jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While the kill list was still unconstitutional, arguably a war crime, and just an evil practice, requiring Obama's approval to be put on the kill list is marginally better than Trump who removed presidential oversight and let the CIA do as they please.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-kill...
it means it has native binaries for Apple M1 chip. so if you are on Apple M1 (latest macbook pro 13", mac mini) then the app will run slightly faster and take less memory.

If you are not on Apple M1, then it makes no difference to you
Vast majority of American children who grow up today are living with the internet. This "7%" number will continue to decrease over time until the population has churned the antinetters.
“I’m in a world that relies on the Internet thus I use the Internet” isn’t the most useful way to find out who uses the Internet.
Try organizing a meeting with attendees from Beijing, Redmond, and Cambridge. Ya...it doesn’t work.

India is the absolute worst for the USA because they are almost 12 hours off.
That is hospitalisation in _regions_ where vaccination started early or late.

It does not explicitly discriminate between vaccinated people or non-vaccinated, only possibly by proxy of age.
People under the age of 35 were previously not included in the vaccination scheme.
At the same time, the two more infectious variants are spreading.
Related, I was recently in the depths of understanding Kafka from the consumer side, specifically a very busy topic with many partitions. Some blog posts I enjoyed:

1. https://blog.cloudera.com/scalability-of-kafka-messaging-usi...

2. http://www.vinsguru.com/kafka-scaling-consumers-out-for-a-co...

3. https://medium.com/@jhansireddy007/how-to-parallelise-kafka-...

4. https://medium.com/@durgaswaroop/a-practical-introduction-to...

5. https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/effective-strategies-k...

And a fun one from Microsoft:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/processing-trillions-...
You are saying "Late vaccinated 0-59 years old" should be read as "Unvaccinated and late vaccinated 0-59 years old"?

Why didn't they use that label then?
I swear I am not joking: playing with and taking care of cats.
I believe there's precedent for them severing a massive partner at will, in the case of Dr Disrespect.
> This causes problems for platforms like Shopify or marketplaces like Alibaba or eBay that may have multiple sellers trying to run ads on a domain and competing for the same small pool of entropy.

This is essentially https://github.com/privacycg/private-click-measurement/issue....

Effectively it boils down to, "how can you distinguish the seller from the website owner?", if you want to give both seller and website owner entropy.
Ah good to know, thanks for sharing!
You could pair exercises to save some time.

See RRR: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
It isn't because of the MBAs or because of the need to cut costs or whatever. It is to do with the employees too. If you start a company saying that you are very idealistic, you attract idealistic people (and btw, most companies say this because it is what young people want to hear). But the reality of being a human is that we have a habit of believing in our own honesty/goodness, whatever the actual content of our actions. Another good example was Obama (or perhaps Blair in the UK)...this kind of euphoric self-regard happens in other non-corporate contexts. Being human is thinking that "everything has changed now" , until you get old enough to realise nothing ever changes, and then the people who are saying "everything has changed now" again think you are too old and decrepit to listen to. It is eternal (this kind of fraud is a necessary component of capital markets).

The stuff around Google is, however, particularly funny. The founders rhetoric is totally empty (Larry Page appears to be someone whose only distinguishing feature is supreme and total self-confidence). They have a rapacious monopoly which, by exploiting defects in corporate governance, they use to fund a bureaucracy of pet projects/niche interests of academics. You can dress it up any way you want (I can see why academics wanted to love Google, free money with no oversight) but it is still ultimately based on poor ethics (weak corporate governance, no oversight, stealing money from shareholders). Classic SV (wanting the luxury of making tons of easy money very fast AND the moral high ground).
Nor on desktop (macOS) Safari.
If you focus on the big three - squats, deads, and bench press - and you only do one of those per day at the gym, then it only takes an hour total. Time under load is about 20 minutes, and the rest is rest.

I read books or even take my laptop if it’s quiet enough to work (pre COVID).

Of course they say you should do nothing in breaks except think about your without, but that is only for the special people who are absolutely committed (and obsessed).

Those long breaks allow you to regain a lot of capacity and enable bigger increases up to the pinnacle in the last set where you set your new 1RM or come close.
>1.86 babies, well below the 2.1 needed for a stable population

Should it not be 3 babies or over? Maybe my lack of statics knowledge is my problem.

But if two parents have two kids that's zero population growth if they have three kids that means they've replaced themselves plus added one more person to create population growth.
fwiw

$ <filename grep <pattern>

no shell I'm aware of restricts you to placing redirections at the end, you can throw them on the beginning no problem.
And another thing from Spiegel's article. NSA routinely attacks targets and then makes it look as if someone else did it:

> But the loot isn't delivered directly to ROC's IP address. Rather, it is routed to a so-called Scapegoat Target. That means that stolen information could end up on someone else's servers, making it look as though they were the perpetrators.

So how do we really know it was North Korea, and not just NSA planting that evidence that NK hacked Sony in those two months? I mean other than "trusting NSA"?
From the article

> Their concern was not so much whether to end the conflict, but how to end it while holding onto territory, avoiding war crimes trials, and preserving the imperial system.

Shows again how leaders think. The factors, probably in order of importance :

1) Holding on to territory : Retaining the power structure itself (I would argue that this is typical of extreme nationalists governments. Our politicians would never sacrifice themselves to save the United States, but the Japanese emperor and other leaders probably would have)

2) Avoiding war crimes trials : Not getting personally convicted (ie. personally remaining in power, this certainly seems a consideration of US politicians)

3) Preserving the imperial system : Retaining the power of the system over it's territory/subjects

Safety and welfare of their subjects isn't even mentioned.
I work at a huge company for 6 figures total annual compensation, right out of college. I come in and go home whenever I want to, and I probably clock an average work-week in the high 30s. If I'm particularly interested in something I'm working on, that number might go up a bit temporarily, completely of my own volition.

I have never heard of someone being asked to work more hours, and I imagine a manager even bringing it up would be very taboo.

This all applies only to my team, as I'm sure there are some at my company under more pressure. But the point is the same: why would anyone do this to themselves? We may be in a bubble, but at least for the moment, software developer is a cushy job with lots of great opportunities available. Why anyone would work 100 hour weeks in a sweatshop baffles me.

Who cares whether it makes games better or worse? I'm sure I could put out a better product if I worked 80 hours instead of 40. But I'd rather go home, sleep with my girlfriend, read a book, or (heh) play a video game. Our CEO is doing fine and doesn't need my charity.
> If you look at some of the sites in that report listed as having contaminated water, many are located near military bases, like Oceanside CA

Precisely, the military has used PFAS in firefighting foams on aircraft, ship fires and training.

Here is a map of the military sites that showed elevated levels of PFAS:

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2020-military-pfas-site...
If Android's "Java" is so different, then how does Google benefit? The whole point of reusing an existing language is to jump-start the app ecosystem by allowing developers to make use of their existing experience.
Related question for anyone passing by: Can you recommend similarly well written publications in Spanish?
Yeah, the obituaries are so well written. The recent one they wrote about Chick Corea made a great point about his influence while being extremely personal and delicate. Really made me want to explore more of his music.
Same here. Between their garbage labor practices and the fact that everything on Amazon had become, well, garbage, it was an easy call to make.
> First of all Netflix productions are not great in general, there are a few very good ones, the rest is just mediocre.

What you describe is much better than the average situation where 80% of everything is shit.
Hmm, angering employees by giving them a pay cut (not raising salaries is a pay cut any year, but this year's extra inflation makes it moreso)? Seems like a desperation move, trying to survive and maybe recover in a few years.

Edit: I don't know of any other companies doing this, but I expect that many are.

As for stock buybacks, that's basically free money, all companies will do that if they can.
How is “information” in quantum physics different from “information” in the day-to-day language?

I was watching a documentary and I heard about the problem of information does not disappear in the universe. What does this mean. I have a feeling that information in quantum physics has a different meaning but I don’t understand what it is.
These are my thoughts, although I'm still figuring things out and haven't had break-out success yet.

1. Launching a startup is a big deal. It's a great thing to do, but it's not for everyone and it shouldn't be taken lightly. If you're young and considering doing this, try working in one first. Start with one that has already raised capital and can pay you reasonably well-- no, you won't make the $85-100k available in corporate jobs in take-home cash; although if the company's successful, you'll do a bit better than that-- and learn on someone else's dime and risk. This means you won't get all the glory if the startup's a home run. It does give you a chance to learn what startups are about. If you can't find a startup you like, find a larger corporation and become an "intrapreneur".

2. Network and learn in your 20s. Zuckerberg is the exception, not the rule. Most successful startup entrepreneurs are going to be in their 30s; and most of those people spent their 20s diligently (and invisibly) working hard to learn about technology and also about people. Meet venture capitalists and see how they think. Meet (and become one of) the smart programmers you'll want to hire and see how they see the world. You're going to need a strong network if you want to do a startup because (a) you'll need meetings with investors and clients, and (b) you'll need a safety net if the startup doesn't work out.

3. Remember that startups aren't that much riskier than corporate jobs. The five-year survival rate of new companies isn't the infamous 10%, at least not when discussing serious technology companies with tech-savvy, full-time founders. It's actually about 50%. Now consider a corporate job: a lot of people end up "pigeonholed" with low visibility and minimal chances of advancement (once new people are being hired into the spots you deserve, this has happened to you) in corporate jobs. They fall off the "fast track" and will never get back on. This has more to do with political luck than skill or work ethic, and what are the odds of it happening? About fifty-fifty, after 5 years. So it seems to be a constant that any time you take a new job, there's about a 50% chance that you'll either lose that job, or it won't be worth it to come in to work, 5 years later. When you're young, the half-life of a job is probably less than that. In this light, startups aren't actually that dangerous. If you're 22 right now, there's over a 90 percent chance that you will lose a job involuntarily (layoffs, health problems, political misfortune, business failures) in the next 40 years. It turns out not to be such a big deal.
I use fetchmail, which is configured to use IMAP and SSL with Gmail's servers. I am not exercising all of IMAP's functionality though IIUC since I rarely need to access my mail from a machine other than my main machine (and then Gmail's web interface suffices).

I run fetchmail manually rather than having cron run it automatically. The reason I do it that way is that the minute or so I have to wait for fetchmail to download my mail reduces the temptation to check my mail more often than I really need to. If there were a way for me to start reading my new mail instantly, checking my mail would be more gratifying (since instant gratification is more gratifying than delayed gratification) and consequently I would have to exercise more willpower to resist the temptation to seek the gratification.
Appointment reminder looks like a pretty cool service. I could definitely see something like this working in the UK for small businesses.

Just another thought that occurred to me - could you also use this for DR/call tree type notifications? Just a thought.
That scrolling hot air balloon made me smile, well done. Animation is a bit choppy on my machine though.
you are right, but not every child can't be Einstein and not every project can be Google or Facebook. Be happy, if you can make a living out of it.
I have read this FQA when it first appeared and I didn't find anything noteworthy in it (except the author's bias and visceral hate).

This is empirical (HN, reddit), but I've noticed that people who recommend the FQA usually have a poor understanding of C++.
The point of the article is that a lot of freelancers and small agencies don't have contracts in place for the work they do with their clients.
A perfect application of the Forer effect: humans have an amazing ability to interpret what can apply to anyone as having special significance for themselves.

It's the same reason why horoscopes and fortune cookies work. Stepping back and thinking logically, it's easy to see why their messages might apply to a lot of people. But when you're reading one, you can't help but think, "Ah! It says that I would encounter adversity at work this week, but overcome it! I knew that presentation wasn't the end of the world." And if you're a little lonely or down and need emotional rapport, you can't help but feel a little spark of excitement and connection when that Mechanical Turker claims to like your favorite TV show - especially because the text messages from the fake partner look just like they would from a real one.

No matter how deeply we trust our logical conclusions, our emotional response remains the same. We can't help but feel worthier when we're being praised (even by computers - see the Silicon Sycophants study: http://pdf.aminer.org/000/307/350/information_requirements_a...), hurt when we're being insulted, and connected when we're being connected with.
> What the heck are you getting at?

Please don't do this here, but rather post civil, substantive comments only.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Copyright law was originally instituted to cover written works. There is a ton of case law.

It would not have been kind to them.

Nobody "forced" them out of business, they voluntarily quit when they realized their sham was exposed.

In aggregate, their behavior easily qualified as multiple felonies; and damages alone would most likely have been ruinous.

I know I would not want to roll those dice.

So I think you're mistaken about essentially everything you said above.
Thanks for the links! Reading threads like this (http://groups.google.com/group/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel/br...) definitely makes the BeagleBoard look like a good value in comparison.
At PDX you need to clear the international arrival zone and go through TSA screening even to depart from an internation gate. Departing from an international gate requires the same screening for domestic flights. Arriving at international gates looks like the following:

Gate -> Corridor -> Customs -> International Baggage Claim (Explicitly so you can get your bags re-screened by US personnel) -> TSA screening -> airport concourse -> onward travel via domestic gates / onward travel via international gates / exit

The last time I went through this was from a flight from AMS. So coming from Schipol does not free you from the requirement to reclear security on the way out of the airport.

The International and Domestic security zones are not distinct, all international arrivals are required to be re-screened by US personnel before rejoining the regular security zone, no matter which onward destination.
Startup idea: let Jason Kincaid submit this story to Facebook with the stipulation that it gets published if they don't fix it in the next 3 days, and they pay him $10k for pointing out what idiots they were if they do. The precise monetary sum should be the value of the negative publicity. The details of a market structure to accomplish this goal is left as an exercise for the reader ;)
Which is fine if there is alternative phone companies to use. It's their service, their right to determine what it is used for.

Your statement brings to mind the monopolistic phone companies that many areas have where there is no choice so them limiting your usage seriously impedes on your ability to communicate. This isn't the case with Facebook. If they don't want you to talk about Lamebook then fine, it is their service and their systems. You are free to do it over email, IM, or one of the billions of other sites that are fine with it.
"As a rule, American companies will present themselves as the 'leader in X', whatever the actual state of affairs in 'X'."

"PayPal. The world's most-loved way to pay and get paid."

Spotted as I fought the Catch-22 UX unsuccessfully to update my home address. There may be a universal law of physics for any business speech not subject to fraud claims. I'm sure everything in Japan is ichi-ban, etc.
It would be a waste of time - but if the airport layout would give those people access to the secured area of the airport, and there was no way to channel the connecting passengers separately from the exiting passengers, then you'd pretty much have no choice but to screen every arrival to your security standards. That would just be poor architectural decisions.
Ronald Reagan mac and cheese uses an egg [0].

I haven't tried it, but molecular gastronomists (or are they modernists?) use sodium citrate to keep real cheese creamy when it's heated [1].

0. http://lincolnslunch.blogspot.com/2012/02/ronald-reagan-maca...

1. http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-an...
Whataboutism - revealing explanation! Nowadays you need to be aware of all the rhetoric tricks or you get fooled.
Top posting, plus lacking dillon@'s trademark indentation?

This is either not written by dillon@ or he's become a gmail user or something.
Everyone says they do, but really they don't.

Tom Cumming, one of the very finest embedded systems developers that has ever walked the earth, never even applied to college.

I myself was kicked out of caltech for being mentally ill. That would be illegal now, but the americans with disabilities act had not been enacted yet. I transferred to UC Santa Cruz, but eventually dropped out to work as a coder.

I did so for six years - with no degree - but eventually did complete my degree, but only because I grew weary of being asked by interviewers why I never graduated.

If you are someone who, like me, is commonly discriminated against, a good solution is to start your own business. I'm working on that right now, and I've done it successfully in the past.
This should be meme-ified: #IHaveNotBeenServedWithAWarrant.
How's the Linux support for hubiC? Could use this for backups.
> But, why?

For example you may want way to backup huge video files, panoramic photos or any other huge files. Obvious solution is your own storage, but usually you'll want at least one extra backup point because HDD these days a lot less reliable than cloud services.

> The upload time / cost must be enormous (on my home DSL it would take all year to upload.

It's sad that not everyone around the world have fast internet connection, but with 100Mb/s it's would take just about 10 days. I personally don't have that fast speed, but from my experience Microsoft OneDrive can handle like 70Mb/s upload just fine.
> Seems like the only answer for Tile is to get integrated with Apple's solution.

Tile is planning to use Amazon Sidewalk: https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/blog/announcing-tile-joins-...
I'd be willing to go at 25% up to 10 years.

To be honest though, disbarment (particularly if that disbarment was reciprocal) and fine is a more just punishment, because often the issues are so technical that a jury of non lawyers has trouble understanding the issues involved.

The last thing that I'd want to do is send someone to jail for up to 30 years for a good faith mistake, that's not justice either.
Many, many banks are stuck at '03, deploying on RHEL 6.

The only motivation for a bank ever to make a clean break is if they must, just to attract talent. This is difficult for providers of services to banks, who are stuck at the level of their most archaic customer.
If you are making a website and want to attract users...why would you force users to download a plugin and lose 99% of your potential users. Better to pay the $10.

If you are making a website and don't want to attract users...why would you want a popular name?

If you want a solid base of users in a different ecosystem and don't want to pay the fee...why not make a Facebook page?
Vim? See http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_ruby.html. (This, of course, depends on the level of integration you want. The above interface does require you to drop down to (generated) vimscript for many things.)
Ah, yeah, spot on. That's exactly what it is, and I've always related to that expression.
The money and taxes are accounted for in other entities

Are those other entities all based in (and taxed in) the USA?
Here's google's translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http:....

Surprisingly readable after you get few paragraphs in and start picking up on the common mistranslated words (Some other title for Mao is being translated as "hair").
I use both web2py and DAL on it's own as well. I really like the web2py framework. I started with django, but just wasn't as easy for me to pick up so I switched.
Showing how many comments is a good improvement. Consider only posting when the other thread has comments, otherwise it's a waste of space and a distraction (why would anyone leave the perfectly-good version they're on to go to an empty one?).
I'm guessing there are all manner of laws hiding in the legal system for willfully destroying another's property that come into play.

Also, a reputation for destroying clients' web sites isn't going to help. You won't get far enough to explain "Yes, but…"
Another Life Recorder.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/06/life-recorders-may-be-this-...
The New Jersey analogue is "youse guys".
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