jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been using a simple left border to highlight new comments in my extension (http://hckrnews.com/about.html), and I've found it works pretty well at highlighting new comments without being too obtrusive.
The body scanners are supported 81% by one poll and 65% by another. For what it's worth it seems fear mongering has worked wonders.

Want to disagree with me? I'll call you unpatriotic.
HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
There are many things in the world that can be used for good and bad, and supporting the existence of those things does not mean that you're in favor of the bad parts.

Some companies that sell content have decided to use a heavy-handed approach (DRM), demonstrably punishing their paying customers. They are not looking for new ways to make perhaps even more money in the Internet age; they are only trying to preserve what is arguably a dying business model. They ignore legitimate questions like, "if I can't afford this and you give it to me for half price, and I can easily share it with 10 of my friends, will that generate sales you wouldn't have otherwise seen"?

The "pirates" are a bit like a rally to restore sanity: they provide what people actually want (which is NOT "free movies"), and frankly content companies have been too stupid to realize this outcome. Not everyone cares if a download is free. What they really want is freedom from the bullshit that is digitally shoved into DVDs these days (like previews you can't skip, commercials when you've already paid for content, and other restrictions on what you can do). They want to play something they've bought on one device, and not have an error box come up when they shamefully try to play it on another device that they also own.

If you're wondering why artists don't see much money, take a look at the insultingly small percentages they get from their rich overlords.
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I don't see how I'd ever be motivated to actually learn it, given I encounter it sporadically and never under pressure.
The article never spelled it out, but he likely was properly granted the degree. He simply made a public show about not accepting the piece of paper. In the end he suggests that he "will not use this degree to get a job" or something to that effect.

Meaning that the degree has, in fact, been conferred.
Why would you think it's a shame? You don't really have to be good at these things to be a decent coder.
Neonicotinoids make bees "drunk" for lack of a better term...

Thank you. I had not read this explanation before.

Understanding the actual mechanisms can help elevate the discussion, move us past the emotional "Monsanto and pesticides bad!" rants to something more constructive.

Great posts, please keep them coming.
98' Winnebago Adventurer. Chicago suburb. First burn ever (have been trying to go for years).
> And even the largest selling point of the entire stack - develop once, run everywhere - is far less true then many like to admit.

But it's more true than any platform in the history of mankind.

I've noticed a resounding chorus of seasoned developers railing against the web as application platform for over a decade now. But their complaints are always comparing an open standards based platform against some proprietary platform or GUI toolkit. Of course Microsoft or Apple are going to put together a more cohesive app SDK than the W3C. But neither of those behemoths has ever approached the ubiquity of the web, not by a long shot, because every single platform they target has to be developed by them. The web is available everywhere, and if a new corporate behemoth builds the next great platform, they must include web support because that is now considered baseline functionality. I'm surprised more old-school developers don't recognize what an amazing accomplishment this is.

So yeah, JavaScript is terrible, but it's standing on the most ubiquitous platform ever created. And you can't build that platform by thinking to yourself, "what would the ultimate cross-platform application platform look like?" It doesn't work that way. The web won because of it's braindead simplicity, that was the thin edge of the wedge. You see being document-based as a weakness, but that's its strength, because documents have a higher utility-to-complexity ratio than apps. Even today when all us software elites are thinking about javascript-based apps, the web is still dominated by a massive substrate of documents, and many apps exist only to manipulate documents, so being document-based and allowing anyone to edit documents was the killer feature of the web. How many network application protocols/platforms/toolkits have been invented since the birth of the internet? Certainly a lot more than anyone will ever be aware of because they didn't have the means to gain traction.

Systems on the scale of the web don't—can't—happen by design. Instead of complaining how terrible it is we need to look at what incremental improvements are possible. Over time this leads to real evolution, and yeah it's slower than we'd like, but there's no other way forward without chucking out all the users with the bathwater and becoming irrelevant.
> mobo should be quite upgradeable though to last another decade

Wouldn't count on it. I can't remember the specifics, but we're coming up on the end of the vague time range that AMD said they'd support the AM4 socket. They talked about how difficult and expensive it was to get the interposer to connect the new chiplets to the old pins on the socket. I think Lisa Su also implied in an interview that AM4 is nearing it's end. In any case, DDR5 is coming in the next year or two which would necessitate a new socket, so I'd guess one more generation on AM4 at most.
Most grocery stores in the places I’ve lived offer online shopping. From Amazon Fresh to Carrefour. Try it, it will save you so much effort.
At least in the US, they do it all the time. The job of the government is mostly to do what we tell it to do because the government is just people from the community.
You clearly either didn’t understand it or just didn’t bother to address the actual point I was making, so I couldn’t tell.
Sounds like Uber provides valuable service to the poor who are more likely to work night shift and also less likely to be able to afford the premium for the nicer black cab service during the day.
Uber is cheap because they are subsidizing your fare with investment dollars at an unsustainable level. They are selling $2 for the price of $1. The ride sharing economy is convenient, but I can't see it lasting for much longer. At least not without losing some of what makes it so convenient, like low prices.
I think I missed the page 2 stuff.
Ah, thanks for that. I thought I might have missed them, but the symbols/hash convention is something I'm growing used too.
We have a comparison chart here:
http://wakemate.com/compare/

WakeMate is cheaper, more comfortable, and easier to use.

Getting up in the middle of the night won't affect anything. Our analytics system will, however, tell you that you woke up during the night.
Thanks for pointing that out - I didn't notice when I read this earlier and wondered why half the story was missing!
I'm in southern arizona, and I've talked to a bunch of people who run WISP's.

The big issue is line of site, which is required to get a good connection with the 2.4Ghz tech. In areas with large flat plains getting the signal out without really tall towers is hard just due to the curvature of the earth.

The other problem is what people are willing to pay for - the equipment required for the distances involved isn't that cheap. Plus, service and maintenance is always an issue.

The last mile is hard to do, and often a regulatory monopoly. Honestly this is one place where government intervention (requiring line providers be common carriers, mandating and bankrolling network infrastructure projects, etc.) could be helpful.
This is great, Backbone supports undo! You can simply use the .previous(attributes) function :)
You're missing Android 2.3 on https://secure.wakemate.com/compatibility/
They don't; the USA is ridiculously tough on minor offenses, or even behaviors that are not even wrong, like possessing drugs.
Signal is still centrally controlled and compiled by a single entity and distributed only in an unsigned insecure form or in a signed/verified manner only if you give up your privacy to install with Google Play or the Apple store.

Those that only run open source software like myself have no secure way to run Signal short of compiling every release by hand which is impractical. Moxie has stated he will not support anyone but his team compiling or distributing Signal binaries so third party signed builds via privacy focused app stores like F-Droid are out. All builds must also use Signal centralized servers even though that centralizes TCP/IP metadata, etc.

Not to mention you need to show government ID to get a SIM to use the Signal wallet for said private currency/messenger in 200 countries.

Secondly having a decentralized currency whose servers can only run on Intel machines with Intel SGX is a very centralized supply chain as well.

A single supply chain attack on Intel microcode or related SGX updates could run malicious code and game over for the currency globally? A government that sees MobileCoin as a threat could make Intel do this.

With a SPOF on the supply chain of the only client people are expected to use and another SPOF on the only hardware enclave people are supposed to use for servers... decentralized is technically true but not used in the same way as most other projects that use that word.

I will keep an eye on this experiment though, because there are some unique ideas here which could have value should your trust anchors expand beyond Intel and Signal.
Easily double. Probably way more than that. I guess the only way to know is from excess deaths statistics. Even that is confounded by the collapse of the health care system.
It can be quickly validated / disproved by doing unsupervised learning on RAW images. I believe there are a few large RAW image dataset available nowadays.
Only if there are no alternative explanations for the data. If this turned out to be the only viable explanation, then this theory will stand, at least pending more data that might strengthen it or show it to be in error.
I heard the bus services are lowering their fares in response to Blabla, though AVE (et al) are still expensive.
Really

Before 32bit, x86 was a complete crapfest

Segments, A20, chained IRQs, several controllers that are still seen as separate, a whole chain of legacy stuff that has to be dealt with

No wonder the ARM processor in your phone has a lower power consumption
It's a new technique (2011) that a certain sub-genre and neither software or the other artist made it back in past.

It was invented by BT and patented: https://www.google.com/patents/US8145496
I'll believe it when I hear it from an Italian source, in Italian. The information in this article presumably went through a linguistic game of telephone consisting of: Italian --> Hebrew --> English.
My roommate works at Target. A middle-aged woman came in as a customer and asked for help. He and another coworker of his helped her around the store. When they finally got the pharmacy she mentioned that she was a confirmed case of Corona and that she was doing last minute shopping before she went into self-quarantine.

He was immediately sent home by his boss as well as anyone else she had come into contact with. I honestly want people who are confirmed infected to face legal repercussions for going to populated areas.
> So the first impression you get for software using Qt is old and glitchy.

honest question, is that the impression you get from using the Blizzard launcher (https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2013/june/launche...) or stuff like Substance ? (https://www.awn.com/sites/default/files/image/featured/10157...)
I strongly suspect you do. Nearly 100% of the people I've seen argue in favor of indefinite lockdowns are white collar internet natives, capable of getting a reasonable amount of personal and professional satisfaction through a monitor. If you know anyone who works with their hands for a living, or whose primary social activity is having a beer with the bros, you understand why it's not as simple as just "it'll end when it ends".
Counterpoint: as someone who's also raced both to a sufficient degree to know (from well before GPL to rFactor and iRacing in terms of simulators, and in KT100, Super Comp and other real-world categories), the skills are far more transferable than you're indicating.

There's still a big difference between the two, but "almost nothing in common" is not an accurate description. And there's a reason the top guys on either discipline can switch over and still be quite competent–if not world-beating–on the other side.

All of the top teams use simulators based on commercially-available simulation engines to develop the car and solicit feedback.

The skills are largely transferable for many drivers. There are a few odd cases–Michael Schumacher famously became too motion sick in the simulator to use it–but those are exceptions. Maybe you're one of them (and if so, you're in very good company!)
> Business to business relations are not protected this way.

I never said they were. But there's no moral difference even if there is a legal one. Bluntly, Shopify clearly thinks it's OK to not sell their software to people who might express ideas they don't approve of.

By extension, they're also maligning half of America as either too stupid or immoral to have good reasons for voting for Trump.

If these merchants aren't worthy of business, by extension, neither are those voters.
It looks like all hardware 2FA keys with NXP A700X chip are affected.
Yeah, the real title should be “Apple abides to the letter of opensource licenses, like every year, while largely continuing to ignore the spirit of them”.
And were all of those people evil, terrible people? Seriously?

You need to go back and look at the Stanley Milgram experiments. It's impossible to really know if you or I would murder the person in the other room if the person in authority told us to, but I suspect you probably would.
As a human, one should strive to be the owner of such a fortunate dog.

I don't think I'd want to swap places with most dogs, personally.
I just wanted to reassure the OP. This was posted a zillion times all over the Internet.
How are you indexing literally billions of messages on tiny mobile devices? What happens when you wipe your device and you want to have your chat history from before? How do you download all the previous chat messages? Who hosts the chat index?
The part that says there's "an orderly transition of power". Trumpers will forever believe that the election was stolen, but they can believe that from the comfort of their homes, they don't need to go out and attempt to overthrow the government because of it.

If any tech company were to try to suppress the "facts" that support the "rigged election" narrative, that would only reinforce the their beliefs.
Prototype was actually written by Sam Stephenson who these days works at 37signals and has been part of the Rails Core team since it's inception (read, before making prototype).

Prototype is a stand alone library and predates jQuery by almost two years. jQuery is more or less a direct descendent of Prototype and reimplemented all it's features with a slight twist to emphasis method chaining which was a key insight that simplified everything.
For sure I see the argument there: it is way more of a pain in the ass to show up to an office on Market Street than chilling wherever you want. And if that was their stated argument, I'd have no problem with it.

However, that this not the argument these people are making. The argument I see time and again is that your compensation should be location-adjusted based on cost of living. And by making that argument, they are clearly saying you are—or are not—entitled to a certain degree of living, which is where it gets creepy, inappropriate and inevitably abusive.

And why do I say creepy? Because saying that a person does or does not deserve a certain lifestyle, and saying that they will or will not facilitate that lifestyle for you, crosses a boundary into your personal life that degrades you as an independent individual who is entitled to decide whether or not you do basic things like saving money. Instead of treating you like a person, they treat you and force you to conceive of yourself some sort of "lifestyle consumer." Sure, some people just have no leverage. But normalizing this way if thinking is going to lead us down an even worse labor path than we are on right now. Your employer is not your legal guardian.
I don't know that I'd call it a ritual, but I skim the NYT front and "World" pages daily, weekend or otherwise, because I like to think it helps me keep track of which way the wind is blowing, and among US media I'm pretty sure that, most days, the NYT blows hardest.

Timing aside - and does timing matter as much now as it did back when news papers were still a thing? - Metz's article carefully doesn't say, but very strongly implies, that SSC and its community serve as a "transmission belt" using privileged access to trendsetters in the tech industry to deliver fascist ideas into that industry's main stream of thought.

Will that become part of the post-Russiagate narrative being developed around the industry as a whole, not least by the NYT itself? I don't know. But it could. And, as someone who wishes for nothing more than to have a time portal open from 2347 into his living room just long enough for a history of the 20th century to fall out, this is the sort of stuff I find really interesting and diverting to think about.

edit: On reflection, one wonders what the NYT's perspective on Hacker News would be. I think there's a reasonable chance we'll get to find out. And that would be interesting, too!
> a huge resource hog

One observation that I recently saw:

> Bitcoin is such an environmental disaster it really is a crime against humanity. So what does Tesla do with their $1.5B in revenue last year from clean car credits sold to other automakers? Put it into “Destroy the Planet Inc”

* https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1358780808144723968
The iPhone is not storing travel history information. It's only storing a "last seen" timestamp for each cell tower. And again, the most accurate they'd be able to get was "this guy was within 500 meters of these dozens of cell towers at 5PM, and with 500 meters of these dozens of other cell towers at 7PM." They'd in no way be able to get your physical address, unless you lived alone in the countryside.

Please read my previous comment for more details:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467895
Uninformed guess: the speed of a top-level cricket delivery (~100mph) is such that stereoscopic vision doesn't really play a role. It's all in the timing.
So when big sites deal use Amazon Web Services for major traffic, do they get a serious customer relationship? Or is it just generic email/web support and a status page?
Before Stewart, Colbert, or Oliver the UK had Chris Morris.

Morris created the radio show "On The Hour", which transfered to tv as "The Day Today", and followed that with "Brass Eye".

You really should seek these out if you're interested in news and current affairs satire.

(Morris then went on to co-write "Nathan Barley" with charlie Brooker.)
yea! TIC-80 is probably the best open source one it's written in taste
Depends on where in the world you live. Also depends on the kind of misconduct. In general I'm of a mind that it isn't any of my employer's business what I get up to when I'm off the clock. If they can define "misconduct" in a sensible way they're probably free to add it to my employment contract, in which case I can decide for myself whether or not to work for them. Anything less is arbitrary nonsense and will likely result in legal action.
There is evidence that it is true - the timing, his defence of Timnit (which worked under him), the anonymous sources, and the deliberately vague resignation letter.

To me, that it is true seems much more likely than the reverse.
Any big old enterprise will provide a lot of IT jobs where you can basically sleep all day long.
I'm not sure that statement is true.
Given just one OR the other, which would you pick? Graffiti, or random chatter/expression by extension, is useful as an addition to privileged writing which serves as a backbone to the events of history. Without the latter, the former isn't nearly as interesting.

Take Native American culture for example. If we could, we would prefer actual historical events written down than just stories that's pass down through word of mouth.
Playing with Openstack on my 4 node cluster && neglecting the wife = 0
Yeah I no argument that it's good to know what your code does but what you choose to do is context specific, why would throwing InvalidCastException be better than NullRef, neither tell me why the failure happened.

On a somewhat unrelated note why is this trivial C# 101 lesson on the bloody front-page. I've got to imagine maybe 1 out of 10 readers care and far fewer didn't already know this.
Group messaging currently solves the problem, but as we become more complex and technology aware, other solutions will bloom to meet our growing necessities, imo.
Hook, line and sinker. Why would anyone take offering seriously?
This actually come as a surprise. Just to ask as a testing case -

can we have an actually portable (common) lisp/python interpreter with at least terminal interface?

Can the terminal have something like VT-100 or other basic interface? and

Can we even run javascript to do screen related items ... like https://github.com/d3/d3
Try new books: effective c and the free modern c one. They actually teach the language and all the concepts.
Local firefighters and an ambulance will come and arrive quickly? I think that’s exactly the point of the question.
> [ECS was] Popularized by Scott Bilas' engine for Dungeon Siege.

Make that nothings' and MAHK's http://enwp.org/Dark_Engine for (initially) Thief.
We all get databases. They're a commodity. e.g. AWS will sell you a DynamoDB table for $cheap.
Visual Studio Code is literally the only good Electron application, the rare exception that proves the rule.
Most of those recruiters do not deserve to be employed in the first place. They lack basic empathy towards job seekers. They talk like they own you. I have not met any of them yet that does not meet this description unfortunately. I think having some power on other people's lives corrupt them.
JSON.parse(`go run json.go`)

No.
How much does your son want to do programming? Does he do it for fun already?

What other interests does he have? Are there parts within these interests that could have relevance for programming? For example he might like bird watching, so perhaps a mobile app for birding might be good, or he might love platformer video games, etc etc.

In short, he should do what he is interested in, don't worry about the choice of technology - by far the most important thing is that there is some interest, passion and enthusiasm. The choice of technology is less important than the choice of what to do.
How is this an example of that? The company is explicitly saying that IT is determining who is a bad actor and who is not.
I just want to give the obligatory thank you dang, I moderated and eventually administrated a modestly sized sports forum for 5 years, and I didn't do half as good a job as you do solo modding this place, especially at times like this.
Rather than a coding bug I think the major risk of SELinux is a higher complexity I.e. its so absolutely horrible to work with that it’s easy to fuck it up and leave a hole in something.