jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For a small number of messages, maybe. For the number of email messages exchanged daily on the internet? Probably not. For voice calls? Certainly not.
I know it would be unfair to ask you to defend the author's writing simply because you speak their language, but I would be grateful if you (or anybody else who speaks Italian) could explain this part of the article for me:

> We also analyzed the solutions currently adopted by some activists, like the use of asterisks, “x,” and “u.”

> Siamo tutt* bellissim* .

> Siamo tuttx bellissimx.

> Siamo tuttu bellissimu.

> I’d seen examples of this on signs before, but it had always seemed to me that asterisks and such were not meant to be a solution, but rather a way to highlight the issue and start a discourse on something that’s deeply ingrained in our language. For our cyberpunk future, we wanted a solution that was more readable and pronounceable, so we thought we might use schwa (ə), the mid central vowel sound.

I get why the * and x are unpronounceable, but what's wrong with the u? As an ignoramus on the subject of the Italian language, "tuttu" and "bellissimu" would have been believable to me as Italian words. They look pronounceable to me. Anybody know what I'm missing?
It’s on gog.com:
https://www.gog.com/game/battle_chess_special_edition
Uhhh... There are tons of different measurements. Here even Stiglitz says so and then talks about others: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/new-metrics-of-...

Throwing the baby out with the bath water? I think it's more like throwing the bath water out to save the baby from drowning.
I don't know why but someone edited my comment. The original had 2 footnotes which were combined into one. Now it is ambiguous. Thank you for your disservice.
It's just semantics. A brain is just a "simulation" of a consciousness. Unless you want to bring religion / spirituality into the discussion, there's absolutely nothing to suggest that there's something magical about the human brain that allows it to support a consciousness in a way that a hypothetical man-made computer cannot.
Linters exist. if you want to enforce a formatting standard for your new package registry, why not just reject anything that fails some published eslintrc?
Yes, but it is an annoying pita, and the silly reason it was changed, but not changed back when the initiative collapsed, continues to rustle my jimmies.
"normal co-worker relationship" is one of fellow sufferers rather than friendship.

traditional modes of socializing--politics, religion, civic organizations, etc--will hit closer to the mark.
He make a good point about there being no studies proving "10x programmer". I don't think it is something you can prove with a study. You would first have to define the metric you are measuring. Lines of Code per minute? Time it takes to build a basic fizzbuzz, web app, compiler? Standardized test?

Once you defined a measurement people could study for it. Someone who has memorized a gzip function is going to make a compressor 100x better than I am going to from scratch.
4. "Howard Wiseman and his team demonstrated that this wave function collapse is a real effect."

No, they didn't. An alternate (and simpler) explanation being that the experimenter and the particle are entangled.
Court jester? Is this guy serious?

The value of Wikileaks is that it makes secrecy more difficult for governments. Period. What Wikileaks publishes is dependent on what is leaked, and so far (in my opinion) Wikileaks has done much to gain credibility as an institution. Notably, it has moved away from journalistic interpretation of the leaked info and has left that to established papers. Instead, it has focused on its role as conduit and trusted intermediary.

Ironically, Wikileaks will enhance the credibility of government in a good way b/c it helps the public view its government as fallible, corrupt, and absurd, all of which help rein in the scope of government action so that what is actually undertaken stands a chance of being accomplished honestly.

Sadly, much of what has been leaked shows simply that the government is putting on a show for the American people and that much of what is kept secret is done so for propaganda reasons, not security reasons.
How much "leadership" does it take to put stuff up on a website?

Really, I think you overestimate Assange's importance to the operation of Wikileaks, and the amount of "disarray" the "organization" will be put in if something happens to him.

And, honestly, if someone chooses to leak info in the future and Wikileaks doesn't publish it for some reason, then some other website or news organization will.

The really critical people in this whole scheme are the leakers and whistleblowers themselves, and silencing Assange will do nothing to stop them. It's just shooting the messenger.
> On the other side, the anti-war side uses the "illegal war" argument, as if it has any meaning - the world isn't a modern nation with the UN as supreme court, determining the legality of various wars.

The left used this argument because it was the handiest they had. I think your criticism of it is absurd. It's like you're saying the left was right for the wrong reason, as if there is one reason all on the left opposed the war in Iraq.

How about this: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and therefore there was NO reason to attack them??
even more OT, but an interesting story about decryption and leaking of cables is the Zimmerman telegram - the cable that was decrypted and leaked and caused the USA to enter the first world war - from a time when cables literaly went over the cable. This is from the days before computers, when intelligence and human decryption were used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram

So the decryption and leaking of cables is nothing new, but this is a whole new scale. Sometimes I wonder if Wikileaks is now doing the bidding of governments without realising it. It's unlikely now but maybe in the future will be so.
... says the guy with the (crowdsourced) curated search engine.
Honestly, if you are just starting out I would not worry too much about it. Concentrate on getting a lot of users first, them worry about scale.
That was just an example of my original point, though. These sorts of things perform better than "natural" processes, even though they aren't as easy to understand.
Ironic that he's proposing to have people solve a problem that arose because people were being manipulated, of course your people cannot be manipulated.

No, the solution to this problem is that GetSatisfaction et al use rel=nofollow. It's as simple as that. And arguably Google could improve its algorithm by taking negativity into account.
This is one of those risks.

In other words, Wikileaks is making it riskier for dissidents to work as US informants. Gee, thanks, Julian.
If possible, I'd love to have 9w2.net, thanks! (sending email now)
One man's need is not your obligation, and Twitter is a public place. I don't understand your analogy.
Remember that one time when someone tried to do this with mobile phones and then Google bought it and killed it?

https://www.onearmy.earth//project/phonebloks

I really hope this is actually successful.

I'd love a version with a larger screen as well.
I converted my HTC One M7 to GPE to get the upgrade to Lollipop sooner. I only used Lollipop for a couple of days, and went back to stock again, I just couldn't handle it. too inconsistent, and it really felt like a downgrade from the stock HTC experience.
They do support them as much as they are able to through play services.

The fact remains is that many of those phones are unlikely to receive updates through 5.0.. How are you supposed to support them if the hardware vendors are unwilling to update them?
Register renaming and instruction reordering and things like that can't be selectively powered down, and are very power-hungry. But if you were talking about when the entire core is suspended, then that's largely unrelated to the high-level feature set of the processor. It's about things like the analog characteristics of the transistors used: Intel builds their mainstream CPUs using circuits that can run at 4-5GHz without trouble while none of the mobile SoCs can come close regardless of exotic cooling.
For me it seems that Google is trying to apply their web methodology (frequent small changes) to the mobile world, and running head first into the issue of not controlling the deployments (OEMs and carriers do).

But thanks for the CADT link, seems to sum up the line between old school nix and the more recent something-X attitudes.
Actually I applaud your response, no need to justify it...puts things in perspective.

To add a little spice to your argument, what do you have to say about the "CEO boys club" that is present in today's big business. In other words, the idea that only a select number of the population is worthy and/or qualified to run such empires. If you extrapolate this you'll also find many middle managers / VP / EVP roles that are filled with people who really shouldn't be there but are there because of years of experience. Yet, these are the people that can very justifiably make the critical decisions of the company aside from just the CEO. (take Jonathan Ive for example)
> But do note that what I said, I was told by the USA Government education system, Georgia specifically.

What makes you think that public school teachers anywhere know the law?

Did you believe everything that they told you?
To be a little bit picky, Amazon & Microsoft pay about 1/2 in total compensation than the Bay Area companies.

using data from https://www.levels.fyi/

It’s been true since 2014, as I check salaries around the web to see how my hiring goes, and also for my own opportunities. My own records: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BoMvtY_mICEYygy0jXVG...

Point being - Amazon&MS salaries aren’t likely to change, while Bay Area tech companies, the outflux happening, will have to adjust.
Useful comment upthread :)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143976
(Citation Needed)
Why? Some people who are recruited as medics into IDF wouldn't have thought about being medics before that. They also have to serve their Army service either way.
Umm, no. This is not an advertisement and I'm kind of offended that you say so. First, that's not even my book. The book author asked if he could put my bitcoin mining by hand process in his book; it's a small part of the book. Second, I wrote the post three years before the book. I know HN watches out for submarine advertisements, but really!
Nevertheless people were able to harness the Cell for good performance. It took a re-think and I am not denigrating your experience but our experience was that we benefited everywhere when we reorganized our data and algorithms around the SPUs.
Tell that to IBM.
Yeah, all three of the testimonials seem to be comma.ai employees. That's an awful look.
He was on again a couple of months ago.

https://youtu.be/_L3gNaAVjQ4
there's no way this is being sold into the EU.
And are you going to bin Apple and Microsoft too? Not going to use USB? Not going to DNS? What hardware and software do you use that had no security flaws in the last year?
The entire attack on online poker, and poker in general, is funded, supported and encouraged by that completely immoral mix of human misery and animal cruelty known as the racing industry.

The sooner horse racing ends up where it belongs, alongside dogfighting and bear-baiting, the better.
What I was saying was if everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy, the value is zero. This is true of all markets. The market cap is always determined by the last matched order, not the total that you can sell the whole market for.
How would it be entitlement for me to do this but not for my boss to expect me to work my ass off for a small share of the profit he’ll get for my work? Hell, in most cases I won’t even get credit for what I did, my manager will! Especially when the end product is either entirely useless or actively harmful for society (displacing low skill jobs disproportionately held by the same underrepresented groups corporate HR claims to want to help etc), why make personal sacrifices to help build that?
No one had to maintain it though, they could have moved to GitHub or GitLab at any time, or use one of the many open-source self-hostable solutions like Gitea, Phabricator (it's PHP), GitLab, ...
Capturing images/video is the least interesting component of AR though. Until the spectacles begin to, you know, augment the world of the user through the introduction visual/auditory content - they will always be niche.

“ Snap has the AR capabilities and is the closest to getting people to wear hardware on their head in a casual setting”. I would also contest that Apple and others are already doing this through auditory augmentations via Airpods and similar earbuds/headphones.
That's really not an issue at all.

Asian countries that managed this crisis correctly took steps to prepare, which mostly means having quick access to testing, and stockpiling materials.

Any Western government had in its power the ability to invoke urgent measure to redirect production for face masks and equipment. That equipment could have been bought beforehand if the governments had listened to the advice of its own experts.
If my plan is to start my own company (not work at one, so I would not pick up things as you mention), wouldn't the SE degree make more sense, to kick-start the formalized processes in software dev?
Hey sammville thanks for your feedback! Right now we're showing the tweets in reverse chronological order by tweet time, but that doesn't take into account when the article was actually published. We'll definitely take a look and see if we can take publishing time into account, but that might be difficult given the host of different places that we are pulling content from.
I hate lightboxes. I think dialog boxes are the worst part of desktop apps that we have imported to web apps.

How to select an article? Just choose one you like. An old one from the best of HN? Or something from here - http://longreads.com.

Don't overengineer.
Nice work guys.. Consider showing the headlines in reverse order, with the newest ones being at the top and older ones at the bottom so i don't have to scroll to get the latest headlines.
I do think there is a bubble of people hyping startups. Facebook got a stupid valuation and everyone started reporting that the 1999-2001 bubble was back. But that was just Goldman Sachs bullshitting everyone. It doesn't mean every startup has a stupid valuation now.
selling our usage patterns is something that nearly every major site does. anybody who's displaying ads is complicit if not active, and Google is a friggin' ring leader. do you consider these major players to be malicious?

these toolbars don't have backdoor downloaders, they don't display pop-ups, they're not damaging our devices. they suck, i hate them, i uninstall them for my friends and family. but they're no more malicious than ads on the washington post, and they're there for the same reasons.

for the record, i think this is a bad move on SourceForge's part. it's misleading, it's abusive of user's goodwill and trust, and most users are going to accidentally install these toolbars that they don't want or need. but just because it's a bad idea and it's intrusive and rude, doesn't make it malicious.
Yeah, but this one doesn't really make me mad. Also, I still don't respect conspiracy theorists because they seem to just live finding conspiracies to be mad at. The Iraq invasion happened on live TV and was trumpeted as a patriotic success . It was worse than every conspiracy real or imagined during the Obama administration.
Do you have any examples of queries you've found difficult to express using the Django ORM? I'm geniuiny interested in hearing - I've been using it for 5+ years now and I rarely find the need to step outside it. I frequently write queries that do joins across 6 or more tables with count aggregations in single lines of Python code with it.
I am missing something in what you are saying there, OR you are saying something that I find absurd, and I can't figure out which.

Are you meaning to say that an enterprise software company can't be looking toward the future, and/or that only consumer facing technology companies are innovating and creating new stuff that will affect the future?
If you feel like doing some not-too-difficult patching and running an AOSP-based ROM, take a look at OpenPDroid[1], which does exactly that.

It would be much better if Google would come to their senses and include that functionally in Android. Which it looks like they might be working toward--AppOps in Android 4.3 is a start [2]. It looks like they may have even used the code from the PDroid project to implement it.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2098156
[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44025221&post...
They blackout on a home to home level? In CA it was whole towns
This is federal only right now, I plan to work on state taxes in the future, but I wanted to get the basic federal forms done first. The readme also definitely needs some work! It's on my list of future improvements :)
Yes, these would make a good gift. I find the key shape does makes it hard to get into some USB ports though as it gets wider at one end.
Yes it is wasteful, we are on the same page there. I just think we have a tendency to focus on isolated examples when the big picture is bigger than we can all really get our heads around.

Christmas is a perfect example, I'd wager a great deal of netbooks will be brought this Christmas that are never used or only used sparingly. Schools force one on every student even if they already have perfectly good laptops (my sister's school has done this).

Our society has all the basic metrics wrong of what is productive and efficient.
I don't know — but we use it in our startup for a REST-style API and it works great for us.
Top please. That's the only way you will do something new and interesting. Don't just do what everyone's been doing because "that's how it's done". Why are you so scared of trying something crazy and new?
I doesn't seem like it will be long before filing a patent here becomes the same as "write down something you'd like for the average Chinese to have cheaply that the average American must pay a great deal for or can't have at all."
I use Python + Redis using Hotqueue (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hotqueue/0.2.1) for all the processing of flurbils.com. All of the scoring for the game comes in from Second Life via http requests that are handed off immediately to a background handler via Redis. It's enabled me to seriously level out load spikes, and enabled me to push off having to upgrade the capacity of my servers as a result.

I've used other libraries for doing this in the past. Being able to switch backends using some other library would be nice, I suppose, but there is literally only about 6 lines of code in the software that is specific to hotqueue.

This has been working very well in production, and I'm very pleased with it. Using background processing to level out load peaks, plus migrating to Apache worker MPM has enabled me to handle loads on the same hardware that I wouldn't be able to touch using the basic normal approach.

Starting off using Redis as a queue is a great way to start with Redis, because everybody can use a queue for something. Then once Redis is running in production, it becomes far easier to start using it for more and more things.
It's an interesting idea, however the slow part of this social network doesn't make it built more for friends than an unrestricted network. It seems to solve the noise and lack of depth part, but that has just as much value outside of your close friends network. So I would focus the messaging around that part - slow and deep - rather than the friendship part.

And then there's the inherit issue of a restricted social network being disadvantaged in competition with other networks. If you limit the use or the reach of a social network, other networks who have more use and reach will grow faster.
The reason the current major social networks are full of noise and over-engagement is not because people necessarily like that more or that other alternatives hasn't existed. It's because they won in the inevitable darwinistic battle a social network will join, where maximum reach and volume of content are key advantages.
It is some hilariously contrived premise that Elon Musk is going to "democratize" Twitter by taking it private. It's almost as contrived as Putin sending "peacekeeping and de-nazifying" forces to Ukraine. (If you're wondering why this unusual association occurred to me, it's because I saw a video with Musk saying that he's likely the second wealthiest man after Putin).

Why do we (the public) always fall for the "powerful men" type, be it billionaires or despots, promising to fix all our problems?. This is the antithesis of democracy. Democracy is slow, painful and often mistaken but the added value is that few people get shot on the street. Twitter under Musk will be like the Mad Max's Thunderdome.
How is it a fiction that news reports come from identified individuals, while Wikipedia is edited by anonymous individuals with questionable credentials?

I'm not convinced of the characterisation as a legal fiction, either. There is a logical justification for this position, as stated, in detail, in my reply. A freely editable encyclopedia isn't the place for contentious analysis.
Aren't most of these algorithms limited by the edges?
The phrasing of this rubs me the wrong way -- I get the feeling that you're more afraid of guilty people being presumed innocent than you are of innocent people being framed by deepfakes.

Our justice system worked for a very long time in an environment where cell phones didn't exist, where cities weren't covered end-to-end in CCTV cameras, and our courts were able to do a decent job of protecting the innocent and putting away the bad guys. Distrust of video evidence only makes us revert back 30 years to when we weren't so monitored. It's something that we can survive. On the other hand, if we don't see an outright rejection of deepfakes in our courts, we're going to see it used as a political weapon. We can survive the former, but not the latter.

Unfortunately, I don't see it working out that way. Once courts and police get their hands on a new technology and it becomes sufficiently ingrained, it doesn't matter how little sense it makes. Drug dogs are bullshit, but they're still everywhere. [1] DNA evidence can be synthesized and planted, but it's the gold standard in terms of courtroom evidence. [2]

Given all of this, I don't have a lot of faith in our justice system getting deepfakes right, and that worries me a lot more than guilty people being presumed innocent.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/05/supreme-c...

[2]: Good reason to avoid giving your DNA to 23andMe or to the state. Unfortunately, both my parents did 23andMe, so I'm screwed regardless. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html
"I’ve got to do a letter drop across 30+ local addresses. Is there an app that can plan the optimal route?" well,we still need a bit of research for this...
It's a problem, and the place to fix it is in git. That makes it a git problem. Just because things were worse back in the day doesn't mean we can't have nice things.
You're redefining the word "security" here to an incredibly expansive definition which includes all kinds of details about the ability for someone else to set up an interoperable service.
Same, it was incredibly difficult to focus on the text on this page for me. And I don't have any problems with my eyes. On top of that it kept switching from dark on light, to light on dark, making it even worse.
Once you compromise the device it doesn't matter how many keys there are because they all have to be on the device.
> The evidence is in: working from home is a failed experiment

Utter clickbait.

Translation: Too much working from home is a failed experiment.

Just like too much reading 'The Guardian' is just as a bad as reading too much Breitbart.