jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
True, but those breaking the fish and game laws may not be hurting anyone. They may disagree with the law. Especially because the fish and game laws only apply to public property. It'd be more analogous to going to a private reserve or piece of land and disregarding the owners regulations.
No one is being censored. You’re perfectly welcome to go on 4chan or breitbart or parler or even other subreddits or just build a new platform. No one is entitled to use other people’s resources and effort to have their views amplified without moderation by those people offering that service.

Edit: every time I post a comment like this here I get downvoted. I’m not complaining, downvote away. But I have to wonder if the folks downvoting realize how much this site is moderated and how much they’re actively participating in it.
Sadly no. Just CRTs with DVD players and plastic chairs with puppy pads.
>What makes you think this is not what happens in other languages?

Of course it happens in other languages. But I'm certain of two things, a strong predicate and a less strong one:

1) A thing X that happens in all/most languages, doesn't happen to the same deegree in all of them. Of this, I'm 100% certain.

2) Playing with/melding the language instead of being really productive tends to happen in Lisp a lot more (this is a personal observation, based on 1).

>A recent article made a pretty good case for Perl being the most productive language ever but I don't see people ditching their current favorite language for Perl.

For that to happen (a) the article would have to be correct (b) easy for people to verify that it is so, (c) people should have the tendecy to migrate to what's more productive (instead of what they like, are used to etc).

So I don't think the fact that "people don't migrate to Perl" despite "an article about Perl being the most productive language being published" means anything with regards to whether Lisp programmers tend to be non-productive in the real world.
"could help our cities adapt to rising temperatures associated with the climate crisis"

What? No.
In cities a living root bridge would be destroyed within a year.
I like Gargoyle: http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/

It supports a slew of formats and focuses on good typography.
SoftBank and their investors deserve this.

And yet - as bad as their "losses" were - precisely none of those people are actually suffer (in actual personal, physical terms) anywhere near as badly as the laid off / outsourced service workers referred to in the article.
>> assuming you're the lab director with the hundred workers

You make wrong assumptions and proceed. I am not that person and thus I don't get why you attack me personally.

While AI does not exist yet, that guy contributed to its development independently of your opinion about it.

Don't attack people on HN.
A public database for political ads sounds like a good idea to me
I can't speak to the specifics, but after working on a significant third-party SDK for iOS I can say that libdispatch isn't hard to use correctly, but it is easy to use incorrectly. Worse still, once you get yourself into a libdispatch mess it is hard to escape without a total rewrite.
He didn't need plans to fix it, Softbank got all the information they needed for their due diligence and invested.

There are plenty of private companies with outside capital that are not structured for a stock market debut. WeWork was one of them and the investors tried to list it on the stock markets anyway.

Neumann played the best cards available to him and cemented his consolidated ownership, with a different share class becoming a mere conduit for payment, and voter control allowing for unilateral signing off on contracts to himself and his other entities.
This made me laugh: "The San Francisco poet would sound, if anything, a little smarter than the Canadian, had he not messed up basic hydrology."
Yeah, that's because they had to watch the content anyway. Trigger warnings allow people to avoid triggering content, or to delay consuming the content until they're in a better frame of mind. If you say "This content has X, Y, and Z, and you have to consume it right now" the fact that you warned them isn't going to do much.
Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving.

This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff.

What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be essentially as easy.

edit: hell, just use a Google Docs form, that handles distribution and filling it out and combining the results.
Can individuals who are non-resident non-citizens buy (and more importantly, subsequently trade) individual stocks in companies governed by SEC rules without working through a brokerage house/operation? This isn't rhetorical; I'm not sure of the answer.

It seems like this proposed model - direct selling to individual investors located internationally - would be rife with the potential for money-laundering and fraud, and would get around most of the know-your-customer regulations that US financial institutions are required to follow.
note to self (and others) : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1849
"..the iphone 4 or known as iOS4 hits the market.." However, I should add that to the title.. which I will do now.
As for crack in 24 hours, its more about the speed of a successful crack, not about a release version. So you know its not final. Here is where I got the info..
http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-4-iphone-3gs-with-pw...
What you (may) want are trackbacks or whatever, where people post a response on their own blog. That can be a higher quality discussion.
"If it results in heavier use, they should just charge for the use directly, not micromanage how I use the service."

When you sign up for a 2GB per month plan with AT&T, they are counting on the fact that you won't actually use that 2GB, because for most users, it's just too hard to suck down that much data through your smartphone (especially if, like me, you're roaming onto a WiFi network at home and the office). When you use tethering, you're pretty much guaranteed to use more of that 2GB.

When you go to an "all-you-can-eat" restaurant, you do know that they don't actually expect you to eat until you get sick, right? If every customer did that, they'd probably have to raise their prices.
Some people argue software should be agnostic. They say
it's arrogant for developers to limit features or ignore
feature requests. They say software should always be as
flexible as possible.

We think that's bullshit. The best software has a vision.
The best software takes sides. When someone uses
software, they're not just looking for features, they're
looking for an approach. They're looking for a vision.
Decide what your vision is and run with it.

Well, I, in turn, think that's bullshit. IMO, the best software conforms to the way the user works, rather than trying to force the user to work in a way that's unnatural to them.

The arguments against a confusing preferences pane and the arguments for sensible defaults in no way contradict the notion of making software than is flexible enough for power users. Poor UI design (3 different places to set prefs?) is orthogonal to the issue of whether or not something should be configurable.

Power Users don't matter? Maybe for certain classes of consumer applications that don't face a steep barrier to adoption in the first place. But for some apps, it's the power users who are the early adopters, who first begin using and evangelizing for the software and without whom it would never catch on in the first place. Do you really want to piss those folks off?

Make the damn "advanced preferences" pane more or less hidden (ala, about:config) but document the shit out of it and make sure it's at least there for the people who do care.
You have to wonder who will be the first to put the Dalvik VM on a chip. Yeah, I know it's been tried with Java before.
> I still want to read what people like Patrick McKenzie, Zach Weinersmith, John Carmack and others have to say.

I quit twitter years ago for some of the same reasons mentioned in this blog post, and I 100% agree with this quote. I would love a way to get at the good content from twitter without all the constant rage.

Does anyone know a good tool or way to get a much more curated Twitter experience?
Love this Nialna - thanks for sharing, and for making a demo for us non-devs to explore, too :-)
In other countries (e.g. the UK), this is exactly how unions work.
I've used Twitter for more than a decade. I check it maybe once a day, and when I do, I read maybe 10% of my timeline and move on to something more productive.

The biggest problem is viral misinformation combined with a focus on people that are "good with Twitter". Someone with a bunch of followers tweets something like "the sun rose in the north this morning" and if you respond "that didn't happen and it couldn't have happened because science" you'll either be ignored, they'll be offended and block you, or they'll start cursing at you and all their tweets will be liked and retweeted.

The reason I used Twitter back in the day was to find out what was happening in the world and to interact with others. These days there are too many that think a big follower count means they can tweet stuff that's wrong.

Then there's the other stuff where you have to see someone called out for calling women brilliant (yep, happened today).

Try as I might, I can't return my timeline to what it was, and I can now go a week without looking at it and I don't miss anything.
Union dues are very typically 1 to 1.5% of pay.
Hahah, nice.
> Legal and contractual liability

I disagree. The GDPR consent prompt Google has implemented on their websites is not compliant with the regulation, and Google have a history of dark patterns elsewhere when it comes to privacy that may also run afoul of the regulation.

Contractual obligations was supposed to prevent Facebook from breaking their promise of not using 2FA phone numbers for advertising purposes, and we all know how that ended up.

Ad targeting involves so many factors that Google can very well use the analytics data for it and still maintain plausible deniability as it would be impossible to prove this from the outside, so the risk is limited compared to the potential rewards.

> There are no means for Google to stitch together panopticon view of a user from the GA data from different companies

Having a view over the entire web would allow you to track user sessions across websites with just IP addresses, browser fingerprinting and heuristics. Cookies are not necessary for this.

> Low signal-to-noise ratio.

I don't think Google dips into individual analytics events; that would indeed be vulnerable to noise plus would require understanding how every site uses analytics and what events represent what. I think they just get a general metric such as "user X is interested in the general category of your website" or "user X is active during these times of day" or "user X is often connecting from this IP, from which user Y is also frequently seen, thus they probably live nearby or together".

> They can probably get the data elsewhere.

They do, which makes this so much worse because it gives them plausible deniability. There's no way to prove with any certainty that they are/aren't doing this because the data could come from multiple different sources instead, but there's also no reason to believe GA is not one of these sources (even if it's only used to merely confirm the accuracy of other sources' data).

> That's not why it's free

If analytics was a loss leader for their advertising product, they could very well include it as part of advertising - setting up an ad account (and maybe depositing some $$$) gives you access to analytics. At this point they also have a lot of "freeloaders" who don't use/need advertising and use GA which it would make sense to kick out now that it's clear they will never convert to an advertising customer. They don't do neither of these things, and are happy to crunch gigantic amounts of data for absolutely zero revenue. This doesn't make sense unless they gain something from it internally, and their business model incentivizes them to do so.
You don't need to make things clear if everyone already knows what everyone else is talking about.

After an explanation that you clearly understood, I'm not sure why you're still complaining about conversational opacity.
We've already solved that with reproduction. We need to figure out how to out-live our planet.
Heavy functional bias. STM.

Although, I don't know that those things make it more practical than Scheme. Just more desirable to a subset of people who like that sort of thing.
Which is why we need to work on the aging problem. Once that is solved, we can explore all we want.
this is a really neat idea and I like the clean design.
https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr
Hacker News has long had a rather rarely used Meta HN, the Feature Requests thread linked to from the bottom of most of the main pages on HN, such as the home page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
Agreed. Aubrey de Grey is a crazy bugger, but he's got the right idea.
I thought OneWeb wasn't even targeting consumers, and was just planning on acting as basically a backbone for cell towers in the consumer market?
A long and mostly incoherent rant. I'm ever so sick of seeing these.
Love the ideas here. Thanks!
Sure but these services are hardly new, tinyurl has been around for years and I am not aware of a study linking them to a material increase in phishing. Bottom line with phishing is that people that fall for it are not technical and would click on a link regardless of whether it is short or full. This is also why in the anti-fraud business we don't place much reliance on measures like site to user authentication - they just don't work

If you do like to see the full URL try, Chrome muse extension. It can shorten and expand URL's: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/digfdjelalmeldlp...
@Downvoter So you are basically saying the student doesn't have the right to decide what to read and what not to read? Since he enrolled in the university, he forfeited his intellectual independence and is bound by the whims of a professor?
Why don't just make a single README.md and then split it if grows enormous.
Congrats to these guys! These guys were stealth from funding to acquisition. Seems like this will be the Google equivalent of Yelp.
American Apparel claims it hires "models" and not merely people with any skill in particular; that's how they get away with discrimination based on physical characteristics.
People who participate in this site can discuss whatever they want. Especially when the entire conversation is being roughly, and absurdly, directed.

The fact that you would even consider such an absurd response really sets the bar for HN today.
And now... its been corrected ;) Thank you!
UCL maths students do a lot of good (outreach?) work. Also check out https://www.facebook.com/uclmaths for undergrad-level maths talks.
Surely you must be aware of the crypto-art bubble currently happening. See, e.g. https://foundation.app https://rarible.com https://mintable.app etc.

Full disclosure, I'm trying to fund my open source space game via https://mintable.app/u/smcameron It's totally not working though, because it's obviously ridiculous. Luckily my funding needs are quite modest. (I should have just bought Cardano instead of this silliness.)
I'm curious, did you originally own more than 50? If not, do you have a plan for when you will sell? I know if I'd bought 50 bitcoins back in 2010 I would have sold them, or at least most of them, many times over by now.
What are those metrics they’re inferior on? Model Y seems like an amazing car, period.
Takeaway: Buy the peak and your investment will still go up 7x.
Yep, although getting it to work if you root your device takes a few extra minutes. More importantly, to what extent is it Apple's fault that banking apps don't work on my android phone? Even if every device had a little hardware switch that would grant root access, those apps would then be under no obligation to function. And if you then go after the apps, why did you bother with the phone anyway?
Why is an original Picasso worth millions when I can download a picture of one and print it out for free?
It's only proxying STDOUT if STDOUT is a pipe. If it isn't (which it wouldn't be if you're running `vim`) then the STDOUT is the TTY as usual.

eg

vim # `vim`s STDOUT is a TTY
vim | cat # `vim`s STDOUT is a pipe but `cat`s STDOUT is a TTY

In that regard, murex isn't really any different to any other shell. As in `vim | cat` would produce the same "Warning: Output is not to a terminal" error in bash, zsh or murex. But the difference with murex is when two processes are piped together, murex acts as a proxy. So it's a bit like this: `vim | murex | cat` (to borrow the 2nd example above).
They did, it also went nowhere. The original DEC personal computer strategy was three-pronged:

DECmate, a PDP-8 variant (12-bit), for word processing and office automation at the low end; for the DECmate II you could get a CP/M card and a graphics card as well, and I think the DECmate III had graphics built in. It ran a variant of OS/8.

DEC Rainbow, a system with both Z-80 and 8088, for general CP/M and MS-DOS software at the midrange. This was their “consumer” system. MS-DOS software that stuck to the APIs would work, anything that expected PC hardware broke.

DEC Professional, a PDP-11 variant (16-bit), as a high end workstation. It was literally a PDP-11 Qbus system, and could run RT-11 or RSTS or even UNIX. This was essentially a PDP-11 development workstation or small office server.

The single biggest problem with this strategy is the confusion caused by incompatibility, even moreso than not being PC-compatible. For example, if everything had been (one of) either PDP-8 or PDP-11 based, it would have been a strong product line: Office appliance, home computer, workstation. If everything had been based on either CP/M or MS-DOS (or both, like Rainbow), they could have potentially been a much bigger player in those markets, maybe even driving more software to target APIs rather than hardware (as NEC’s non-PC MS-DOS systems did in Japan).

Instead, well, that part of their business wound up being just another PC clone maker after a while. At least the VAXmate was innovative in being a PC-compatible that could boot over built-in Ethernet from a VAX…
It's better in some ways and worse in others. It could be a lot easier to hide a key than a gold bar. You could still use bitcoin to buy your way to freedom, and there would be a black market for it if there's any way to get online, which there will be. The value is supported outside the country.

It's not clear to me that gold is superior in that use case.
Hey, good catch!

Just fixed that - should show "ERROR" for now.

Eventually it'll tell you the Status code, and whether it's a timeout, 4xx, or 5xx error.
> I don't think it's right or normal at all and I don't agree that this was standard practice prior to this admin.

It's normal (the basic structure has been used since 1980), though there was a proposal which didn't end up being used to consolidate the race and Hispanic origin questions for 2020.
That is a fair point. Most of my experience is in modest growth and not exponential growth companies where scaling points are less predictable.
There was a “load testing is hard” kind of discussion about 3 days ago.

It might be worth linking here.
Sorry if the title sounds clickbaity. I'm trying to use the same language Justin uses to describe the Twitter thread.
> “In order to create a legally binding contract, a tech company has actually put the terms in front of the user and get them to affirmatively agree to them.”

This is effectively “legal theatre” from the perspective of the user. Companies can and do hide whatever they want in lengthy legalese which can have no limit in size. There should be the equivalent of a plain English abstract which is customised for the use case and target audience.

What we have now is a small percentage people who actually read those terms and conditions and of those people a handful of them write about it and that’s how we learn about dodgy terms and conditions. It’s very haphazard.
You are looking at the current implementation and not thinking about the implication.

One, this tech absolutely could be used to fool someone. Not everyone will be listening with a critical ear. Played back over a phone or injecting a phrase or two in otherwise spoken samples will fool many people.

I guarantee you someone will be using this to make their own MLP episodes on YouTube specifically designed to scare children or get them to do awful things.

Models presumably get better over time. It really won't be too much longer until people will be able to fake celebrities, politicians, exes, authority figures, etc. As a fairly benign example, if I had this in high school you better believe I could have called to excuse some of my absences.

I agree, I love the idea of generating some decent voice lines for my own games projects, but this also introduces issues of the rights of the original voice actors.

If you train a model to mimic a performance given by an actor, then use that model and fire the actor, isn't that potentially really problematic? (Also, it draws parallels to the Luddites who were not anti technology, but wanted to ensure that technology wasn't used in a way that reduced worker quality of life.)

And yes, I think there are helpful ways this could be deployed. I'm gender fluid, and I'd love to be able to adjust my voice digitally, but we need to be thinking about how this could cause harm first.
wrong (ok it wasn't immediate, 8 months later they repriced it)

Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 (equivalent to $372.75 today[3]) per troy ounce.

The United States Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934 required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in the sole title of the United States Department of the Treasury.[1][2]

The Gold Reserve Act outlawed most private possession of gold, forcing individuals to sell it to the Treasury, after which it was stored in United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox and other locations. The act also changed the nominal price of gold from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35.
Any recommendations for well-written books?
Looks like Randall generated images for every quarter hour of the day:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/now/13h15m.png

I hope he didn't have to do it by hand…
> we found that it was easier to hero-code in F#

What does hero-code mean?
And gas somehow didn't fail?
I wonder about people who try at something for so long. I wonder if they haven't succeeded elsewhere in life, to learn the lesson that it's the journey, not the destination.

I've given up anyone 'getting' me or appreciating what I do a while back, after I realized I don't really care to fully understand others, nor do I have the capacity it seems, and it doesn't matter! I don't even understand myself, and it's fine.

The author strikes me as having a genuine childish emotion of not getting that toy he/she wanted. It's genuine, it's real, but my goodness, when are you going to grow up :)
Australians generally call "soccer" as football. Recently their national soccer administrative body also renamed themselves as the Football Federation of Australia.

I think "soccer" is an Americanism as well.