jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You may not understand how the GPL works. Just because I have Linux on my Banana Pi board doesn't mean I need to share with anyone the source code for every piece of software that is running on it.

If you did somehow make a request under the GPL, you would probably get vanilla source for a large number of software packages such as the Linux kernel and a libc implementation. You would not get the proprietary components.
Wikileaks is supposed to ensure anonymity to leakers, so I don't see how contributing to both projects is contradictory...
I've used it continually since 2001, and I'm still using it now. The downside is that most companies have forked the OpenACS code internally (including universities using dotLRN) --- that code never made it to the outside world. If you needed an extension, it has always been the case that you had to write it yourself. Developers are indeed an often scarce good but that has worked well for those of us that are still around.
I'm a big fan of Myers Briggs - the 4 letter assignation that is given to people for rating their personality. Most people lie on a spectrum between E and I (Extrovert and Introvert). We all have quiet time and noisy times and whilst you could consider yourself an Introvert since this is what you prefer, it could be very context sensitive. I expect if you profiled many tech entrepreneurs they would tend to be some sort of hybrid between E and I.
2. Gnome's memory footprint is rather large,
sadly.

It is?

I do quite a bit of work inside an ubuntu installation on VirtualBox that is setup for a maximum of 1gb ram and it seems to work fine (I haven't seen a computer with less than 1gb of RAM installed in years, but I've also never been to a Russian school, so who knows).

A default ubuntu installation with the gnome desktop loaded up shows about 800mb free out of that 1gb, and I am sure a nice chunk of those 200mb include stuff other than gnome.

Pretty sure it would be a bit sluggish at times, but it would probably still be very usable even if you only had 512mb of RAM.
Or that most consumers don't have a choice in the matter (especially in regards to MS - I don't have a laptop running Windows & Office because I like Windows & Office).
You should make the footer sticky to the bottom.
I don't want to sound callous -- I'm sorry for your loss, that sounds awful -- but your comment doesn't give enough context to gain any insight. It just sounds like "drugs are bad, mkay."
It was not functioning as a tool... immediately? It's a interesting experience, if they couldn't produce it while it was happening it that doesn't mean it didn't influence them in the long run.
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To comment on your actual list: I'm not sure I agree with learning PHP. There are more fun alternatives.

Also, where's HTML5?
> it's "I don't know, but I'm happy to find out" or "I don't know, but I'd love to learn how."

Indeed! That superficial allure is the technical person's user-talk reaction in my opinion. It's that very reason why I don't talk to users that way because, to some extent, it's condescending: something which I try very hard not to be.

Maybe I'm an idealist, but I find being honest gets a lot more things done than sugar-coating everything. It's probably why I'm also not good at politics.
Even that part is a scam

"In either case, students will still be expected to contribute toward their own educational expenses from summer income, savings and part-time work during the school year. Students are expected to contribute at least $5,000 per year from these sources but are not expected to borrow to make the contribution."

So its really $5K/yr even at $60K/yr and below, despite the glorious headlines. Its quite a downer to start with a fantastic headline and realize its all BS, although the truth of the matter is a pretty good deal. The article should have been more honest. Under promise and over deliver, as opposed to the opposite provided.
Of course it's easy for you because you understand what a client id and a client secret are, and you know why they differ from your username and password. I'm talking about the average Joe that barely knows what a URL is, a redirect URL even less. You know what openstack means, and you know what a gateway is and can run one.

hubiC makes it astonishingly hard for someone to create an app where a user just puts your account username and password and starts using it. If I was negative I'd say it's a scheme to prevent people actually filling their whole quota, because the only simple way they can do it is through the web ui or through the official syncing app.
I think you're being overly pedantic. When the author uses the phrase "remove errors" I take it to mean "remove a class (or classes) of errors". How is this not a worthy goal?
I've always liked this summary of DRM from someone on slashdot:

Very, very simply, here is the premise behind DRM.

1. I know a secret
2. I want to tell you the secret
3. I don't want you to tell anyone else the secret
4. I don't trust you

Perhaps you can see now why there's no solution to that scenario.

Another good short one:

DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
giving an idea is not like presenting an invention/prior-art.
Related to this, I actually think one of the best critiques of Bitcoin is by Elon Musk. He’s rich enough to not care as much about not having bought in early and has significant experience with financial systems. Also, it’s funny because a large part of the Chattering class (which includes me because I’m on Twitter and the author of this article) seem to think he’s somehow a Bitcoin champion.

He makes solid arguments as to why Dogecoin, a joke alt-coin, has some technical features that legitimately make it an improvement on Bitcoin.

I don’t agree with him on hating fiat currency, but it’s a good critique.

Regarding fiat with Fed-like policies, it’s actually a feature that those who would hoard fiat cash sort of low level hate it because they know it’s somewhat inflationary and so they look for better places to put it... The idea being that they should put it to productive use by hiring people and/or investing in efficiency-improving/labor-saving capital equipment or whatever. (Of course, plowing it into Bitcoin doesn’t really help that goal, so in some ways, Bitcoin is crowding out productive investments...)
Your look is a message, it's something you chose and thus he should be aware of it.
But their traffic didn't seem to spike. System metrics on https://www.redditstatus.com/#day don't show any increase in traffic.

I do notice all of their message backlogs haven't moved though, so who knows how accurate the request rate is.
Admittedly i wasn't writing a through essay response. To elaborate, I'm saying that the exponential rise of technology coupled with the same exact type of mind our ancestors had 2,000 years ago is a significant source of the issue right now. The solution to create even more powerful technology to solve this problem will likely only lead to a bigger problem in the future.

What we don't spend relatively anywhere close to same level of energy and effort is creating, developing, funding ways to shape the human culture, values, and mind that underlies this relentless (and in many cases unfulfilling and self-destructive) pattern of looking to technology to solve everything.

It's a hard challenge for sure but I don't see any alternative solution.

Jordan Hall and Daniel Schmachtenberger talk a lot about this as one source to go deeper.

(side note, I live full time in a residential, monastic small community in the country side. Our carbon footprint is tiny for our size and we have daily conversations on this type of thing. We haven't "solved" it but this is a issue close to my heart I've dedicated my life to.)
While I largely agree with you, the motivations of doxxing is almost always to threaten someone into silence, and to chill others who might be considering opening their own mouths.
If you include something in your blogroll, that is, literally, an endorsement of it. I don't see how it isn't. It's part of the framing you're putting around every article you write. It's the context that you directly provide.
Thank you was going to post this.

And sure..America's not perfect... but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative!
I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) in late 2015. I have some weird issues in rebooting but it works like a charm overall and I don't even know if I have a need to upgrade. I will continue to wait another 2-3 years before thinking of an upgrade.
The downvotes make it funnier!
A solid article trying to understand exactly what is so important about Rationalism that it must be hidden and treated as a gnostic induction into a mystery religion.

Note that the author did the courtesy of not mentioning Roko's Basilisk. Clearly they do understand that some things shouldn't be talked about. But they don't think that any of the writers mentioned here deserve to avoid public scrutiny.
WaPo is owned by the (second?) richest person on planet earth. To think it’s not used to advance his goals would be foolish. It’s not like Jeff is some kind of altruist.
I thought ktor was a toy, but apparently YouTrack (JetBrains' alternative to Jira) is built on top of it:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/standalone/Third-Par...
Your evidence is quite flimsy.

The Nashville bomber was one guy committing suicide and he even warned in advance.

The Michigan kidnapping plot was about 5-6 idiots who did not represent some kind of farflung organization.

The Proud Boys have not started fights, to my knowledge. They have marched peacefully down the street holding U.S. flags and the like, and been violently attacked by antifa elements. They show up at left wing/antifa demonstrations but don't attack; they fight back when provoked. They've been demonized by left wing news as "white supremacists" ironically even though their leader is a black guy.

So when you say "it is pretty easy to find 'they'", you need to support that statement. It's pretty easy to make stuff up, too, and I believe a lot of people are being censored on the basis of hearsay and madeup nonsense.
There's a video about his case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J5VUwiAs

called "What happens if you put your head in a particle accelerator?"
That is a misinterpretation. I say this because corporate tax is an addition to individual taxes. Taxes of individuals are paid anyway via P&L overhead!!! Owners of businesses pay personal income tax (which was lower 100 years ago as well) in addition to corporate income tax (plus tax on dividends).
Indeed, countless wars were started for the most idiotic reasons imaginable, see 'war of the bycket'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
This doesn't address all the issues you raise, but my hack to deal with the Twitter sidebar is to set it to a language and region I don't understand.

1. Click "Show more" at the bottom of "What's happening"

2. Click the "settings cog" at the top of the page

3. Uncheck "Show content in this location"

4. Click "Explore locations" and choose a location whose language you can't read and you know nothing about.

And to avoid outrage leaking to me via people who end up in my main feed I simply aggressively mute pretty much anyone who talks about politics or similar. Sure, I therefore lack their signal but avoiding their noise more than makes up for that.
There's a monograph called "Industrial Society and Its Future" which you may find interesting.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225468.Industrial_Societ...
Same here. I'm already full remote, but if for any reason I weren't, I'd be looking for a new job immediately. Nothing is going to convince me to go back to open office plans. No amount of money will convince me of that. I'm happy to earn less if that's the necessary sacrifice.
There's no new information to glean from this post.
Maybe we should use phase instead of voltage level. For terahertz computations we will need completely different physics anyway. For example, p-p-p can encode 0, p--p-p — +1, p-p--p — -1, where p is pulse.
They sell executive immunity.

If you have a tough call to make as a C level you pay one of the 'big four' to come in with their powerpoints and offer a solution.

I'm highly skeptical of the value of these 'young' MBAs as well. Especially given an important detail, they never stick around to reap what they sow. i.e. They never actually gain the experience of a decision.

They are almost like professional academics in that sense, which would also explain their worship for MBAs
Awesome talk. Thanks for linking.
Certainly one could go too far in either direction, but there's little doubt we are too far in the status quo / conservative direction at the moment.
Figma and Instagram have had good articles on their blogs, although I'm not a regular follower of either.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Low-information, high-inflammation comments like this lead to reliably crappier threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been doing a lot of this on HN, unfortunately. We ban that sort of account. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Buffett and other famous investors such as Peter Lynch spent many hours reading corporate annual reports. I wonder if that is still a good use of time today or if one should work on NLP that reads corporate reports, analyst reports, listens to conference calls, and evaluates the data. Then, what the person reads is machine learning research applied to finance rather than the primary materials read by Buffett and Lynch.
Resale value of the older laptops is still decent. 2013 MacBook Pro’s still going for £750 on eBay - For a machine 8 years old? I think it only cost £2000 back then anyway. So that Mac has only cost £13 a month to own.
I've been thinking of putting together github repo which is just an index out to people's snowflakes. If I do, I'll reach out.
Is he really shelling out for every git operation, or are those binaries just extra roughage for technical users?
Can you provide a formal definition of murder? I take it you cannot. Does that mean that we should allow murder?

That a law with a different name is protecting money is irrelevant. The point is disallowing manipulating atoms in a certain way. Another one: can you give a formal definition of what constitutes a $1 bill? Again, you cannot. Does that mean that we should allow copying money?

A formal definition is not necessary for something to be put in the law.
Just noticed too. I never really saw the relevance anyway.
Big thing in 2011 will be hardware accelerated 3d.

You know the time is becoming right when, after many failed attempts, there is not just one but three viable platforms: WebGL, Adobe Molehill and Unity on Google's NaCl.

All three should finally pop into mainstream sometime during the next year.

Disclaimer: I'm biased, spending a lot of time on WebGL recently [1] ;)

[1] https://github.com/alteredq/three.js
> which not just the number of publications is counted, but also their impact (citations/yr).

But that is completely flawed! Some research areas (which is inconsequential but easy to do) produces a lot of citations. And what also happens is that people start building research groups which cross-cite each other.
I happened to read this exact article a few days ago because I wanted a few libc-like functions to use from assembly, without having to link to the entire libc (since I was only interested in a small number of functions and didn't want to bloat the executable).

Ultimately, though, I used the TLSF[1] allocator and just implemented its dependencies (memset, memcpy, sbrk and mmap).

[1] http://rtportal.upv.es/rtmalloc/
When I first decided to learn my first programming language, I bought a Wrox PHP for Beginners books and literally read every word (and practiced every example) over a weekend.

I learned two things from doing this: 1) PHP is a great language for beginners and 2) The details you read in a book like that won't stick with you forever, and you'll have to use the book as a reference anyways...
I think he's saying that people would be running Apache, not IIS. Which is what virtually everyone on Linux/BSD ran before nginx's rise.

(I'm both an nginx and apache fan, just trying to add some clarity here.)
What if reality is basically a slightly more advanced form of This? Thoughts are generative finite infinite potentials and reality is the render. Interesting.
I am quite saddened by I also see it as highly challenging and reverse engineering is one of those excruciating tasks. Sadly, I am not a good C programmer and I just can't get myself to write C code.

That said, with the rise of RISC-V architecture, I believe there will be viable alternatives to Apple silicon which are much more open. Building a new linux variant for those computers might be a lot less excruciating than reverse engineering Apple silicon. However, the timeline for RISC-V computers is a huge unknown.
> so much of our preferences is comfortability with the known, familiarity

Well that, and weather. Only die-hards like to bike in the Pacific Northwest winter. Frigid, wet, windy. I'd rather bike in snow.
Erosion of the pump?
If Gradle is fast in comparison to Maven, then I cannot begin to imagine how slow Maven is. A build system that has to spawn a daemon to speed up the process is a pretty shitty one. It takes about 2-3 minutes to do that for me, and still it takes 30 seconds to build my program which is not even that huge.
>While I am a bit sympathetic with this ruling, I think it's a net negative result for rule of law

I disagree because I think it's important that the rule of law is intelligible to ordinary people. It doesn't just apply to Uber's TOS but almost everyone's. We've moved way past the point where someone can be expected to actually have an understanding of the legal ramifications of what they sign. Even if you were to read all of it, hardly anyone can even decipher what rights they actually have if they made it to a court given how counter-intuitive much of it is even to educated people.

>If the standard is "well nobody reads those things anyway", then a lot of mortgages and credit card agreements could be invalid.

I think that's actually a completely legitimate argument and it's why a lot of behaviour in the loan industry can be predatory and why arguments towards "rational consumers" hold little merit. The world has gotten so complex, it's left a lot of people behind.
Are there any obstacles to creating a github clone for Iran, outside of a viable business model? All these ghettoes of company private gitlabs are of no use to an Iranian software industry. Arguably it is even detrimental to Iran's national security.

Speaking of which [the industry], wtf? I left Tehran in 79, and I must tell you, AmirAli, that I fully expected Iran to be a software powerhouse by now (if not earlier), given the national propensities and talents, and the lack of an artificially imposed barrier to starting up an industrial/technical sector, and fairly open access to technical literature. Can you shed light on this?
Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking to clear your Facebook history, there's an extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...
Sure, if you are using a SIM from a country that does not require ID registration.

But we are talking about restoring access to your phone number. I don't really care about "a criminal" getting their account back on my service (well, unless I am SilkRoad or something).

My point is that I am able to get a new SIM for the same phone number as long as I've registered my ID with the provider. I have even kept my phone number even though I had my phone stolen 3 times for the last 20 years or so. Thus, if any of my accounts rely on that phone number for 2fa, I am good.
Retail, AWS, Ads.
For that sort of thing, maybe roll your own script using something like Fabric (http://www.fabfile.org/) for doing all the communication with the remote hosts?
I think I understand what you're getting at (i.e. it's not as widespread?), but at the same time, I can think of numerous situations where wealthy individuals use deductions and tax advantaged assets to shield income.

Wealthy individuals have greater spending flexibility and access to things like trusts, asset relocation to no-tax locations, deductions, etc.

In '09, 35K households with income over $200K reported 0 tax liability [1].

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/some-of-the-wealthiest-pay-no...
The amount universities expect a family to pay for college in the US depends on two numbers: annual income and assets. A fairly typical formula for the expected family contribution is (income - allowance) * X + assets*Y, where the "allowance" depends on things like size of family, parents' ages, state of residence, etc, X varies from 22 to 47% depending on the size of (income - allowance) (and in particular there are various brackets in there, with different marginal rates, etc), and Y is generally about 5.7%. This is all for the parents; student income and assets are treated more harshly.

All of which is to say that the college might think you can pay a lot because you have a lot of income, or because you have a lot of assets.

What counts as "assets" varies also. Obviously things like bank accounts and stock investments are included, though retirement accounts are typically excluded. Home equity for the primary residence is included by many private colleges but not by the FAFSA's methodology (which is used by most public colleges, as I understand).

So yes, this can be a massive caveat. Stanford does consider home equity as part of your assets, so if you have a fully paid off house they may effectively assume that you will take out home equity loans or a mortgage on it to help pay for the college education.

Of course it's not that common for families with income of < 125k who have college-age kids to have a fully paid off expensive house. So in practice for many people this is not an issue. But there are absolutely people who are asset-rich and income-poor (think retirees!) for whom the fact that all this stuff is not purely income-based makes a huge difference.
I'm from Glasgow, Scotland myself and I've never been to US but I've done a fair amount of research. Our societies differ a lot if it goes to moving around. I can normally walk around the whole town(600k people). I take the public transportation when I'm lazy.
I am always amazed when I hear from my US friends "you have to have a car otherwise you can't get anywhere" or "there are no sidewalks". Wow. In Europe most of the cities are a lot more densely populated than in the US which cuts costs, but even though there is more people packed in the same space(lots of people live in flats), they don't mind bacause everything is close and they save their time. And green areas? Why have a back yard when you have a park 5 mins away.

It's interesting how the standards of living differ between us. It seems to me that a lot of people crave a suburbian house in the US. I'd love to live there for a while to get a feel of the society and why it thinks in this way.

There's a TED talk I stumbled upon some time ago - only 5mins but perfectly approaches part of the problem we are discussing here ;) "How to reinvent the apartment building" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KnaYZJg48
My favourite part of suburbs is the grid of street maximally designed to make driving over them less efficient than avoiding them.

Intuitively one would think this decreases traffic but instead it turns the neighbourhood into a kind of watershed where all traffic quickly converges to the same few progressively broader street.

The harder the grid planner tried to inhibit through-traffic, the worse the effect.
How is it any different? I do it all of the time with no problems.