jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's hardly absurd. The NYT regularly uses the names people are known by rather than their literal names. For example, there is a rapper whose full name is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth but known to fans and the public as Kendrick Lamar. Similar, you might notice, to how Scott Alexander Sorkin is better known by his two first names.

Example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/arts/music/kendrick-lamar...

It makes more sense to refer to people by the names they are known by rather than their actual names, unless there is some compelling reason not to. In this case, I think there was a decent reason to do leave the name out and no news value to be gained by including it. As the article mentions, Scott's name was easily Google-able, so it's not like they were breaking something new.

I can't imagine treating casual sociopathy like this as okay in any other profession. Why would it be for journalists? "Oh, your business and personal life would be damaged if I did this thing I don't need to do and doesn't really matter? Ha ha, too bad, I'm doing it anyway."
Scott Alexander wrote opinion pieces. The article that was written about him is a news article.

I think I may have ninja-edited my comment as you were responding, but Scott Alexander is the subject of the article.

Often sources will be granted anonymity, although even that can be controversial. That is a situation where the reporter may have to use discretion, to obtain information.

Obscuring the name of the subject, at their request, when the name is easily found in their publicly released material, is a very different thing.
You're ignorant pertaining to what you are talking about.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/crime
a crime is supposed to be offensive. The only thing this law being broken is offensive to is copyright holders who are one, punishing people for promoting their content, and two, the media is protected for an obscene amount of time to where usually eventually the ip is purchased from someone who put no effort into the art and is only interested in making money. To me, THAT is a crime.
NSCC collateral rules are widely believed to follow directly from Dodd-Frank requirements. It's also hard to understand the supposed conspiracy you'd be prosecuting NSCC for. Is the idea here that NSCC was somehow corrupted by agents of hedge funds short on GME?
Because there were no offenders. DTCC raising collateral requirements on an ultravoltile stock with a high chance of price collapse is just... a reasonable thing to do?
I don't think it matters in this specific case. (and if the generalisation really matters, why would we restrict it to natural numbers?) Sure, every single concept mentioned is simple in isolation - but put enough of them together and it's starting to become an effort to process unless you're used to that kind of communication.

To compare it to spoken communication, there's a threshold where very formal queen's English from an extremely eloquent person makes them sound like an obnoxious showoff rather than fancy and serious. I feel like posts about Haskell often touch that threshold without a good reason. But that's my very subjective opinion.
Outside of WSB memes, how well known is DFV as a monicker vs roaring kitty. To the regular person, both are not household names. To anyone who is really invested in the story, they'd know both. The very small niche of people who know one but not the other isn't worth Reuters having to include profanity (not that I object to profanity).
> Some redditor noted some similarities? This is breathtakingly embarrassing journalism. Maybe we can attribute it to just lazy prose.

Some journalists seem to to farm stories off social media.
You can use ip2proxy.com to check if an IP address is behind proxy or Tor.
You're not being scammed in the US. You're given the ability to give immediate feedback on the service you received by adjusting your tip amount.

What I don't understand is people saying they are "forced" to pay extra... Why would raising all the prices of the food 15-20% to make up for lost tips and actually forcing you pay that be better? Then you don't have the option to pay less if the service was bad.
im not sure if this post is sarcastic
In the UK the relevant law AFAIK is the Computer Misuse Act, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/.

He has authorisation to access the data, and authorisation to access the computers in question. He doesn't, perhaps, have authorisation to use the specific mode of access but that isn't pertinent to the Act as written AFAICT.

The only possible part he falls foul of is Section 3(3) in that his actions might have caused the system to fail, but "recklessly" has a suggestion of him knowing that such deleterious outcomes were likely, and I don't think that's really true. I think his actions as reported are not in breach of this Act.

However, the proposed Section 3A will cover such actions if he [the reporter of the security lapse] believes that the information (see 3A(4)) he published is likely to be used to assist in the commission of an offence.

>"A person is guilty of an offence if he supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3." (CMA 1990, proposed S.3A(2))

This section is exceptionally broad. Indeed it appears to outlaw the disclosure of bugs found without malice and without intent. Communicate to Google, say, a program/data that could be used to break in to their system and it seems you fall foul of the letter of that Section. Chilling indeed.
> Combine that with the simulation argument [...]

You lost me there. What do you mean if I am in a simulation? Like the Matrix? How is that related to the discussion?
absolutely cpancited! should probably come up with a more taggable acronym for this
This seems, to me, to be one of the few cases of truly intrinsic complexity.
how accurate are polygraphs? they seem to be uniquely American (though i can't pretend i know that as a fact). I always thought they are really just worthless window-dressing on par with the tsa.I.e it's a lot of bluff and only a bit of substance. Can your experiences substantiate what i'm saying or am i being biased?
Well the thing is that Apple gave me an on the spot replacement for a broken Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip.

LG requires a shipment from Australia to Asia and a 3-4 week turn-around time.

Yeah nah...
Index Only Scans are a thing in PostgreSQL, however, they may still need to visit the heap if the visibility map bit for the heap page indicates that the not all tuples on the heap page are visible to all transactions. When a high percentage of pages are marked as "allvisible" then Index Only Scans can give a good boost to performance.
Moxie and Signal's intention to use MobileCoin are well documented, the only question was when.
Mycorrhiza are not a new discovery, nor are soil bacteria playing an imporant role. I'm not sure any of this is really "new".

Amateur cannabis growers have been brewing compost tea to enhance the bacterial/fungal/nematode populations in soil for over a decade.

Even in the world of industrial-scale agriculture no-till with cover crops is becoming increasingly popular.

I'm not sure what new things this research really offers besides perhaps attempts to identify specific fungi / bacteria that can enhance yeilds?
This brings to mind Knuth's Art of Computer Programming which included algorithms that were optimized for processing data on a physical tape, where (unlike random access memory) the physical ordering and seeking distance and other factors are even more meaningful than for hard drives.
Sure, this type of early idea happens to any high-profile project.

I meant to say that that I never heard any significant decision maker had that plan on K8s' future.
"The top end most profitable SKUs are fully enabled dies." If you take a part that would be discarded because it didn't make "top end" binning, and sell it as a lesser(core count or clock speed) chip. Isn't that profit from what would otherwise be scrap?
WRT to Java support: Since it doesn't appear to generate poms or publish to maven repositories it doesn't seem very useful on the open source part of things. It seems explicitly for generating internal, proprietary software from a monolithic source tree. I would have much rather seen the incremental compiler and jar generator integrated to maven than replacing the entire build system.
I imagine that a software system that is made of simple components can still be complex. So I'd still go for simple vs complex
geez. waaaaaay back in 2007 i remember la boulange on fillmore (about 4 blocks from "the mill", apparently) did a croissant and a coffee for less than 3 bucks... i used to go there in the mornings with spare change i found around my place from the night before.
I disagree. That sounds like a pretty useless comment to me being that you can already like or dislike a video. It's redundant.
judging from your rhetoric, i gather the right trying to recruit asians these days?
Anything is an improvement over unreadable. Can you leave this version on a different url if you decide to roll it back? Thanks.
The interpretation is complicated, but its neither black or white. Also, its standard in asymmetric contracts (EULAs, employment, rentals) for the drafting side to completely overreach.

RTFM here:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
I'm a little confused by the schema he describes. He says represent "periods" in columns and "records" in rows. Are these two different units of time?

For say stock data that is sampled every second, is he saying there'd be one row per symbol per minute (a "record"), with 60 columns holding the value for each second (a "period")?

If so, does that mean the data is buffered in memory for 1 minute before getting written to the DB?

"Cassandra is really good for time-series data because you can write one column for each period in your series and then query across a range of time using sub-string matching. This is best done using columns for each period rather than rows, as you get huge IO efficiency wins from loading only a single row per query. Cassandra then has to at worst do one seek and then read for all the remaining data as it’s written in sequence to disk.

We designed our schema to use IDs that begin with timestamps so that they can be range queried over arbitrary periods like this, with each row representing one record and each column representing one period in the series. All data is then available to be queried on a row key and start and end times."
I recently started looking for a markdown powered blogging platform to host my site[0]. I wanted to be able to write markdown documents, arrange them in directories, and then have a site built from that. Also, I am not a designer so I would like it if there were premade themes out there.

I settled on using Pelican[1] for generation and Github Pages[2] for hosting. Pelican does exactly what I wanted, and there is a collection of free community created themes that look great. Github Pages is absolutely free hosting that even supports custom domains.

It might take a little more hacking than Silvrback, but I have been slowly working on a git repo that anyone could simply clone, populate with markdown files, and then push. I need to clean up the few scripts a little, but if you want you can find it here[3]

[0] http://jack.minardi.org

[1] http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.2/

[2] http://pages.github.com/

[3] https://github.com/jminardi/jminardi.github.io
Also for those who dont know. Firebug lite version is available for Chrome http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/chrome/
I'm not surprised it's not higher, as people of that age bracket are increasingly staying at home and delaying their move out of the parental domicile.

I bet if the numbers were 25-29 year olds who had all left home, it would be significantly higher. I bet very few people in that bracket are actually making the decision to activate a landline in their own places.

I am 29 for a few blessed more months, and I have been landline-free since, well, leaving home for college and my own place. Had I been one of those stay-at-home-until-your-30s types, though, I would fall on the landline side of the statistical breakdown.
It'd be trivial for them to implement any open codec support.

Thus, no, it's not obvious.
Surely there aren't many gun hackers in the world though? At least, not for very long...
The Intel 10G NICs worked, but slower in benchmarks than Linux and Opensolaris.

That's interesting. Which NICs are these? For most 10GbE cards we blow linux out of the water.

ZFS is less stable and slower than in OpenSolaris

That was true a couple years ago; I don't think it's true any more.

for all these years FreeBSD has lacked a journalling filesystem

True, but we've had softupdates, which is better in most circumstances. (And in HEAD we now have journalled softupdates, which gives you the best of both worlds.)

FreeBSD Jails have stagnated for years and still cannot handle running multiple copies of PostgreSQL because of SYSV support.

You have an interesting definition of "stagnate". Jails have recently gained full network stack virtualization, for instance. I can't remember if SYSV has been virtualized yet, but if not it's certainly coming soon.

I believe FreeBSD is the best and most enjoyable OS for hacking on, but this was 2 years ago, and things have further stagnated since then

Personally I'd say that the past 2 years have been the most exciting years of FreeBSD development for a long time. Maybe when 9.0 is released you'll give FreeBSD a chance again.
The problem is that Intellij is written in Java, using the hotspot JVM, which is JIT compiled.

But IDEs, especially fully featured IDEs, are a terrible type of workload for JIT compilation. They're full of branches, which can easily cause recompilations, and the breadth of features mean that there is never really a spot hot enough to stay compiled outside of the editor itself.

I really wish AOT compilation was taken more seriously in the JVM world. Yes, I know about graal native-image and the various embedded commercial JVMs, but those are niches. It would be great if I could just precompile using O3 level compilation for a whole app using a standard JVM, and not have to worry about the weird and hard-to-debug performance fluctuations that come with JITs.
"... and hope one of the other companies can build something similar in..."
Well, EmailOracle is very similar and it is closing too, exactly on Jan 31, 2011
I've got one but I almost never use it, just need it for ADSL. In the U.K. I don't see how you avoid one when cable companies give it for free and 3G is too slow and expensive for home.
My phone needed to be factory reset, where was my backup to restore from without purchasing a second phone?
I think your defining "human" based on norm. I would prefer to define "human" based on a humans ease of use given familiarity with the notation. I prefer this definition because if you use what I take to be your definition you get oddities like Roman Numerals being more human than what we use today. Given this definition I'm not sure you can say he is purely rationalizing his choice, since he gives a clear example of a situation in which he finds that the notation is easier to use.

I don't feel strong one way or another on this issue, though I do program in Clojure. If you want infix math in clojure: http://data-sorcery.org/2010/05/14/infix-math/
For some mass-market sites, scaring off those paranoid, nitpicky, self-righteous users could be a winning move.
Do good work. Over, and over, and over (referrals).

Know your worth. Be increasing your rates ever 6-12 months based on how much learning you've accomplished.

You're a consultant, not a freelancer. You want to be paid for your deep expertise and experience, not just your ability execute code/pixels/words etc.
Lol... in a previous version of the tutorial, I was using informal language to define vectors as "arrays of numbers," which attracted a lot of negative comments on HN because it wasn't mathematically precise enough.

Note the LA book is "Tome II" in the series, and assumes you've read the "Tome I" (no BS guide to math & phys), which means the reader would be equipped to understand more formal math descriptions.

But yeah... try giving an explanation for what a vector is that is both: (1) understandable and (2) mathematically precise.
Or even better, real applications from ultimately successful companies that failed to get into YC.
I can heartily recommend µBlock as well, it's low on resource usage (much lower than abp) and blocks nearly everything. I do tend to combine it with ghostery/disconnect to be extra sure (not that ghostery is developed by an ads firm, though they say their opt-out options is legit).
Thank you. I'm now testing the latest.
"Great for the environment"... until the kilotons of poisonous chemicals pumped into the earth bubble back up to the surface...at which point the frackers are long gone. Also... isn't there a thing with California and earthuakes, which fracking anecdotally effects? What could possibly go wrong?
...yes? What do you think gets posted during basically every political event? BLM, obama election, trump election, biden election, etc... Calls for riot and murder are like the standard go-to on social media, if only because extreme posts gather a lot more steam than anything diluted.

I mean shit we just went through 4 years of liberals and conservatives fighting over this shit dramatically all over twitter -- I'm really struggling to find the new extremes you're finding in these; the only thing I can figure is you're giving it more weight because this topic translated into physical activity, where most such content just flames up digitally and dies out
threeseed, I do not believe that you have an accurate mental model of the world or technology and social platforms in particular.

It could be argued that "the web is as open and free as it ever has been", but I do not think this argument could be made honestly. Even though many of the mechanisms for accessing websites exist as they did many years ago, the "surface area" of the internet that most people are able to discover and access is significantly reduced due to search engine algorithms (which are monopolies) and advertisement allowing individuals to pay for traffic and attention. Moreover, in the present moment we are near a peak level of intrusive data collection and surveillance.

Do you truly believe that the web for the average user in 2020 is as free as the web for the average user in 2000? Please give it some thought (15-30 minutes of quiet reflection) and let me know what you think.
> If you cannot install an run your own software on a device, you do not own the device.

ADB doesn't require individual clearance from Google, you can install any apk you like. In fact you don't even need ADB, you can just install an apk downloaded from the web if you uncheck "only verified sources" in settings. Google is merely removing Play Store convenience (and distribution channel safety). Providing that Play Store convenience costs them real dollars for computing resources and they chose to not do that anymore for the app in question.
Just like after 9/11, that worked out well for everyone right?
the article talks about this

> They measured mutations that occurred during embryonic growth and found that identical twins differed by an average of 5.2 early developmental mutations. In 15% of twins, the number of diverging mutations was higher.
This is going to sound incredibly cold and callous, but the comparison needs to be made.

One woman was shot. 4 others died for medical reasons. One was a heart attack. One was a police officer.

Tragic deaths, to be sure. And the photos really do feel horrific. But do single digit casualties justify all this? Gang violence and crime kills way more people and police officers on a daily basis. Are we really setting the value of our liberal values that low to justify all this censorship and deplatforming?

The events on the 6th, while horrific, have given a handful of big corporations control over national discourse and communication. That scares the daylights out of me. Was this all it took?
%n has frequently been used as an attack vector - generally in the context of the other poor practice of printf(<attacker controlled string>, ...)

It’s actually intentionally disallowed in some libc implementations.
Overthrowing the government by force, to infiltrate a congressional electoral process, planning to murder/hold-hostage dissendents and lawmakers, to help the sitting president seize power after a lawful and fair election.

Sure, that's the same as people angry when theyre throwing stones at cops after killing them in sleep. I don't support BLM violence, just that your view is showing some bias towards a particular narrative - I think you should see the storming of the US Capitol as massively symbolic thing that has shaken the world.
Before, it was "unlimited photos." That makes sense: they'd remove anything that's not a photo. It's limited by kind, not by size.

Now it's "your files, documents, etc." That's still a limitation by kind—the emphasis is on the "your." You can store as much data that you honestly, personally created for your own personal use, as you like.

Random terabyte-sized binaries? Not your personal data. Someone else's files? Not your personal data. Automated logs? Not your personal data.

But if you manage to create a few petabytes of vacation images? Sure, go right ahead.
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It's spelled 'Lisp'. There has been zero overlap between people writing "LISP" and people writing lisp code for about half a century.
Or how about the most obvious one, killing ie. wars. Conventional American Christianity and the military are very closely tied; how that disconnect is ignored is beyond me.
I know there are comics that use existing clip art. Could this be a configuration idea rather than just using stick figures?
> I believe there's a reason that homomorphic encryption has not been broadly accepted as an allowed standard.

Well, yes... Practical homomorphic encryption is cutting-edge research, and standards bodies like NIST aren't going to deal with an area like this until it's much closer to "solved" (by which I mean much more efficient, with more practical applications, widely used and scrutinized schemes, etc.)
I honestly think I’m better at math / CS for going with an HP48G. RPN / stack based calculator. Drastically better construction. Luckily I went to a school district that allowed it.
Amazon is a powerhouse cloud provider which gives them similar market power MSFT had with Windows. A true tech company by any definition.

They just so happen to have a boring low margin retail business attached to it for legacy reasons.
I think you’ll be fine.

Anecdotal:

I get very anxious from marijuana. Somewhat manic even. I hate the feeling. I’m generally not a stranger to anxiety in life.

I don’t get anxious from LSD. I _have_ felt anxiety on it that I had been repressing, felt it kind of wash over, but it was ... useful. Not difficult. I knew what it was. I wasn’t lost in it. It wasn’t like being swallowed by the uncomfortable anxiety from marijuana that kind of takes over or drives.

And, well, I think a low LSD dose actually helped me resolve a thread of anxiety I had had since I was a child. An permanent and obsessive safety-seeking walk down an endless tree of decisions and judgement. Kind of a background thread. I kind of ... found it again? Had forgotten it was there? And could revisit it and ... know to stop. “Just stop judging”, i.e. judging the situation. And it felt like I could. It still feels like something was let go of. But idk!; Anecdotal!

There are studies that show that when starting with low doses, then very few people get anxious. Other studies show that when people _do_ get anxious, there are still lasting benefits to well being. As I understand it. There’s a decent seeming summary of this on http://tripsafe.org