jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When you close a line that already has a queue, you stop new people from joining you don’t screw over those already there.

End storage for new users, don’t just go telling scientists you’re going to delete their stuff.
Strawman much?

If you link a twitter video from a driver swerving erratically at cyclists, there will be no shortage of a mob demanding the driver lose his license and be put behind bars.

In this case the driver is an AI, so you respond by banishing all the cars this AI controls, goodbye Tesla FSD.
Putting my cynical hat on: 25.
> Your device is doing the equivalent of standing on the street corner and screaming various things.

Except there's one huge difference: anyone with eyes and ears can understand what the person is screaming. I would wager that even fewer than half of HN readers realize what's being broadcasted here.

What you're saying is that every human must have complete technological and implementation knowledge of any possible invention or they are not deserving of privacy. That position is not only elitist as a technophile, it's arrogant to think that any one person could possess that knowledge, let alone billions. At some point, you'll be the clueless one.
That was my thought too... I was thinking that it was some new system of lenses for physical zoom.
Chuck, while blekko is a great search engine(especially due to custom search), it's clear that it is very different quality wise from Google.Same for Bing - it's not upto Google.And not for the lack of trying or money(bing).

So how do you think Google is succeeding so well, if it's not click stream data? and why can't it be maybe a combination of things that strongly depends on click stream data that others couldn't copy?
And if they were really going to break the standard like that, at least they could have broken it in such a way that it fixed all the stupid legacy decisions.

Have it support <img>alt text</img> and <meta>content</meta>, as well as the old way, and then the developers can decide if they want to support legacy browsers. (They probably do, but at least we're looking at a future where html will be just a tad cleaner and more consistent.)
Hacker News is very qualified to give this person technical advice, but her problem originates in human relationships, and the solution requires some amount of diplomacy.

Everything we say on this matter is useless until confirmed by an outside party not afflicted by an ultrarational engineer brain. That said...

In recent years, the US government has ramped up its training for federal employees on recognizing and interdicting human trafficking. It might suffice to tell the border agent, "I have been subjected to a forced marriage, and the man's family is attempting to import me to the United States against my will. Once here, I will be little more than a slave. But if I refuse, I will probably be murdered. Will you help me?"

This is likely to make a bad situation worse, but that's the best I can come up with. The lady is probably better off traveling to a Germanic or Scandinavian country and appealing to a feminist organization instead of getting on a plane to the US.
I'm not saying "we have problems, 'they' don't". I'm illustrating the fact that EVERYBODY has problems. Software development isn't all peachy 100% of the time. [Let's call it 80% of the time ;)]
This is from people actively webchatting, but in general, for passive collection, I'm a lot more worried about my microphone than my camera. Even without tape over the lens, my laptop usually just sees my face or a blank wall, or a closed cover. It's not like I have my webcam aimed and lighted at my bed or shower or whatever, and in general, the level of compromising information from text or audio would be higher (sure, naked photos could be embarrassing, but there's nothing particularly unique about them at the national-security level).

I haven't heard much call for "physically disable microphone" switches, though. If anything things have gotten worse with laptops; at least with desktops it was pretty common to just not have a microphone connected. I suspect 99% of laptops have a decent microphone built in, no indicator light, etc.
Yeah, but I think the problem with cut-and-paste recruiter spam is that it's not really an opportunity. Most of the "offers" I get don't match my skillset and would not result in a job even if I pursued them. They simply increase the noise in the channel and don't add any value to anyone.
I can almost guarantee you that if such a bailout happens that it will likely encourage such behavior in the future. Rewarding a behavior encourages that behavior, whether it is good or bad.

In the future all exchanges could be audited and customers more cautious, but if something catastrophic happened then there would be those demanding another bailout because a precedent had already been set. Even those protections mentioned would likely stagnate over time.
> If FB brought Apple (maybe ten years ago, but today? Fat chance)

FB’s market cap wasn’t equal to AAPL’s Jan 2010 market cap until sometime in 2014.
My point is that even if US millenials' standards of living are decreasing, they still have it better than most of humanity. This is not to say that US people aren't allowed to try to claim a better future, just that keeping problems in scale helps ward off overreaction that might just worsen the issue.
While baldness definitely has a negative impact on most men life, it's merely a factor among many other things that can actually be controlled, and it's not life shattering on its own.

If that's actually how you feel, it's pretty serious and I urge you to try and search for help in your environment : life does not have to be this bad, and it can get better.
Yeah, the monsoon failure was a disappointment this year. But it happens.

I check the humidity every day, and it's been elevated on and off for the last few weeks. But that's here at the surface. What happens at the level that jets fly is entirely different weather.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Tattoos also, as that complements the look.
I imagine that's not the case for tech (approximately the subject of HN) and finance (the topic of the article), so while the fact may be true on average, I'm having trouble seeing its relevance here

I'm replying to a comment which doesn't make that distinction either. But finance is notorious for the health problems in the field. Heart attacks and other stress related fatalities are not uncommon. And in tech there's burnout.
Biden was VP for 8 years while China manipulated our markets. Created scam IPOs. Engaged in state funded corporate espionage. Manipulated currency. Stole IP.

So give me a break with Biden is "much smarter'. It would take a fool to not do what they did. But the problem is much broader then just tech. The government cares about tech because this directly relates to defense.

The Trump strategy was basically to try to cut as much foreign investment into China and stop investment from coming out of China. It wasn't necessarily stupid.

The Biden strategy is essentially an arms race Cold War 2.0 and its not a bad idea but to say it "much smarter" demonstrates a bias which show you are not thinking of the double edged sword and implication of the Biden strategy.
The fruits of gerontocracy.
With the article doesn't mention is that Berkeley was the first city in the country to adopt single family zoning 100 years ago

You mean except in the headline?
It reminds me of the beanie baby craze of the 90s. Same thing, different tech. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest this may happen again with some yet unimagined tech in the future.
> London is roughly as expensive as NYC or SF yet the Big Tech total compensation is 30-40% less than SF/NYC.

I don't know. NY seems to be consistently more expensive judging by [0], particularly rent. Overall NY taxes are only 1-3% lower from my calculations, so I think overall NY'ers don't have it much better. The UK is also particularly generous when it comes to tax-advantaged investment and has state healthcare.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
I don’t think the grandparent comment is taking exception to the phrase so much as the fact that it is verifiably false (and is even directly contradicted in the article body!).
In some cases its not that simple, for example with Hibernate if you select specific columns then the object you get back won't be put in its L1 cache because its not the full object.

So in some cases its better to select the whole object by primary key because some other method would do that later anyhow and now its in the cache and will skip an extra db call.
This doesn't work because this assumes no learning takes place.

As you can see we now have vaccines - it would not have been a few years of lockdowns.
Yeah that's my take. He gives examples of his "genius" preceded by a cringey analogy to Neo seeing the matrix as code and then gives an example formula that's very trivial and the exposition is extremely shallow which suggests frankly that the author's thinking is also rather shallow. There's no hint of analysis, understanding, or useful insights to the real complexities that arise when trying to glue a bunch of disparate models together into a complex interacting system. Instead he gives us just a trivial application of very basic mathematics to design of a game. Guess what, I'd have done the exact same thing if I had been assigned to design a game and I'd venture to guess that half the people on this site would take a similar approach.

The idea itself is hardly as exceptional as the author wants it to be.

This whole thing to me sounds a bit like a textbook case of the author having spent his life as the smartest person in the room, but only because he's been in the wrong room his whole life. To use an analogy: I suspect he's not Mozart... He's a very decent musician or composer that's spent his life in a community college orchestra and never ventured out into the world to interact with people that can eat him for lunch.
Compared to developing an application for the web those Borland interfaces were wicked fast and pretty clever. Extremely productive.
Counter-point: one of the “obscene” pay companies mentioned in this thread builds its entire culture around firing people regularly.
As far as I know all of the instances where Teslas drove into trucks and centre dividers were found to be at least partially due to driver behaviour (speeding, not paying attention). And also be aware that ordinary cars of all kinds do all of those things too.

> most recent center-divider crash is that it was an regression following an OTA update,

DO you have reference for that? I would be interested to read up on that, I have an interest as I have a Model S.
The distinction is moot since hubs don’t exist, so I’m still facing the problem of lack of physical inputs.

At best on the market there are hubs that give 1 extra type c input for power.
Seems like a GDPR violation. I think collection of user data has to be voluntary in a meaningful way.
You're making the case that Trump is inciting violence despite him explicitely deescalating, based on literally how many words were spent on deescalating vs. anything else, among other things. I think just the fact that this is such a hair-splitting discussion makes it very evident Twitter shouldn't have banned him for "severe violations".
> Windows has been multiplatform since NT 3.1 (Alpha, MIPS) and then in 3.51 adding in PowerPC.

What was the last version of Windows to support either of these platforms?
And here I was hoping a gopher:// resurgence was taking place.
Main reason is that GV is not secure according to the FCC ruling on prison pay phones. To be used with inmate calls a phone system has to have certain security items fulfilled and processed.

GV numbers are generally blocked by the pay phone providers and the FCC has allowed that.
> If every citizen received some minimum universal basic income, what might we do with our time instead of going to jobs we hate?

We might do amazing things. Then again, we might have a world where nobody scrubs toilets and lots of people make lousy paintings.

"What do I want to make/do?" and "what produces value for others?" are not always in sync. Having to sell your labor means there must be at least some link between supply and demand.
That's what I thought too. Based on the discussion surrounding this example[0], I believe that's the case.
Still, date/time is a tricky subject to get right.

0. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
What are the state of the art alternatives? FTPS? Dropbox?
You can always fool any system into a paradox. Very grossly speaking, this comes out of Godel's incompleteness theorem; that with any set of laws you can always get P=~P out of the set. How this paradox looks, acts, or feels is interesting and possibly artistic, as the OP shows. If anything, I think there is a bit of beauty, art, and cleverness in that.
Internal servers might theoretically be under your control, but in practice your sysadmin team probably isn't better than Github's and you're not going to have 100% uptime. If you're spending time and effort doing stuff in-house, be sure you're getting real value and not just the feeling of being in charge.
Strafor boasts about a lot of stuff, they are after all, a commercial enterprise. It remains to be seen how much of it is bullshit bluster from a bunch of desk jockeys with delusions of grandeur, and how much of it is real.

I get a heavy soldier-of-fortune wanna-bee vibe from them.

US spy agencies are relatively incompetent by historical measure, which is why it the attempts to remove all agency from foreign actors and put it into the hands of manipulations by secret groups is just nutty conspiracy theories.

Even this Russian trolling stuff is probably ineffectiveness compared to what is already forums filled with noisy trash comments. Are they really influencing anything, or just making comments worthless and untrustworthy to the average person?
Hmm, looking at Appendix B, it seems that the hardware is using something with a 4 clause BSD-style license. Could they be using OpenSSL for this product, perhaps?

Other than that, it seems that the Kingfish is their portable unit that's designed to be out in a field location, judging by the remote antenna input on the unit, and a section discussing battery charging. The Stingray unit seems to be something that's in a more controlled location, and as such, has an ethernet port, serial port, and a pair of usb a ports. External hard drive ports, perhaps?
For beginner it's pretty decent. I enjoyed it few years ago (probably that was some older revision).
Then, this should definitely be called an infinite regress instead of an infinite loop.
I read the Economist back when I used to travel a lot as a backpacker. Its content acquainted me with the issues of other countries in a way no other publication could have done.

Some travelers I met were surprised when they talked with the younger me about their country's healthcare reform, the valuation of their currency or their mroe vocal political leaders.
Where does one find an EA this capable? I'd consider this, but don't see how this is realistic
> Do lower reading comprehension, stunted long and short term memory, and a constantly wandering mind also factor in there?

Yes! These are even pretty common symptoms addressed in youth.

And the rest of your comment is pretty much the story of my life give or take a few degrees.

If these are still difficulties for you or if you ever find them to be again, I highly encourage learning more about how ADHD presents in adults. If nothing else you might learn more about how those electric brain meats work.
Identical except that the real one blasted off in a rocket.
God bless Claire Wolf
Yep, many! Today's era is quit unusual in how few open gay and bisexual relationships are had by public officials (which are the unions that are typically best recorded). In many other historical periods across different regions, today's standards would be considered unusually heterosexual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_same-sex_unions
Yes. Cars have steadily gotten heavier and the EV conversion is making this worse.

Are most drivers aware though, or only racing enthusiasts? I think on a daily driver car, the weight increase has been masked since most people drive on smooth paved roads where there's no loss of traction (especially with ABS brakes and some form of traction control being standard). ICEs have improved power and efficiency to compensate.
> Too easy for someone to use it to cook the books? Maybe it looks better in an audit if they can point to an external source for their accounting software.

I think that is probably a big concern. I read a comment once by someone who said they worked in some kind of company that did financial audits, and it said that as soon as they got a whiff of some homegrown accounting system, the audits got way more expensive, because then they'd have to do a technical audit of the system in addition to the bean counter's audit.

If the company ran SAP or some other common ERP system, they didn't have to do that, because it was battle-tested and assumed to be correct.
> because people could just listen to it on Spotify.

And Youtube, or the radio!
Thank you, it's already profitable enough to run so it's never going away!
Here's a list of Berners-Lee's statements that are contradicted by http://graph.facebook.com:

"The sites assemble these bits of data into brilliant databases and reuse the information to provide value-added service—but only within their sites. Once you enter your data into one of these services, you cannot easily use them on another site."

"You can access a Web page about a list of people you have created in one site, but you cannot send that list, or items from it, to another site."

"The isolation occurs because each piece of information does not have a URI"

Except for email addresses of friends, a third-party site can access as much of a user's Facebook data as the user wants to make available. Statements to the contrary are common, but false.
I actually dislike it when this happens because I have to download the ~2.5GB dev kit again on my crappy connection before I can publish again. Or am I doing it wrong?

Note: posted in other thread, but this one looks like it'll be the one.
Apart from not meaning much, it means they find ways to edge themselves into your your businesses, if you pay them some money, build up your reliance on their products, and are then forced to keep using the products or start your process from scratch. They're middlemen.

And that they make the more money than their competitors in doing so.
I wouldn't be swayed either way by a high Stack Overflow rating.

That said, asking and answering technical questions can be really beneficial. It's much harder to write about something clearly than some people realise, and a great skill to develop.

Also, rather than the whole reputation, I might take interest in particular answers: a single solid answer to a difficult question demonstrates a lot more than many point scoring answers to easier ones.
The disadvantage I see in all these services is, actually, the fact that they do more. Most people don't want to think about bookmarks, they just want an easy way to add them and then find them again. The fact that you never really have to visit the site, and that you can just click a button to bookmark things and then find them just by recalling the slightest detail is what sets historious apart, in my opinion.

However, different people will need different things. I just think there's a market there for both approaches.
As a rule, American companies will present themselves as the 'leader in X', whatever the actual state of affairs in 'X'.
Spotify Sweden is profitable.
http://martinweigert.com/spotify-is-profitable-in-sweden

Noteworthy because that's where it started and Sweden can be ahead of the curve from the rest of Europe.
Pointing out that poor people (especially poor ethnic minorities) have cellphones and TVs and that many have trouble finding and holding jobs without doing any further investigation of people’s circumstances or any attempt at empathy is a favorite talking point of race-baiting politicians on the right who want to drum up outrage in support of cutting basic social services and public infrastructure, so they can return the money to their rich donors.

But having a cellphone and a TV doesn’t provide someone a reasonable standard of living if they can’t also afford housing, basic medical care, nutritious food, childcare, schooling, transportation, wintertime heating, clothing, and the like. People who are lacking basic necessities like shelter and access to transportation, and who often additionally suffer from injuries, mental illness, chronic depression/anxiety, substance abuse problems, etc., and even more often face systemic discrimination (if only for gaps in their resume, poor hygiene, etc.), find it incredibly difficult to fix every problem in their lives by themselves and pull off a complicated and time-demanding middle-class lifestyle. Blaming them for their own predicament is cruel and counterproductive, even in those cases where there were a list of poor choices involved, and often has the effect of whitewashing situations where people ended up getting screwed by fraud and abuse (either systematic or personal). It is based on a fallacious world-view wherein people are inherently virtuous or sinful, and the sinful are both irredeemable and deserve whatever misery they get.

(Which is not to discount the benefits of gadgets: The prices of consumer electronics have been pushed down to incredibly cheap levels by massive economies of scale, people have a strong demand for communications and entertainment, and having access to such tools makes a big positive difference on people ’s lives. But it doesn’t replace food and shelter.)
Daily updates from Tommy's wife: http://tommyandbecca.blogspot.com/

edit: pronoun
> what role do you think Google plays in the survielence based economy in keeping Gaza in it's horrible plight?

What role do _you_ think they play? I'm not aware of any Google projects to help with government surveillance in Gaza.
Thank you so much! Sure I can come back and share more updates! :)
Wouldn't the real problem be other things leaking back in? If the helium just leaves, that's a vacuum. If only helium can pass, then it's going to stay helium in there.
Millions of Californians are millionaires on paper because they bought their house 30 years ago and held onto it.

Millions of them are also retired or on SS and if they had to pay market value property taxes they would be not be able to. Take a huge profit and leave, for where? You've lived somewhere most of your life and should be kicked to Stockton?

For some reason I hear Tom Selleck's voice talking about reverse mortgages. There's a winner for public policy.
I'm happier without it.
(Seminar, seminary is a place of religious instruction).
F and G are off my list because they're detrimental to society and individuals. G offered me hundreds of thousands of dollars, any department, and to design my own role, but I turned them down for the 8th time.

Apple and Amazon are wobblers depending on what type of role, the impact you're trying to have, and the benefits vs. harm you think they make.

Netflix is essentially harmless because they're a TV and movie store.

It's very tempting to go for the big salary and benefits package, but then having to rationalize, normalize, or compartmentalize the fact that the business makes billions at the expense of harming society. It should ultimately make the employee feel guilty if they're honest and paying attention, but should give pause if it doesn't.

If I could make a steadier living (enough clients with periodic, on-going needs) at SRE/DevOps tech and management consulting, I would never work for any company other than my own.

Younger people should consider working for large organizations to get immersed in that field if they're looking to go the consulting or related enterprise startups route later.