jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had heard about this giant JSON from friends in the GTA V modding community. OP's idea of what it is used for is right. My guess is that this JSON was quite smaller when the game released and has been increasing in size as they add more and more items to sell in-game. Additionally, I speculate that most of the people with the knowledge to do this sort of profiling moved on to work on other Rockstar titles, and the "secondary team(s)" maintaining GTA Online throughout most of its lifespan either didn't notice the problem, since it's something that has become worse slowly over the years, or don't have enough bandwidth to focus on it and fix it.

It's also possible they are very aware of it and are saving up this improvement for the next iteration of GTA Online, running on a newer version of their game engine :)
I have ignored and dismissed a macOS update on my laptop for weeks with no penalty.
Sometimes those commonly used packages end up being whatever dumb algorithm the author came up with, and nobody spends the time to verify if the package is worth it's popularity.
Anyone here play BatMUD?
There's been a campaign of misinformation on social media persuading people not to wear masks, or engage in social distancing, or to take the virus seriously at all.

It's been quite evident.

I haven't seen anyone encouraging Vitamin D. But I have seen plenty of kooks and trolls claim that mask wearing is virtually guaranteed to suffocate you with CO2, and taking walks in the fresh air will magically boost your immune system to the point where Covid won't affect you.

And of course this is all a government plot to take away your freedom, etc, etc.
We agree. To elaborate. I agree it should be. Unfortunately it is not. This is why I compliment the economist. They do it as I believe it should be.

One example is the amount on comments here on hn about some acronyms thrown without explanation.
There are, for instance, 1200 matches for 'What is IC' (Individual Contributor)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
What you are describing is bullying, plain and simple. Similar to the other commenter I’ve seen unions use the same tactics as well.
It's a painful process yes. When you want to use a library that depends on OpenSSL 1.1.1 for instance but you're stuck with 1.0 on CentOS/RHEL 7
how did you manage to build a social app that covers your living expenses?
A lot of people hold personal opinions that aren't obligated to follow what courts decide. Not to invoke Chewbacca's law, but do you think OJ was innocent?
I will copy/paste from the other answer I gave to this same question:

> Pen testing is a viable alternative in the same way that driving a car is an alternative to designing an engine.

"Red teaming" is little different.

Further, much of the commercial world is thinly veiled NSA work. Who do you think the biggest clients of Reversing Labs, for instance, are? They're not just any commercial firms. They're commercial firms providing services to the NSA.

Bug bounties and HackerOne are sick jokes compared to what governments pay.
Perhaps someone with a stronger chemistry or biological background can clear this up for me: do we assume extraterrestrial life will rely on the same chemistry as earthen life simply by virtue of limited observation? Is there some evidence that life, given a different starting planet, would like still form from chemicals readily found on earth?

Or, i suppose, does it just make for clickable headlines?
Usually it's order of 100-200 KB per query but caching things like the tree root makes this footprint smaller (e.g. second query is always faster than first one).

We tested it with pretty ad-hoc parameters (just to check if it's practical at all!), will soon write an automatic optimizer for them, minimizing query time.
My current strategy is to host on Github and mirror to Gogs on my own server. I might eventually swap that around. There are advantages to Github in terms of the number of eyeballs and ability to search, but I expect that it will go the way of all proprietary systems and probably will start becoming evil sooner or later. Developers have faith in Github in the same manner that they once had faith in Google and Google Code.
Rather, capital gains tax steers investments away from the taxing jurisdiction and toward other jurisdictions. If the state wishes to maximize revenue, it must be patient, and wait for the wealthy to die before demanding its cut. Of course there are political reasons to do otherwise...
Taping phones of foreign politicians

Intercepting shipments to plant back doors

Sabotaging cryptography efforts to so everyone has weak encryption.

Lying to congress.

Are a few shocking revelations from Snowden disclosure my bad memory recalls.
I'd expect every child having their genome sequenced at birth (if not earlier), within a decade.
You can create managed accounts anywhere Stripe is, but your platform needs to be in the U.S. or Canada. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Lots of character (flavor) is lost with many foods when they are very cold. Cooler whiskey goes down smooth, 0 C whiskey has lost most of it's flavor (especially if you're the kind of person who spends obscene amounts of money on small amounts of whiskey).

Room temperature on a cool day is what many will say is the 'right' temperature, but there is no right or wrong, despite what many questionable experts will tell you.
I don't work in Africa, but in SE Asia. I have had countless problems getting medium-sized (tens of kUSD) FX transfers to HK,SG,TH,etc. on a reasonable deadline.
Nuclear plants are OK at this. The current fleet in North America can ramp at about 5% per minute from 50% to 100%. (Between 50% and less gets very slow). There's also concern that repeated ramping could greatly increase the amount of maintenance required.

So, on the same order as a "fast" combined cycle plant and quicker than a older combined cycle ng plant. But.... pretty slow compared to the 4 minutes from 0 to 20% and 4 minutes from 20% to 100% for an open cycle gas turbine, and a fair degree of ability to react to "step" loads.

So, if nuclear needed to, it could help out in grid stability operations, but you really need something very fast like hydro or open cycle NG plants (or batteries) to do most of the work.
Like the commenter above indicated, it does not work that way.

'The Press' is already a structure of independence and decentralization.

Without integrity in those systems, someone will come along and dictate the Truth.

15% QAnon, 35% Trump (those willing to go along even if they don't fully agree), and then the rest are compelled when the President orders the press to communicate his words, verbatim, without criticism etc..

Twitter does not actually give power to the people, or the Truth - it concentrates power in the hands of those who have the most popular Truth.

But yes, the press needs to be less biased, but that's also partly our fault.

We don't read the less biased news, unfortunately, we like tabloids and click bait.
I personally cycle inside a hamster wheel with no air holes.

Avoids germs, you see.
> Even if you do count from the end of the civil war, I would not consider my central thesis destroyed by the small and frankly uniquely weird country of Switzerland.

What exactly is your central thesis? It sounds like you're presenting an argument of American exceptionalism, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point here.
LOL the whole “fall guy” thing is how companies keep doing what they’re doing while making some symbolic penance. For a software company a fuckup of this magnitude should be: all customers leave, company dies, execs never work again. Anything less is an insufficient incentive to work extremely hard to prevent this from happening.
Could mean that we can regress out one's mood, they are unrelated variables. Your mood doesn't drive creativity.
I was waiting to see a weird gotcha about multiplication not being atomic or something. Actually, question for people with more low-level knowledge than me: is that solution atomic?
> unsupported assertions

What else could there be?? Do you think the company will release this information in a press release??? Do you think people will put their names to these criticisms??
There's no income tax in Seattle.
We had that, in the form of Sidecar, whose model lost to Uber et al in 2014.
This isn’t an “Advanced FizzBuzz” if it takes three hours or even one hour. The whole point of a FizzBuzz question is that it’s a fast, like 2-3 minutes fast, heuristic for separating the wheat from the chaff and this isn’t that at all. At some point it’s no longer a FizzBuzz and just a coding challenge. Even the author’s answer reflects that (though he calls it a FizzBuzz)

I don’t know a thing about memcached internals but, as presented here, with the potential encoding and concurrency issues means that there’s likely levels to the complexity here that will likely take someone quite a bit of time to resolve if they’re not familiar with memcached internals.

But again memcached and even C++ isn’t my thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I don't think the public expects Facebook to be the morality police.

So, users wouldn't be upset with Facebook if ads with sex toys started appearing on their homepage?

We absolutely expect them to censor their page to meet with our moral sensibilities, and complain loudly to the world when they do not.
So it looks like there is a break-even point in revenue per developer above which Unreal is more expensive. The question is how often studios hit that.
It was very obvious that Amazon wasn't unprofitable in any real sense. They only raised $100m, and they kept growing.

The difference with Amazon is that they have a very capital-intensive business, and when these grow very quickly then the accounting is basically useless (you see this with some ecomm companies, in some countries the market literally does not understand operating leverage in these businesses...so the business will build a new warehouse, the stock will drop 75%, top-line is growing 50%/year, and then the stock 10x when operating leverage comes through).

I think profitability is a sign that your business works. The "first-mover" advantage is way, way, way overstated. Investing is growth is great, but some businesses are clearly investing in growth that is unprofitable (one interesting example here is NFLX, they generate a profit in accounting terms but it is pretty clear that their business is either not profitable or taking on massive risk for marginal profit).
I suspect that few Uber drivers have the time or ability to fully plot out depreciation costs, and instead do a simple “tank of gas + X hours = cash”. After all you end up with the same car afterwards, right?

Taking advantage of people who don’t work it out for themselves is despicable at best, highly immoral at worst.
I half-jokingly think this needs an app that gamifies the killing of local pests, so you could keep score with a leaderboard.

The giant hornets provide a much larger target than mosquitoes. Does this make them easier to identify?
I think your anecdote at the end differs, because in the OP's story, he was already doing the side project both before and after his superiors found out about it.

They were happy before they knew, and unhappy after. But presumably the output didn't change.
I had some issues that I localized to my right index finger. I apparently click a lot. So my mouse was the main issue.

I did end up buying a MS ergonomic keyboard which I liked, but ultimately, a new mouse is what was the best solution for me.

http://www.amazon.com/3M-Ergonomic-Mouse-SMALL-MEDIUM/dp/B00...

(note it comes in large also). I tried a couple of other designs, but I liked the 3M one the best. It's weird at first, but works well. Thumb for left/right click. I also use the button that's on the stick for scrolling. It's sort of a grab and scroll motion, that works really well. I had to use a utility to implement it: http://www.marcmoini.com/sx_en.html
She's not a thief, but she is a fraud. (i.e. copyright violate != theft)
It is 2014/2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?

Sure you are "stupefied" if you don't read the article:

Clive McCay, a biochemist and gerontologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was the first to apply parabiosis to the study of ageing. In 1956 ...
Rocky IV
Who says she hasn't already been 'thrown out' of the real world? Her ideas certainly don't match up with reality.
The title should note this is a guest post by someone else in the Harvard CS department, Michael Mitzenmacher. (Once upon a time, Google itself was running "Come Work For Google" AdWords triggered on Mitzenmacher's name.)
"command line" is a bit too ambiguous a term to adequately describe where this browser can be used.

Technically, it's made to use Linux's framebuffer, which means it can be used from virtual consoles outside of X, but not (for example) from within an xterm or other terminal inside X.
You're assuming that the student doesn't own a laptop (or at least doesn't bring it to lectures) and that TPTB know the student's work schedule.
What majority? Most of the "answer" has come from the group selling and/or using the machine. Are you calling into question the credentials of all the experts that spoke out claiming more research needs to be done on this? Are you qualified to do so?
Good question. I dug up the e-mail from 2012 and here's what the Google Security Team told me:

> We're deploying some abuse detection and reactive measures to deal with impostors that might try to abuse this sort of attack.

Surely any OAuth2 service provider will disable clients that are caught misbehaving.
Strictly, shykes didn't call the CoreOS team unethical. It might be implied, but he did not "just [call]" them that.
I just tried Lyft line in SF. The first request got canceled after five minutes. The second one found matches after a few minutes and told me to be outside 6 minutes later. At some point someone else joined the ride, so the 6 minutes turned into 12. About 15 minutes went by, and (when the estimated wait time had decreased only by 4 minutes) the driver decided to cancel the ride. My guess is that it was because rush hour pricing jumped from 50% to 75%, so "James" decided getting a single, full-price ride made more sense.

Needless to say, not a happy customer at this point.
Pretty much the old tobacco tactics.
"First they came for Trump, and I didn't care because I hated him anyway..."
So all the people who were framegrabbed and getting arrested were not Trump supporters, but antifa?

All the people physically confronting the police here a small minority of agent provocateurs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCHra6JuuQ&t=3s

Pretty ridiculous take, bro.
Also, you completely changed your comment while I was responding. Hard to discuss with you that way.
That is cool, to be able to see yourself in a bigger project. Thanks for sharing.
False - "In Louisville, Kentucky, early Monday, a man was shot dead during a protest against the death of Breonna Taylor." in the article.
You are very, very sheltered to believe this situation is even close to what happened in the civil war.
There's video footage of the cops literally pulling back the barricades. See Millie Weaver on YT for example, and dozens of others.
They certainty broke into the offices in some of these incidents, like the one involving AOC, where they broke into Pelosi’s office. There was also an incident where they broke into McConnell’s office. I don’t know if they stole things or not but it’s somewhat irrelevant. They costed time and resources which is still theft.
A significant amount of the "cleverness" is in how semiconductors get made rather than the transistors themselves.
If anything, the banks promoting this technology should be sued for false advertising.

in many cases banks refused to reimburse cardholders who reported unauthorised card use, claiming that their systems could not fail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
Yep, I include a picture of Matz in the Ruby one: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/blob/master/lesso...

You can also just use a URL from the web, and the first time the program runs, it downloads and caches it.
Interesting, Fry's electronics does exactly this. They have one line which feeds into n registers.
Some background information.

The fundamental reason why this is a big deal is that in the UK, the repercussions of fraud are skewed towards customers rather than the banks. The relevant legal standard is that customers must exercise "reasonable care" with their PIN if the bank is to bear the cost of fraud. Of course, banks always insist that their systems are secure, and that it was the customer's fault. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/arti...

The Cambridge team has been investigating vulnerabilities in the EMV standard underlying Chip and PIN (ubiquitous in the UK) for a long time.

From 2006: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/03/15/chip-and-skim/

If I understand correctly they first started to find serious vulnerabilities in 2009.

Blog post: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/08/25/defending-agai...

Paper: "Optimised to Fail: Card Readers for Online Banking" http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd410/papers/optimised_fail.pdf

Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1QAnb-wnTs

They escalated that attack in 2010.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-i...

Paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland10chipbroken.p...

Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pMuV2o4Lrw
I remember him saying what he did for his previous book and I can imagine that for this one he did something similar. Basically, he came up with 10 or so possible titles (before having finished the book) and then used AdWords to check to which title customers respond.
> it sounded way too controlling/strict

Indeed.

"Engineers will work during the preferred hours of the clients."

"For example, if the in-house engineers start their workday at 11am PST, our Eastern European Toptal engineers can often start working at 7pm EET and work through the night if that's what the client needs."

Requiring their engineers to sacrifice their health and personal life in this way sounds insane.
I think it's fair to question the wisdom (and legality) of agencies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...) that are "independent" of the constitution's separation of powers.

The constitution vests Judicial power in an independent judiciary, but provides that the POTUS shall be elected and that executive power shall be vested in him/her... and that legislative power shall be vested in Congress, with Representatives and Senators elected by the people.

To say that there are agencies that are simply outside of that system... it seems to fly in the face of the basic things that kids learn in Elementary school.

The Department of Defense (aka military) takes their orders from the POTUS / Commander in Chief. We should freak if the military went rogue and decided to invade a country without approval. Yet, we're supposed to want other executive departments to act without regard to the wishes of the elected president?

> [The FED] is an agency of the federal government and reports to and is directly accountable to the Congress.

I mean, it sounds as if they're claiming to be a Legislative Branch agency.
Arguably it is the wrong strategy, especially if the unspoken possibility of war with China becomes a spoken one. The USA has an edge in raw technological prowess. The F-35 plays to that strength, with tons of advanced technology that took a long time to master and develop. Setting up factories that can churn out cheap planes en-masse is certainly possible and if the USA found itself in a war of attrition it'd probably do that surprisingly fast. But why get into such a situation, in which the US would have no real advantage and perhaps some disadvantages, when it can compete on pure tech and build one plane that can take out many of the opponents cheap planes?
>There’s no part of me that finds it easy to believe that a female, minority worker in tech is going to get the same opportunities as a white male anywhere in Europe.

I agree, she's a woman, she will definitely get much more opportunities than a man. The potential employers will bend over backwards to fill their diversity quotas.
Dear Don, please don't do flamewars on HN and especially please don't start them up in unrelated threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe the real treasure was the jobs we made along the way.
I’d suggest that, in the UK, it’d be the C64 and Spectrum, not the BBC Model B. Cost alone restricted the BBC to wealthy families and schools.

I’d play games on my C64 and then took an interest in cracking games. This lead into writing demos and, eventually, a job writing 68k and C with MPW in the Mac (via Amiga and Atari).

The BBC Model B played no part in my career.
> FTP transfers of specially formatted files.

there's nothing wrong with that, at least it isn't fake-rest, and most other delivery technology are proprietary anyway.
Does this tactic actually ever work for you?
> They have to start making site reliability priority #1.

The downtime doesn't seem to be affecting their growth or revenue, so I guess not.
I actually studied fire engineering, so rather than a dare, I've actually burned loaded concrete/steel beams, and connections in giant furnaces that get a lot hotter than your match to evaluate their fire performance.

I don't think you're listening to what I'm saying about the common air temperature around small fires (auto-ignition of hot gasses at ~600°C is common) and the melting temperature of the binder in these bricks (150°C max).

It's not about ignition of the PE, its about cohesion of the brick PE binder (and thus the sand) at higher temperatures. Your painting this brick that will lose cohesion will do exactly nothing for the performance of the brick.

I dare you to think about it critically, instead of making useless dares that don't address what the other person is saying.
https://github.com/sponsors/jart
There's also the implication that at election time their clients will help fundraise. It's a lot easier to fundraise from rich people at thousands per pop than $20 or less from ordinary people by a factor of over 100.
I'll be honest, D looks like a pretty inconsistent language. It has a lot of useful features for sure, but—having not used it—seemingly of the kitchen sink variety.
How well does FreeTaxUSA work with investments and other complex tax situations? Can it parse PDFs or import data from brokerages in the same way?
The Dyson ones were also considered bad.
> In such cases, there is no reason such users can't "enter" bitcoin through a second layer such as the Lightning Network.

Yes there is they need a channel, which costs $20 to open and $20 to close.

> And who is to say $40 for an on-chain transaction is an "egregious fee"? It turns out having access to the world's most secure, decentralized, unstoppable, set-in-stone, uncensorable, trustless, non-inflationary monetary network is a valuable thing. Maybe so much so that $40 per on-chain transaction is a bargain in the bigger picture.

Ah you're a comedian too!
This is like the trolley problem, but even dumber. You have a trolley headed for a bunch of people. You can throw a switch to take some people out of the path of the trolley, or do nothing. You are suggesting that doing nothing is better, because that way there won't be "equity" disparities in trolley victims.
Be aware that some of the whole house systems might not have a fresh air intake. This can lead to relatively high CO2 levels inside the building and affect wellbeing and cognitive performance.
Just as a quick note, I run Synapse (the heavyweight server, not Dendrite the light-weight one!) for myself and a few friends on a modest 1GB of RAM VPS with a few bridges and have no problems. Looking forward to Dendrite getting feature-parity and swapping over to be even lighter.