jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes it is too much. I'd decline to do that much work on an unpaid basis without more commitment from the company.

Regarding jstx1's question of who was going to read the 1000 words: obviously, an NLP text summarization package that will spit out a number from 1 to 5.
A practiced meditator would find it hard to stare at prayer beads for more than a few hours, while Van Eyck must have spent days.

More likely, Van Eyck spent days looking at a whole bunch of different kinds of glass and studying how light refracts through them, over the course of his art training. By the time he painted this piece he was somewhere between 44 and 54.

The detailed fur on the dog also probably owes a lot to that long training. He would have known how to quickly and efficiently use the brushes he had available to lay in multiple strands of fur at once. Possibly he also loaded the brush with multiple colors so that it changed over the course of one stroke, then went back with a fine brush to tweak some highlights. Or scraped off some of the paint after doing a simple, fat stroke.

Which, I suppose, relates to some of the things discussed later in this rambling post, where the creation of an imaginary simple drawing app leads to the idea of functions: a way to encapsulate something complex into a simpler thing that's easy to use.
I dunno, Substack is doing pretty well.
Upstream Signal was already questionable with mandatory telco identifier and social graph disclosure, yet this manages to make it even worse.
The 386 was far from cutting edge by the time Al G^H^H^H^H Tim Berners-Lee got around to inventing the Inter^H^H^H^H^H World Wide Web.
This doesn't match the experience of GC'd languages. I've never heard of problems in practice that arose from treating all values present on the stack/registers as GC roots, even if those values are dead in the data flow sense.
Ah, seems it would have been more helpful if they explicitly said that.
One word of caution, the world of Z-Wave with Home Assistant is about to be flipped on its head due to some developer personal constraints. https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/issues/483
The value of the dollar in terms of a constant basket of goods is a function of both supply and of "velocity." Money is only worth something if it changes hands.

Let's say the Fed prints 1 quintillion dollars, and then gives it to me. I then put it under my very big mattress. I will never spend a single one of those dollars. Has this quintillion dollar print changed the value of the dollars that are actually changing hands? It has not.

Obviously that's a contrived example but it does demonstrate the principal. If economic environmental factors are causing people to spend less money, such as unemployment or a global pandemic, then the velocity of money goes down. This in turn causes merchants to lower prices to incentivize spend. This is how deflation materializes. If they cannot lower prices fast enough to actually incentivize a consistent level of spending you enter a deflationary spiral.

Printing new money offsets the reduction in velocity, and staves off a deflationary spiral. It doesn't however guarantee a commensurate level of inflation.

You can see this on a macro scale. Since the 1970s the M2 money supply has increased 15X however inflation has only increased 7X.

Because the Fed, like most central banks, exercises a positive control mechanism, once velocity is restored, printing will slow or even go negative to ensure a consistent, predictable level of inflation.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-mon...
For "why not macOS on M1," I'm one of those people who customizes their WM to reduce number of keystrokes / mouse usage to a minimum, and that's only really well-served by the free operating systems' WMs.

For "why not Linux on not-M1," I vastly prefer reading and writing AArch64 assembly to amd64... And the battery-life+performance claims of M1 are certainly extremely exciting, coming from a Pinebook Pro (which has the battery life, but pretty wimpy performance by comparison).
If by revolt you mean an armed uprising, then we would need evidence of actual oppression, not just opinions about the quality of government. If you merely think that the government is shit, voting remains the best thing the average person can do to address that.

An armed uprising is an absolutely terrible idea, it should be an absolute last resort in a world that’s basically fallen apart. Living in a strong and stable democracy is a privilege and the foundation on which all real wealth is built, both civic and material.
> When code and comments disagree,
both are probably wrong.

Here it's worse-- there is a single source of truth copy-pasted into two different parts of the message, apparently synchronized by forcing a human to remember to do some work to synchronize the data.

Even worse, the implicit OR in displaying the data essentially guarantees that even someone trying to synchronize the data must go to the trouble of viewing both the HTML and the plain text to make sure it's correct.

And perhaps to a layperson, "plain text" means "I checked a test message in gmail, there were no images in the message, so I guess I just verified the plain text is correct."

This reminds me when I was documenting how an over-engineered UI widget works, and I suddenly noticed there were two member fields far apart from each other in the struct:

1. int x_changed

2. int x_change

Sedimentary Programming ftw! :)
Hands up if you knew Trump had a Twitch account before this announcement.

Keep them raised if you'd watched it.

Anyone?
>Hiding the thermometer doesn't make the fever go away.

Removing a constant toxic input helps cure the patient.
Dumb TVs are disappearing from store shelves. Unless you know of a repair shop or third party that sells old units, you may not have a choice in a year's time.
I have a XBR-55X930D which is the 2016 model with Android TV and no XBR. I also have an older dumb tv Sony with the XBR interface.

You get what you pay for and the cheaper models have sluggish internals (although I think its fine on mine). That and the UX issues you mention do not apply to all Sony tvs.
...you had to purify your own DNA polymerase and then add more of it at each cycle because a thermostable version hasd't been discovered yet?
Pseudo-science or not, Gladwell's work always incites discussion. This is, I believe, the real value of his work. Most people I know don't take his word as truth, but they love to use his anecdote's as seeds for delving into a subject further.

Besides, this type of bullshit is perfectly suited to starting random conversations with strangers. It's rememberable and entertaining and loosely intellectual. It doesn't alienate people based on their personal beliefs like religion or politics would. In the vast spectrum of bullshit out there, I think Gladwell might be the best kind.
I recommend http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rocaml
Whispering platitudes into my significant other's ear isn't necessarily meaningless.

It can be, but it doesn't have to be.
I have a cookiecutter template for this at https://github.com/simonw/python-lib (also click-app and datasette-plugin)

It sets up GitHub actions for publishing the package to PyPI when you create a release on GitHub - which I find way to be a really productive way of working.
I suspect the initial use case is low bandwidth protocols (email, IM, notifications etc) that don't mind high latency rather than "high" bandwidth stuff (browsing, streaming video etc).
Boy given my user name, it seems like I should try this out!
> Do you really think people will be reading her 200 years from now?

Well people have been reading her novels for 95 years now, and she's sold over 2 billion copies. So the answer is yes I do.

>I'm not sure why you think what is considered a classic could be dictated by what is taught in schools? I can see no basis for this assertion.

Because what most people consider classics are books they were told are classics--mostly by their high school literature teacher. I'm sure there are more objective measures, but the majority of people certainly don't use them.

Being a classic is a bit self propagating. Kids grow up hearing that Ethan Frome is a classic, they become teachers and teach their students that Ethan Frome is a classic.
Intel added AES, SHA-1 and SHA-256 instruction. They also added the PCLMULQDQ instruction to efficiently implement ECC. Via Padlock also have AES and SHA, and instructions for Montgomery multiplication (RSA speedup). Plenty of ARM SoC vendors offer crypto cores.

So the toolbox to implement e.g. TLS securely is pretty much there.

What isn't here is a way to implement new crypto primitives that would be timing attack and power analysis attack proof. But short of shipping a FPGA, I don't see how they could do it...
Unar is pretty good. Saves a letter, even.

http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline
We are using it for code tracing, hostname ingress routing to the correct namespace, and egress blocking.

This year we should also be using it for canary deployments also.
Yeah but this format is different than the one OP provided, would need to be reformatted into .lsrules format, no?
Question about capturing at the link layer:

Does anyone have any resources for capturing HDMI, stripping HDCP and recording on a computer?
This has gone both ways so far in cases in the United States[1]. One of the fundamental questions is whether or not you giving up the key is testimonial or not. There is a litany of things which have been held to not be testimonial, and thus not implicated by the 5th amendment, including giving up your saliva, blood, fingerprints, standing in a line up, etc.

The really interesting legal question to me is as neuroscience advances, it is likely in the near future that scientists may be able recover one's key (or other relevant information regarding crime) through studying one's brain by imaging or the use of other sensors. Under current case law there is a really really good argument this would not be testimonial (i.e. it is similar to taking your fingerprints or blood), yet provides the same information they could obtain by compelling your testimony.

Does the 5th Amendment prohibit the government from scanning your brain to obtain information about a crime? I think there is a significant number of judges who would find under current law it does not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_State...
So you want to compare sports archery vs combat archery and expect the results to be anything less than obvious?

Your comment does make me consider, though, whether longbowmen use a technique more similar to the modern sports technique than to Andersen's here. Kind of like how sniping is more similar to target practice than urban combat.
For $25/month, I wonder how the economics of this work out.

Say they pay $0.05/text (to the MTurker). In about 500 texts, the budget will be used up. That's about 15 texts/day; that's not a lot for today.
I try to explain this the first time I took a Myers-Briggs.

"You're an INTG. Get together with other INTGs, read the descriptions... See, isn't this you?"
> I could see nude selfies being sent too down the road (again a different service, not exactly this one).

That's called instagram.
This is crazy and awesome. Can't wait to see what happens.
Coinbase is not an exchange, they're a broker; you go there to buy Bitcoin, not to trade it.
I'll support you hacking into your car's computer as long as it doesn't endanger me when you drive it on the road.
> Half of the web is powered by PHP, including tons of websites with huge traffic and usage.

What powers the web: web servers or web sites/applications? If it's web servers then your claim that half of the web is powered by PHP is false because I'm—and I'm going to be honest here—yet to see/use a web server written in PHP.
Techwood Homes, the first public housing of that type in the US, was still there when I was at Ga Tech. For the most part there was little interaction between the residents there and Tech students, even though it was literally just across the street. Guys selling weed or a mugging now and then on that side of North Ave. was about the most that ever happened.

There was also one old Tech dorm building on that side of the street, separated from campus. On paper it was the least appealing dorm - old, poor facilities and a proximity to crime. In practice, many of the student who lived there did so by choice, as kind of a mild misfit/artistic community. People were always doing interesting things in their dormrooms there.

My mom and stepdad owned a mechanical engineering firm that did a lot of work in Atlanta housing projects. Mostly replacing old metal gaslines with plastic ones. Me, my brother, and one of my stepbrothers all worked for them at various points, so we all got a fair amount of experience in the Atlanta projects. My stepdad always made sure each crew had a couple guys from whatever project we were at, which was a good practical step. Otherwise we'd have been a bunch of white guys (mostly really redneck construction dudes) in all-black projects. We rarely had much trouble, beyond some petty theft of our tools, and one doofus on the crew who followed someone into a basement to "buy a cheap TV" and got robbed at shotgun point as a result.

I didn't do the job at Techwood, but my brother did, and one day there was a gun fight in the street. The crew all ran and hid in doorways and behind steps. My brother said he saw one of the teens who was shooting crouched behind a car door, and the guy looked at him and grinned like he was having a great time, then went back to shooting.

In retrospect, it's kinda crazy our mom let us work there, but we never really told her those kind of stories. Heh.
On my company's internal intranet site I try to self host everything because our company internet connection is very unreliable.
Why? I can believe that there are a significant minority of people who genuinely believe they have nothing to hide and that the Fourth Amendment protections go too far.

I find it very disturbing, but they do exist in sufficient numbers to support the machinery that executes these things. I used to work with some of them.
Ok, that makes sense. It may not be a very clean analogy, but I see what it is getting at.
The companies that I know of that have a serious interest in bot detection and blocking are: Amazon and Google

In my experience, these two use detection algorithms that could best be described as "pattern-based."

Hitting any of their pages once via any scraper will not get you blocked, but exhibiting request patterns that sufficiently differentiate you from human traffic definitely will get you temporarily blocked or forced to fill out a CAPTCHA.

For example, you can hit Google Search once an hour via a painfully obvious scraper no problem. But, even if you take control of a Chrome browser via selenium, and write your scraper to do everything exactly like humans down to typing in the searches and moving the mouse around and clicking results, Google is ridiculously good at identifying bot vs human traffic patterns.

I think the algorithm builds a "normal usage profile" for a combination of IP,cookie/user,device and sets a threshold, activity above that threshold gets flagged.
Given the details they decided to leave out, I'm not certain that the sentimental navel gazing they posted on their site does much other than make them look bad.

What would have been better than what they wrote? More honesty. A lie of omission is arguably more dishonest that one told directly. Something more straightforward like "We're tired, and decided to pursue a new opportunity. By the way, here's what we're doing to help our awesome employees move on to new and better things, too" would have been more direct, more useful, and less likely to backfire on them.

As it stands, what they wrote is mostly about themselves, with a paragraph thrown in about the people who helped them achieve success. A more gracious approach might have been to invert the ratio of introspection:gratitude. A smarter approach might have been to write nothing at all.
Have you been to Toronto? I think you underestimate the degree to which America, and particularly NYC and SF, are glamorous to Canadians who've spent their careers doing largely the same work for about half as much money.

Citation: Lived in Toronto for most of my life
>You don't need to research a counter-example, you just produce one. He did so by exhibiting a relatively weak AI that couldn't be contained.

Well, no. He showed that a person pretending to be an AI could convince a person to let it out of the box. Sometimes.

It's not really a meaningful counterexample. Everyone involved with the event knew that the AI wasn't real and that there are zero consequences for letting it out. You'd have to concoct a much more involved test as a decent counterexample.
This breaks if your script is sourced by another shell. Best use 'set -eu' at the start instead.
Most of the rocket is made of metal, which sinks.
Holder’s action comes as members of both parties in
Congress are working together to craft legislation to
overhaul civil asset forfeiture. Last Friday, Sens. Charles
E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with
Reps. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) and John Conyers
Jr. (D-Mich.), signed a letter calling on Holder to end
Equitable Sharing.

It actually seems to be a bipartisan thing right now.
You can blame that on the colonialist mentality that prevailed in the MBAs of the rich western nations where they saw China as this obedient servant that will just build our stuff and always do what we tell them to do since we have the money and the kow-how and they'll never wise up and become a threat.

I worked in the NL hardware business over a decade back and that was the exact mentality management there had in regards to China and Chinese workers.
There is video of them breaking through the windows and doors.. Nobody was 'let' in.
Legislatures in many countries are not heavily secured. That is why protestors taking over the floor of the legislature is a fairly common thing (e.g. Taiwan not too long ago). The US Capitol is a major tourist site, tours are held daily and the building is supposed to seem open to the people whom it represents. What is secured is a nearby facility to which legislators can be evacuated in emergencies.
It's being live streamed on Twitch by people inside too. They locked them inside.
It was alleged that the FBI paid someone to put that kind of backdoor masquerading as a bug into OpenBSD, but no evidence was ever found. OpenBSD being discussed as a possible target by an ex-FBI consultant is enough for me to assume they have something.
Who flagged it ?
Most of the reporting by media around events around the nation in response to police violence were called protests even as they devolved into violence and clear rioting so I am not sure where you get this position from
What kind of phone are you using?

If it's Android you can at least for the moment get Emacs on there using Termux. That's what I do - and it works pretty well. It might also be possible via UserLAnd, although I have not tried UserLAnd personally.

It seems like iSH on iPhone may provide similar ability (again do not have direct experience) although it seems unclear at the moment how long it will be able to remain available.
No mention of Rackspace, Linode, or Slicehost? How about any of the bevy of newer "cloud" providers?
with sites like "handbagcom.com" I can see your point

But w.r.t content, sites like DaJaz1 or OnSmash were more or less embraced by the industry (industry relevant to their product). Labels would submit content and bloggers would voluntarily with hold music from their reader even with a leak. It was a (relatively) good relationship. It demonstrates how these sites /can/ be embraced.
My primary phone is a Torch 9800. I wanted an e-mail processing device with a real keyboard and decent browser. This is my third blackberry and I wonder why I persist with the bugs.

In Canada the phone cost about the same as an iPhone. The build quality is dreadful.. silver plastic bezel is peeling. The software is buggy and glitchy (I get a dialog with a java.lang.NullPointerException sometimes when I receive an SMS.. wtf!?).

My last blackberry also had a ton of bugs and glitchy UI behaviour.

I think the problem with RIM is when it comes to software implementation, they just aren't as good as their competitors.
Most software is not sold but licensed and those licenses restrict the kind of sharing you are talking about. If what you suggested were allowed then one book publisher would only have to buy a single copy of a competing publisher's most popular book and then reproduce and sell it themselves but without paying royalties to the author.

Are you really suggesting that creators of IP should not be able to profit from their work? Where do you work such that such a world would not directly impoverish you? Not to mention destroy the entire US economy.

While I understand that there are serious due process questions raised by this story, the tone in this forum seems to go beyond that to outright support of intellectual property theft. That is worrisome to me.
i recently downloaded a big pile of them... gitx (the development build) is by far the most feature rich one that I tried
If these sites are being seized with no followup legal proceeding, this is outrageous and should not be tolerated. However, if this is just step one in some sort of court case for piracy against an individual, fine. That makes it no different than getting arrested on the street, or having physical items confiscated with the later court case determining if you were right or wrong.

The larger issue may be, what the hell DHS and ICE are doing enforcing copyright laws.
SNTouch.m is one example with stubbed out class-dump methods.

The naming in every place that it can is lifted directly from UIKit, and then their changes use different naming conventions. For example the new instance variables in NSView.h.
I'll play a bit of a contrarian and say that I'm not the least concerned about this.

The Internet is a grossly complicated system, and the ability to have nfljerseysupply.com resolve to your website is far from a given right. ISPs, web hosts, search engines, ICANN, governments, browser vendors, OS vendors, and more all have to cooperate for a domain to work. Each player has to cooperate to make your website reachable, therefore each player has the ability to make your website hard or impossible to reach.

It's scary if the US government has powerful legal tools to take down any website (see: China), but the US govt. has a track record of going after only a few criminals, not performing political censorship. So do all the players. Also, COICA, which would make this act easier, got gummed up in the Senate.

I don't know any details, but would you expect counterfeit websites to remain humming along while DHS raids warehouses involved with illegal manufacturing, importing or exporting of counterfeit goods?

The torrent search engine is a different beast, and by following legal precedent I'd expect the owner to be cleared of wrongdoing if and when it goes to trial. I also suspect the owner is being disingenuous, and was operating the site under a shell, making it difficult to find him and serve him warnings or legal papers.

I also interpret this as a sign that the media corporations are fucked. This is the best they can do with their global power, influence and money? Take out some counterfeiters and one lowly search engine?

Yes, we must be diligent against the government and corporations, but if this is all they have then it's nothing I'm going to get worked up over.
Lots of people here sell software through subscription, or get revenue from ads. Others are satisfied with profits from various mobile app stores. Although there is piracy there, there are enough buyers because prices are cheap.

So the definite culprits of piracy are not "thieves" but bad pricing and inconvenient installation. The absence of "thieves" would not translate into more sales.