jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My sister watches that show and...

SPOILER ALERT!!

I caught the episode where they detail how every act you perform in modern life has so many negative consequences and repercussions that everyone on Earth has, for centuries, wound up going to Hell.

It haunts me because it's true.

(Not the going-to-hell bit, the part about how things are so interconnected and so fucked up that you can't wipe your ass without damaging the environment, and that's even before you get to the luxury phones made by de facto slave labor.)

"There's got to be a better way!"
What makes you believe that 5% of your population will be unable to withstand the coronavirus? Seems a little high to me (I am not a doctor, just basing this on what UK government has published around recovery rates).
Maybe you're confusing StandardJS with Prettier?
> would it be possible for the government to just... suspend the activation of financial covenants generally for a while

Changing the rules of massive bilateral agreements to benefit one party over another tends to blow confidence in the system. Investors would start trying to guess which asset class will next be amended, thereby triggering runs across the market. (We see this when governments start expropriation processes in previously-stable economies.)

It also does nothing for e.g. a company with good receivables that can't make payroll or interest payments because its good commercial paper isn't being purchased. It's in a liquidity problem, not a solvency one. But if the liquidity problem persists, the firm will go insolvent.
You are completely skipping over the basics. If someone doesn't pay then someone else doesn't get paid. You merely shifted the problem to somewhere else. That somewhere else is usually something extremely critical such as the banking system.
"Move fast and break things"--said no carpenter, ever.

Imagine if doctors, engineers, plumbers, electricians, and all the other real world folks we depend on decided this was a good way to operate. Would you drive across a bridge knowing that was the motto of the people who designed and built it?
You are confusing layer 4 and later 7 concepts.

Spend some time with wireshark running while you visit “google.com” in a web browser and you’ll get a better intuition on the topic.
I created a remote planning poker application in ASP.NET Core Blazor! It is called PokerTime: https://github.com/Sebazzz/PokerTime

It came in very useful during our first remote kick-off, last monday.

Besides PokerTime I also created a remote retrospective app, also in Blazor, called "Return": https://github.com/Sebazzz/Return
Does anybody remember Hamachi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn_Hamachi

https://vpn.net

Tailscale is very much a successor to Hamachi. Hamachi was already "the 90s as a world of mesh networks on top of today’s internet." Ive run into some client side issues with Tailscale on Windows, but when it works, it works great.

BUT, this blog post is the worst part of SEO. If you're going to blog with lots of keywords to build up google cred, communicate useful things, not just a weird nostalgia. I didnt find the story particularly compelling.

Also, and probably more importantly, the message of 'as long as the perimeter is secure, security within the lan is just a nuisance' is kind of odd. I dont know if that part of the 90s is the part worth reviving. Endpoints should not be trusted by default. (That isnt necessarily tailscales job, but dont market/sell the product as a "its super easy to connect EVERYTHING, security be damned." That is irresponsible to people who want to build connectivity but dont know what they are getting into. If this is an Apple like 'it just works' dont underplay the dangers.)
Is Scott Alexander into transhumanism? He's never seemed particularly focused on it to me. I guess it's part of that whole self-proclaimed rationalist milieu.
I see. My mistake. So jart is trying to turn it into a APE? I learn something new with every comment.

So I would edit my comment to say: I'd love to take a compiler course from Rui, and a systems course from jart.
Yeah, so a lot of folks who take Adderall and Vyvanse actually need it just to function normally. The speculative b.s. does a real disservice to those folks.
opennms is simultaneously

arcane

weirdly laid out

a massive java memory hog (thankfully, RAM is cheap, giving an opennms VM 16GB of memory isn't a big deal anymore)

extremely powerful

something that has 450+ pages of documentation

totally open source

extensible to support monitoring of massive international-scale networks
There is plenty of good to appreciate in every moment of every day, and it's helpful to do that. Even in software, there are a few standout gems which were not around just a few years ago.

However, this particular thread seems to be about the quality of user-facing software, which, overall, has been on a continuous nosedive for about 10 years, and every time I think it can't get any worse, someone figured out a new way to make it suck.
Are there? I've done some hiring and I don't recall any procedures in place for the detection of foreign intelligence assets. I suppose it is possible that I have never worked for a serious organization.
>Hotels fall into a class of businesses that are considered a public good

This doesn't seem to be the term "public good" as used in economics, so what do you mean by it?
They don't except perhaps some absurd stereotyping of the mythical "techbro" who exists in the doublethink superposition of antisocial loner loser who never even touched hands with a girl and a overgrown frat douchebag serial sexual harasser until one state is convenient to use as an attack. It is an ad hominem that shows they aren't even trying for logic just being a dumb emotion pump pushing one dimensional good and correct and bad and wrong axis to sway by association. He is ugly therefore he is likely to rob you kneejerk narcissistic 'logic'.That digression into sadly prevalent memes aside.

"Cannot" fundamentally misunderstands the design goals. It is a mass market product where one of the major end goals is presentation so it propagates.

One could go with a demoscene essentially CLI user interface with compressed maps but there wouldn't really be a user base for it defeating the point of a connection app.
I thought China does this all the time.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/responding-effectively-to-...
Isomorphic apps. I've been playing around with React+Flux, and it's perfect. You can write your API in any language you want (even keeping it as part of node if you wish!), but the client is React. This means you can re-use almost exactly the same code for the frontend and backend. You get server-side rendering that delegates to the client once it has loaded.

I recently re-wrote my blog (https://blog.cesarandreu.com/) to take this approach. Repo: https://github.com/cesarandreu/trois-blog

The client bootstrap code that's used on the server is in client/middleware.js. Aside from that it reuses the exact same code.
I do wish you were right, but I have had the joy of travel with small children. Grandchildren, too.

As for the limiting factor being time, rather than money, Stross's article gives good examples of there not being enough people willing to pay the exorbitant costs.
Why there are so many idiotic headlines?)

It should be "Kyoto taxi drivers reduce robberies of grocery stores, not themselves by 50 percent by sitting and doing nothing in their cars on a vacant parking lots in front of grocery stores.
According to tweet author[1], this happened only with Youtube, and was not related to captive portal mechanism whatsoever. So I would side with her on the why: Poor plane internet access was overloaded by videos streamed from Youtube and somebody hacked together a very ugly solution that's going to have bad consequences...

[1] https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551132865555996673

https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551096550516994048
The article is risible to the point of ridiculousness

You don't need a fighter jet to intercept it from the point it came from. It's that simple.

"and indeed, active radar can't even track it effectively"

Without providing any reason why, I doubt it. Oh I think it's using "active radar" as "secondary radar". Also primary radar can detect it. No problem.

And airliners cross the ocean without much radar coverage TODAY, so there's that as well.

Not to mention it can only fly at high speeds on high altitudes. You CAN'T come at Mach 5 or whatever and fly it on a building. Your plane will disintegrate first.
So she tried something new, discovered she loved it, and since you yourself love that same thing you're withdrawing her from all other outlets to try new things and focusing her on the thing that you love...

Or to put it another way, she tried web-design and liked it, she could have tried a dozen or more other things in high school (social or classes), but now instead you're dropping all of those opportunities, and putting her on this one unified path at the ripe old age of 16.

Online high school might get her a certificate she'll need for college (and certainly if she applies to a CS program all of this will be a benefit) but she is still missing opportunities to discover who she is and what she loves. Plus making friends...
This is why wage subsidy (or, related, a job guarantee) is way better than a guaranteed income.

If you only hang out with over-achievers, you might be able to convince yourself that, once freed from the need to earn income, people will become super productive. (Although my own experience at MIT, over-achievers all, was that many people will stop working if they can.)

And once you have defined the ground-floor as people sitting around watching TV and playing video games, what kind of lifestyle do you have for the people manning the fast food restaurants being patronized by those video game players?
This looks incredibly comprehensive! ...almost too good to be true, I'm waiting for the gotcha....

Does anyone have any experience to share experimenting with it yet?
Great service, big fan of StoryWorth!
Now that's cool!

If anyone knows or can say: What physical principle(s) is the sensor operating on? There doesn't seem to be much information on that (possibly deliberately).
There's also this hilarious article, which I assume is written by a masterful troll: http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Full+Indie+UK+news/featu...

I can only shake my head at how misguided these people are. If Flappy Bird is genius, there's tens of thousands of genius games on the App store alone.
despite the criticism it has some seriously cool features like firefly and 'MayDay'. Not everything has to gel in with the consumer right away. He's casting the net far and wide, and keeping his foot in the devices game. That's awesome.
Let me clarify then. Strong consistency = ACID consistency.

If I write the data and then immediately read it I will get the new data under all circumstances.
I used to have an unconventional hobby. I collected information. More correctly, I collected Ebooks, converted them to text format, and printed them. I had access to a free printer at school and would do 20-50 pages a day and take them home with me.

The e-books were almost exclusively survivalist material, but I ran out of things to print and started printing educational manuals of all sorts. Math, Chemistry, Biology, etc, etc. I was doing this because I was scared the world as we know it was going to end at any time. I was constantly researching firearms, and survival gear. I was going to the doctor for sinus infections to get antibiotics that I didn't need, just in case.

It was pretty borderline behavior.

It continued until I discovered DMT. I smoked roughly 2 grams over the course of a few months and had some very tremendous experiences. Early on in the process, It was always a continuing experience, starting up where the last trip had let off.

Long story short, I met "god", this multi-dimensional being that assured me that this state of life wasn't the end. It expressed to me that what comes after this is just as splendid and precious as the life I have now.

I smoked DMT too much. 2 Grams is roughly 60-80 doses. I smoked until I arrived at too much of a peace with death. I didn't care if I lived or died. Not that I wanted to die, mind you, but it just didn't bother me anymore. When that thought crossed my mind, it was a shock. I got rid of what was left and never dosed again.

I am very excited to see psychedelic research done. We stopped learning 50 years ago because uneducated old people were scared. It is time to grow up and let science do what science does. Almost all research done has been overwhelmingly positive. A smart man once said something like the war on drugs is a war on Americans. This is such good news.
What particular issues have you run into with etcd and/or CoreOS?
I don't understand -- are you saying you see pictographic icons useless in general, or only when they appear in a list of bookmarks? Quite a few people are quicker to recognize something from a picture than they are from a written description, which is why icons were invented in the first place.

Remember, that favicon is an icon for the list of favorites (IE's term for bookmarks) -- that was the original use of them, although if you are referring to having the icon next to the URL in the URL bar, that I can agree with -- that can be mostly pointless. Although some tabbed browsers make good use of them, by having them in the tabs themselves. Makes it real easy to see which tab belongs to which website.
I used to work on this project - surprised to see it on the front of HN. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

This video is relatively old. Here are some more recent videos of where the technology is now:

Overview of the most recent robot design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=64&v=te4M-b69fVs

Video of the "Snake Monster" made with multiple snake robots as legs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMVO6rI5mL4

Main webpage about the project: http://www.snakerobot.com
To add on to that: 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T use the exact same symbol rate, 125MHz. Better cables are nice but not critical.
In Boris Chertok's "Rockets and People" vol 3 p 366[1], there's an aside about how Soviet ICBMs with MIRV did targeting by comparing on-board radar with a digital map of topographical features in the 70's.

[1] free to download from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol3_detai...
No, because the key point of this patent appears to be removing expired objects as a side-effect of searching the linked list for an unrelated object.

So unless Project A's generic collection implements an optional callback that is called on every object seen while searching the collection, project C uses that callback to delete expired objects, you'd seem to be in the clear.
Again, HTTPS isn't the only mechanism by which one can encrypt his/her communications. Persons in Iran should use a VPN or something like Tor or I2P. I don't think there's a reason to force Wikipedia to use HTTPS by default.
I think everybody hates meetings that are not focused. From my own experience, the worse meetings are when it's not relevant to my projects, workload or interests.
What you're describing is an interpolated binary search (where you don't divide in two, you pick a point based on a guesstimate of where the key will lie).

It turns out that interpolated binary searches are useful in computers, in cases where the structure being searched has a significant overhead for each read - for example, seeking in variable-bitrate-encoded video streams is such an application.
An interesting aspect of StartSSL is that they require physical residence addresses for natural persons even for their low-verification certificates. This seems a bit strong for “validate that the site that I'm talking to is ‘legitimately’ bound to name X”; this is the reason I've been on the fence about going that route.
Well there was the 'flash crash' but it wasn't that big a deal. This financially uninformed hacker thinks it could get much worse some day soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Shouldn't something like Leap Motion be able to do this (for one store at least) and without the privacy concerns?
Exactly, and in India $2000 a month goes a long way.
The two concepts are IMO not so easily separable - see the widespread finding of blacks in the US to be "unattractive". Attractiveness is, despite the loud griping of evo-psych proponents, largely cultural. Our perceptions of race, of gender roles, of etc etc, contribute greatly to attraction.

Discrimination in all its forms are often hard to disentangle.
Yes, but not fast enough to be safe in this situation.

*also someone not particularly experienced, just a bit of messing about in DCS. Correct me if I'm wrong!
I went through this whole class when it was linked here a couple of months back and really enjoyed it. I'm a self-taught programmer that needed updates on some modern concepts and a refresher on some other stuff, plus a bit of help with Python syntax. If you're like me (or a beginner) it's great. Thanks Zed.
>>>>>He will be remembered for missing mobile

Windows 7 and 8 were the first mobile OS that didn't completely rip off Apple, had the first original interface since Apple's iphone and you're saying they missed the target? Seriously?

WP 8 has some incredibly original features my Android and Apple friends swoon over. Not to mention the platform is completely wide open for developers. It's not completely crowded out like the android and apple markets are.
Right, and he hasn't moved the stock at all relative to the expectations when it was handed to him.
It's not a dumb question, that's what we should start by assuming because it makes a lot more sense. This is referred to as "local hidden variables".

Bell's theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem) and the tests around it show this to be false, things just don't act like there's a variable we simply don't know.
I think it's probably good business in the long term as well. Apple isn't consuming the supply of public innovation. Apple might not add broadly to the pile, but it's not shrinking. Spending wildly on R&D doesn't ensure long term sustainably, or meaningful contributions to the public either. The Nokia comparison is pretty persuasive.

> The WSJ reported that between 2004 and 2007, Nokia outspent Apple on R&D by a factor of 9 ($22.2 billion vs. $2.5 billion).

It's worth noting that Apple's $2.5 billion had a pretty big impact. Mobile computing as we now enjoy it was arguably ushered in by Apple. Focused contribution is still valuable.
Thanks for the credits :) I'm indeed the person who figured out what GH was working on based on Twitter's notifications letting me know that a bunch of my GitHub friends suddenly followed the atom.io twitter account. From there it was easy to link things together.
This is pretty cool. XKCD never fails at amazing me.
The simple problem in Houston is the generally white, left-wing NIMBY crowd. Case in point-- a mid-rise multi use commercial/residential building was going up near Kirby Drive and the upper-middle class residents of the area fought it tooth and nail because it would lead to more "congestion" in the area. I say "left-wing" because it's a fact. This particular neighborhood votes overwhelmingly democrat. Yet out in the more 'conservative' suburbs such as the Woodlands, mixed use higher density housing is being welcomed and encouraged by residents. It's a classic limousine liberal situation -- they want all of these 'great' things until it interferes with their view or they ability to not have to wait an extra five minutes at the Starbucks. Extreme left wing mayor Anise Parker, for example, draws much of her support from these groups, yet refuses to address the infrastructure issues that would make these developments more feasible -- she spends political capital on bike trails in parks, but refuses to maintain roads that would make these higher density developments more palatable to existing residents. For example, one of the main arteries in Houston is Westheimer Road -- I've driven in smoother roads in Beirut than this one. The problem with high density development isn't the developers, it's the NIMBYs who were their first and object to their zone of exclusivity being encroached upon by typically younger, more urbanized new arrivals. This is ironic because generally the left wing in cities promote this kind of thing, but Houston's political makeup is actually rather unique. So if you are a 'left-winger' not from Houston, I don't mean an insult. Houston's left is a special breed.

Another reason for the development of Houston's suburban 'cities' such as the Woodlands is because the climate in the city proper is comparatively more anti-business. Tasks like getting permits approved is a Kafka-esque process, not to mention the endless regulations that make running a restaurant, shop or other small business in the city limits so painful. Interestingly, in the Woodlands for instance, that 'city' center resembles something one might see in Portland -- walkable, bike friendly roads, high density residential and retail, mixed with greenspace and office buildings. More telling is that the woodlands is privately developed. Exxon is actually building their new headquarters in that area and housing prices have already started to skyrocket.. There's a demand for an 'urban' experience. Unfortunately, the political power in Houston itself misses the forest for the trees.
I'm not sure why highway patrol would be any different from local police and sheriffs. In CA, where I live, some people mistakenly think the highway patrol only has jurisdiction over the highways, but in fact they're state troopers with jurisdiction everywhere in the state. If police an sheriffs are good for business, then CHP will be good for business too.
Couchpotato has a bookmarklet that can run on RT / IMDB pages to add movies easily, it's in the settings pages somewhere.
Interesting, so he's still a (part-time) technical writer for Microsoft? Does he write MSDN articles? I might have read more of his works than I thought...

The news about the planned hollywood adaptation is both exciting and frightening. These are really not cinematic stories as far as I can tell, unless you're ready to transform a story that happens inside someone's mind, like "Understand", into a graphical adventure like "Lucy". But after all, why not. I'm not one to say that a bad movie adaptation can really hurt a book - the book doesn't care.
At least it will probably be interesting either way.
One of my favourite writers, even though I've only read a few of his short stories. He's a very striking writer who manages to combine very big ideas with really fluid prose, which is something that seems quite rare.

I understand he's written several short stories available only online (freely available) rather than in print. If anyone knows of a Kindle version that collects his online stories I'd be very grateful!
It should be fixed now.
Thanks!
I agree, my initial thoughts were "oh nice", then after two minutes trying to use it I thought it was an example of how to cram in as many UI anti-patterns as possible.
You can't rip movies with an iDevice. The future of movie companies is, ship hardware devices.
Only scored a 27 on the 'Reverse characters in a line' challenge...

I was trying to do this:

:s/./&\r/g|g/^/m0|j!

However, that causes a to be before b for some reason.

So I ended up doing:

:s/./&\\r/g|g/^/m0\rV}gJ

Anyone know why appending j! joins everything correctly except a and b?
I know, this was a big decision I went back and forth on. And I've read all the HN threads discussing whether or not to use it. I ended up going with Facebook connect because it's so easy to get a name and profile picture, and from what I can tell, the average user doesn't mind. I've also tried to state clearly what information is and isn't used.