jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The point I’m making here is that a world where these companies have the power to go against the public opinion and the elected government officials would be a scarier one to live in.

If Google and Apple feel powerful enough to uphold the principles of free speech against what seems to be the will of the majority and the incoming administration (for better or worse), what is the source of that power? What else are they confident they can get away with?

This is a long way of saying your frustration is misdirected. If you want stronger free speech, start with the people and the government, not the corporations.
A mob storming the seat of government power is. I’m actually not sure how this could be presented more clearly. Should politicians have been killed for you to consider it a coup?
No-one has claimed that identical twins have the exact same configuration of cells.
What part of being banned from Twitter prevents someone from being heard?

Also, who is getting banned for talking about the politicians? #2, #7, and #8 (obliquely) on trending right now are about the main politician who was banned...
Public CDNs can still gather stats and set cookies.
Did you actually read the Twitter blog post explaining the ban? They claim Trump
Tweeting that he will not attend the Biden inauguration is “an incitement to violence”. That’s delusional.
passwordHash = bcrypt(salt + password)
encryptedHash = encrypt(passwordHash, pepper)

This way you can rotate your pepper by doing:

decryptedHash = decrypt(encryptedHash , oldpepper)
encryptedHash = encrypt(decryptedHash , newpepper)
Sweet, looking forward to reading.
Same here - I have a 2018 model 3 and its gone in once to get a warning for the seat belt fixed. Its got 45k miles and had no other issues. Best car I've owned.
I have no idea how we survived as a species tbh
> And settlement happens in seconds to a couple minutes

That is incorrect. On average it takes 10 minutes to mine a block, but you have to submit the transaction to be included in the block, so > 10 minutes before it appears on the blockchain.

However, there are actually many block chains, as miners creates block in parallel, it’s the longest one that is the “official”, but the minute you see your transaction in a block, you do not know if this block will stay in the longest chain, so in general you want at least 5 new blocks, after your block, before it is considered “safe”.

So now we are talking about one hour to do a transaction, and that assumes that the network is not overloaded, because there is also a cap on number of transactions that can be included in a block.

All in all, it is a terrible system for fast transactions.
what about state taxes? is there a state level Free File Fillable form?
Does bartering an investment vehicle allow you to escape capital gains? If so, that seems like a loophole that should be closed. Why should you be exempt from gains on your capital investment?

It seems like MasterCard should be reporting each swap of crypto for dollars to the IRS and sending you a tax form at the end of the year. If that's not the case, expect regulatory action to correct it.
Right, I didn't interpret you as trying to gloss over this nuance, but I've seen a lot of "always k8s vs never k8s" debates which suggests to me that people need the explicit disclaimer.
The kind of hidden thing here is that, in few party systems like the US, the parties are composed of lots of different beliefs, the severity of which are highly variable.

For example, if I strongly believed abortion is murder, I would hold my nose and vote Republican every time, but that doesn't mean the fiscal responsibility wing of the party cares about that issue in any meaningful way, they just vote for it because in return I vote for their tax cuts even though I'd really prefer 2000 dollar checks in perpetuity. The reason people stick around is there's meaningful balance, however if the balance goes out of whack and the party became solely about anti-abortion at the expense of the fiscal responsibility, why would a fiscal responsibility person stick around?

This is what happened to British Labour in the late 70s where the party started becoming solely about radical socialism (which was anti-Europe), and a number of high profile pro-Europe members left to form their own party, or more recently a number of pro-Europe Tories defecting to join the successor to said party.

In defense of OP though, there are plenty of Labour politicians who were radical socialists in 1979 who became bonafide Blairites by 1997, there are absolutely politicians who just go where the political wind blows (in the case of someone like Scarborough that could be his MSNBC paycheck).
So in a world where PCI-DSS isn't a thing, you're fine entering your credit card data directly on the forms available on random websites?

Why's a password so different, seeing as most people reuse those passwords? Why do we essentially allow (and yes, I am excluding those that use password managers in this statement, I'm one of those) access to our webmail and other critical services to random websites on the internet? What makes this right?

> Payment is also mostly less sensitive to availability and latency issues than authentication.

That's patently untrue. Latency issues are nonexistant in both areas, and availability issues are critical in both areas.
El Bulli is not actually that expensive for the meal itself ($250/person?), but it's impossible to get a reservation. Since they announced they will be closing and turning into a cooking school in 2012, it's basically impossible to get a reservation unless you Know Someone. Steve Jobs can get a table as a walk in, probably, but your average $10-50mm exit startup founder cannot.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it's a little disingenuous to publicly call someone out without providing your methods or your results.
It's fascinating to watch his life play out in real-time in the limelight. His success and failures with SpaceX launches and Tesla production struggles along with other more unfortunate personal issues.

I know we all feel similar ups and downs with our own products and services.

I watched this Charlie Rose interview with him a few months ago and it turned me on to his ideas of wanting to focus his efforts in three distinct areas - internet technology, space exploration and green technology.

I recommend watching it if you're interested in his career.

Here's the link: http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6716
old proofs of theorems may become false proofs. The old proofs no longer cover the newly defined things. The miracle is that almost always the theorems are still true; it is merely a matter of fixing up the proofs. It is claimed that an ex-editor of Mathematical Reviews once said that over half of the new theorems published these days are essentially true though the published proofs are false.

I'm only around 55% of the way through (according to my scrollbar --- and thank you Readability!) but it's an incredibly interesting read. It's very lengthy, but I really advise taking the time to look it over. It really tickles those brain cells. Thus far, I'm not seeing anything "new" in this article, but seeing all these incredible things expressed and summarized up close is amazing.
I actually scrolled up to check to see if the date was April 1, 2006. This reads like a cleverly disguised joke. Cat names as an argument? Vista as an argument, followed by the contradictory argument that Apple will sell Mac OS for PCs? Are we sure this isn't a joke or a troll?
The roulette wheel model of hedge funds is even slicker, since other folks provide most of the money you're gambling with and you get to keep 2% of the chips you wager win or lose, and 20% of their winnings when you win.
It stops the customer from cheating (or, you know, modding, tweaking, sharing, hosting dedicated servers (?), etc.), but the people who cheat in multiplayer games are unlikely to be the same ones who are willing to pay a monthly fee for the privilege of paying full price for renting new titles. Until there are Onlive only servers, or Onlive only games, this won't really stop cheating.
Great start and looks promising. Interested to hear what others think.
I don't remember what model they were, but I remember they cost between $20K and $100K, depending on the spec. :)
Can you explain what you mean by that? I fail to see how a PostgreSQL query interface could possibly qualify as a perfect example of vendor lock-in.
I hope they find the right leader to take over, and avoid a fate similar to what happened to HP over the past decade.
"Since 23andMe started in 2006, it's convinced 800,000 customers to hand over their DNA [...] But 23andMe wasn't going to find a big business by selling spit kits at the cut rate of $99."

Isn't $80 million USD big?
A fearful number of startups seem to be premised on the idea that we will enter a big brother-esque dystopia in exchange for an infographic / collage.

I'm not saying they're incorrect, mind you.
Is there any video work being done in the realm of image processing? I mean a video is just essentially an array/string of images/frames no?
It still seems far too slow in the US. 'Warp Speed' got us to the finish line, but all out of breath and without the need to still plan and execute taking advantage of the race's completion. Reminds me that historically 'we' got to the moon, and then like 50 years later are only reaching the point of maybe going back again, hopefully regularly this time.
Fair point on the future direction.

SE says it better than me: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/213401/is-curl-...

Particularly the first link, which outlines how to return different things depending on whether it's being piped into bash or not: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
You are right, it's not a solution by itself. But it does help smooth out the energy peaks. The more people do that the better it gets. And if you have an EV with vehicle to grid capability, that's another very capable battery that should be able to keep you powered for 2-3 days. A couple of million of those would go a long way in the next few years. But it does require a bit of planning and infrastructure to happen.
Neither one really clarifies what your post above was trying to say, and actually raise more questions than they do provide answers.

You linked the entire DA's bio (the good & bad), and a news story about a specific meeting that was dysfunctional. Going from that to SF being a "sad story of bad governance" is a bit of an unexplored jump.

I invite a post actually explaining what you're trying to say.
A long, long time ago ACLU defended in court the right of neo-Nazi to hold a march.

Of course, such a thing would be inconceivable today, and ACLU itself would be canceled and deserted if it tried.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
> Can you open 10k accounts right now? I'm sure you can't.

Yes, easily.

It would take a phone call, since I haven’t set up the rails to do this. But “I need ten thousand sequentially numbered checking accounts with wire privileges” is a perfectly fine (if odd for an individual customer) request. (Almost any process requiring that many accounts is being done wrong.)

Granted, I have a private banker. But there are services who provide this to e.g. fintech companies setting up and destroying single-use accounts on the fly.
There's already a mechanism for bailing out when optimization assumptions are violated; they could be made more eagerly but retain the ability to degrade
Template template templates. I didn't know that was thing.
But that decision was about ECB's QE, I don't think this is as clear as you make it sound. SNB could have chosen to continue the peg through any ECB actions, but instead they chose to scrap it. It was still their decision, although you can argue that they wouldn't have been successful had they decided to continue the peg.
x240 here as well, except for (documented on the arch wiki) boot grub parameters for the acpi (brightness, suspend etc) it all works out of the box. Battery life with the extended 2 batteries is about 9 hours.
Mining is what will ultimately make Bitcoin fail. You want to give everyone a single vote so that the majority can agree on which transactions are valid and which are not. But because you don't want a central authority that checks ID documents you come up with the idea of mining - make having a vote in the Bitcoin network an expensive thing by requiring to buy hardware and then spend more money on electricity to keep you hardware alive. It's not really fair because if you happen to have a lot of money you can buy a lot of votes.

But the really bad thing is that you just made Bitcoin transactions pretty expensive - I got six Dollars per transaction for electricity only about a month ago. Even worse, processing more transaction will or should not lower these costs. If Bitcoin would really take off processing transactions worth billions every day, you really don't want to protect them by hardware and electricity costs only worth a few millions because the growing transaction volume will also increase the amount of money someone would be willing to spend to mess with your system. At least up to some limit you really want the total mining costs proportional to the transaction volume.

And from there down it goes. Bitcoin transactions are not cheap even if the current low transaction fees suggest it. As the block reward goes down all the costs of running the Bitcoin network will end up as transaction fees. And transaction costs of several dollars are the death of micropayments and Bitcoin adoption in the underdeveloped world, two of the most lauded arguments for Bitcoin. I am not dismissive of the idea of cryptocurrencies but Bitcoin with its proof of work scheme won't be the queen of the prom.
I don't think this is a 'black swan' event. The strategy was pretty explicitly premised on a binary event: the Swiss bank keeping the peg or not. It didn't. As OP indicates, the possibility of the peg breaking was understood by anyone who actually understood the trades they were making. And it's not like central banks have never failed to keep a peg in the past...
I don't know, I work at my university as a mobile software engineer and I have trouble going to sleep at night as well.

It's hard to think about a million different problems a day and how to solve them then just cut all that off at 10-11 or so each night.

It probably doesn't help that coding is my hobby as well as my profession, so it really doesn't ever get turned off.
I actually saw the video link in the article and came back to the comments hoping for screenshots. Video typically makes me wait while the person introduces themselves, explains what they're doing, and it's usually much more of a time-sink than just looking at screens.
>Why talk in such absolute terms?

I'm not saying that I agree with her, but this is exactly the type of language Ayn Rand hates, and frequently makes fun of in Atlas Shrugged.
Interesting. I've been using the Tree Style Tab addon, which seems to achieve the same goal of grouping and nesting with less administrative overhead:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/
I know that it applies, so I just wondered (tongue in cheek) whether hiring a shabbos goy for Facebook updates would be, well, kosher.
This is a good point, and one that I hadn't considered. However, like you said, most of my docs probably also exist in the databases of companies and the government. Ultimately, it's not something I worry about that much; I'm probably more concerned with losing access to my documents than someone else gaining access to them.
Is there an API / webservice that could help developers check for the latest torrents / binaries / badstuff and prevent that upload?
The millions of dollars that went into copyright wars certainly brought up something useful, but I can not find it.

Or is the dmca-related workload just the right anti-growth measure to prevent interesting new things coming up?

How do you explain this to your investors: "The site is technically ok and we are growing, but we need money for some people to handle dmca requests and this kills our business modell."

So many cool ideas are blocked because of the retarded dinosaur-politics of corporate stalinism. We need a real breakthrough here for a jump to the next level. Current copyright laws are protecting the wealth of a very small group of people but do seriously damage the development of new industries and thousands of jobs. Stupid.
I think I know which accelerator you are talking about. Ecosystem in Turkey looks very promising from outside but when you start digging you hear stories such as this.

I know that one of those so called mentors asked %8 of shares from startups which wanted to pitch infront of a regular event held every year in Turkey. This is absurd as there is no guarantee and infact very low chances of investment.

We've been accepted to two of accelerators in Turkey and attended one of them. The one we didn't attend was an internationally known accelerator and they asked us to be in their office 9 - 6 everyday for 3 months and forced us to stay inside and build our product against all things learned from Lean Startup methodology. They even suggested that we could send interns to meetings that I have pre-organized with CXOs of biggest insurance companies. We didn't sign the deal, we didn't attend the program.
He was indeed a merchant, and later worked as Khadija's accountant (before he married her) when he received the revelation.

But he was a shepherd during his youth and was illiterate (even when he received the revelation and was a merchant/accountant, this is a period where a lot is based on oral communication).

Not sure about that "became a warrior" part (although he was what you could call a political leader, which included -in that time- participating in wars)
For servers, I would trust Debian over Ubuntu/Canonical any day. The way their releases work, the default set of running services, etc.

In general, I personally prefer the way Debian works (Debian the Project - not the Distro). It has a board of elected developers governing the project. I would prefer that over somewhat opaque functioning inside a company (Canonical).

To cite as an example, here's how they decided on the question of init systems [1].

[1]: https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002
I want them to stop sending me nuisance mail whether or not the contract is enforceable.
Are there no equivalents to these tools for PG?

I've only interacted with Analysis Services and Reporting Services for maybe five minutes, but the impression I was left with is that they're extremely clunky, even by Windows standards. I also remember a weird situation with SSL wildcard certificate configuration, where the interface said the configuration wasn't applied, but it actually was.

My client subcontracts this to a supposedly "expert DBA" shop, and they always seem to take ages to do what look like simple things on the surface. (I rarely if ever interact with them, so I don't know whether they're actually competent or not.)
That only works with flexible workplaces. If you make the congestion tax really high but most workplaces don't give people flexibility with work schedules, all you're doing is forcing people to take longer, roundabout commutes.

In the DC Metro region we have congestion-based tolls and it seems like it has shifted commuting times a bit, but it also causes a lot more congestion on the secondary traffic arteries.

Thankfully I think the pandemics has sort of disrupted employer ideas about flexibility. It's clear more workplaces are offering remote work and flexible schedules and I think that change will last.
I grew up in an area with forested, rolling hills. Terrestrial wireless will forever be a challenge, and even geostationary satellites are troublesome unless shaving your property bald is your bag of chips. (Which, if it were, why are you living in the northwoods instead of the great plains?) But line of sight going straight up is usually pretty decent.

Starlink is going to make a killing in areas like that.
in a lot of areas of the US, you can't and telco's won't run a wire.

my sister lives an hour outside of phoenix. her dsl was down for days and Verizon told her that not enough people in her area had complained for them to do anything about it.
You mean kinda like how no one truly understands aerodynamic lift, but we are still able to create great airplanes because we have accurate models and do loads of testing?
Sorry to digress, but does an MBA in any way make the senior engineer to a management role go faster, in a software company?
This is the internet. Facebook will be lucky if it survives past the current generation, much less generations. It was only a few years ago that myspace was all the rage. Its not my intent to bash Facebook, but things change so fast in ways not many can predict.
Two months ago I dropped what I was doing, sold everything I owned, said goodbye to my friends and girlfriend and moved from the Midwest to San Francisco. It was probably the best decision I ever made. Not that I was unhappy before, but it's so... different here.

It's almost impossible to not get involved in the tech scene and meet hackers in the bay area. Hacking permeates the air, and I'm not just talking about the tech kind. So many people you meet here are building something, creating cool stuff. You will frequently meet people who are working on things you use every day. You can go to tech parties, meetups, hackathons every day and meet new people if you want to.

Sure, there are some hackers, user groups, meetups in your area, and people will comment and tell you to go to those.
But, trust me... it's not the same at all.

As someone on HN once told me, move to San Francisco...whether you know it or not, your friends are already here.

You're 25, go for it. What do you have to lose?
Try http://meetup.com for meetups in your area. Most of these groups are very welcoming to new members and you will start to meet new people.

I know it is past, but you can always start to plan for SXSW next year. Great, friendly environment to get out and meet people.

Look around for startups in your area. I can't think of any off hand, but I would be willing to bet there is at least one or two.

If you can afford to travel, maybe heading to San Fran/Palo Alto for a meetup wouldn't be a bad option. Not that NYC can't be a great place as well, but the costs might be a little more prohibitive (unsure what your budget is).
How about an openx style business model? or try to get some feedback from the affiliate marketers at WebmasterWorld.com and see what they think.