jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Information wants to be free

I have personally always thought that argument to be entirely BS. A piece of software can be considered information; it's just bits in order. Therefore, it should be free. Music can be considered information for the same reasons. It's a convenient argument, because it gets us all the things we want, for free! But EVERYTHING is information. YOU, YOU are just information, and so is that computer in front of you, and the chair under you. Are you also free (as in beer)?

Information requires effort and/or investment to create, and personally I feel the "information wants to be free" folks like to simply wax over that to further their own interests.
Consider Threema instead. It recently went open source and it has top-notch, Signal-quality crypto and you don't need to provide a phone number or email.
Probably a combination of ease of use and interface design. The ability to easily customize your page with an endless series of well made themes can't hurt either. Blogspot just looks very dated in comparison.
The solstice is unremarkable, or the coincidence is? I would think the shortest day of the year is relatively noteworthy to other species, even if they can't detect the specific date; certainly more interesting than a lunar eclipse (I'd assume most animals are either asleep or can function just fine without a visible moon).

I agree the coincidence is pretty meaningless, especially since it's about 15 hours off from the exact moment of the solstice.
If you ever have the opportunity to witness a full solar eclipse, do it. Don't settle for a partial one, it's night and day (pun intended).
Incorrect. When someone is ARRESTED for a crime (not suspected) they are imprisoned. If them fleeing is not a problem, they may post bail which is money held for ransom to be returned when you go to court. If you don't go to court there will be a bounty on you.

Long story short, innocent until proven guilty. Not vice versa.
Currently Audio support in html5 in iOS is really bad, and there's no way around that. Native code is the only realistic option right now for games on iOS. I don't see Apple going out of their way to "fix" the situation either.

Specifically, telling an Audio element to simply load and then play a sound fails much of the time, or takes upwards of a full second to start playback of a very short sample file.

Not to mention that iOS specifically prevents an Audio element from playing unless it is in a function responding to user touch. This means background sound effects and such are effectively impossible. I'd love very much if someone told me (with working sample code) that I was wrong.
It's interesting, but there are better-tuned services for this.

http://www.usertesting.com/ comes to mind.
Note the word "SUSPECTED". A suspect cannot even be held at a police station for questioning. Big difference between arrested and suspected.

Post 9/11 though the patriot act has done some unholy horrors to our due process.
Quoting a twitter reply for an explanation:

"Each row is an outcome. The orange dot signifies how strong the genetic correlation is for that outcome from genes not related to IQ. The blue dot is the correlation with genes that correlated with IQ. The grey dot is the correlation of educational attainment with the outcome.
When theres an asterisk, it means there was a significant difference between the IQ based genetic correlation and the non IQ based, so you can infer how much of a role IQ plays for that outcome as compared to non IQ related genes.

So take cigarettes per day for example. You can see that the non IQ genes were more correlated with cigarette usage than IQ genes, which tells us a little but about what mediates that outcome."
At least with young kids, you'll no longer have time or energy to consider questions like this.
Current Location: Irvine, CA and Goleta, CA

Remote: Yes

Relocation: Yes, within US/Canada

Technologies: python (TensorFlow/keras, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, PIL, opencv, librosa, jack), C++ (TensorFlow, ImageMagick, uWebSockets), Java (Swing, sockets), web languages (React + TypeScript + XState)

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeozjtrIiMQcsSZ0xa09uix3Lpy...

GitHub: github.com/rajansaini691

Email: rajansaini@cs.ucsb.edu

I am a third-year undergraduate with a strong research interest in embedded applications of ML and vision/audio problems. I spent this summer helping a research company speed up/improve accuracy of their object detection models and the summer before that doing embedded work for a physics lab.

Seeking an internship for 2021.
Well, it is an opinion piece
It would seem that the hyperloop is just an invented charade developed for use as a carrot to manipulate states into dropping their laws against direct sales from car manufacturers. That would explain why Texas is being courted now. They lost out on the gigafactory and may be more willing to capitulate to get a piece of other Musk projects.
I think that guaranteed income shouldn't replace minimum wage. The reason is that when workers are willing to work for $1 an hour "for the experience", you're basically just subsidizing companies that don't pay a living wage to their employees. If you want to be a volunteer, or you want to be a startup founder and be compensated in equity, that's fine. I'm just not okay with the idea of shifting the cost of employing workers in dead-end, menial jobs onto the government.
Head First Java. Possibly anything by Kathy Sierra.
The control group wasn't necessarily supposed to do worse. The control group were ideally supposed to be unaffected.
I would suspect that once you engrave your iDevice that it would be harder to resell, thus bumping up the market for new devices. Or, it could be that people are more likely to buy them as a gift if they can somehow personalize it.
Cynicism aside, it also turns them into phenomenal, personalized gifts.
Please don't do this here. HN threads are supposed to be conversations.
So... they are trying to make the Web more shareable with a proprietary annotation feature, thereby introducing a new category of UX issues, bugs and incompatibilities.

I suppose that would be kind of neat if the Web wasn't already the most shareable medium in the world (you've heard of URLs?).

MS is way behind in standards implementation (yes still, even in IE11). Yes this software is pure vapor, but has their browser project office heard of feature prioritization?

MS has not, cannot and will never change. They are onto a losing strategy long-term (just review your GA logs). And for that I am glad because as a developer for the Web, I hate them with a passion.
They aren't neccesarily designed that way, it is the reality of democratic local governance that real property owners in a community are naturally going to vote for measures that maximize the value of their property so that they can sell it once the land has a more profitable use than their own. When everyone votes for their own economic interest it tends to make real property more expensive over time.
"Need" is too strong. Without going into the arguments against DoH, we don't "need" it, because there is an alternative: run your own recursive DNS. That should be something that a consumer could switch on or off. A default install of Unbound, for example, seems to /just work/.

Downside: if you have any kind of home network, running your own recursive DNS probably implies running your own DHCP, which isn't normally a consumer alternative (you could do it using settings on a domestic router, but not if it's crippled or locked-down). Also, DNS caching shouldn't be so effective (but I haven't noticed that effect).

Upside: all kinds of problems resulting from relying on DNS servers controlled by others disappear. You're not relying on them any more.
USB-C connectors can carry Thunderbolt which is essentially external PCI-Express, so the adapter might have to be very minimal if you’re fine with it only being compatible with Thunderbolt-capable devices.
Thx! Exactly our goal. Get them excited about learning to code early on so they will stick with it as it becomes more difficult.
What's an example of something non-interactive that ed is good for that you can't easily do with other tools?
Here is a math-focused submission from way back [0] where I made some suggestions that I stand by.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273012
Skype is really bad for text chat.

- It is closed-source, obfuscated, and untrustworthy overall (https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard).

- The supported (Windows and Mac) versions have obnoxious ads, and the Linux version is buggy and 32-bit-only.

- Since it’s P2P-ish (which makes sense for audio and video calls), you can’t send a message to someone who’s offline and expect them to be notified (say, via e-mail, which Slack does). Worse, if you go offline, they won’t get it until you’re both on at the same time!

- Files shared on Skype don’t last. You have to use an external service.

- There is no permanent archive; logs are client-side and easy to lose. (You can get messages that are a few days old from peers, but there’s a limit – I don’t know exactly where.)
Yeah, we wrote Huxley to mitigate many of the GP's issues with UI testing by making it automatable and easy to bring up to date. http://github.com/facebook/huxley.
Well... I work at a company that makes a bunch of noise about neurodiversity and my honest opinion is it's been one of the worst experiences of my life due to certain elements of the structure/culture. I don't think it has anything to do with whether they are big on neurodiversity or not, just that it's no guarantee that you're going to be better off at a company that is. Us ADHDers are incredibly sensitive to the environment and if the environment is wrong then things don't go well for us. You need to optimize for environments in which you personally function well and not environments that virtue signal about neurodiversity.
Yeah and even before they did this, maximise behaved weirdly on a Mac. It didn't maximise to the screen but to the "content" which meant that some apps would not maximise fully.

You can still initiate the old behaviour by holding option when you click the green dot, by the way.

But macOS (at least since macOS X) has never had a maximise in the way that most other desktop environments have it. To simply make a window occupy the whole screen on top of everything else.
A MacBook Air that can push 2 external monitors is mine
This is music to my ears. Thank you for your efforts. When I first started using my M1 Mac, it was like a computer from another planet. It was so freaking fast it took me back to the 90s/early 2000s when every upgrade was a night and day improvement. I could never believe a computer could be so snappy in everyday usage. It just brings joy every time I use it. Meanwhile I have this 2019 Core i9 Macbook pro at work and it is a slug compared to the M1.
I'm very close to doing all future development on AWS and avoiding depending on my machine anymore. Local price/meaningful performance (given frontend apps are getting fatty) is plateauing in my view.

I'd rather migrate workflows that have high variance in compute requirements to a place where that variance can be satisfied easily and quickly.
It's mainly three things:

- ram compression (fast CPU helps that this is non-noticeable)

- aggressive swapping on a fast SSD (you'll notice that macOS swaps unused pages even if there is ram left to make space for file caches)

- the M1 is just very fast, especially ram, so it's snappy overall
This may explain why Sony removed the code; Apple is very touchy about multitouch gestures and implementing them in ObjC must be particularly galling.
> How are these supposed to be handled, without socially enforced conduct agreements, enforced by an overarching party?

With contract enforced conduct agreements, enforced by a dispute-resolution organization, who tracks your reputation upon which people and other courts will decide whether to enter contracts with you.

No libertarian has ever explained that to you? Robert Nozick explained that to me.
Yeah. Why would anyone on GitHub contribute to the original Vim when there's Neovim?
That happened to me for a while and it made me think of the hard workers in third world countries on meager diets. But eventually it catches up with you. I still skip, but I notice it is harder to concentrate in the afternoon.
Employees want to earn the same amount every month and everything in their life is based on that, rent/mortgage, bills, loans etc. Employers end up meeting this need by making employees work a set amount of hours a month. People typically can't deal with less or more money a month in sensible way. Sometimes there isn't much for employees to do, but that's a risk the employer either takes or should fix. Some employers have a flexitime system to ease this a little.

The 9-5 is a result of those factors and there are alternatives, start a product business or do freelance work.
In the article he states, "today, at its 20th anniversary". This caused me to double-check the date of publication, which is November 22nd. Ignoring for a second that TBL has transcended space and time to the point that he can publish from the future, this is the only place I can find a reference to the exact day the web went live. Wikipedia's best date is, "by Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web." [1] The next date it mentions is August 6, 1991, which is when he posted a public summary of the project.

Does anyone have any good information on a more precise day we could say the web went live? I want to know when best to have a party.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
"At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

That's a simple explanation, and the point is that people really don't have to understand how computers work. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh--but you asked [laughs]."

Jobs has been on point for a while now; he's a man with ideals and beliefs about technology and its role in society. He has been on point with this message for literally decades and he has seen his ideas through to creation time and time again.

That's worthy of respect.
Lots of needless clutter in the discussion, so I thought I'd drop a quick comment with clarifications:

1. As far as I can tell, this specific attack is meant to target MIPS-based OpenWRT/DD-WRT devices, like the Linksys WRT series.

2. lsof and all that crap isn't available by default. So, use 'ps' and 'netstat -a', and 'ls -la /var/tmp' to poke around your router.

3. Go into the web admin interface and disable sshd on the WAN interface, if it isn't already (it's off by default). In DD-WRT, go to Administration->Management-> and ensure "SSH management" is disabled.
They usually have a barrier between them. So it's not really shared. Wikipedia has some pictures and videos, conveniently enough they were taken in Sweden.
I drove on a highway like this (in America) this weekend. It's not really shared. It's just that your side will get two lanes for a while, then merge down to one. Then the other side gets two lanes for a while. There are frequently signs saying how far until the next two-lane section, which presumably pacifies impatient drivers.
There is a railing between the different parts of the road, so no risk of hitting the traffic going in the opposite direction.

Wikipedia picture as reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MMLNorr1.JPG
I trick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking). It's an incredibly fun sport and also a very, very effective way of staying in shape.
Michigan police are going to love this, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465185
I'm not sure if you read through all the details but it looks like Apple has a pretty strong case for Samsung ripping off their look and feel. The look and feel points get very specific and there are quite a lot of them.
+1 totally agree. think this is the biggest oversight of an otherwise cool service.

needs to include your personal website/blog & company site/blog as options
Very cool. I got about 50 FPS on a VMWare Fusion virtual machine. Granted it had my two virtual CPUs up around 90% usage, but still impressive.
Right, good ideas, I am thinking too much inside a box.

> good luck keeping aluminum cells warm, lol

There was article on hackernews recently about exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8666681

> Because electrical power is now super cheap, there are industries that have not put the slightest engineering effort on it... think CNC machinery, where there's no scientific reason a machine can't enter "sleep mode" within seconds, and return to work in seconds after sleeping, although in practice no one has ever made or shipped a machine like that, that I know of.

Big power consumers even now can enter "consumption reduction offer" market. They provide offers that they will reduce consumption by 1 MW between 11:00 and 13:00 at thursday, and when electric network needs rebalancing - distributor buys these offers from them (often at many times the regular electricity price) because it's cheaper to slightly reduce consumption here, than to pay someone else to power on a whole new powerplant block elsewhere and send the energy longer way around just because at one point in the network there's not enough transfer capacity for a few minutes.

There's a whole exchange market, allowing to publish these offers on consumers side, and buy these offers on distributor side, and regular traders doing brokering beetween them, even some automated trading systems, you can even buy futures based on that :). It is quite elegant system - using free market + some regulation to solve allocation and prediction problem.

This, with law support for smaller consumers (and serious automation, because consumers wuldn't want to spend their time trading energy) could make these changes (quick sleep/wake modes) profitable, even if the energy savings alone aren't enough to justify it.

In the end new washingmachine etc could be connected to internet, automaticaly publish such offers when you switch them to energysaving mode, and react when someone buys its offer.

I think EU wanted to expand these regulations to allow regular consumers to participate, but I don't know how advanced it is (I changed job and no longer work on energy trading systems).
Well, they price Coda Lite 1/5th the price of OSX version. So they get roughly 1/5h of the revenue. Math works out.
They could try and price Coda iOS at $99, but Cabel is right — it's just not that important platform for dev tools, and I don't see people paying that much. Now if those two were incredibly (and equally) valuable products on both platforms AND priced the same AND there was much less revenue from iOS, then sure, we can show AppStore's fault.

Not saying that appstore isn't broken, I think it is, but for this particular example, I don't think store is the problem.
For those who haven't read them, these posts by Steve Blank bring this all into focus. Spend a couple hours and read this: http://steveblank.com/secret-history/ and then this http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val... . History is fascinating when told by a good historian.
Well that's why I said "even" Javascript. Brendan Eich actually pulled off a small miracle by embedding incredibly powerful functional and prototypal paradigms in JS. It's not perfect, and there are plenty of warts, but JS came out of the gate with a powerful core that PHP took decades to add in a Frankenstein manner.
A) I think you read the first third of the article. The second part goes into the meat of the problem (multiple implementations, providers not being consistent etc).

B) Having a browser store everything isn't necessarily a great solution since people may use multiple browsers and public terminals.
:)

Cert pinning does nothing when the page is plain http as it is here.

(and HTTPS's helpfulness is limited without HSTS; were it HTTPS I'd have a couple of other assumptions like none of the hundreds of CAs are malicious, and "no attacker is able to MITM between the site and any CA that does domain-validation.)

I didn't run off that list to criticize the site. The last bullet is indeed good. :)
A truly interesting article. Thank you, killwhitey.

Wait, what?
It's like this: http://pgbovine.net/hacker-school-residency.htm

(I haven't updated the name retroactively yet!)
Price is also the major factor for me. I've bought probably close to 40 hardcover nonfiction books, mostly used, off of amazon within the last year. Ranging from 4$ to 20$ for brand new stuff I really want to read as soon as they come out.

If the price of an ebook is not going to go down with age, or popularity, and I can't resell it to make money, I'm not going to buy the,
The point of the article is that "communication being reestablished" is not a given. If it never happens, then you never get clarity about whether the message was delivered.
The closest thing I can think of to this was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system...

Which was a complete re-design at almost every level. Unfortunately the entire project got shelved, but it was a pretty interesting experiment while it lasted...
I am betting that 90% of those are hunting rifles, and the overlap between computer geeks and people who hunt these days is pretty low based on my personal experience.
> Many of us have profiles but don’t log in for months at a time.

Not those "us" who write articles like this, though.

Those actual "us" who actually don't log in for months at a time don't know anything about any of this stuff.
>Unless the serial number can be read over the internet without authentication

As I said in my post below, I just checked mine and the full serial number is included in the device hostname. Since tons of regular PW installs are going to average joe residential sites which will heavily be using crappy outdated ISP provided routers with default passwords and entirely flat unmonitored LANs, possibly with infected machines to boot, it's fair to say that yes in fact the serial number will be able to be read over the internet without any authentication. Anyone who can see hostnames of devices on the LAN can get the whole serial.

Although I also doubt any such network will have any real rate limiting or notice any hammering either, and the serials look utterly trivial to brute force. So I'm not sure the fact that they're all broadcast for everyone even ultimately makes much difference.
You can still buy dumb TVs, and a highly recommend it. For example, LG has a (hard to find) "commercial lite" line; my 55" 4k dumb TV works great.

US: https://www.lg.com/us/business/hospitality-tvs/commercial-li...

Canada: https://www.lg.com/ca_en/commercial-lite
you can change the way permission modals display to make them a pop-up window w/o the fullscreen! makes them much less jarring
Experiencing the intense doppler zoom as the racers fly past is a big part of the experience, no doubt.

But I am equally certain the people with a stake in racing will find some way to make the mechanicals sound both good and useful. Auditory feedback is too important to discard. And speaking just as a fan, I'd be thrilled to watch a race that sounded like a Tie Fighter dogfight.