jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I know for a fact that a large number of intelligence tools are written on top of open source projects

I don't see how that's really relevant, at all. Did you expect the USG to continue to use Windows instead of Linux for everything? Of course they're going to use tools available that others create. It doesn't mean they don't have unlimited resources. They can easily hire extremely intelligent and creative technical minds (we're talking about the NSA here, come on) and unfortunately, IQ does not mandate a specific political view. This was hard for me to accept, but there are some people much smarter than I am that hold very different positions on things. (Edit: To my knowledge, they are wrong, but caused by operating from different priors than I have.)

You're deluding yourself if you think that somehow the only good tech people are going to be "good guys".
ASP.NET WebForms is absolutely a framework and a heavyweight one. It tries to hide the details of http and html as the grandparent says. I for one don't care for that, I prefer a lighter weight framework which works with http rather than hiding it. ASP MVC is lighter weight than webforms, and Nancy or ServiceStack is even lighter weight.

Some things like making an endpoint that servces json and xml responses is almost trivial on Nancy or ServiceStack, easy in ASP MVC with WebApi, and a pain in webforms.
How disgustingly condescending.
>Nancy just has a nicer API.

In your opinion.

A lot of older developers don't like the Func<>iness of some of these newer frameworks. Just something to consider.
Often you have to change the tasks slightly to make them properly automatable. The fancy term is process improvement. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_improvement
Ignored? By whom? I am not a virologist, but actual virologists sure talked about T-cells in public forums. Or moreover, that we have to have some degree of humility about exactly what are the correlates of immunity for this disease.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

And this podcast had Fauci on, so it’s not like they weren’t some degree of notable within the immunological academic sphere.

I think it ’s time for Hanlon's Razor here. Antibodies were easy to measure. Antibodies probably meant people wouldn’t get sick and wouldn’t spread this. So policy makers, being in a tremendous rush, really glommed onto antibodies, and just got stuck in that mindset, because it’s hard to turn a ship around. I don’t know where there would be a conspiracy—it’s just that this whole thing is complex, and politicians are not virologists.
This looks really interesting from a quick skim. Also, it appears that their initial prototypes were built using Xilinx's Virtex FPGAs but the final model was built on Altera's Stratix V D5. I wonder what prompted the change - speed/power/amount of available logic? They seemed not to explain the switch in the paper (or if they did, it escaped my notice).
That being said, some owners are so reprehensible that buying at a mega corp is the better choice. A local business to me was boycotted out of existence after they had a meltdown on Facebook when they were criticized for their support of the fascists that tried to overturn the election on Jan 6.
No, it's not an effective legal argument.

To get an injunction, the claimant (ISPs in this case) would need to show a likelihood of success on the merits _and_ irreparable harm during the pendency of the lawsuit. If the ISPs are not violating the law, it's hard to imagine that they can show that the law is harming them.
To the extent the importance of a governmental interest is to the validity of a law (basically, any time it is required to pass more than rational basis test review because of either the rights impinged or the axes on which it discriminates), “the behavior it seeks to prevent does not exist” is a component of a useful argument (you really want to be able to finish with “and is unlikely to exist in the future in the absence of the law”, as well.)

But in this context here, we aren't really talking about the validity of the law but about an injunction while the law is being challenged. Where, actually, that argument seems to cut against ISPs, since an injunction generally requires a showing of irreparable harm to the other party if the injunction is not granted; “we aren't doing what the law would prevent and have no intention of doing so” is exactly an argument that you have no need for an injunction.
Can you cite that? Boko Haram is an Islamist movement, so I would expect them to recognize fellow Islamists anywhere of any race, and indeed Wikipedia notes they are allied with Islamic State in the Levant and Iraq. There are many Islamists who absolutely anyone would recognize as white, just look at some of the people from the Balkans or Chechnya who have gone to fight for ISIS.

There have been recent movements in Nigeria that specifically opposed whites in general, but they have generally been from an Afrocentrism perspective and often were just as mistrustful of Islam as Christianity, arguing for a return to indigenous African spirituality instead.
If ISPs have no plans to block or throttle internet traffic, then they should have no objections to this ruling...
Sure it does. Jobs have a shared cache (although this can be slow) and artifacts are shared to downstream jobs.

Maybe this is a tiered feature?

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/caching/
I haven't read the whole article, but making games on your own is really hard. You are either good designer, but bad programmer or the other way around so. I think the easiest if you are a programmer and know a little bit of Unreal or Unity, you should use free assets and not bother with creating assets as this will eat up all your time. It's better if you pair with someone.
You have to be attractive in the first place to be attractive when bald.
So... money laundering? Or just people with too many gains looking for something to spend it on?
At some point you have to weigh risks and benefits for yourself personally. Sometimes this is due to incomplete information or because it is a grey area issue. You may want to use all cause mortality which says under a drink a day is optimum versus none or more. Or if you are male, you may want higher alcohol consumption due to the heart benefits, where you are of higher risk of a disease that tends to kill earlier than cancer. It is grey area depending on the individual, their genetics, and their wishes, IMO.
But parental controls are a feature that the market can easily solve without the need for government enforced internet censorship.

government IS NOT your childs caretaker
"He who does not understand the workings of his own mind is doomed, of necessity, to be unhappy." Aurelius
I agree what you said. But the total time spent on Internet of all human being will be bounded, not infinite. You can only have 7 x 18 billion person-hours a day to use different services. What you have to compete is the time that users uses your service.

Of course I maybe wrong in above statement. The statement doesn't include all automated computing processes. Then the limit may be much larger to be considered as unlimited.
Would a form of protest against internet filtering take the shape of misinformation?

For example, it has been argued that the label of Sex Offender has been so misused, that the lists comprised are becoming of little value. Same for No Fly lists. This data may be from my (admittedly) very narrow list of sources, but for the sake of argument, please bear with me.

Using this same idea, adding government websites and commercial company websites to the COICA blacklists would help devalue such filtering, just as adding legislature's households to the Hadopi/Digital Economy Act's lists would devalue them...

If internet access can be moved to the power lines, would it be easier to have a non-throttled, non-filtered net? No, I guess that would likewise be subject to legislation-induced choking...

Sigh.
Scores are based on the number of features supported. What's wrong about it?
No, it's not sarcasm. If a business can't afford to exist without abusing workers by paying below a living wage, that business's business model needs to be rethought. If that means people don't get unlimited breadsticks and have to pay a little more on the check, then that's what it means. And, I do mean "a little more": McDonalds workers in Denmark make at least $20/hour, get excellent benefits, and a Big Mac costs a whole $0.27 more than in the US.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/
Tensorflow datasets are pretty great, once you get them really rolling. They do a great job of scaling out worker threads for various parts of the featurization process, keeping an arbitrarily big cache of batches ready to go in ram, etc.

https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/data/Dataset
Then you fire him and hire someone else.
Here's a list of how various companies attracted the first 1000 customers: https://first1000.substack.com/

Also, Segment's tale of finding product-market fit is worth a watch: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6B-on-finding-product-ma...
I think the emphasis is on “need” here.

I, a developer, spend the majority of my time between IDE and terminal. I am most efficient if my hands do not leave the keyboard.

My business partner, not a developer, but a savvy user, but is pure GUI with the addition of some browser automation and various extensions. He is impressively productive.

It is all about what works for an individual user. I appreciate this post, because I’m a keyboard-focused user. Looking forward to reading it more thoroughly.
Hey, that's okay. Maybe try it again with different aspects. I had a neighbor in the college dorms who went vegan without any research, and gave himself depression and other psychological/neurological problems (probably a lack of B12). I think it's wise to get blood tests after major dietary changes to be sure everything is good.

Personally, I'm a lazy vegetarian, not a vegan per se. I really want to give up dairy, but cheeses are soo darn tasty. I have a single 6 mm kidney stone from chronic high cortisol levels, not diet (according to doctors).

Other things I do:

- Gender-specific multivitamin

- Vegan B complex

- Vegan 10k IU avg per day D3 + K MTK-7 (once a week 50k IU + using up 5k I still have)

- Magnesium citrate (prevention of kidney stones and magnesium)

- No HFCS, limit sugary products, and not adding salt (semi-keto). I get plenty of I, Na, and Cl from other foods

- Unsalted pistachios

- Unsalted cashews (very few because oxalates and gas)

- Roasted, unsalted pumpkin seeds (pepitas)

- Omega-3 foods

- Cook using avocado oil or butter

- Fresh olive oil when added without cooking

- Water, lots of water (reverse osmosis water store subscription since I live in an apartment)

- Intermittent fasting (40 lbs. / 18 kg to lose)

- Veg like broccoli and plain potato

- Limit salt, spinach, sweet potato, chocolate, tea, some nuts esp. almonds (which are also the second leading cause of breaking teeth after ice)

- Excess vitamin C creates oxalates endogenously. Megadosing it is the surest way to kidney stones

There ought to be a book: Safer Diets and Fasting: What you need to know
It’s LGPL. You are free to prevent your users from enjoying the same freedoms you do.
What does the person who can barely afford food do after they've bought the bus ticket? They board the bus, they ride it to the destination. Then what do they do?
If only I'd implemented the obvious extension to my graduate dissertation on optimising taxi routes (using a slightly different mechanism, tabu search and squeaky wheel)...

Unfortunately someone has fairly recently done it.
With that understanding I'd just like to inject my own personal feelings onto this matter. Technophobes are like a hindrance on mankind's progress. While I don't think it would be nice (or even advisable from NYT's own business perspective) to make them feel uncomfortable, the technophobes need to feel uncomfortable about it so that they can be pushed towards acceptance of the world around them.
Sounds like personal preference. This site is for natural selection. If people are interested in it then it will get voted up. Voted Up because I've often wondered it myself
I'd never heard of sprezzatura. What a great word! Reminded me instantly of one of Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power: "Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless"

All the toil and practice that go into them, and also all the clever tricks, must be concealed. When you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do much more.
Articles are interesting, but I have trouble trusting the author since there aren't a lot of links to supporting materials. Also, the statement identified by getonit immediately struck the BS chord with me. Someone who purports to scientific knowledge shouldn't use statements similar to "it can't be wrong because everyone believes it." right?
In brief, a quantum computer of ~10000 qubits running Grover's algorithm can find a structured preimage in expected time O(2^(N/2)), which breaks the security claims of 11 of the candidates, who claim no attack better than brute force is possible (which is O(2^N)).

Of the other three, 2 make no explicit claim, and only one explicitly states the quantum attack.

That said, O(2^(N/2)) on N of 224 bits is still O(2^112) operations on a quantum computer several orders of magnitude larger than those we have already, so the problem here is an inaccurate claim of security by the submissions, not a practical attack. (2^112 is a million computers, working at one operation per nanosecond, running for 164646653302 years, but attacks do only get better...)
Interesting stuff, but can you clip the number from the title, please?
There's enough talk here about Apple, maybe not about working or interviewing there, but honestly there's just way too much talk about big companies on HN already; we don't need more.

What's the point of this meta thread anyway? Are you planning to work at Apple? If so, why don't you just ask specific direct questions about that?

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I've performed all the tasks, but I don't think I've gotten any extra space. :(
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I am not an iPhone developer, but the code doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Can anybody explain what is special about this code?
That's a good point. The diffs would be more useful both the feature branch's changes (Bob's changes in the article's example) and master's diverged changes were highlighted (in different colors):

https://bitbucket.org/tpettersen/abpr/pull-request/2/fixed-a...
That private businesses can keep people off of their properties?
Be prepared for more nebulous, uncharitable "you're lending support to those who promote violence" bans in the future. Wouldn't be surprised to see it being used more aggressively across a variety of platforms in the coming weeks.
Always imagine the worst abuser of a power obtaining it, before granting any power to a government entity.
What precedent? That a private company can ban people from posting on their servers. Well, duh.
This is not a good idea. Whatever you think about Trump, he is still holding public office.
Him plus a number of other right wing figures. So is he about to move to parler which is about to be suspended by Apple and Google?
This is extraordinarily tame in the scheme of American history.

And as someone who lives in one of those areas of the country constantly scorned, belittled, and caricatured, I can say with confidence that you do not want those people to act in kind to Antifa.

There's been a lot of living vicariously through Antifa/BLM lately with portions of society that want to "stand for something." It's the same mentality as people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts but complain when the wifi on their plane isn't available.

On the other side of that is a enormous, peaceful, patriotic section of U.S. society that is heavily armed and competent with those armaments.

If you make this segment of society feel as if they are the enemy of the country they love, it will be a disaster. If there is ever armed conflict between urban areas vs everyone else, "everyone else" in the U.S. will win overwhelmingly.
I don't think I will.
I ran the left fold (http://foldl.org) for several months; it focused on the top technical stories from places like here. It was popular (a few thousand readers each week), but I didn't have time to continue it, and to be honest, the material gets very repetitive when you look at it hard each week to hand-pick articles.
It's not some silly vision of the future, but an oversimplified version of today! A brief and incomplete list of applications I use in a typical day:

Remote storage and/or processing: GMail, Google Docs, Weather.com, Reddit.com, Hacker News, Outlook web client, Google.com, DuckDuckGo, Delicious, Facebook, Github, tens of blogs/articles, online help documentation for, well, everything

Local storage and/or processing: Windows+Linux, Firefox, Chrome, Outlook, Visual Studio, Emacs, Python (or other dynamic languages), Acrobat, Amarok, random Unix utilities, various games

Most of my applications exist solely to present data stored elsewhere. I see no reason the trend won't continue: for instance, why would I compile C++ code on my machine when I can farm it out? Why would I store flat code files on my machine when I can have synthesized views of the code I need to see at one time?

Split up by time, most of my attention is spent manipulating or displaying data from somewhere else (or that could be stored somewhere else)

Games show that there are exceptions
Anyone who has no knowledge of the field and who says "I can't see how X would take long/be difficult" is being more than "blunt". At best they're very impolite, they're lacking the mental filters that prevent many people from saying such. If that's the case, you have to wonder how she's interacting with your company's customers....

When you say "She was looking for a partner with very specific characteristics, and I'm one of the few who fit." I really have to wonder if she truly sees you as a partner or co-founder. If she's capable of being polite, then you have to wonder why she doesn't bother with you.

Especially since treating people with disrespect is not going to have a happy ending. It's already getting to you, and when you hire a new technical person she's going to treat them with disrespect, continuing the problem, but the worse alternative for you is that she won't.

It's hard for me to see how this venture will be successful for you without getting some good results when you talk to her, and that means real change, not promises. Be aware that despite the fact that she "is very aware that she'd have trouble replacing" you, that doesn't mean she won't try, even if it kills the company (been there, done that).
Next month's weather.
I would say "outside".
This is sad news. I have read many of his books and found them enjoyable, although he used the same formula many times: the world - something we take for granted = interesting story.

Here is an interview from 2006 with Saramago entitled "Still a street-fighting man": http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/30/fiction.features...
Yeah, I do this; 2020 M1 13" MBP; 4K external monitor and iPad Pro on Sidecar, plus I keep the laptop open so I have three screens. I find Sidecar a bit flaky (it disconnects or freezes a bit too often to be breezily accepted), but with a big iPad (mine is basically A4 paper sized) and SwitchResX in play, it's not bad at all.

Edit: ... and having said all that, I'm looking forward to upgrading some time in the next year and going back to two "proper" external monitors. I'll still love using the Sidecar'ed iPad Pro as a second screen when working in cafes, though...
Don't forget to watch the other parts of the interview as well, it's great stuff. Part two especially should also resonate with everyone who does something creative .

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA (building blocks of stories; very well illustrated!)

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW6x7lOIsPE (kill your darlings, failure is part of success, you don't want to be making mediocre stuff)

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY (taste & disappointment)

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCJFAGEuJM (common pitfalls of making stories; be yourself; what's interesting isn't only your take of things, it's seeing you interact with other people)

edit: fixed the links
In a lot of cases the processor is not the bank (SmartPay, Square, etc), so usually, yes, they'll want a cut. And then you'll also get charged for the paper rolls (for receipts), and renting of the EFTPOS equipment if you rent it.

I ripped this off some marketing material that I found for a popular EFTPOS terminal in Australia:

A merchant service fee is a fee you pay to your EFTPOS provider to process your transaction payments. This fee is calculated as a percentage (or fixed fee) of every transaction where a customer swipes, inserts, or taps their card at your terminal.

For every transaction, your bank pays fees which include: a fee to the issuing bank (e.g. the bank that issued the card), the scheme fee (e.g. Visa, Mastercard, EFTPOS), and the switch fee (who processes the transaction).
If Apple wants to deny access to Gizmodo because Gizmodo is a bunch of douchebags, great. Just don't tell us, as Jacobian did, that Apple is defending journalistic ethics by doing so.

Apple is just playing the same tit-for-tat access game they always do. Apple is an admirable company in many ways, but they're not a consistent champion of free speech, a free press, or high journalistic standards. Apple shouldn't be defended on the basis of their press-policing.
This works for me, and I don't even need to exercise first thing. The most difficult thing is other people in your life who don't understand and don't cooperate.
No doubt. That's why specifying project requirements and writing proposals is usually so important for both client and coder. Managing expectations is key.
"In 2001 Schmitz pulled off a huge stock market bluff which netted him a small fortune. After buying shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the almost bankrupt LetsBuyIt.com, he announced that he would invest 50 million euros in the company, but in reality he didn’t have the money. His declaration led to the biggest single-day rise on the German stock market which allowed Schmitz to sell his shares and pocket $1.5 million profit. He was arrested for insider-trading in 2002, sentenced to a term of 20 months and given a 100,000 euro fine."

And they let him keep the money? Damn, I should try insider trading some time--$1.4 million is pretty good for 20 months of "work".
Does anyone know what kind of money MegaUpload makes?

How profitable are internet businesses in general? Would anyone be willing to share the site they run and the amount it makes?
Matthew Crawford has some original thinking related to this topic, in his book "Shop Class as Soulcraft":

http://www.matthewbcrawford.com/
http://www.undrln.com/ Don't frequent it but just new it existed
The whole quote from me was, "...they believe they've proven".

Perhaps a better phrasing would be "believe they can prove".
Was that a DF though?
That’s definitely something I’ve seen too. Most of the cvs I get through, especially from younger devs, talk about ML. I’ve got my work cut out for me keeping my existing codebase understandably without deliberately introducing opacity!
I believe google translate offers pretty much all of the toolkit functionality (and more), but packaged in a different way. Take a look at the google translate advanced docs:

https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/advanced/glossary