jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In particular, and relevant to this rant, to permit the acquisition to take effect DigiCert had to explain to stakeholders (Google, Mozilla and perhaps others) in some detail that this was NOT a reverse takeover, the resulting organisation would NOT be Symantec's CA but now named DigiCert, it still would be DigiCert but now with Symantec's famous brands like Thawte and VeriSign -- thus it would not be infected by poor management processes and inadequate risk controls.

The reason this was important is that Symantec's oversight had been judged lacking -- business as usual was not an option, they were asking big CAs like DigiCert about pricing for basically a white labelling service. The trustworthy CA would run everything for a few years and Symantec would own the brands while internally rebuilding to get trust back. In that discussion with DigiCert apparently just selling Symantec's CA function outright was the more attractive option than whatever eye-watering sum such white labelling would have cost.
While I sympathize, it seems odd to segue from 'total environmental meltdown' to 'scorekeeping in an imaginary game for imaginary points'. Which is what capitalism is - a game for made-up dollar-points to motivate individuals to go to work. Really, almost ever economic system is exactly that thing.
I thought Oxford University disbanded their police force years ago.
Here is the wiki page on the report and the controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the...
translation: the lawyers have found manifold ways of avoiding even new taxes currently in the works!
That would only compromise metadata as signal is e2e encrypted and the client has always been opensource and up to date.

All the SGX stuff is about making metadata more private for features that absolutely must be done serverside. So a compromise in SGX is more an issue if Signal itself becomes adversarial or gets compromised. Most services only rely on this for security and don't use things like SGX to hide things from themselves.
You’re totally correct that there are trade offs. Coming from a background of using IRC, google chat & Facebook chat with and without e2e encryption and deleting accounts etc I’m used to not always having forever message history and I can see how not having that would be a nonstarter for some users.

Yes there are sacrifices and trade offs for the security signal offers and it’s not 100% as convenient as Facebook messenger in that regard, but it’s also not 100% as cumbersome and impractical as GPG email. It strikes what I consider a decent balance of being secure and private and usable enough for non-technical users. Yes the message history story is lacking, I lost my messages moving iPhone to iPhone because I did it wrong and yeah it made me sad for a moment but I’m philosophical about it I guess. Dust to dust and all that.
At the time, bandwidth, storage and rackmount servers were not affordable. See my post above for an idea.
The "desired effect" here is Internet brownie points. Unfortunately this time those brownie points could cost lives.
Twist: They kidnap you in your sleep with anaesthetic gas.
> I think you're describing style errors, not grammar errors.

The entire thread (not started by me) is about nit-picking punctuation and now you’re trying to explain to me that I’m describing style errors. So what? It’s useless feedback regardless of which chapter in the Holy Google Docs covers it.

> Asking people to use good grammar (and capitalize/punctuate) those sentences as though they were documentation (because they are!) is valuable for reviewers.

Right, it’s valuable for the reviewers because it makes it seem like they provided feedback when they have nothing of substance to add. It’s not valuable for the author though nor is it realistically valuable to future people reading the code in question.

>I say this as someone who, when reading unfamiliar code, is able to understand it more readily if the inline documentation is easy to read.

I think maybe you don’t know what “nitpick” means. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nitpick

If it has a meaningful impact on the ability to read it, it’s not a nitpick.
1. Decide your goal, probably get hired? (Web, Devops, Embedded...)

2. Learn the stack that follows from 1, just barely, not too much theory. You want to start as k with 3.

3. Build something using the stack you learned. Start even if you are clueless of how to do it, and google every question you encounter. Stackoverflow will become your friend.

Repeat 2 and 3 for the rest of your life.
This is largely correct, but not sure if it was a backscratch or just inevitable.

I was in a streaming startup at the time and followed the Youtube saga.

The reported facts are:

1) Their VC partner would automatically just write a check when they ran out of storage to keep the growth going up and to the right. The founders also had very large credit card limits.

2) Bandwidth at the time was $1,000/Mbs at 95%. In other words, terrifyingly expensive for streaming. Rackmount servers were $5,000 and up, which is why Google was trying to use bare motherboards vertically. (Go to the Computer History Museum to see one of their early racks. The Fire Marshall banned them.)

3) It was just a matter of time before crushing lawsuits from the labels. Google ended up spending over $1 billion on legal fees alone after the purchase, and had to write their Content ID system. (That's what stopped me from even considering this.)

4) Google bought them because Youtube was way ahead on adoption and features compared to Google Video. The San Jose Mercury News had a 2-page(!) comparison of features. Youtube's page was full, and Google's was half full. It was stark.

5) The Youtube founders were in limbo for months after the purchase for Google to finalize it, even after joining Google. My guess is that is was related to understanding how bad the the looming lawsuits would be.

Hats off to the Youtube founders for giving employees at least $1 million each despite the quick exit for most of them.

Contrast that with Cobalt Networks, which sold to Sun for $2 billion and not a single IC made a dime.
I’m rather torn about the Airbnb model.

One, hotels charge way too much money. When a hotel room costs $300 to $500 per night, then this will quickly burn your travel budget.

Two, Airbnb hosts are often, rather dishonest with their listings.

But, Airbnb is the only way to rent someone’s house in a distant location, where your family and extended family can stay together to get away. It’s impossible to do this with a hotel, and very expensive too.

Initially, some people got enterprising, and rented out their homes to help pay their mortgages. And they charged a modest fee for it. For a while, this seemed ok, as you were helping out someone to pay off their expensive mortgage. Like, Yeah! Stick it to the rich bankers, and all the jackasses that contribute to expensive housing.

But then, soon others, turned it into a hotel operation, where investors would team up to buy houses and apartments, only to rent it out on Airbnb. And when this happened, everyone else started doing it, and so the initial Airbnb business model was no longer socially or morally acceptable.

You and I, as an individual, cannot compete against a team of 5 investors that buys the property outright. Our individual goal, is to put down roots, build a family, and contribute to the community so our children can have a stable place to live.

Their goal, is to make a profit, and later flip the house for an even larger profit.

For better or worse, maybe this coronavirus will destroy the Airbnb business model. Its initial thesis, is no longer socially acceptable.
You need to create a cell line.

Many medicines today use murine (mouse) monoclonal antibodies.
That's definitely a better way of putting it, but "does not care" is still an inflammatory presumption. Why not ask your question in a neutral way, without a sarcastic twist that implies a nasty answer?
Yes it's only Python right now, though will expand to other languages soon. Will add it to the landing page - thanks!
Use the wiki [1]:

> In computer science, an object is a location in memory having a value and possibly referenced by an identifier.

Not useful huh?

I would say, if the memory location is heap allocated and has mutable fields, then it is probably acting like an object (it could also be a value, it depends if its identity is important or not).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_(computer_science)
What difference will that make? You don't speak Esperanto now, and we have those things now.
i'm sorry but "i'm no expert" is not an excuse for trying to change people's minds. that's how anti-vaxxers are born.
If the multiverse hypothesis is true, then beasts which resemble unicorns most likely do exist among the infinitude of universes. I mean, it would be astonishing if that could be ruled out: that there is an infinity of universes of all imaginable kinds, but none of them have anything that fits the description of unicorns.

Also, many universes probably have a being which serves, essentially, as a god: that is, these worlds are partitioned into an intelligent part, and a remainder which the intelligent part created and controls.

(Not this one, though, as far as anyone credible has been able to tell.)
Yes perfect, these structures should be in every major city!

although, it seems like the design needs improving & strengthening [1]

[1] http://www.lavanguardia.mobi/slowdevice/local/20120802/54332...
Agreed particularly given US control can only make access to Arm IP more difficult for Chinese firms.
If it's subjective then I'd say it's silly to declare that a mortgage can't have a moral dimension. If you think it doesn't, fine, but it's weird to say that it can't.
... or you could just alter your MAC address to something non personally identifiable (00:00:00....) ... possibly rotating random ones, or whatever.

The point is, this is trivially defeated without turning wifi off.
How do these guys think they're going to avoid gang-firing the whole cylinder and blowing up the pistol?
I'm always surprised how much cheaper it is to own/use a car in the states vs. almost every other country in the world. Even someone on minimum wage can (and often does) own one (if just used).

Parking is cheap, free in many cities/suburbs, there is little tax on purchase (a $40k car in Beijing costs $20k in the USA, and lets not get to Singapore), and wow...gas.
You don't recall correctly. Netflix and Verizon got into a peering dispute, but that's hardly throttling.
Beware of the terms of service before sharing any information with this service:

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Encourage skepticism, but avoid that echo chamber. Echo chambers in society, like their physical counterparts, require selective feedback to re-inforce whatever meme has a person/group gripped in their resonance. A healthy skeptical/analytical POV can reduce the 'feedback', in much the same way as foam coned walls attenuate the feedback in an echo chamber = an anechoic chamber. This means that search engines must have a source SEO that is counter to the particular meme being put forth as an echoed belief's web site(which has its own SEO to present it's filtered meme to it's adepts at all levels)
We see this war every day, so encourage skepticism, learn how to detect the false skeptics who try to add volume to the 'echo'.
Most, if not all, religions want closed echo chambers for their beliefs, sadly they are able to gather huge numbers of people - often by killing skeptics in some religions, so be wary, cover your tracks, guard your privacy.
malicious 3rd party apps can probably steal the login creds pretty easily to launch whatever type of spam attack
Exactly and maybe we can "lobotomize" sections of the models that replicate unwanted bias in the training data.
agree at the point it seems like marketing monopoly
Thomas Grey ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," with its lyric celebration of ordinary life, is arguably the greatest English poem).

TS Elliot, on his good days (Prufrock counts as a good day, as do the Landscape poems. He oversteps in "The Waste Land".)

Tennyson, when in the mood for melancholy.

Robert Herrick, when in the mood for insouciance, contemplation and the poet's struggle.
Quick Logic is an FPGA manufacturer that recently started to offer chips & boards with a fully open source toolchain: https://www.quicklogic.com/tag/open-source-fpga/
More details from gwerm here http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/30tudk/psa_5...
In that case you should never look at the Pale Blue Dot image
I have access to the paper. The device is interesting, but as usual journalists want to inflate the balloon some more...

They report a maximum of 16.2nW, open-circuit voltage of 899mV, short-circuit of 107.4nA. To give hackers a reference, in its current state, you'd need something like 50,000 of them to power a single 0.85mW Arduino chip.

In the U of Missouri article they say "The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries", but as far as I can see from the article they're not talking about their own battery; it's a general statement quoted from an old paper (F.K.Manasse,J.J.Pinajian,and A.N.Tse, IEEETrans.Nucl.Sci. 23,860 1976).

The article in question is "Radioisotope microbattery based on liquid semiconductor" (Applied Physics Letters 95).
It is corn oil, like a nightclub. The trick is a large 300 deg heated plate in the emitter.
Black dead pixels cost nothing, but dead subpixels, or pixels stuck to displaying colour are very bad.

Even if adding more resolution makes you unable to resolve the pixels, you can still always see light, in the same way you have no hope to resolve stars, but you can clearly see their light.

Luckily once we get oled, it no longer matters, because there is no backlight and you can always set misbehaving pixels to black.
1. Build stuff - start small, you need incremental achievements and 'wins' to keep motivated. It's a very long road where the highs can be really high ands the lows can be really low.

2. Take stuff apart - its okay if it cost you 100 bucks. It's in the name of science. See how other people built it.

3. There is art and humility in how one asks a question. Learn it and use it. It'll carry you through conversations with interesting people, where, earlier you may have gotten lost and spent a lot of time nodding your head.

4. Learn about finance and money and economics. Most of it isn't that complicated. It's the framework on which the history of nearly everything is constructed and it will enable you to answer a lot of question on your own. History isn't a collection of unrelated random facts that they teach you in high school. History is fascinating and understanding how money travels illuminates connections between seemingly unrelated events.

5. Remind yourself that you're living through one of the most amazing periods in the history of the world. Really. The tools at your disposal are extremely enabling.
Money for me is physical freedom, the most literal kind. I work, work, work, but I can jump on a plane and fly anywhere on a whim, and I do. Averaging ~1 new foreign country/month so far this year :-)
The absurdity of suicide bombing lay in the ideology, and the goals one seeks to achieve by blowing oneself up.

It is important to remember that suicide bombers only appear under certain conditions, they only come from people that are, or believe themselves to be, occupied by a superior power, such they think they have absolutely nothing to lose. They're making the rational choice that since their own lives are worthless, if they can kill any of the occupying force by dying, then they've gained something for the people still behind.

If you only think of suicide bombers as "stupid" or "absurd" or "ideologically motivated", then you'll never get rid of them because you don't really understand what makes them tick.
Proper smoke cloak systems are combined with a strobe light that is completely disorienting. The strobe seems to come from everywhere - I've been in a room with one going, even the shop owner would have difficulty finding their way out.

It really "isn't worth it"
>Lobbyists is the answer to, "why can't we have nice things"!

It's also the answer to why we have a lot of nice things. It's how experts can get their voices heard over popular beliefs when laws are created. Without this lobbying bills on complex issues would have little chance of being useful, since without experts lobbying for nuances those crafting the laws would not have the expertise to create good laws.

Lobbying groups include electoral reform groups, small business groups, human rights groups, child healthcare groups, and on and on.

The second biggest lobbiest by spending in 2019 [1] was lobbying for immigration, foreign relations, and disaster planning. These seems like reasonably good things for society.

Lumping all lobbying into one simple basket is terribly shortsighted.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...
The DA would have immunity in this case because it was in respect to charging him with a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_immunity
see, with those glasses on it's not possible to have a real meaningful conversation. I'm sorry, bitcoin is in no way 'hard money'.
Your average constituent can't and doesn't wine and dine their representatives.
Tuning into the daily livestream of the development of this experiment over the past 3 weeks has been very satisfying and fun (virtual co-working vibe). Paul has done great work here and put a ton of effort in. It's worth taking a look at the links in his comment here and keeping this project on your radar.
I'm pretty sure this person will have a pretty good case for a lawsuit.
If you send me bitcoin in exchange for a widget, I'm eventually going to want to spend that bitcoin and I may not be doing that on the Visa network. At some point they have to offload those transactions back to the blockchain so the coins can actually get to my wallet.

If they go the DB route as you suggest, they would basically be creating Visa Bucks, backed by bitcoin (which they'd have to buy), that can only be spent on the Visa network.
This is one part that I feel doesn't get talked about enough. A future where people move to bitcoin does extremely weird things to wealth distribution, where wealth is basically a function of the point in time of a person's switching to bitcoin more than anything else. I don't see how such a dissociation between wealth and effort/value/productivity could ever do good things for a society.

I'm also confused about how people think and talk about the market cap. My sense is that the total economic value of bitcoin holders can't be much more than what they have collectively put in as dollars minus what was spent on mining, which is only a fraction of the market cap. If it's more you get a weird kind of inflation where it's not a central bank printing money, but where "value" seems to spring out of thin air just because the masses are attracted to bitcoin (with FOMO as the main reason).

I can't quite wrap my head around all of this. I've been interested in blockchain for quite a while and have been keeping up with what's going on, but many things about the cryptocurrency market just don't make fundamental sense to me. (Another example - Ether basically being the denomination for transaction prices on the Ethereum network, meaning the higher it's priced, the less useful the network is, which seems like a conflict.)

I'll keep paying attention and see if I can learn a thing or two about real world (irrational?) economics.
Clojure still sounds like research group to me.
DI in Java world is another example where people require this type of feature (unsafely) via reflection.
The economics will make sense in our lifetimes. For a more concrete value, let's say 50 years.

Also, McDonalds is open far more than 40 hours a week. It's more like 6am to 1am, seven days a week. That gets paid off in 8.5 months. The real number would be a little higher than that due to fluctuations in demand throughout the day that would require extra robots that aren't fully utilized. Even if you triple the cost of the robot, that still isn't an unreasonable cost/benefit ratio. Within the next 50 years, it will be a no-brainer.
The article confuses wealth with income. You can have a very high income, live high on the hog, and have zero wealth. Likewise, you can have a lot of wealth and zero income.
It turned out that camping out in a public square is not an effective method of forcing change, since it is possible to just ignore you. Then after the hype died down and as people got sick of the more negative aspects the movement bled to death and the actual "occupation" was eventually cleared by the police.
> Nathan Sidwell is a Facebook engineer who instigated the removal of rms from the gcc steering committee.

> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235267.html

Today I learned the name of one of the first toxic people who seriously suggested to write gcc in C++. And they are admitting it themselves! What a tragedy. Of course, RMS was, rightfully again, the main opposing force. We live in sad, sad times.

Quoting this person's message:

> Interactions I've had with the SC, beyond maintainer appointment, seem to run into RMS.

Sounds like a feature to me! The main purpose of RMS's presence is precisely to keep away idiotic proposals like those of Nathan Sidwell.
And the main argument is: there may very well have been loads of cars around, but people still paid $x for them, so that's what they cost! Supply and demand.

To me it's a little deceiving, because Uber frames it like this grand algorithm determining the pricing, when in reality I feel there's a substantial human element in it.
Good point. I missed that. Trouble with reading blog posts is getting relevant bits of code together on the screen, should have opened a second browser window (or third to include the HN discussion).

Value types are actually copy on write internally in Swift so no copy will be done unless a mutation of the error is attempted.
This link 404's for me; can you give a summary?
A better example would be Jobs's philanthropy; not only did he keep his mouth shut but after his death people actively disparaged his memory for not sharing his wealth.
Spiegel briefly touched on it too;

The NSA also has a program with which it claims it can sometimes decrypt the Secure Shell protocol (SSH). This is typically used by systems administrators to log into employees' computers remotely, largely for use in the infrastructure of businesses, core Internet routers and other similarly important systems. The NSA combines the data collected in this manner with other information to leverage access to important systems of interest.

(source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s... )

Still incredibly vague. If they're archiving all traffic in
hopes of decrypting it some day though, it's safe to say we should treat anything on the internet as the shiny side of one way glass.
This thread on HN discusses the different biases that could exist in hiring, university affiliation, gpa, automated coding challenges, etc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8672793
Unions in public service are allowed to create de-facto rules and policies that would otherwise get lawmakers voted out or initiatives voted down.

MUNI is a dysfunctional mess because the Union has the power to shut down a public service if their every demand isn't met.