jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Probably even higher if you exclude people who have a home phone line and don't actually use it. With cables companies pushing their "triple play" packages, it was actually cheaper (counting the free add-ons that Time Warner) included to get the triple play than just cable + internet. Granted, we don't even have a phone hooked into the cable modem/VOIP box, but technically, we do have a home phone line.
It also let's people prepare for it and create solutions. It's not a bad policy, and not releasing the exploit can in many cases be more harmful.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923170
Yes but that's only because Yahoo and MS have a deal with Facebook and you don't know how long it will last.

Facebook was explicit in their reply to Google that they feel they can block people exporting their friend's emails. Friend emails are exported by the "export tool" - in fact, you get but a list of names from that.

I would be very interested in looking at the code and noting people's experience with this. One writer was kicked off Facebook for exporting his address two years ago.
I'm talking about the still-hypothetical "usable public release" for both of them. Despite the variance in calendar ages, both are really only now starting to come to some level of practical usability, it seems to me.
And you need only slip up once. If you were sloppy at the start and straightened up later, too bad, the feds know who you are now.
"We’re offering 40% off everything in the store—books, PDFs, and screencasts. There are a couple of exceptions, including The Pragmatic Programmer book itself (ironically, we don’t publish it), and the Programming Ruby 1.9 which is already on its anniversary sale."
Each market is different. Even between developed markets, what might work in London might not work in New York or Tokyo.

Sure you can block all innovation, but you need to accept you'll block out the good as well as the bad. And that comes at the cost of economic growth.
> For a while already I had the idea of building a "diet social media" software that would display information from e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other platforms without gamified addiction mechanisms.

This already exists. It's called RSS.

https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/a-guide-to-using-rss-to-replace-s...

The only major issue with RSS is a dearth of decent feed-reader software. I personally use newsboat[0], but elfeed[1] also looks pretty good if you're an Emacs Chad.

[0] https://newsboat.org/
[1] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
http://ticalc.org used be my go-to site in the 90s. Still active, too, a post as recently as yesterday (2019-11-25). Lots of good games there. Also, a lot of Z80 assembly reference and links to emulators. If you like classic Super Mario, definitely checkout Penguins. There's also some Zelda clones, nibbles/snake.

There used be a Monopoly clone, but that's gone. Allegedly the trademark owner (Parker Brothers at the time IIRC) went after the developer for trademark infringement and he had to take it down. But, rather than sue them, PB actually hired the dev to make the original Game Boy Monopoly game. No idea about the veracity of this, but just a vague recollection from the 90s.

I actually still have my dead-tree Z80 instruct set reference manual sitting on my shelf at home next to my 68K manual. 2 of my oldest and well used programming references.
The elites have always tolerated homosexuality while the masses have always been creeped out by it. This particular change just looks like another case of the elites getting their way at the expense of the masses.
How do you make sure other apps can't access images of the test strip?
The people at Eurobricks.com don't seem to like the news though:

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/174...
The value of Magic cards on the secondary market does very little for the manufacturer. Why shouldn't they maximize their profit by selling as many as they can? People who want to speculate can just buy something else.
Even some of the cheaper Casios (non graphing) will let you calculate indefinite integrals and stats:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FX-991EX-Advanced-Scientific-Calcul... (£20)

Pretty sure most of my physics degree class used an FX-83.
> I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words.

> That’s 55 words. At my normal conference rate, I’d say that in 16 seconds. At 130 wpm, it’d be 25 seconds

I'd say I speak slowly, and when going for maximum enunciation, that paragraph took me 16 seconds. MacOS text to speech was 18 seconds. I wonder where 130WPM comes from? Seems way too slow.

$ time say 'I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words.'

real 0m18.822s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m0.006s
I always get Fabrice Bellard mixed up with Daniel Lemire. Both hardcore programmers and fine writers, both have French names - although i believe Bellard is French, and Lemire is Quebecois!
And there is no guarantee that what replaces what you had previously is any better.
> I'm pretty sure almost no GI joes made in the 90s are valuable now.

More than I thought. $1000+ is pretty impressive:

https://www.cbr.com/most-expensive-g-i-joe-figures/
>Tossing aside that Assange didn't actually make this statement: In 1996, the possibility that the NSA was sniffing the Internet was largely considered "tinfoil" even by most tech experts.

In 1997 I was working at a company where we built and delivered all software by SUn and many other companies.

We had a Cisco 3640 that I inherited when I got there and I needed to recover the password.

I hired a CCIE to come in and walk me through the recovery and rebuild of this and the other Cisco gear I had at the time.

During the hours that we spent rebuilding the network, we talked a lot about security in general, cisco in specific, and I recall him telling me then "Cisco is required by the NSA to provide them a backdoor into all our routers".
In "simple home-networking terminology," you're correct. Most consumer-grade routers misuse the "DMZ" term and aren't capable of creating a "real" DMZ, but if I had to guess, the author isn't using a typical consumer-grade router or network.

For anyone curious about what a "real" DMZ is:

A DMZ doesn't always mean "wide open". It means that you create a separate network with a hard break between the DMZ network and your "trusted" network. You can, and should, firewall your DMZ network at the internet facing side as well. The stack looks something like this:

<internet>---<firewall>---<DMZ>
\--<firewall>---<trusted>

Or

<internet>---<firewall>---<DMZ>---<firewall>---<trusted>

Wikipedia actually has some good information that is understandable to anyone who can interpret basic networking diagrams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(computing)
On canary deployments, if you can wait a bit to make a decision, CodeDeploy should have canary deployments available soon-ish: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/229
This is one of those times where not being able to see comment points really hurts my ability to read this thread.

Lots of people saying slightly different things, and no way for me to know where consensus lies.
> To put the argument for racist undertones in Tolkein succinctly - all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly.

Ugly, perhaps (though even that seems far from universal in any physical sense), but definitely not all dark in any racial sense; see, e.g., Saruman, Grima Wormtongue, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, and others.

> There are no even slightly good orcs, and if there are any bad elves, they are mostly good elves who have been tempted to some sin.

Orcs are elves who have been corrupted -- so "good orcs" are just uncorrupted elves, and, among the bad elves, are all orcs.

The usual (and stronger, though even here I think its a stretch) case for racism in Tolkien is focussed more on the treatment of the Easterlings and Haradrim.
> Also, on a speculative basis and assuming no colossal foul-ups, it appears to me that signal+mob want to distribute the mobile coins to artists and community groups.

When the company holds 85% of the pre-mined coins, they’re looking for any excuse to distract from that fact. The claim that they might give some token amount to artists and communities in the future is a distraction. The CEO of MobileCoin was in HN threads yesterday spamming the link the site where you could buy MobileCoins directly from them.

This is a clear as day pump and dump scheme. Don’t let yourself be distracted by hints of potential future charity. They could give those tokens to charities right now, but they won’t because they would just be sold off and push the price down. Instead they’re spreading claims of future donations so they can cash in on price appreciation without downward selling pressure.

They only want people buying MobileCoin, not selling it. That’s the only way the founders get rich.
I did my best to edit the title into the available characters.

full: AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine: EMA finds possible link to very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets
I challenge you to create a piece of hardware that can execute Lisp faster than a modern x86 CPU. This compromise was chosen because you can’t without spending billion of dollars.
Larry Masinter gave a presentatation recently about Interlisp. https://youtu.be/x6-b_hazcyk
2014 is the year of ISO standard.
Well by possessing Pornography of someone who didn't want it made, you have to have obtained it. By obtaining said pornography another person is now in possession of compromising material of someone that they didn't consent consent to the production of, by having more people possess the material, the issue becomes worse.
You may be underestimating the job impact on availability of time for your hobby.

Most of the jobs trade your time for money with a varying degree of premium and committment. The full-time lets you calculate how much hobby time you could theoretically expect. This would be interrupted time.

Part-time may allow more hobby-time, but is often limited in span, before you'd need to find another part-time.

Similarly, the consulting service. It may allow more freedom, but requires rather high admin effort, which eats into your hobby time. Also, this depends on your skill and the niche.

Finally, a hybrid approach - work hard in high-paying position (full/part/consult) for a set period of time (years) to accumulate the needed funds. Then embark on a hobby expansion stretch, hopefully, with some noticeable result. At the conclusion (of funds in bank), embark on the next job/money-making phase. You may need to find a way to 'explain the gap'.

At some point in this journey, the solution to the puzzle may just offer itself to you, or may be rather forced (familiy, medical, or economy issues).

Good luck!
I occasionally use Element on my Android device, waiting for it to get to the point where I can seriously recommend it as an alternative to silos like Signal or Telegram. It's sadly not at that point.

Fundamentally, Element "feels" more like an IRC client than a typical IM client like Signal. It isn't focused on direct, one-off, or small group communications (this isn't a technical thing and it has nothing to do with federation, it's simply the UX paradigm that Element has adopted).

The SchildiChat fork looks promising, although it's clearly too early to recommend it. It's not even available on the Google Play store, which makes it unsuitable for non-technical users.
I am not sure how you're seriously considering this comparison. The actions by Apple, Google or Twitter are not a massacre on the political enemy (in fact, I don't consider companies to have political enemies beyond the SEC and other regulatory instances). It's not even a call to murder anyone.
On the other hand, the "Nacht der Langen Dolche" was a coordinated massacre of (among others victims?) political enemies, with the goal to reinforce the political power of a discriminatory regime (which, just to be perfectly clear, was governed by an ideology that openly planned and then proceeded to kill of millions of human beings).
That killing blow on the German democracy is a different league, even compared to the recent attack on democracy the world witnessed in DC (an attack on the elected representatives of the US, fueled by the elected president, so there are some parallels, but not the ones you intended to point out?).

Some (imho much too large) companies getting their act together and moving in against hate speech and people outright calling for the killing of their political enemy, however, is not about murdering people. (I guess[!] it's about covering their ass, because mentioned regulatory instances will investigate why it became so easy to spread wild murder fantasies across the Internet and into the real world. With, surprise, people getting killed and democracy seriously endangered).
In the 33ASR video, funny when he needs to use an Arduino to speed up the 110b ASCII to 9600b to interface with the computer. And use it again to translate the O to IBM ASCII slash-O. (Arduino probably much better computer than the 1964 Teletype ever talked to!)
I think the debating of what percentage of demonstrations were violent, or whether the violent people were provocateurs, is a red herring. I don't honestly know, for any of them, and I think people get trapped into arguing stuff they don't know.

The outrage is that, regardless of how many people were violent at or around the protests for racial justice, the ones who weren't violent were brutalized on many occasions. Lots of people, reporters and ordinary people, experienced it and documented it. And at the attack on the Capitol, no matter how many people were peaceful, the authorities gave the violent people strikingly more free rein.

Simply by arguing the statistics, I think you get derailed from what matters, which is how both sides are not equal.
A significant number of people are threatened by rational critical thinking. They instill these values in their children who then they go off on raving rampages touting false patriotism. You can't make them listen. Taking away their echo chambers is the only way to cool them off.
This is AOC during the BLM riots: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080

This is AOC during the Capitol riots: https://abc7ny.com/aoc-alexandira-ocasio-cortez-capitol-sieg...

The hypocrisy is astonishing.
They employ editors and and producers, who oversee the actual content producers who are generally paid.

That’s not social media.

Rule number one for editors and “journalists” is don’t get sued.

That’s why you see the word “alleged” all the time and “so and so claimed” rather than stating an obvious fact.

But again, this is professional media.
Membership of BNP is incompatible with being a police officer because it's incompatible with the police force's equal opportunities policy. Police officers are contractually obliged to follow the policy. Rightly or wrongly (rightly imo) that's the justification for sacking him.

Membership of, say, the Green Party, does not conflict with the officer's obligations.
>As far as my apparent lack of humility: in the interest of not wasting your time or my own, I've truncated my correspondence. From now on, just imagine that all my posts are prefixed with a paragraph in which I grovel before the throne of scientific greatness.

You should write some code, that when you press the reply button it appends some form of lexical prostration that is derived from the comment space of the identity you're commenting to :P

In all seriousness, it appears that for the effort that goes into all the signaling that goes in within academia (and to the external world) to all the "real problems" people are solving, automatic approaches to all aspects of how research is conducted will happen because it is more efficient and consumes less energy than say a human being worrying about if their methods paper will be accepted and how to please reviewers, and etc…

I mean the fact that my PI hired me, as someone who didn't graduate from undergrad over all the phds who get rejected for volunteer positions, because i can slap some code together must say something about the direction things are going in this world. But when I tell the postdoc that the reason his spectrograms looks the way they do when he downsamples due to less constructive interference (while also trying signaling to appear humble because how dare some non-degreed folk pontificate on such things as a matter of established fact like the rest of the folks do around here, even when asked for help), he has to go ask the sr. research scientist the next day to only tell me that I was right… that's 24 hours his clunky matlab script could have ran! lol

Meh… inefficiencies, inefficiencies…
It may not be an accredited institution, but Thiel is basically starting his own school and offering transfers, not telling people to drop out. I find it similar to Seth Godin's "MBA" program.

An education has 3 valuable components: the people it lets you meet, the experiences you get to have, and the story it lets you tell about yourself to future listeners. If you're not going down the path of a formal education, you still have to make sure you cover these bases.
I have 160GB of photos, 100GB of music, 120GB of video, and 2TB of recorded TV.
I don't know, I went to college for 4 years, graduated and make $75k. I could never have the job I have right now without the college.

I paid nothing for college because I had a scholarship, but I'm well aware of what college loan debt looks like. My girlfriend is currently paying off about a BMW worth of college loans.

I point that out becuase I drive a 6 year old car and she drives a 7 year old car. If you take out what we're paying for student loans (and we're very aggressively trying to get rid of them so we can eact start businesses without debt), we could take that money and each lease a BMW.

Is that really that much of a sacrifice? I really think people are just overspending for college and it isn't the system that is broken, it is the decision making process high school students and their parents go through while picking their schools.
"PhD school (accounting)" that's an interesting choice. What kind of research or work does she do?
Realistically if you take into account the possibility of using up to four works, with some but not all vowels replaced with numbers, a mixture of upper/lower, and some other random numbers and special characters in an undisclosed place... that creates such a huge number of possibilities that it might as well not be dictionary based from the cracker's point of view.
It is not reasonable to compare the "fair market value" of a small business with the fair market value of Manhattan real estate, which is far more liquid and easily valued.
Well you'll get no disagreement with me that "try it and see" is a good thing and needs to be funded. What the author is saying, and I take as a very insightful point, is that you're unlikely to efficiently find a project's make-or-break point if you're always awash in cash. Time and resources tend to get used if they are available. Research tends to recommend more research. Delivering a self-sustaining product is hard compared to discovering and exploring within a sandbox.

What the "startup" mentality has that the cash cow companies lack is the sink-or-swim pressures that create success or failure from new projects. Market pressures, in other words. Cash cow companies can afford to have many projects in limbo, sucking time and energies away from progressing towards projects that will ultimately succeed.

Because cash cow companies (by their very nature) haven't had to develop many successful projects, they tend not to be very good at it. Not only that, but cash cow company executives often become fearful of any line of development that may undermine the cash cow's market performance. When those two factors coexist, you're left with a company that's not only painted itself into a corner, but has also forgotten how to paint.

BTW, I think Twitter sounded like a simple idea on paper, but certainly not a stupid one. If a small group of people finds a passionate use case, there are likely others out there who will feel the same.
It's equally rare to meet someone whose undergraduate education takes them to the places that a simple undergraduate education will. I'm 23, so I have plenty of friends and coworkers who are just recently out of state schools, and the vast majority sure as hell don't remember the classic novels that they might have skimmed over the course of two weeks, three years ago. I generally can't detect that they know anything at all that they didn't know in high school, outside of their major.
What? Why not? The way things are going, your degree isn't worth as much as you'd like it to be and you'll probably be in debt for a while just to pay it off.
Not in the US. It’s mainly thought of as an “old English” word. It hardly ever appears so you usually learn the length some time in school and then subsequently forget it.
If the person gives their consent to be filmed I don't think it's morally wrong. If I ended up in intensive care due to the covid I'd agree to be filmed for prevention
Well we do. The line is just drawn reeally far to the right between Twitter and Parler.

Basically Twitter for people who believe in democratic institutions and Parler for others. Here Trump clearly posted a Parler message on Twitter.
Plenty of presidents before him have functioned just fine without Twitter, I'm not sure why people are outraged about a single channel of communication, among a sea of countless others, not being available to him is a problem.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664822
Crazy how the police took such a hands-off approach to keeping the riot out of the capitol. I saw a video of police opening up the barricade line so they could come past it. Such a stark contrast to police action during the BLM protests.

I wonder what the chain of command was who told these cops to essentially do nothing today. Who does the buck stop with?
Our team at Mailscript.com is working on exactly that. Would love to chat some time to bounce ideas.
"She should have just complied."

...is what they would say if she were black. Instead, she was white, and was seditiously tresspasing on secure, federal property as part of an insurrection riot.
> There is an underlying tree structure that you are hiding from the user.

There shouldn't be, though. You're following a graph structure of cross-references, in both directions (though it's less obvious here how to open panes for back references). It's not a tree.

> If I delete a pane from a column, its descendants stay open, making it even more confusing why I had them open in the first place.

Again, not a tree. Deleting panes opened from the pane you're deleting would be a bad thing, because some panes may be just intermediaries you used to find the semantic units you were interested in.

The GUI here is similar to Miller columns, but it's not actually Miller columns - it doesn't represent a tree.
Why is quitting drugs an implicitly desirable goal?

"...or does it transform them into more docile drug addicts, wards of an indulgent state..."

My point is that this question is nearly pointless to ask. If someone lives their whole life addicted to drugs and leads a productive full life, what does it matter, other than the bad taste that seems to leave in some peoples' mouths.
I wish we had a great app with an open protocol so that you could use whatever UI you wanted and not have to deal with network effects every few years. It’s too bad there’s no app right now with that openness and also sufficient usability to get everyone switched over.