jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If possible, I'll take 3FY.NET. Thanks!
It costs anywhere from $8-15/year to renew a domain depending on the tld, so it's pretty expensive to sit on them. I thought this would be a good way to put them to use within the hn community before I set them free to the crazies of the domain registrant world.
Could in theory lay down your own fibre to several major countries and have a underwater datacenter somewhere, taking advantage of cool water for cooling? Lots of cool engineering could be done to keep it going. Power would be a issue but it could be solved. Would be kind of cool. And since it's offshore nothing can be done right? They could cut of the internet connections, but that would have to be solved by multiple secret lines to different countries/areas and possibly via satellites? I'm just theorycrafting here :D
By law, information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity. Information may only be classified to protect national-security objectives/interests.

I imagine this release is more contentious since it undoubtedly contains sources, methods, and likely personal opinions of the diplomatic corps and the clandestine services operating under the guise of the diplomatic corp.
I know you can't extrapolate from local isolated weather conditions, but it does strike me as slightly ironic that I'm reading this article about Global Warming after a day spent outside in the record early snowfalls and cold conditions here in Scotland.

Which after last years epic amounts of snow and cold is beginning to looks like a pattern.... (I hope).
Hmm... there doesn't seem to be anything there http://i.imgur.com/2a9kUiu.png

I like the idea and aim of the site but was it really necessary to make it completely unviewable without JavaScript? What ever happened to progressive enhancement?
I have a OCPD (https://ivypanda.com/essays/obsessive-compulsive-personality...), so it could be a little different for you, but I’ve found it useful to challenge my assumption of “perfect” as the standard for everything I do.
Well yes, I believe it's a cultural thing. In the US and UK, bunk beds might give off an immature/unprofessional vibe but believe me, it's a different story altogether here in India :)
Bunk beds help save space too so I guess it's not bad after all.
Why is this anti-progressive? It sounds like he's being prosecuted because he gave vaccines to lighter-skinned people. Kim Ogg wouldn't be prosecuting him if he'd given them all to dark-skinned Black people.

The official statements of the medical associations in the article state: “It is difficult to understand any justification for charging any well-intentioned physician in this situation with a criminal offense.” As there is clearly no legal justification, the only justification in sight is progressive identity politics attacking a "white-adjacent" physician.
I'm pretty sure that is not what they are saying. They are saying the component should not need to last the full vehicle life cycle.
My neighbour used to have a Dyson leaf blower.

I would wake up thinking I was in the men's room.
For rather deep dive: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking/home/welcome

Something shorter: https://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-mon...
So they don't have to show the warrant to the offender?
Orkut, which became largely Brazilian, is the classic example. There were some good articles about how that arose but cant find them (maybe the dead link from http://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/07/17/2243232/language-tem... ?). In that case it was partly about language initially, Google allowed mixed languages in threads, and Portuguese put off the English speakers but not so much the other way round.
This looks so magical and incredible I can't believe it'll work reliably in the real world. If it does, wow.
My comment about it being a dumb question certainly contributes to the discussion: it says that I think the question is intellectually bankrupt prima facie and that I don't think questions like it should be submitted in the future. I have a standard for intellectual discussion on Hacker News and this question doesn't meet it.

There may be a legitimate question hidden behind the non sequitur but if so one should ask that question, not require people to do some linguistic gymnastics to find the real question.
If Smartphone + Wikipedia + Google = Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then this is the Babel fish.

And I’m sure that it will also, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, cause more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
(hola, i'm john deweese, one of the creators)
good to hear the early positive response, and we look forward to your insightful feedback (support@questvisual.com) -- mention this site so we pay some extra attention.

i hope this app will be nice and disruptive, and we'll be looking carefully at what people expect and how they actually use it. it's a platform, and we're really excited about the directions it opens up.

thanks for the link, cheers!
I don't actually understand why they rejected it. they already accepted the HTML version and it's doing relatively well here http://themeforest.net/item/candyshoppe-web-apps-products-an...
How cool would integration with Greplin be?

This seems like a really good idea. Ingeniously simple.
It was mentioned in the article, but the fork of Kippo by Michel Oosterhof (https://github.com/micheloosterhof/kippo-mo) is the way to go, since it has full SFTP/SCP support.

Otherwise, you'll see quite a few clients try to connect using these methods and fail immediately.
When I was house shopping almost a decade ago during the latest seller's market frenzy, there were several cases where our offer (needing financing) was by far the highest dollar amount, but we lost out to someone offering less in cash and no contingencies. We put offers out on dozens of houses, and always got beaten by an all-cash buyer. Our agent urged us to consider no contingency offers in order to give us a fighting chance against all the all-cash buyers.
A slice isn't like a list in Python. Python lists can contain different typed variables.
you're definitely not the only one. however, your car analogy doesn't really work as everyone has a fairly basic understanding of automobiles to the points they can hold a discussion about what's new in a more recent model. i don't think the same applies to software. plus the update frequency is much higher.

still on the analogy, with more recent models you also don't get detailed updates about what changed in the internals (e.g. "we're now using fuses Xyz mk2" vs "we've updated an internal dependency").

i guess making their update messages more interesting would require much more transparency on their development processes (e.g. open bug tracking). there aren't many solid reasons (in their pov, i assume) for them to do it.
I went with FTL instead of RTMP for the sake of latency. Also FTL gives me a stream of RTP packets which can go directly into WebRTC meaning I have to do 0 processing of the packets where as with RTMP I would have to convert them into RTP packets. Also SRT is interesting however it is wildly complicated and does not use RTP meaning I would have to figure out how it works and then convert whatever it gives me into RTP packets for WebRTC
I especially do not envy the UX designer & copywriting staff that may have to address this across of all AWS' consoles/public documentation.

I've worked with UX/UI designers across multiple companies for over a decade, and the simpler something seems (i.e. making a new logo) the more time & resources it usually takes to do properly.

If this truly comes to pass, then I couldn't imagine the difficulty of having to re-brand AWS in China that'll make both the CCP and AWS' leadership happy.
They've done it in the US as well. Pretty much every last mile logistics company in the US is beyond awful.
If the aircraft is required to fly at a certain performance level with one engine out, a 4 engine aircraft must have 4/3x100% of minimum required power when in nominal operating condition, a 2 engine aircraft must have 2/1x100%...

I first heard this from a lecture by Henry Pohl (a truly brilliant engineer): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...
Still not a great system unfortunately. Time based punishments still disproportionately punish the poor who have less of it.

Suffering based punishments hurt everyone equally, they don’t waste a person’s time they could be contributing something positive to the world and can be scaled to fit the crime. One hell of a deterrent too.
Beautiful :D
https://www.ioccc.org/2020/tsoj/prog.c
The title sucks. I guess I could have used the sub-title instead: "A history of COVID commentators in relation to the pandemic in the UK."

There's a prolific amount of anti-Covid discussion in the UK at the moment, and a lot of that is platformed in mainstream sources like the Daily Telegraph or The Times.

This website collects a list of statements about covid, and places them on a timeline with number of deaths.

You need to drag the graphic around.
If you banned a public official's account every time a substantial number of their followers misinterpreted it and committed violence, you'd have none left.
But it sounds beautiful in Italian, so thanks for sharing :)
You can see this in studies that try to determine how much some traits are inherited .

Complex traits usually converge towards 50/50 because that's what you expect when the question is framed wrong. Different genes activate based on input from the environment.
And YT deletes content mentioning election fraud, and twitter permanent bans the president, all under the historically totalitarian guise of "safety"

Nothing wrong here at all. As Eric Weinstein put it, something went terribly wrong at big tech.
Would the microbiome be similar growing up (assuming both are living and eating the same foods in the same places/family) and then diverge later when they go their separate ways?
There's no way that they didn't purposely allow the capitol be breached. I don't think it's clear at this point to decide who made the call and why, but when the capitol has worse security than Mark McCloskey's house ... you know it wasn't an accident.
If the colony has one or more nukes it could establish mutually assured destruction or at least a significant deterrent.
It's highly improbable that the right wind of politics solely resides within the lower half of the bell curve, or that there is even a strong correlation.
I've been using fetchmail every two minutes (daemon mode) for well over two decades and not once has it failed to do what it needs to do. So it's a bit of a stretch to call it garbage. Other than emacs and mutt, there's no other tool with such stable longevity in my toolbox.
As to 1st part:

Honestly, it doesn't make much logical sense, especially to someone reading the text of the constitution with the expectation of understanding it...

but they really wanted a way to make civil rights laws happen. 2nd order effects, good case results in bad caselaw, etc.

The net effect is that constitutional protections originally meant only to apply to the federal government have, one at a time, over many years, been ruled as being applicable to both States and private businesses. To the point where it's presumed that most/all federal rights/protections should be applied this way. With guns being a currently battled sort-of exception.

(Similarly, read the text of the 8th amendment, and try to figure out the bridges crossed to result in Roe v Wade)

Twitter fits in as a business, at least in this context, for the sake of this particular argument. (As opposed to those who want to classify it as a utility, or "public square," etc)

Some people get upset at it, but the easy comparison is they're the modern version of the 1960's lunch counter or bus company, but instead of skin color, it's political opinion (or sometimes even religious beliefs, depending on the specific topic of discussion).
Scala provides tools that allow highly competent developers to write very concise code, and if you give them those tools they will use them. Developers who are less competent may then have trouble understanding that code.

A wise co-worker of mine once said that it is just miserable when you have to maintain code written by someone smarter than you. So I strive to be concise and clear, but very rarely can I justify using arcane features and concepts to achieve that goal.
I wonder how clubhouse would monetize its traffic. most social networks had to make the advertisement presented in similar ways to the content, e.g. twitter, instagram, tiktok. but I can't imagine clicking on and listen to a "conversation" that advertises a product...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism

"Historians and other scholars disagree on the question of whether a specifically fascist type of economic policy can be said to exist."

"scholars argue that fascists had no economic ideology, but they did follow popular opinion"

If the experts cannot agree if a fascist type of economic policy can be said to exist how can you be so sure that one does?
I grew up with Alan Ford (in Zagreb, early nineties) and I have always preferred the later episodes (Pifarrerio not Magnus), which is a blasphemy among hardcore Alan Ford fans. Other than that, Alan Ford was definitely a phenomenon in Yugoslavia for a period of over 20 years.
Is Alan Ford the one that had a story that claimed the moon landings were faked? An Italian friend was talking my ear off about the idea, then on my way through the airport in Italy I picked up a secret agent comic book that looked intriguing, and it had that story in it.

I had to wonder if this comic book had raised the idea to his awareness, but couldn't be sure...
It is secure enough and it is the only reliable second factor to authorize that almost everyone possess.
I think this is a great project to refresh algebra and whatever language you choose to use.

I implemented a ray tracer with Kotlin just to learn the language, and got to use many features and learn them by practice.

Even finding and fixing bugs were fun, as I had to guess where the physics of the light had gone wrong.
The GrapheneOS FAQ [0] enumerates all the connections the OS and default apps will make and notably absent is anything Google-related.

Your claims seem to contradict the FAQ (e.g. you mention connectivity checks which are mentioned explicitly). Have you reported any of these issues (e.g. [1])? What was the response? Can you point to any specifically problematic code?

I'm not involved with GrapheneOS in any way but these seem like easily-verifiable claims if true.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/contact#reporting-issues
I looked at Nomad about a year ago but deployment of a secure production cluster involved more moving parts than I liked. Especially the security seemed to be very complicated (with a private CA, certificates, Vault, etc. necessary). A simple shared secret would have sufficed imo, but that was not available as an option.
Anyone try the puzzle? The following does not occur in the sample output, but I don't understand why:

/78698/37395746288: Koch 8 Sud Hab Tirol

What did I miss in the rules?
From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential.

I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corporations.
Some of that information you don't even need a backdoor to collect; the rest is stored in plaintext by Signal's competitors.
Curiosity.

A hypothesis is just a testable prediction - it only makes sense to have a hypothesis where you don't know the answer ahead of time. Debate is trying to convince someone else of a truth, which requires someone to know the truth (or at least believe they know the truth) beforehand.
First of all, cool project! I've done some less ambitious stuff in regards to mashing together scripts and zip archives to create what I'd describe as "dynamically linked python executables", and what you've managed to achieve with compiled code is awe inspiring.

Pure computation and file/socket based IO is enough to solve many problems, but I'm curious what the plan is down the road to support more exotic forms of IO like high performance graphics, audio, human input devices, etc. in a portable way?

It seems like the fully-statically-linked approach can only get as far as the common subset of all supported platforms, which is probably a tautology, but means that the cosmopolitan library will have to not only provide APIs for any possible type of IO someone might want to do, but also bake in all the userspace code to implement it on every platform. For a lot of things that seems currently very difficult, as many hardware vendors only provide dynamic libraries as their interface. I suppose statically linking isn't mutually exclusive with dynamically loading, though?

The other route seems to be targeting a virtual machine of some sort, whether it's running the code and providing a consistent ABI like qemu, or communicating over files/sockets like rendering graphics and sound in a web browser. I get the impression that's the less interesting route to go down though.

I appreciate the holistic nature of the project, and it seems like you've approached it with a pragmatic mindset. Myself thinking pragmatically, it just seems like you'll eventually want to at least support opengl or a GUI library or something, to appeal to the types of programs that really benefit most from easy portability.
"I would choose a volatile 200% increase over a year than a stable predictable 10% decrease."
Michael J. Saylor
This sounds like a reasonable law. The problem unfortunately as I see it is unless the victim and perpetrator...actually let's not kid ourselves there are no women secretly removing a condom...unless the couple are filming or have invited a third, there is no way of proving this. This sets up terrible "he said, she said" situation with no way for an accused to defend against false allegations.

I find it terrible that there is a slang term (Stealthing) for this despicable act and if it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt the guy should be prosecuted and jailed but I would hate to be judged on a balance of probability if I was being falsley accused by a scorned woman.
This interview is amazing, things like

"The program worked, but it was almost 200 lines long - almost too big for the Pascal system."

sounds like something written in a totally different universe.

Also, it seems that those were times when almost every programmer had his own editor, ed, em, en, be, hed if I managed to catch all of them.
Good grief, seeing news like this takes me back to kindergarten where kids' favourite activity was finding out the best way to make fun of the other kids.
I'm quite sad how many people are in favour of this legislation just because Google is the target. The freedoms and principles of the old internet are being crushed from all sides inwards now.

:(
I believe google should reveal their algorithm.
I have written a few programs like this - but not in languages which have async/await! In languages with manual async, getting here by refactoring is fairly easy.
Sucks to see this. I think I even mentioned your site on here just this past week.

Didn't think I'd see the author but since you're here, thanks, this has been my go-to over the years.
There already are services who claim to be able to verify the authenticity of images. And so far, I managed to fool all of them with good CGI videos injected through MIPI into an Android system.

I remember that TruePic was especially awful, because their app fell for me just taking a photo of a printed out image. Plus their website overflows with Blockchain and Crypto buzzwords
I feel like writers and literary communities are overall such an underserved segment. Interesting product!
No. They exist to encode 31 bits of codepoint space, but later the UC decided to limit the codepoint space to only 21 bits because that is what UTF-16 is limited to, and then UTF-8 no longer needed to support sequences of 5 and 6 bytes.
The press has influence. The press has always had influence. In a society involving mass media, the press can't not-have influence.

We might talk about what form a society would have to have for the press to not have great influence - maybe "very strong education and civil institutions" or "directly democratic workers' councils" but if we're going have a modern capitalist society with multiple poles of elites and atomized consumers, the press, the corporations, the state and highest professional all will have disproportionate influence.

Which is to say, now, all the different press outlets manipulate, sometimes in distinct and opposite ways, sometimes in agreement with each other. And all the various economic and political institutions manipulate.

And the thing with this manipulation is it doesn't require crazy plan like the ggp/op insinuates. They don't need to intentionally create "deep fake" as vague threat, human psychology just naturally drifts that way, including the psychology of the reporters themselves. And manipulation for a specific purpose just requires the poor framing of ideas that can leveraged whenever you need it. So yeah, the press certainly manipulate but it doesn't generally have a "master plan" of manipulation. That wouldn't help (not that it hasn't been tried).
Yes, look at all that squashed DNA, lol.

Seriously though, how do we know that is DNA? It just looks like wiggly worms.

And the DNA pic is black and white, but the picture of graphite is in colour. How is it in colour? Is it 'enhanced' with photoshop or something?
A photo of the actual crate he stowed away in (his rescuer is in the crate):

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/media/images/82156000/jpg/...

From this 2015 article: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32151053

It really helps to picture being stuck upside down in the thing. I thought, “surely you could gradually rotate yourself the right way up” before I saw the photo.
The biggest problem with this concept is that while ASICs can be extremely efficient, FPGAs are much less efficient than the equivilent ASIC. The flexibility comes at a substantial power, chip area, and speed cost. So much so that e.g. raw number crunching is more efficiently done by CPUs or GPUs in almost all cases. You need a particularly quirky computation before an FPGA is a good accelerator. FPGAs are more naturally suited to applications where ultra-low (or ultra-predictable) latency, extremely high bandwidth I/O (with relatively little processing), or particularly specialised DSP is required. Most of these are best served with an FPGA with a CPU attached, as opposed to the other way around, and the cost of the FPGA is not likely to be worth the cost to the majority of users. For an example of a specialised use-case: ASIC designers use racks of them to simulate the digital logic in large-scale designs, which are otherwise far too difficult to simulate on a CPU because CPUs really struggle to simulate billions of seperate logic elements individually, and latency is a real killer for parallel processing. Even so, they run much, much slower than realtime.
If the amount given is low enough it probably won't attract scammers pretending to be homeless - but it may shift the number of homeless from cities that don't do the program to city that do it (assuming word of mouth spreads and homeless mobility allows it)
Probably sometimes, intuitively it's pretty damn obvious not all the time, and based on what evidence? What a huge sweeping claim to just drop in one sentence.
They are all mentioned in this clickbait headline.
I have a friend who works at Rockstar. I have forwarded the blog post to him.