jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Small wordlists are generally used with long username lists to get the low-hanging fruit. Obviously somebody using this tool to target a specific account is going to swap out the default wordlist for something much larger and potentially customized.
... by removing the battery.
The vast majority of companies are perfectly fine staying at "basement scale" for decades. Fuck, for many types of businesses (including much of the tech industry), that is actually the perfect scale.

This is all Silicon Valley navel gazing. If you want to stay in the basement, stay in the basement. Very little is stopping you, most business models are not based on explosive growth.
Are you a programmer or a wuss? Think this isn't easily fixable?
We all came from hunter-gatherers. If hunter-gatherers didn't want more then logically they would have stayed hunter-gatherers. So, why do we have the current civilization? I suspect because being cold, not having medicine, refrigeration, running water, plumbing, transportation, etc sucks.
Please don't do this here—it's off topic in regular HN threads. But please do post it in the appropriate Who Is Hiring thread tomorrow!
What type of database did they use? What type of caching would be desirable? Most modern RDBSes, like Postgre, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL server, have internal LRU caching already implemented. InnoDB tries to store everything in memory.

I wonder if they meant that the default caching was turned off, or that all the queries had "no cache" clauses, or that an additional caching layer (Redis, Memcached) was not implemented?
Sadly, this seems to be the case. I waffle a lot about whether I want to stay in the Bay Area, given the combination of currently being underemployed, the ridiculous cost of living and how much I'd need to make just in order to maintain the status quo, let alone finally live without a roommate.

But when I poke at other markets, with very few exceptions the pay differential for web developers is so steep and the choices are so few it's startling. (And I'm also frequently reminded how much of the rest of the United States is still populated by Microsoft shops rather than living in OSX/Unix-land like I do.) This is why I ended up moving out here in the first place a decade ago from the Tampa Bay area -- I was a Unix-head in a land of very few opportunities, and to my dismay, that really hasn't changed very much.

It's hard not to notice that a lot of the HN crowd that takes mobility for granted are people who co-founded their own startups and/or work at companies with a strong telecommuting culture. I think that's awesome, but finding such roles is not as easy -- even out here -- as I think people who've found them sometimes believe. (And I say that as someone who's primarily worked from home since 2011.)
because most people, myself included, don't really give a shit about that.
Many people believe that the Oregon Health Study is the best chance we have of teasing causation out of the data. It is still in progress but it is being watched closely. http://oregonhealthstudy.org/
Android before iOS...interesting.
I agree. The good news is that there's Hampton Creek Foods, who are researching egg replacements: https://hamptoncreekfoods.com/
+1

Haven't worked at Google, Facebook, whatever, but would love to help.
Oh no, a letter has been sent!
It's worth checking her thyroid function:

"Some studies have related hypothyroidism to muscle dysfunction... Furthermore, studies ... demonstrated that thyroid hormone action on skeletal muscles affects mainly type-I muscle fibers, which promote slow contractions and are most prevalent in the postural muscles recruited during prolonged effort" [1]

Also, not sure where you are in the world but your doctor telling you your thyroid hormone levels are ok unfortunately may not necessarily mean they are ok... There is a controversy about reference ranges amongst experts [2], and I think it's wise to pay attention to that.

[1] http://www.scielo.br/pdf/abc/v87n3/en_a33v87n3.pdf

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16148345
It might also make sense to look at it from a gallons of fuel per acre too. Even if you only break even in terms of production, if you can eliminate the reliance on diesel and all the compromises that must be made there might be substantial wins nonetheless.

For example as farming gets more labor intensive you can do things like cut steps into a hill to stop erosion or to till and plant always perpendicular to the slope of the hill so that there aren't any easy channels for runoff to head downhill.

I've read that in the US there are 9 calories of fuel in every 1 calorie of food delivered to the table. In other places around the world, it's more like 1 calorie of fuel to every 1 calorie of food.

In other words, many places are turning fuel directly into food on a 1:1 basis. It takes us 9 times as much fuel to make food, which is pretty friggin awful.

If you don't mind that he's an outspoken, right-wing, traditional Christian kinda guy Joel Salatin has some very interesting ideas about getting a lot of use out of land with very, very little fuel and not much feed input. Here's one video but there are tons more in the sidebar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13i1ZUovj6Y
I disagree. The risk is not that the hardware encryption module like AES-NI encrypts _wrong_, at all.

The risk is that it's possible to escrow the last N used AES-NI keys within the chip, and extract them using custom non-public microcode or physical access.
> It needs to expand if it is going to survive as a premier university.

How is it in the public's interest that Columbia be a premier university? If their top faculty leaves to teach elsewhere, they'll still be teaching. Students will receive their educations. Columbia does worse, other schools do better. No net loss.
> School districts are separate from municipalities and often will span multiple.

School districts may or may not be subordinate to city or county governments, and this may not be consistent state wide (of course, he heirarchy of city vs county may not be consistent statewide—looking at NYC.)
Looks like a pretty minor update compared to previous releases. But if I recall correctly Bootstrap 4.5 or 5.0 is going to be a big one where the form elements are styled directly without needing a bunch of boilerplate classes.
The last paragraph makes it sound like old people struggling with the UX of new technology.

> the dial phone "could not be more awkward than it is. One has to use both hands to dial; he must be in a position where there is good light, day or night, in order to see the number; and if he happens to turn the dial not quite far enough, then he gets a wrong connection."

I’m guessing with the previous version you just picked it up and had an operator to route the calls?
It's almost 10 years old but Bootstrap is still my favorite. It is simple, familiar, stable & independent.
The downside is that there haven't been much innovation in term of UI on the web since then...
Twitter handles are worth a lot of money and hackers have spent much effort to steal them. See

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/how-i...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/twitt...

Amazing if Twitter is just going to release valuable namespaces worth millions all on the same day.
This is what I used to do back in the day, to get high pagerank(remember that?) In Google
I’m intrigued by the distinction between manual and dial. I am assuming manual in this context means: pick up phone, ask the operator to connect you—which doesn’t sound manual at all.
So this is something a lot of us have struggled with and I think it happens when your goals aren't aligned with your work.

So what are your goals right now out of work? What is your workview and your lifeview. Find the intersection between those to get a good idea of what you want to accomplish in your life.

After coming up with those, try and tabulate the things you do at work where you have the most energy and the stuff you do at work that engages you the most. Hopefully, there are things in that list that give you some energy or engagement. If there is, do more of that and tell your manager to help you move towards doing more of that work. If there isn't, ask yourself what you want to learn. If you can't learn that on your current team, switch to a position/team where you can learn that. If your company can't provide you with those opportunities, then it might be time to find something new.

Startups are super rewarding but there are many unknowns and you have to do a lot of vetting to find the right ones. Even then, you could be wrong. If your goal is to start a company, then it might be the right route to go.

TLDR: Try and understand your goals in life and what you enjoy doing day to day before jumping ship to a startup. Your safety net will allow you to do that :)
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"The whole business of misattributing quotes certainly didn’t begin with the Internet—it’s been going on as long as anyone can remember: Once a famous person gets a reputation for saying witty, profound or inspiring things, people tend to attribute quotes to them that sound like something they might have said, but that they didn’t actually say."
"I hope the HN crowd doesn't write this off because it's Russia"

Sorta. I worked next to them in Burlingame, CA.
Not only is it appropriate, there are already cases where this is done. Wikipedia documents some:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_onus
Yes, the GDP for the US in 2020 was ~21T and 15T is quite large in perspective.

However, this UBI would generate tax income to offset. In fact, its been stated that welfare like food stamps (SNAP) actually brings in more 170% revenue vs. assistance provided [1]. If this is tax revenue positive (even if the return isn't as high as food stamps), why would the cost be a concern?

[1] https://4thworldmovement.org/food-stamps-waste-money/
> psychopathic

That is a needless personal attack, and I notice that you fail to make a coherent argument against what I said. Do you favor protections against unreasonable search and seizure only until too many criminals benefit from it? My point is that some people value liberty higher than life. If you think I'm wrong, feel free to say why, though I honestly don't know that you'll change my mind on that.
It's probably 'secret' because it's illegal in the U.S. since race and gender are protected traits.
Apple card is the only one I'm aware of
> Here’s a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus... is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than decreasing it

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
I wish the internet was usable without it.
it probably needs a better way to whitelist sites/pages
Streamdumps (not the finished, polished final videos, just raw rtmpdumps):
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Streams#Streamdumps
I read it on a tweet somewhere.
I have switched to HTTP Switchboard, works pretty well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-switchboard/m...
You just missed the point. It's better to do something about millions of buildings currently on fire rather than spending more resources training emergency responders to deal with abstract events.
I use Ghost and Adblock+ with Chromium, and I've never had an issue with memory.
Yes, but our releasing pipeline is still booting up. You can find automatic dumps and timeshifting on http://vod.c3voc.de/.
Agreed that they're making things way more complicated than they should be. As far as the parent poster, I have no idea why the Devour even exists; it's inferior to the Droid in every way. In your case the Nexus One is clearly the way to go; nothing else is significantly better spec-wise, and being Google's "official" model it's guaranteed to get updates first.
Interesting thoughts!

Maybe for people who aren't familiar with Chomsky, it would be nice to explain what you're talking about with the DoD spending he uncovered, what he did about it, and so on.

Finally, got a source or two for what you say about ALGOL-type langs?
Do you run striking with your heels or a more sane part of your feet?
It doesn't even require you to put your ego aside if you take pride in being someone who can "lose" an argument gracefully. I put "lose" in scare quotes because, if you do it right, you can count that argument as a mutual victory.
Perhaps because one of the things that is evolutionary novel is intelligence. It seems reasonable that there's a correlation between some or all of these things, they're most probably interlinked somehow. For instance: If you're highly intelligent this will impact how you live your life, which decisions you make, etc. whic in turn could easily mean that you'll have subtly different preferences and characteristics than a less intelligent person.
Reminds me a lot of Freebase Gridworks (http://vimeo.com/10081183), but I'm not too familiar with either product so that may be a misperception on my part.
This article lost my respect at..

"So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists."

"Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence."
> The reductionistic part is in the very belief that there's such a thing as a "finest component of information" in the first place.

That seems like a major leap. I've heard people propose that there are limits to human understanding due to complexity, but this is the first time I've heard the suggestion that there is some level of information beyond any possible measurement. The lowest level I can think of is existence vs nonexistence - and you are essentially suggesting that there is some other state beyond measurement and therefor reasoning. Of course, such a thing would be impossible to prove... so the scientific method would be of no use. So if what you are suggesting is true, then it would have no influence on what I'm proposing anyway. Wait... you aren't religious are you? I'm not trying to pry or be insulting, but this suggestion would only really make sense in the context of trying to establish a place for religion in science.

As far as the rest, formal logic exists to do exactly what you say can't be done. Your argument sounds more like an appeal to emotion than anything else.
Yes, and no.

If an artist poops on a bible in a forest and there was no one there to see it, did it really happen?

The problem is with media shielding public from shocking/provocative/indecent content in fear of said public switching channel.

Im not even talking "The Aristocrats!" here, something as innocent as a nipple might shock quite a few people in US.
>Who gets to decide what constitutes disinformation, racism or hatred?

Apple, if it's on their platform. In an alternate universe, the elected representatives of the populace.

>If you have someone who decides who can speak and what they are allowed to say

The U.S. and all countries already do this through the numerous exceptions to free speech rights.
Who is being silenced from what public Square? Facebook and Twitter are not the public square. If you'd prefer that they be considered as such then you better get cracking on some legislation/regulation or nationalize these privately held for-profit companies.
too bad they're down-voting him. The polar difference between his question and your answer seems to make it clear he asked a legit question.
The million-dollar question is interesting *because it forces her to really
decide* what kind of girl she is.

The question actually isn't very interesting at all, because the it suggests there is still a choice to be made. In reality, most people have made that choice long ago and we know that they have their consequentialist price. The price may be a million dollars, saving a hundred people's lives, getting revenge or another non-monetary reward, but there is a price. Already before the million-dollar question, we know that we may assume she definitely is 'that kind of girl'. Almost every girl, and every guy, is 'that kind of girl', because they will trade their affections for what the other party offers. Be it under the guise of love or not.

Going into a business negotiation thinking either you or them are deontologists is selfdeception that will hinder you in your negotiations.
This is simply marking certain applications as potentially inappropriate for certain age groups, much like the MPAA's G/PG/PG13/R rating system.

As far as I know children are still legally allowed to see R rated movies with parental consent. I think this is analogous.

Apple is simply giving parents the tools to put these restrictions in place if they choose to.
Personal effort, individual sales, and shows are not in their calculation. These are industry shills.
I'm not so sure about all'a'dat (although I do remember thinking the stuff in Minority Report was awesome, years ago) but I can see a need for 3D/depth augmentation of standard desktop interfaces. I want to be able to tuck windows away 'in the distance' or twist them round to a slanted pane (so they take up a fraction of the space but are still more or less visible/legible). I also want to step in and out of '3D mode' when making ER diagrams or UML diagrams and such, for when there's too many criss-crossing lines.

Undoubtedly these things have already been tried (I saw a nice Linux demo somewhere, years ago, with 3D windows) but I'd like them standardized, and touch-operated. It'd make a big difference IMO.

Periodically when using a cluttered interface I mutter 'this is why the need for 3D is so great' and my colleagues laugh at me. But I'm only half joking.
The similarity one notices between "making a movie" and "building an app" is something more commonplace.

In all activities that involve significant investment of time/money in the start and a big cheque at the end require this kind of thinking.

1. Bootstrap
2. Play ur bootstrapped tag to your advantage
(get customers who like offbeat things/ don't like big brands/ love promoting newbies etc)
3. Collect fat cheque at the end if 2 gets u mainstream
Although computer science was formerly a part of mathematics, it has become a profession of its own right. Of course there are still strong connections on many levels. But there is a lot in mathematics which is (currently) completely uninteresting for computer science, and vice versa.

In particular, there is part of computer science which has nothing to do with mathematics, and which a mathematician would always attribute to computer science rather than mathematics.

And that part is call "programming".

So I disagree. Sole programing without bullshit and without mathematics is still a profession of its own right.
wrong + wrong + irony != right
My question is, why not go after the shareholders in addition to BP?
How were they able to accurately match a cross section of a stone that's been in the ground for 5000 years and one that's been above ground in the weather for 5000 years? Wouldn't those have wildly different wear and tear on them?
> We don't really need any more technical breakthroughs for electric cars.

I'm curious if people will miss the deafening sound of the raw engines to the point it hurts the business, at least for live shows. I'm not a racing fan (beyond occasionally going to local Indy races) but I've seen a lot of comments online complaining about the whirring sound of hybrids.

There will probably still be combustion cars just for the fun of it. But agreed re: the larger firms not getting as much R&D value from doing it.
Unless we remove the concept of land ownership, there aren’t many viable alternatives that don’t also have unwanted consequences.

At the root of the problem in your question is how does society determine who has a right to live where. Obviously, given the opportunity, most of the world would want to live with on the California coast or similar places.

Obviously, the most basic answer to the question I posed above is “might makes right”. But we have moved past a situation where fight someone to take their land, and instead have to buy it.

Yes, the current system is unfair for most people. Most people will never get a chance to live where they want, and most people are born without the chance in the first place. So why should society let those born to wealthy moms get the spoils?

There isn’t a good answer, other than a better alternative hasn’t been invented yet. But at least in the current scenario, a small percentage of people can move into the places they want, giving enough hope that people aren’t resorting to war. Or they are unable to.
Printer manufacturers don’t care about up selling. They want to sell high margins ink/toner. All consumer printers support iOS and MacOS that don’t require drivers.
>> 1. Cutting-edge academic research (do better on this test set)

It's interesting you put it this way. I think most machine learning researchers who aspire to do "cutting-edge" research would prefer to be the first one to do well on a new dataset, rather than push the needle forward by 0.005 on an old dataset that everyone else has already had a ball with. Or at the very least, they'd prefer to do significantly better than everyone else on that old dataset.

I bet you remember the names of the guys who pushed the accuracy on ImageNet up by ~11%, but not the names of the few thousand people who have since improved results by tiny little amounts.
In my experience, content warnings are usually a product of authorial judgement. For instance, I once wrote an article that discussed some people with extremely racist views. It occurred to me that some people might not want to read quotes containing vile, offensive comments about their race (or even someone else's). So I put a warning at the top so that such people wouldn't read the article if they didn't think they could handle it. No one forced me to do it. No one would have come for my head if I hadn't. As far as I can tell, this is the usual case: people put content warnings on their content for reasonable things when they think it's a good idea. I really don't see anything remotely resembling a problem, and I think people only really get upset about content warnings as a proxy for the greater culture war.
This will date me, but it reminds me of the vehicle from "Damnation Alley"
This guy has sent this as HTML mail, but also I see the "gmail_signature" class in it. Does it mean he's actually using his webkit.org mail from a Gmail account?
> I also cannot recommend for stuff beyond vanity domains, fun side projects and so on

Seconded.

Dreamhost is fantastic at tone in their communications, especially broad public communications; they sound accessible, human, and open rather than corporate... and maybe they are, or maybe that's just part of their brand.

They are not, however, super reliable when it comes to availability, especially if your resource usage starts to approach something on the order of magnitude stated capacity, and in that case you will find out that there are the system rules they sold you on, and there's the unwritten rules which may or may not even be legible to you by the time you're done.

This is not unheard of when it comes to discount hosting, of course, and I don't expect them to be different. Just sayin' that neither should anyone else.
i agree with GP here. ES is to blame here. not long ago apache airflow had a similar vulnerability discovered about not having sensible authentication defaults. the reasoning on their mailing list was eerily similar to those defending ES here. same arguments (iirc)

history is our greatest teacher. i think ES will end up doing what that team did: they agreed to provide sensible & secure defaults.