgur.com/a/KGsQh
Being able to (eventually) use all these language features in a language that's running inside a browser is blowing my mind right now. It's got iterators! It's got properties!
Modern property taxes are a superset of pure Land Value Tax schemes.

In most jurisdictions, land and improvements are appraised separately and can be taxed at separate rates. Moving to a pure Georgism-style LVT would simply remove the taxation on the improvements.

> Personally, I would be in favor of UBI, even as someone who would see a net loss on it after taxes, since it would mean that if I ever lose my job (or choose to quit), I will still have the UBI to support myself with while I look for a new one, making it a less stressful event.

UBI isn't really targeted at someone like you. If you were laid off, you'd collect regular unemployment benefits. Many UBI proposals do away with unemployment benefits and replace them with UBI. If UBI was instituted at poverty level (about $1000/month) it would actually be less than the unemployment benefits in many locations.

However, that increased tax rate would also reduce your personal savings rate, meaning you'd have a reduced opportunity to build a personal savings buffer. If you're an engineer making engineer wages, you're definitely not coming out ahead under a UBI scheme. You are the source of the UBI money, not the recipient.

UBI isn't really meant to cover for things like people voluntarily quitting their jobs. It's meant to stop people from starving and going homeless in the event that they're unable to work.

UBI is vastly more expensive than many people estimate. To simply pay poverty-level UBI to the 330 million people in the United States, we'd need to spend $4.2 Trillion annually. That's about equivalent to the entire 2020 federal budget. In other words, just to keep UBI at poverty levels, we'd have to double the federal taxation across the board. Paying 200% of poverty levels would require tripling taxation.

We're not going to get there by simple Land Value Taxes.
Hahah, that's a good one @jameskeim, always got me in the mood to get a Wendy's sandwich
In most parts of the world, makers are under appreciated, yet they continue making things. It's about the passion of creating things.. The author does not get it.
Zoe's music is the product here, not Google's service; it's Google that's unilaterally demanding she monetize or block it, and trying to prevent her from entering into any exclusive agreements with any other distributor.
> Despite this, I still do not have the faintest clue how Bitcoin works.

Oh thank god. Not about bitcoin specifically but it feels the whole world has managed to find the time to do a course on FRP, brush up on SEO, configure a Hadoop cluster, grok Haskell monads and still work out what a Mocachino is.

Glad to know mortals still exist.
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Remote: Yes

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Email: ariet.dzhumashev@gmail.com

2 years of experience in data. Analysing products: user research and measuring feature success. My strong suits are SQL, understanding business problems and dashboard creation. Open to doing technical writing.
> That ship sailed, back in the railroad era when we decided to standardize time away from mean solar time.

I’ll make the case here that we still use mean solar time, we just quantize it and push it around for political reasons. In any case, using time zones just means that your clock is off by maybe a half hour or 45 minutes in the lower US, and given the natural variation for sunrise and sunset, that doesn’t seem like an outrageous amount of error for temperate latitudes.

Granted, there are a few places in the world with larger differences, like Spain or western China, or Argentina for some reason.

Changes in the period of the Earth’s rotation have been estimated based on records of eclipses from as far back as the 8th century, which show that the Earth’s rotational speed is slowing down. Trying to extrapolate from fifty years of atomic time is going to give you the “on the order of minutes” estimate which is likely wrong. If you are trying to work out the error over five centuries, you should probably be using the best available data, which is records of eclipses and ephemerides.
Day 5 part 1 solution is interesting. I had implemented it the obvious way doing a binary search. I didn't realize you could represent that string as binary and get the equivalent integer. That's really cool however I am not sure I get the idea behind why that actually works
if a centrist in the UK would be halfway between current Labour and Conservative policies, that would probably make you close to a mainstream Democrat. Labour is left of the Democrats and the Conservatives are right of them (primarily economically), but neither by a huge margin.
Given the solarwind hack aren't they already in?
If they followed proper security no individual would have been let out of the Capitol without being detained and searched.
Still ... the setting should not be absurd.

Even before I discovered the acoup.blog which analyzes everything into historical details, the way of life of the Dothraki rubbed me the wrong way.

Nomad cultures, eking out life on the steppe, cannot have the sheer numbers of population that a sedentary agricultural community has, and therefore cannot engage in the kind of reckless, life-has-no-value-here warfare that GRRM describes. Or at least not for a long time. They would just cease to exist.

And, on the other hand, it is precisely the nomads who have enough time and energy for fancying up their clothes. No nomad culture ever wore drab, boring clothing, especially not their leaders.

This felt off to me instantly.
> My way of trying to only accept what I believe to be accurate information will always be imperfect, and, at times, fail me. But I believe it is only shades different from what someone who believes in election fraud does.

> That's a complex and very human problem that is not readily solved with gut reactions, broad strokes and absolutes.

Sadly, though I feel the same as you, this kind of mindset is a vanishing minority in the US, or so it would seem based on most allowed speech these days. One can daily find entire reddit threads about how one side or another is absolutely unreasonable, and one shouldn't even consider that the other side may have reasons. And this goes for all sides. For those of us who try to remain objective and rational, the only option is increasingly to remain silent or find safe spaces (ironically, from the very crowd that popularized the concept of safe spaces). That's the main reason I started spending more time on HN. I've written before, this is one of the few popular places on the internet where being rational and impartial is common, though even here that seems to slowly be changing.
Is your standard portable to an arbitrary other country and arbitrary other timeline?

Are there nuances to be observed or the process is applicable regardless of the context in which it is implemented?
It's a self fulfilling prophecy / feedback loop. Censorship creates fear of authoritarianism --> anti-government fears --> kooky crazies supporting trump --> censorship