jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would say that "That Was The Week That Was" was the real pioneer.

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

Which also brought John Cleese and The Two Ronnies to our screens.

Not The Nine O'Clock News could also get a mention - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_the_Nine_O%27Clock_News

Though it had more sketch based things but current affairs was a lynch pin.

Drop the Dead Donkey is not to be discounted - Ch4 1990-1998 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_the_Dead_Donkey

And some links for Chris Morris :

The Day Today - BBC2/1994- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Today

One The Hour - Radio4 1992 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Hour

Brass Eye - Ch 4 1997-2001 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

Later you've got

10 O'Clock live - Now "househgold names" : Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_O%27Clock_Live

This was the show that introduced Sasha Baren Cohen as Ali-G, Bruno & Borat.

If you remember Ali-G was used as political satire via interview.
Seagate started tanking, not surprisingly, shortly after they acquired Maxtor. Generally the last good stretch of Seagate drives was just before 750GB was the top size.

When the drives started reaching 1TB capacity... There were models where they started throwing Seagate branded drives into Maxtor external cases... And that was when it all went to shit. The infamous 7200.11 series.

Dealing with the 7200.11 drives was like the capacitor plague. They seemed to work well long enough to get other people to buy loads... then the firmware problems... then the sudden head crash problems... then the sudden won't power up anymore after a reboot problems...

All the same kind of shit that people saw with Maxtor post 2GB that caused people to stop using those drives en masse. Those old 2GB Maxtor drives were reliable as fuck, though.

I'd normally end something like this with a bit about how history repeats itself and I fear for the next drive company that will get bought out by Seagate, but when you look at it... We're down to two with a small smattering of subsidiaries that no one can really be sure are rebrands or proper made drives.

Case in point. Hitachi is owned by WD and Samsung HD is owned by Seagate now. Toshiba owns some WD assets and bought out Fujitsu's HD division. Beyond that, not much left.
If you put the puzzle pieces together, it spells s-o-c-i-a-l-i-s-m /s In other developed nations the government subsidizes housing for the disadvantaged- and more often than not this investment will pay back in the future.
don't forget the keto diet and intermittent fasting
I don’t know if that’s illegal or not but it really should be
Richard Holder and Michael Hunt would be so jealous
Nope, it's definitely Mr., which possibly explains why "Master" practically disappeared. And while it may have been used to address boys, it could be comparable to Mme and Mlle in French. An older but still unmarried woman would be addressed as madame, but the marriage distinction still exists otherwise. "Master Bruce (Wayne)" was definitely not a boy, as an example in (something like) literature.
Actually Israel paying the most. 36$ per dose for Pfizer/Moderna
> Will AI also learn to break through conventions, to shock and rewrite the rules of the game?

I think AlphaGo was a great in-domain example of this. I definitely see things I'd refer to colloquially as 'creativity' in this DALL-E post, but you can decide for yourself, but that still isn't claiming it matches what some humans can do.
> But that's still a lot better than governments shutting down businesses without any real data or science to back up their decisions

There's strong evidence hard lockdowns lower the spread of the virus. See, for example, the correlation of lockdowns and cases in France. Allowing people to make their own choices doesn't work to deal with a pandemic because a very small subset of the population can cause the vast majority of cases, negating any personal effort made by the rest.

The argument isn't that institutions are perfect and never make mistakes (or politicians), but rather that overall they've taken reasonable measures to deal with the current situation.

> To be fair, the CDC hasn't done a lot of public communication either

The CDC (and the FDA) have published tons of documents about recommendations, vaccine efficacy, etc.

> Masks are bad--no wait, masks are good! Lockdowns are bad--no wait, lockdowns are essential!

As the pandemic progresses, we learn new things about it and adjust. This is exactly what you should expect from your institutions: give you the best info available at the time. This is the full quote:

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.”

In April, the CDC (which, as I said, _does_ do public communication) changed this recommendation to instead push wearing masks https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

Remember that initially it was not clear that Covid was highly airborne. At the time, folks were recommending disinfecting groceries. This doesn't mean the advice at the time was bad, that's hindsight bias.
A long unreadable proof would not mean a small proof doesn't exist.

I feel like a unreadable proof would be useful to simply know something is true while a small proof would be more useful to perhaps gain some sort of insight.
Try a large block on a small block. As the authors also have noted in their comments the success rate is nearly zero. One may wonder why. Maybe because that's something you see rarely in photos? At the end, it doesn't "understand" the meaning of the words.
Huh? When you click the back button in your chat app, if it happens to do something intuitive it's because that behavior was hand-coded by a JS developer using the history API.

And good luck even getting to back button from your news site through all the ads, lazy-load images causing reflow, and auto-play videos that wouldn't be possible in a nicely designed minimal document viewer.

It might be harder for news site operators to fill their sites with junk if they had to explain to their users why it needs to run in an app browser with 20 privileges rather than in their default document browser.
At the core of this issue is reproducibility. If you can fully reproduce the software you use, you no longer need to trust that X binary/container was built properly (although you still need to trust the source code itself, as well as the source of the source code). You can also always rebuild your software with newer dependencies (e.g. if they have received security updates).

It is about time we embraced Guix/Nix.
I believe this:

- is more common than people believe

- has actually hurt people
I think we're disagreeing less than you think, mostly just focusing on different things. I'll defer to you on Flash. I've never programmed in it directly. My observations are purely from the outside. I was just using it as an example for why I see potential in app runtimes.
I solved this by building myself a 3950x workstation. 16 cores and 32 GB of RAM does miracles for Rust workflows.

That and the guidance kouteiheika gave above puts you far already.
I'm so tired of people exploiting other people. Especially if they're trying to upsell that fact.

What needs to happen that we humans start to think?
For those who are interested, automatic gain control on VHS players was exploited by Macrovision to prevent the copying of commercial tapes. Analog video signals contain synchronizing pulses, which are necessary for correct sweeps. These pulses are not part of the visible lines shown by the TV. A Macrovision tape contains spikes of varying amplitudes within the synchronization pulses. The spikes are placed far enough from the visible lines (usually the first 40ms of a frame), so that the TV's AGC is not affected, and the picture remains stable.

When a VCR is receiving a Macrovision signal to record, the AGC (which unlike the TV does care about the first 40ms of a frame) amplifies the signal, causing the visible lines to be heavily altered in an erratic fashion. This sometimes appears as "snow" on the duplicated tape.

Some modern "VHS-To-PC" device drivers/conversion software will detect a Macrovision signal and refuse to accept it.

It was defeated in numerous ways, but the hassle free way to duplicate a Macrovision tape was simply to use an older VCR without an AGC circuit.
Interesting, although that is tracking heat?

If we assume the same volume of air is expelled in the examples, then that video just looks sciency, and really doesn’t show us anything actionable (apart from don’t sneeze directly at people, duhhh!).

Also, why cough onto the back of the hand? What cultures is that normal?
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Weird to single out HFT's. Isn't everyone working from home right now?

Especially since, in times of market turmoil, HFT's are an important market participant. Someone needs to catch the knives.

Also they're probably having their most profitable periods since 2008, so I'd imagine there's a lot of incentive (for employees and owners) to keep trading whenever possible.
I was installing Ubuntu 19 today and thinking not bad Ubuntu has lasted 19 releases.

Meanwhile this thing has been producing new releases and updates for 550 million years.
On the one hand you have Nacl, from Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Peter Schwabe, the gold standard of misuse-resistant crypto libraries, relying entirely on urandom and documenting why.

On the other, you have HN's 'tveita, saying that urandom "isn't guaranteed to be random enough for cryptographic keys".

I could continue the argument, but since the whole post you're commenting on is that argument, I'd be repeating myself. So instead, I'll just ask: what specific assertion in that post do you disagree with?
Maybe it's just me. Google Docs seems hard to work with, espeically for someone who grew up with MS Office :( I give it a try a lot, but I still can't do everything I want with Google Docs. On the other hands, MS Office online is more complete (well, no duh)...

and it isn't so much about privacy for me though. I am not a journalist; I don't have sensitive information I need to hide from others.
How long until we see hotel-certified "indie" properties that act like franchises, complete with branded toiletries and a loyalty program for the network. "Four Seasons Oasis", "Marriott Anywhere".

Like how Trump just collects money by lending his name to other people's buildings.
>It slows down positive growth and perpetuates the “white savior” complex that, for hundreds of years, has haunted both the countries we are trying to ‘save’ and our (more recently) own psyches.

Why does this have anything to do with race? Is it any different for a black person with no useful skills to go on one of these voluntourism trips?
I work at a large enterprise. At one point the large enterprise decided to invest heavily in an ahem non-relational model of storing data. This has proven to be pretty dumb. It's both less performant and less reliable than the relational databases it purports to replace. On top of this, any interesting application of the data besides basic CRUD is either slow and a total pain in the ass or just not possible.

SQL isn't going away because it's valuable to exploit relationships between data and because it's pretty good at doing that. Anything that tries to replace it, eventually looks suspiciously like it. (I'm looking at you, MongoDB aggregate functions)
Yeah, I think sqlalchemy broke the mold. It starts from the idea that you already know and understand SQL and relational constructs well, then adds a layer of abstraction that lets you skip tons of boilerplate and write really elegant code. Personally, while there are lots of good decisions in sqlalchemy like the unit of work pattern (in contrast to the active record pattern), the one that pays off time and again is representing the SQL ast as python objects. It eliminates and entire class of text munging issues that occur when you write raw SQL and just completely makes you wonder "where's the mismatch they keep talking about?"
This is exactly why widespread adoption of IPv6 would make everyone more productive. Why doesn't every Vagrant box have an IPv6 address that you can expose by opening up firewall rules? Well, aside from ISP's being slow and developers not spending the 40 minutes necessary to set IPA tunnel, VirtualBox does not support IPv6 addresses on bridged interfaces if the host interface is a wireless card. Sad day all around.

Edit: in fact I wonder if instead of building yet another IPv4 traversal tool, new applications that require P2P connectivity should actually start building it as an IPv6-in-something tunnel. There are plenty of ways to do this including AYIYA which while not fantastic would actually work really well here.
And free when it came out in 2009
to run it 'in the cloud'; most hosting places will allow you to run java only, this restriction is in place so that everything will seem secure and divided into neat compartments.
In addition to what Isiebert said, if you're a book person, read javascript, the good parts http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor....
I really wish there was a feature in HN that didn't let you delete a comment after a certain time, or maybe just after it had been up/downvoted or been replied to. It makes a lot of conversations hard to follow when people delete their comments in a fit of pique after they get downvoted, and I have to guess what the replies are in response to.
This makes potentially way more sense... except when the machines by themselves are supposed to be super-smart. Well, fiction isn't perfect. But it's always better when it aims for more plausibility..
Does bombing the Capitol strike you as a qualitatively lesser offense? I say they are both bad. What do you think?
You're right. The US has a history of supporting death squads all over the world for over 70 years, longer then the Islamic Republic even exists.

The fact that ISIS celebrated his death does indicate that perhaps we acted as their air force.
See these pictures: https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/12/16/new-products-bbc-doctor...

It has a SiFive processor, an ESP32, and a Cortex-M4 http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1844104.pdf
For people who know more about this stuff than me: are these sorts optimizations only possible because Apple controls the whole stack and can make the hardware & OS/software perfectly match up with one another or is this something that Intel can do but doesn't for some reasons (tradeoffs)?
Would still give a problem on the following days. It takes several days to change the circadian rhythm.
Only for a very broad definition of "ex player".
a) It's not Western news coverage but international.

b) No one believes anything China has to say because they have a history of coverups and suppression.

c) The lack of an independent press or judiciary means we don't have mechanisms to independently assess the truth.
This article should be taken with a cosmic-scale grain of salt. Specifically, it's worth noting that the article discussions how complaints about "microaggressions" (typically from visible minorities) are a form of "oppression" and refers to "pathetic little snowflakes".

This comes across as some kind of conservative boomer complaining about "kids these days", with their avocado toast, who aren't willing to work as hard as their grandfathers were in a world that's vastly different from the one they grew up in.

The crux of the article with regards to Simon Pegg seems to be that movies have moved to "spectacle", but when did that happen? And who is going to see those movies? And why?

The world is going to shit; the 1% own most of the world, climate change is destroying our planet, and politicians are more concerned with their own success than the lives of their constituents. Is it any wonder that people these days need more escapism than their grandparents in the "golden age of America", where employees would work hard their whole lives and companies would take care of their employees, where you could work a typical job and still be able to afford a house and a comfortable lifestyle, and where you didn't have to feel bad about hurting someone's feelings by being overtly racist all the time, because you never ran into black people because they weren't allowed to use the same water fountains or bathrooms as you.

This article, in short, is garbage, and should be treated as such.
Are you asking are systematic errors "priced-in"/"automatically represented" or are they hidden inside the sigma calculation?

Systematic errors can easily remain hidden. The faster-than-light neutrino had 6-sigma confidence[0], but 4 other labs couldn't reproduce the results. In the end it was attributed to fiber optic timing errors.

So if you don't know you have a system error, then you can very easily get great confidence in fundamentally flawed results.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino#Superluminal_neutrino...
> Switching from gas to electric is something I can do all on my own.

What if you don't have a garage to charge your electric car?
You are right. That is why Somalia, with no legally recognized labor unions, is a global economic powerhouse, while shitty European countries like Germany, Finland, Denmark (where up to 2/3 of the workforce is in unions) are in the dirt.

Cherry picking can go both ways. National economies are complex, and what works in one country can fail in another. There is zero point in generalizing.
Not really surprising, given that the author keeps emphasizing the disillusionment over the harrasment.
The thing that changes this is good public transport. Not buses - buses have a mindset issue. Subways, light rail, and bikes for the last mile.
Because it’s a political group, not a traditional union. Its members are more interested in control over the company and perceived injustices to others rather than problems experienced by the members.

Collective bargaining can be used to make demands about anything really. It doesn’t have to be working conditions for workers. They can even use their power to pressure Google into supporting particular political candidates, etc if they have enough power.
I was always a dog person until I moved in with my partner who has cats. Having never lived with cats before I was amazed at how good they are at communicating with humans. Based on how they vocalise I know if they are asking for food, treats, or milk. I'm also now convinced that they have a sense of humour. Spending more time with them has been a really nice thing about this lockdown.
Gossip is useful, though, because social networks around work usually outpace org chart changes by (ballpark guess) 10x.
> I can't imagine staying in this country much longer.

If you are serious about that statement, I encourage you just as I have encouraged all my family and close friends. I have never regretted leaving America. There are dozens of nicer countries to live in.

However, tech platforms exert their dominance worldwide. Americans have made this a global problem.

Most of my family and friends still feel like they don't need privacy because they have "nothing to hide" because they "aren't doing anything wrong." It's hard to communicate the idea that the tech lords' ideas about "wrong" are being rapidly redefined and weaponized, driven by a very active and rapidly growing neoreligious woke cult, and it has nothing to do with logic and reason, little to do with morality, and much to do with power. And the more information you feed them the more power you yield to them until one day you'll realize the enormity of what you willingly did, but by then it will be far too late. You will be a slave to their crushing, perverse, and ever smaller version of morality. They know who all your friends are, what your fingerprint looks like, your walking gait, where you hang out, ... everything. And they abandoned the motto "don't be evil".
If there is a law that certain government communications should be preserved, and a private entity interferes with that law, the said entity may be charged as liable in a case.
I don't think Apple takes a strong position on parenting at all

Apple's main theme is the 'curated experience'.
Here in Beijing there are special "un-official" taxi services that have Teslas. I was once in one of them, one the way to the airport. I was very silent, and looked a bit futuristic (all meters are actually screens) and kitsch ala eigthies: The whole car looks fat, plasticly cheap. I would not trust the door knob to always work for instance, and the seat are not giving this confident feeling, compared to normal European cars. It is also slightly ugly. But obviously that's just the diff between Europe and US on cars, and Tesla has nothing to do with it (but if Tesla wants to get market share in Europe, they have to make another model, or license their techno to someone else.)
It does. But as we all know that model can’t just be lifted over to WWW.
Right. The 1% is terminology useful for reference and for rallies, but the real wealth is concentrated in the top 0.05%. "The 0.05%" is harder for the peoples' mic to say.
Syntax macros.
This really isn't worth discussing since nobody seriously considers LISP an easily optimizable language. Did you know a minor change to improve cache-hits on an inner loop can double the speed of an algorithm? That's just the tip of the iceberg. You need to be close to the metal to optimize and LISP does not provide for that. It's only fast relative to dog slow languages that were programmed on far newer hardware and could get away with it.
I've been following this blog for a bit. Fragmentarium is pretty interesting.
I'm curious, do you think that we should use secure communication only when needed and use plain http (or whatever) otherwise? Am I misunderstanding your point?
Firefox stores HSTS entries in a SQLite database, which you can query by running:

echo "SELECT * FROM moz_hosts WHERE type='sts/use';" | sqlite3 permissions.sqlite

from inside your profile directory.

To clear HSTS entries (which the "Clear recent history" UI does not delete), you can do:

echo "DELETE FROM moz_hosts WHERE type='sts/use';" | sqlite3 permissions.sqlite

I've been periodically monitoring this database for HSTS supercookies over the last couple years and have yet to see any in the wild.
While abhorrent, I have a sneaking suspicion this isn't as simple as the title and affidavit suggests. The FBI doesn't just randomly pick people to be informants. Their process is not the TV montage most people think of but a bureaucratic slog with a massive paper trail. If anything, it's likely to be some Kafkaesque mess instead of a spiteful plot to ruin this man's life, which is more concerning in some ways.
K8s single noder and GKE user here, can confirm I wouldn't remotely even consider going back. Deploying an app takes 5-10 minutes at most first time around, new pushes <1 minute, and when there is ops bullshit involved, it is never wasted work, and never needs to be repeated twice.

I hated Kubernetes ops complexity at first, but there really isn't that much to it, and if it's too much, a service like GKE takes 70%+ of it away from you
Whoever sold the jesus guy stock