jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To me, by far the most interesting bit is this:

GCHQ developed a system called NOCTURNAL SURGE to search for particular engineers and system administrators by finding their IP addresses...

The confirmation came in the form of Google, Yahoo, and LinkedIn “cookies,” tiny unique files that are automatically placed on computers to identify and sometimes track people browsing the Internet, often for advertising purposes. GCHQ maintains a huge repository named MUTANT BROTH that stores billions of these intercepted cookies, which it uses to correlate with IP addresses to determine the identity of a person.

Hope you aren't sending cookies to an http site. Ever.
There's a whole lot of BGP and stuff like that on the interconnect, too.
Indeed - sorry - my math Enlish isn't very good.
Does anyone know how to generalize this to complex data?
Neither coke or diet coke will erode your teeth:

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp
Please be careful with the plastic bottle, after some time it will contain alot of bacteria if you don't wash it properly.
I don't know about you but pretty much every live site I've been involved in has used some non-intuitive CSS and markup to achieve the intended result. CSS is great for its intended use of styling marked up text documents; as soon as you try to do anything that falls outside of that zone, such as implementing a contemporary website layout & design, you end up working against the language. It works, but it's a lot like inferring that Brainfuck must be a good programming language because it's Turing complete.

Yes, we have SVG, canvas, etc., but they aren't supported widely enough. Even if you ignore that and focus on the browsers with the best (X)HTML+SVG support, do the layout & design using SVG and the typesetting with HTML/CSS, the resulting markup and CSS aren't pretty at all - again, SVG is good for vector art, not laying out interactive pages.

Canvas is generic enough to do pretty much anything, but it's very low level. It's like the X server - you still need all the toolkit infrastructure on top to get anything done in most cases. This is fine for animations, games, etc. of course.

So yes, this particular animation could have been better implemented using SVG or canvas. Sure, it's interesting doing it with CSS3, but the sad thing is that it's more than that: the weird hacks required aren't far removed from the ones you need to use in practice, because the 'right' way you mention currently doesn't exist for the vast majority of what we do on the web.

It's more than a cool hack - it's a demonstration (intentional or not) that it's 2010 and we're still fighting our presentation languages.
Exactly... The only reason this "worked" is because it's a pretty basic instinct that when you're somewhere you shouldn't be, and doing something you shouldn't be doing, anything unexpected is a reason to get the hell out.

Loud bells and flashing lights would have been just as effective.
Yes, but less value. And most would say not enough value.
> We don’t have a word as popular and overused as “coup” to describe the attempt to shut down the transfer of power

The more technical term for the kind of coup attempted (an extension of power beyond the legitimate term or scope by or on behalf of the current leader, is “auto-coup” or “self-coup”.)
I'm pretty well versed in the whole FIRE thing, and find myself more or less on that path.

One conclusion I've come to is that after people "retire early", they almost never actually stop making money. It just tends to end up being more entrepreneurial stuff that they make money off.

You don't "have to" work, but you "might as well", and all the sudden you may even find yourself in a more lucrative gig than you started with because you changed your focus and found a niche you can fill nicely.
To quote myself:

> I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying that we should stop looking for law-breakers, but I am saying that punishment will not lead to better outcomes in the absence of other positive actions.

If laws were broken, by all means, use the justice system to pursue those lawbreaker; but do not expect that to solve everything.
Generally speaking, you don't initiate a short position with longer than a two- to three-year time horizon. The cost of borrowing the shares, plus the opportunity cost of holding cash for margin maintenance requirements, is too prohibitive.
that was the_donald
I don't see a "supercomputer" in that article anywhere.
Was that actually her computer though?
No, they banned /r/thedonald
This post has an opportunity to find the error bars on its estimate of π. The estimate came out as 3.14616.

The number of in-the-circle counts is S ~ binomial(N,p) where N=1e5 and p=π/4, which we'll take to be 0.75. Then

var(S) = p(1-p)N ≤ N/4

and the standard deviation of S is the square root of this, or about ∆=137.

(If we weren't willing to use a guess for p in the variance above, we could use the universal bound of N/4.)

The estimate of π is (S/N) * 4, so the sdev on the estimate of π is (∆/N)*4 = 0.0055.

So the estimate turned out to be a little less than one standard deviation higher than π. Which is satisfying.

--

The point being that, for just a little extra work, you get not only a Monte Carlo estimate, but also a bound on its error. Sometimes the bound is just as important as the estimate.
How much energy does the US central bank system use in a year?
I've observed that lines of code are measured differently based on whether the writer is trying to convince the audience that the subject matter is big and complicated and the reader should respect the magnitude of dealing with this particular piece of software OR whether the author wants you to appreciate the brevity/simplicity/approachability of the software in question. The first decision made in this decision tree is whether you just use wc , or whether you filter out empty lines. Next goes the comments. Next goes syntactically less significant lines (just a closing brace that could* go on the previous line). Wash rinse repeat.

It's a variant of the "I didn't have time to write you a short ____ so I wrote a long one instead" adage.

I would guess (but only guess) that this article erred on the side overstating size.
I think in your eagerness to 'gotcha' me, you missed my point. :)

Anyway, we're trying to assess Kubernetes' value proposition (i.e., to answer "does it suck?"). If your system for answering that question depends on already knowing the answer, it's not a very useful system.
> if it becomes permanent they are taking a hit to their retirement savings.

poor little snow flakes. i have zero sympathy
No there really is not. You can't always "twist" the words how you need it, otherwise you behave just like Google. Chrome is a separate product. It's a browser. If it says that Chrome won't remember history in private mode, but then you go and visit a Google website, then this website can still track you the same as any other website in private mode. You can't really say "Oh Google should be broken up and be treated as separate entities (at least when it suits me)" and then start complaining "Oh Chrome and GMail are acting like separate entities but they should be really acting as if they were the same thing (at least when it suits me)" ... lol

Private mode never was meant to be a privacy feature against websites. Private mode is to prevent your LOCAL history from containing anything you searched/visited and the legit use case is sharing of the computer with other members of family, for instance. For websites, nothing really changes. They can still track you all the way they want.
Probably payment APIs, just like Uber. Or they are developed by different local app shops.
Its the primary continuation mechanism, sure, but doesn't explain the origin of golds value. That's all I meant. Any commodity has some pricing effect from traders evaluation of its tradability.
The issue is: We can't prove it either way. We can make law which increases the risk if they are uncovered and hope they abide to it (see GDPR and California Law for attempts in that direction) but a prove is hard.

At the same time we see the incentives, and the incentives are to collect and analyze things.
It must be mostly the dependencies and assets they're pulling in for each screen, and not simply the source code. They could be using a different SDK for each type of payment they take, which is a lot. If the app has 250 features, and each feature includes 4MB of assets (images, icons, sounds, etc.), that's already a gig right there. I also suspect that there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on, since there's 40+ feature teams all working on the app at the same time.
This is such a non-feature for 99% of users.

The fact that Uber devotes engineering resources to serving the tiny 1% slice of users who care about having an app that works seamlessly across dozens of countries, at the expense of the much larger number of users with limited space on their outdated devices, is really emblematic of the Valley's out-of-whack priorities.
Like credit rating agencies and how well they work? /s

In this case, it's not even about falsely marking up poorly understood investment products for extra business, it's people's health.

Any reviewing businesses that are strict with their criteria simply won't get business from device companies, all we've succeeded in doing here is moving the problem up one level.
> Is this a widespread sentiment towards ethics and individual rights in the pharma industry? If so then I'd say that skepticism is pretty justified

I don’t understand what “this” refers to, or which skepticism.
Has our industry just given up on any software which isn't "SaaS"? I have a lot of problems with software today, and none of them can be solved by a web app.
And that’s why they don’t sell homeopathic children’s “medicine” at major American drug stores.

Except they do.
I think it's irrelevant, most friend groups are using something for this already. Whatsapp group, private discord etc.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025052 and the discussion in the phoronix thread.
Since you can't trust any company, and you're not going to build your own device from first principles, best to avoid mobile devices alltogether. Get an old pre-owned Nokia for phone calls and use laptop-based messaging if you need it.

I wrote a messaging app based on one-time pad encryption but ended up not using it due to poor-quality random numbers available to me (you can buy external random devices but I don't trust any vendor).

Always remember Leidner's First Law: "Security is an illusion."
>For a web application, the code might make the entire thing operate, but it never affects the user the way the design or interface does.

Sounds like you're primarily talking about the backend PHP coding then? One option already mentioned is to learn a new way to develop backends that you find funner (ex. Python).

The other you should seriously consider is to team-up and form a partnership with someone who enjoys programming more. This way you focus primarily on User Interface which you seem more passionate about and have a friend whip out the backends. You will be able to tackle larger more exciting projects and your prior programming knowledge will make it easier for you integrate your design work with the developer's.
curl -O http://www.ericsson.com/blob/mov/campaigns/2020/[1-20].mov
1 is pure BS, you can do a maintenance program, or you can increase reps rather than weights, to increase your stamina.

2 is more, you can do whatever program you want, unless you want to become a competitive bodybuilder, there is no need for conforming to someone else's idea of what you should do. I would suggest reading in a decent book - I like Garhammer's Strength Training - and take what you want.

3 is gross overkill.

4 With free weights and gradually increasing the weight form mostly takes care of itself. If it is actually painful, rather than just hard, then don't do it.

5 is actually general enough that I can't criticize, nice change.

6 is also true. On the other hand, relatively light, but long, maintenance workouts every day are useful in burning excess calories.

7 is good if you are trying to "progress", on the other hand it doesn't help much on a maintenance program. The best advice is to simply try to set up a program you can enjoy, then do it. Working out with someone else is generally the best motivator.
Exactly. I used it as a basic guide, and lost 12 kgs. I simply replaced the "step in the bedroom" part with "jogging outside" :)
There is a HN group on Airbnb. www.airbnb.com/groups/hackernews/page/members
I completely agree. Even after a few months of iPhone development I still can't say I enjoy the whole XCode/OS X environment one bit.

Changing to single window mode in Xcode did help quite a bit though.
Squat rack is actually very versatile. It can be used as the place where you leave the bar for bench press and military press, and barbell curls. This way you can just get a simple flat bench instead of a dedicated bench press bench. Also you can put pull up holds at the top which can be used for pull ups as well as hanging leg lifts. Lastly, you can store the plates on it.
Absurd. The public necessarily shares some risk to the extent that it asserts a claim over, and collects royalties for mineral resources extracted from US territorial waters.
This is exactly the kind of reply I was hoping for. Much appreciated.
Except that the limerent one was her, and I am just trying to give advice of the very pain she taught me. Yeah, I admit, it is complicated.
Looking at the CEO's Twitter feed, he's clearly obsessed with customer satisfaction and employees' growth.

https://twitter.com/michael_saylor
It's true. Yet another hard thing about being a parent is that there is a lot of crappy "research" and advice to wade through (including most of the research claiming to support your view, btw). But there's some solid stuff out there too--pretending there isn't because you might reach conclusions that conflict with a self-serving parenting philosophy is just another excuse.
The government is officially reprimanding the act but they personally shield themselves from backlash. Win-win, cake and eat it too, etc. Every politician does this (because the ones that don't fail to remain politicians for long).
Hey Lenny! Congrats on the launch, so excited to see your product come together.
I am not hardcore. I prefer a site with electric in a ground with hot showers...all things reasonably comparable. What I learned is that they are not bright line features.

Same with weather.

Even if it’s not wrong, Yellowstone is still Yellowstone...so to speak.

Anyway if you go to the Hoh Rainforest, you might get rain...I paid the dumb tax on that. I lived.
Everyone claims to be able to explain in hindsight why something became popular.

I believe that the overwhelming factor of why something does or does not become popular is simply chaotic luck.

In an alternate history where Python was designed exactly the same, but a butterfly at Guido's desk flapped his wings slightly differently, Python would have been obscure.
> Well if house prices have indeed doubled in 10 years then that means inflation during that period was about 7.2%, not 2% as they claim.

A rise in the price of one thing does not mean that rate is the rate of inflation - relative price shifts happen.
- based on type safe language

- strong sandboxing of individual OS processes

- runtime encryption of data in RAM and storage
I think you dismiss far too cavalierly the possibility of smart people being genuinely interested in the technical challenges facing Morgan Stanley.
To me, what's really great is the feel of independence.

When I do chores (or any work really) I'm always thinking like "Look, Ma - I can do this on my own!" even when nobody around is watching me. I guess the feeling that you can learn those small things and take care of yourself help boosting your confidence a lot. That said, I admit that there are many things I can't do - like making my own garment or my own transistors. But I'm trying to expand my abilities, and this everyday learning process helps me keep having positive attitudes towards many things (because you're often surprised by how little you knew about things that you've taken for granted!).

A little side note. I work for disabled (blind) people and often I feel sorry for them not being able to do some of very simple chores without help by sighted people. Let them have a chance to enjoy their own chores. That would be a good society.
I haven't heard of an extension that does that either, but I'm not sure that would scale well for busy long-running Multi User Chats.

But the benefit of XMPP is that a new extension can be proposed that does this if enough people want such a feature. Personally I would argue that a better approach would be to make Public MUC logs accessible and searchable via a web interface and to have the client log chats going forward from when they join (with offline messaging from the server so you don't have to be online the whole time).
He still teaches a grad-level (I think?) course here at Columbia. How I envy the students in that class.
If there is someone who puts premium on execution speed it's probably Wall Street. I get the impression that that is one of the things Stroustrup really cares about also.
I agree with your logic but not your premise. Two alien species could effectively communicate if they happened to agree on a shared set of fundamental axioms. The axiom of choice is somewhat contentious here on earth, since it underlies the Banach-Tarski paradox, and it's not clear at all that a sophisticated alien society would have ever accepted the axiom of choice into their mathematics.
Is anyone else picturing Jack Black in a record store right now?
For the climate change greater good, can someone devise a hashing algorithm that is similar as possible to the formula for photosynthesis? One that requires the miner to use sunlight and CO2 to compute block solutions
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I spent 2 years on a motorbike all over Northern Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos. The number of hydro dams being built by these countries (and China) in the region along the Mekong is insane.

They already feel the effects from this... in the summer the rivers dry up to the point that you're driving a motorbike across dry lake beds and in the winter (aka: rainy season) there is massive landslides and the dams break and wash away villages.

From what I can tell, it is less about blaming the dam and more about the thirst for power and complete disregard for how we go about getting it. It is a complete eco disaster.
I think the NYT article is basically saying, Birds of a feather... ??

Grouping of people by other people will forever be a "thing"
I don't think this is a good thing in the long term, a conflict of interest can arise, then Google would pull out.

But then again, I guess I have no choice to accept this future we've put ourselves in.

At least I can as an individual give back to Kotlin, no wait...
Malice is itself a form of incompetence.
Always critics to everything and Google has grown big enough to be fun to hate. There's plenty of things to criticize what happens at your organization these days -- but this isn't one of them. Congrats
"Overland Park, Kansas, apparently has its own version of the Seattle process. It spent nine months arguing the Google Fiber contract..."

Overland Park's haggling likely had more to do with the fact that Sprint is headquartered there.
Which again is only large corporations, right?
The repository linked is just a part of the entire model so it can't be used as is.

That said there is a completely implementation made by lucidrains[1] with some results, the only missing component now is the dataset.

[1]: https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE-pytorch
"Bitcoin has been trading at $50,000 and higher, reviving interest surrounding the cryptocurrency market and especially the altcoin sector. Ethereum and other top coins have all set new price records just as Bitcoin did, but have since started to correct.

There are at least five technical signs, however, that suggest that this isn’t a top in altcoins, but instead is a bullish retest and a prelude of the most powerful altcoin season yet."
I find the "and perl" part particularly dubious. Here's an excerpt:

system("echo '$mydata' > /home/rhett/usernick");
system('/home/rhett/music_player.rb &');
system('/home/rhett/servos/phidgets-examples/AdvancedServo-simple &');

As a former perl hacker, this kind of stuff was infuriating to me before, but it just seems silly now.
Once I figured out where to find the built-in functions, I haven't had a problem finding things since.

Docs > Library Reference > Built-In Functions (browser search for function)

I appreciate that they include all of the built-in functions in the same root directory as the remaining batteries-included modules.

The only wonky one for me now is the documentation for formatting strings, since it's documented in the "strings" module, but it's not dependent on the strings module.
Don’t test a CS curriculum, test the ability to create.

Key, Key, Key takeaway!!!! I can't stress this one enough, I don't understand why people have such a hard time finding really good guys. Passion and creativity are the keys. If you learn to sniff those two out, 10 to 1 you have a good candidate.
Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922364 already has a couple of comments.
This is from 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euh1g21x_rs&feature=relat...
Very unlikely in the long term. As millions of these get built, cost will come down.
Okay, signed up and went a bit deeper into the site:

* You've got the same rounded-corners-not-transparent issue at the bottom of every page

* Only when you get to the 'copy this bit of JS into your site' stage, do you find out that it _also_ requires jQuery. I know a lot of people will already be using jQuery (including me) bit the site I wanted to test with isn't using jQuery, so this has moved me from 'Go', to 'Stop and think'. I wish I'd known this earlier on.
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10575-how_to_design_highly_relia... is a really interesting talk by some guys from CERN who have to design chips for use in particle accelerators and other physics experiments where they must survive unusually hostile radiation environments.
That's super helpfully, actually - tells me about some problems that I wouldn't have anticipated, and tells me NOT to go looking for certain other solutions.

Short term, I think I can get by with switching from Slack's events API to their real-time widget - aka, the server gets a socket to both the web chat, and the slack.

Long term - probably the Redis pub/sub with the socket-receiving server split out as a microservice (which normally I'd be "eh" about, but this seems perfect).

I currently don't have to worry about multiple people on the webchat (outside of needed features) and even once that's an important thing, I doubt I'll need to worry about exactness. As long as each message get delivered reasonably quickly, and to everyone, should always be good.

hmm, hmm hmm - great stuff, thank you!