jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>It’s a very large tent party though sparse in density.

I'm not so sure about that.

I have strong libertarian (small 'l') leanings, specifically that government should stay the hell out of people's lives and bodies as much as possible. And that humans should be free to do pretty much whatever they want as long as they don't interfere with others doing the same.

But that's where I part ways with the Libertarian (big 'L') Party.

Because I do believe that, human nature being what it is, that the government does have a role to play in helping those who are disadvantaged in our society.

What's more, I believe that government has a role to play in evening the playing field and attempting to make sure that everyone has equal opportunity to succeed in our society.

The Libertarian Party doesn't believe in any of that, so I have no interest in supporting them.

I'd note that privatized everything (not saying you support that) isn't libertarian at all. Rather it's anarcho-capitalism[0], which would completely destroy our society.

While the implementation of the idea that minorities should be protected against the "tyranny of the majority" by the government has been pretty poor in the US, it has improved somewhat in recent years.

I look forward to that progress continuing. And the Libertarian Party won't be the one's that help us do that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
I've used HTTP/2 SSE for TinyDev (docs.tinydevcrm.com) and I've encountered the need for a reverse proxy and the unidirectional dataflow to be kinda eh, even if it is great in theory. I haven't played around too much with WebSockets though, but IMHO money + traction carries a good deal of weight.
Congrats to the OP! One lesson in these graphs that is very important to internalize is how spiky they are. When you're small, you'll make most of your money on a few special days, based on events that might be out of your control.

Given that dynamic, it can be hard to distinguish cause from effect, let alone layer on things like A/B tests or other statistical analysis that might hold for things at bigger scale.
unions are useful for managing and firing in bulk.
Right, all this kind of feels as if HTTP/2 is trying to solve transport layer problems in the application layer. Especially if you leave out the server initiated push. I can't really pretend to know much about this but I can't say I'm surprised that this causes problems when the underlying transport-layer protocol is trying to solve the same problem.

So is it correct to view HTTP/3 as basically taking a step back and just running HTTP over a different transport-layer protocol (QUIC)? (If so I think the name is a bit confusing, HTTP over QUIC would be much clearer)
I hope it tries to follow a minimum of high standard for dust, humidity and heat, a little like thinkpads do.

There are military standards for this, and I think it helps a lot to have a laptop that is durable.
IMO it should be the place where you live and use the roads and schools and police and firefighters.
The NIH and its $30 billion a year in funding seem to be doing a fairly decent job.

http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm

Funding report by disease/research area:

http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx

Note: Over a billion dollars a year is spent on stem cell research.
The leak and its timing is curious, but Bloomberg didn't invent this story. It's coming from one of those companies.
They aren't a full stack security team though and it's not fair to be putting any fault on Conosco; they are enterprise IT consulting and support and that's clear enough from a look on their website.

To be basic, a firewall does stateful inspection of inbound and outbound TCP/IP packets and an IPS guards against vulnerabilities with signatures; neither of which understand the applications logic --- there is nothing in off the shelf hardware/software that will prevent a shitty app from giving up the keys to the kingdom.

The firewall might block inbound connections to port 22 and the IPS might detect a SQL injection attack and stop it, but if you have an API that just gives up data you're screwed and that's precisely what happened. A legitimate request for information was made on legitimate ports, using legitimate protocols and as far as the hardware defense is concerned, everything is as expected -- the problem is the application.
Beigich and Chungking are both perhaps proto-arcologies (although far less utopic than most arcologies are envisioned).
Here are my top six from the December 2014 list:

"Entrepreneurs depend entirely on their own abilities for their financial security, because they realize that the only security is the security they create themselves."
Dan Sullivan in “The Great Crossover”

“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”
Thomas Kuhn

Scale back your long hopes to a short period.
While we speak, envious time will have already fled:
seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
Horace in "Ode XI: To Leuconoe"

"No one can truly understand the life of an entrepreneur but another entrepreneur."
Philadelphia Startup Leaders Manifesto

"We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job."
Kin Hubbard

"You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome."
Seth Godin in "Texting While Working"
I have to wonder, have you not watched television lately? No intention of snark or derision, as i grew up w/o television. but if this seems like a heinous violation of privacy and/or dignity i shutter at the thought of your reaction to the internet.

Most medical incidents are recorded, many of them in multiple different formats. Your use of the term "TV people" is rather informative. Then again, you 'software people' are typically pretty obtuse when it comes to subjects outside of your collective and therefore indistinguishable command.
Author of the article says quite clearly why he thinks it is useful.
https://deletewhatsapp.com/
It really shouldn't be surprising at all. There are only two regions in the US, east or west, and east was the first open and is cheaper to use. ELB failed in multiple availability zones within US-East. That's going to affect more AWS customers than if it happened anywhere else in their infrastructure.
20 year ex-Apple here.

I suspect there is more to this individual’s story, but IS&T is truly horrible. It’s full of fiefdoms built on tier 1 consultants (H1-Bs who are treated horribly).

Apple Retail and IS&T clash horribly, projects run over by years and tens of millions of dollars. Seating is beyond inadequate. There is very little very that is redeeming about IS&T, especially when compared to the other organizations within Apple (Apps, iOS, macOS, coreOS, hell, even iCloud).
Startups, big-tech, governments, and academics built digital health products to support the fight against COVID-19.

Lack of strategically allocated domain expertise led to most failing. Read my analysis here
What makes you think them being American matters? Has there been a trend of Spain banning American companies?

And what makes you think the Spanish goverment is trying to promote minimal goverments, etc.? I don't really follow politics, but I always thought that in most of the European democracies, socialism tends to be favored over capitalism.
Actually yes, BP has absolutely been acting like a collusive, insider trading hedge fund if these accusations are proven. The similarities to Enron are uncanny.

As per the article, BP is denying everything, and so the article is very careful in phrasing BP's involvement:

"While there’s no evidence that any BP traders were members of the Cartel, Usher participated in at least one chat room with White, according to a person who has examined conversations that included both men. It couldn’t be determined from the messages reviewed by Bloomberg News who sent the information to BP or whether BP employees acted on any of the tips."

Except they did: "Traders at BP haven’t been accused of any wrongdoing. Last year, within hours of regulators announcing probes, the chats between BP and the banks were shut down, people with knowledge of the matter said. Soon after, a compliance officer was placed on the desk for the first time, one of them said."

Not exactly what one would do if one was "innocent".

Interesting tidbit on how the Bank of England may have been involved in all this rigging, FX market manipulation and criminal abuse of other market participants:

"[Usher] joined JPMorgan as head of spot foreign exchange in 2010, where he became a member of the now-defunct Bank of England’s Chief Dealers Sub Group, a collection of about a dozen currency traders and central bank officials who met at restaurants and bank offices to discuss industry developments."

Which is why the Bank of England itself may have had to scapegoat its own sacrificial lamb to avoid any further connection to this criminal cartel:

Chief FX dealer for the Bank of England, Martin Mallett, on November 12 "was dismissed by the Bank of England yesterday for “serious misconduct relating to failure to adhere to the Bank’s internal policies,” according to a statement by the central bank today."
> By this logic, nobody should buy life insurance because the insurance companies have calculated their premiums so that they come out ahead. At least on average.

If you flip the statement, it's "do insure against things that can ruin you".

Whether life insurance is worth it depends on what you mean by that exactly. You can insure your untimely death with a benefit for your family, but there are also contracts that are more of a form of investment, and combinations thereof.

While arguably once you're dead, you're, well, dead, so you personally might not care that much anymore, your family might. And for them the loss of one of the primary earners of the family is probably ruinous, so it's reasonable to take insurance against that.

The investment case is different, it's essentially just an investment contract with associated cost. In that case, you're just buying a service (managing your investment, and to some degree insuring against investment risk). The two forms are commonly mixed together, and then it depends a lot on the structure and cost of the contract. YMMV, but I think over here these contracts have very intransparent cost structures and are commonly more expensive than getting a plain life insurance and a separate investment contract (or investing yourself, for that matter).
To me, the site has gotten a lot less informative and interesting since the votes have been hidden. The voting numbers really help me understand what people are thinking: how strong the consensus is, how much support there is for dissenting opinions. Without that data, at least for me the value of the discussion here is significantly reduced.
This is I think a problem in pretty much all of IT; people install a system and forget about it. What 'people' (sysadmins?) SHOULD do is create a maintenance schedule / contract at the same time, and make sure that it is transferred to the next guy in case of moving on in a job / position.

Doing what I can, I make a point of having a calendar reminder to update my software's dependencies every month. Doing it frequently reduces the amount of work needed and keeps things up to date.
But can you turn up 5 minutes before your flight and just hop on?
I can't tell if you are being facetious, but the main argument for vegetarianism is that "meat is murder."
Its actually become a fun game around here. Someone makes an outrageous claim and it starts a race to be the first to call them on it. Phones get drawn like six-guns and its on! We call this little victory of fact finding the "fonesnope". (Or "getting fonesnoped" if you happen to be the claimant). Its a fun party game. Try it.
The cost of the tracking plus the cost of employee moral disappearing won't give you that competitive advantage plus the other extras you have to do to maintain that rate (do you have a logbook of the times you had the unit serviced, semi-yearly maintance is required at your cost)
> .. ease of use, elegance ..

I wouldn't put Vim or ubuntu on either of those for a somewhat beginner.

How about, sublime and some web server like AMPP. That's way easier to get started with. Literally no friction.
There seems to be a misunderstanding. On all mobile phones and increasingly desktops, if your UI involves the GPU, you have failed; the goal is to have large layers of a scene handled entirely by the display compositor that produces the final pixels. Using the GPU as an enhanced blit engine is a colossal waste of memory bandwidth and power that no one can afford.
Most FOSS software is supported by corporations who use that software, and contribute their changes back.

If we parallel this to MOOCs - basically companies interested in accepting MOOC coursework would want to produce & manage the MOOC content, or hire it out.

It could work, but would it? Tough sell.
Agreed. A nice concise way to summarize my gut synopsis.
I'd say beginning of the summer.

Finishing the applications chapter has been a massive time sinkhole! I wanted to make a survey of all the cool things you can do once you have the tools of linear algebra under your belt, but it's proving to be too much (Chapter 8 is getting almost as long as the rest of the book).

In the coming weeks I'll be going over the latest draft and I might do a scope-cut, in order to get it done more quickly. In summary I'd say end-of-April for "dev close" and then probably a month for the final editing with my editor, so June 1st for official release.
POSIX compliance (which probably only serves as a checkbox for some arcane procurement guideline) is only relevant in niche markets. You are trying to apply a general software design thought process which unfortunately doesn't work there. People still ship WinCE and '95 software. Software targeting old UNIX systems is still being written today.

BTW, I can purchase a copy of windows 8 today (which is going to be supported by Microsoft till 2023) that is POSIX compliant. So the argument is moot anyway.
This is correct. That's a big part of what Magic Leap is supposedly working on, being able to black out the background so that objects don't have the ghostly hologram look.
Same here. Was not able to find any way to force an update.
The craziest part about this is that they were embargoed for four months.
They tend to get similar advertisers to sites like the pirate bay. At one point, they had duckduckgo advertisements but I was so cynical that I assumed it was just crap like the rest of the ads... never clicked on it.
He did create that cesspit and allowed it to thrive and attract the dredges of society. Not until 6 or 7 years into the site did he decide to crack down on the cp posted there. He definitely deserves ridicule.
rel. to 2), also figure out which one you would actually like on your site. Depending on how you design things, you will get different commenting behavior.
Not so much for anything serious or unusual, in my experience. If you have multiple complaints, the first thing doctors look for (in my experience) is something tying them all together. If you only have one complaint, they often ask if you're having other symptoms that you've just overlooked. I found out that a number of... corner cases that my body has just always had, were not normal, because of this. (There was fortunately nothing serious).

Of course, for very common symptoms (like headache and nausea), they usually just treat the symptom.
I think there are some companies at which a "company union" (something traditional labor activism doesn't like) could be useful. Essentially, all the employees in some particular class at a particular company (say, all the electrical engineers) negotiate some subset of employment terms as a group. It helps to level the playing field, because when you're one person negotiating individually against a corporation whose managers/staff are acting collectively on the other side, you're at a bit of a disadvantage--- it's very hard to negotiate away stuff that's embedded in corporate policy (say, noncompetes) just as an individual trying to get your own contract modified. Much easier if a large group of people together threaten to leave en masse if the terms aren't changed. This can sometimes be done without a formal union though; sometimes informal employee organizations can wield enough "soft power" to get objectionable things changed, especially if it's at an employer who's sensitive to morale and image.

It's a bit less of a problem if you're at a company, usually a smaller one, where you can actually negotiate one-on-one with a manager or boss who has individual authority to negotiate a wide range of terms. Then you might be able to get objectionable terms removed, if the manager's reasonable and you're willing to compromise on other things (say, accept lower pay for more favorable terms). But if the manager's highly constrained by higher-ups and policy, you don't have a real negotiation.
Regarding the anecdote rather than the meat of the post, I drove for years under all conditions without anti-lock brakes. These days, I still find myself occasionally fighting them. I know very well how to control the car, including through controlled skids, and that's worked its way deep into my reactions. In extreme situations, the anti-lock brakes still sometimes throw me off and slow my overall reactions, as I have to pause and adjust to their presence. I also simply cannot perform some -- often useful -- maneuvers with them that I can on a vehicle not having anti-lock brakes.

So... I can imagine some of the cab drivers, with years of driving experience, having some difficulty adjusting to the difference that anti-lock brakes make, with a corresponding increase in effective reaction time and with perhaps a surprising inability to negotiate risks as they have previously learned to and expect to.
Have you any examples of this?
If you haven't found a buyer yet, let me know
Not "with solar panels alone" but with lots of batteries.

Seawater Uranium and Thorium from Monazite are much more credible energy resources.
I doubt it's a question of data control.

EC2 is significantly more expensive than running your own servers so it's a good idea to keep close to your base load on your own servers and then just scale up/down as necessary with EC2. This way you're optimizing your cost per player.
The difference is that one is a brand, and the other is a lifestyle. It would be like seeking bodybuilders who only use Bowflex; completely arbitrary, and not just a little bit weird and cultish.
If they don't they should ;)
Could be something as simple as hook and loop tape. One side is permanently/semi-permanently affixed to the slide the other side gets swapped based on x criteria. That's how I'd do it. The military loves velcro.
The chances of loosing $100 is essentially the same as the chances of loosing $100m. If you loose your private key nobody can help you recover your money.
only for things that actually affect crash safety. you can change radio without any issues.
From what I've read, full disk encryption was optional in the House until very recently. If this was a shared machine it's almost certainly not encrypted.
If they enforce the legislation far away in the forests or countryside, whilst ignore people walking in crowds in London on Christmas Eve [1],

then I'm thinking this will lower the trust in the police and make people inclined to ignore the rules. Meaning, I think what the police did here, damages the trust in the legal system and covid response, slightly changing things for the worse.

[1] London Christmas Lights Walk 2020,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7wJZln6Kw
> “The _WhatsApp_ server has no access to the client’s private keys”

This is craftily ambiguous.
If the size of influence of the entity limiting speech is the issue, then would a mod of a very large subreddit banning a user be worse than a comparatively smaller, private social network de-platforming a user?

I guess my point is more so where do you draw the line? Legislatively-speaking? By the size of the community?
Cleo was created to improve your financial health.

Already, she’s helped 3 million people improve their relationship to money with simplicity and a sense of humour.

She’s not a bank though. She’s an interface for the 99% – an AI assistant defining a new category, one that goes beyond saving up to actually changing how we feel about our finances.

Through chat, she provides you with deep insights about your money, while suggesting personalised financial products that increase your ability to save. But it’s really our tone of voice that makes us special.

We’re a product for the next generation. That means we’re meeting our users where they are and building the type of relationship they expect. It also means dropping the BS.

In 5 years Cleo should be so intelligent, so engaging, that the relationship you have is unlike anything that’s come before.

We're actively hiring for Senior/ Lead/ Principal Backend Ruby Engineers as well as Frontend Engineers. More information can be found here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cleoai/

Please mention HN on your application :)
That's not really relevant. A physician can lawfully prescribe it today for COVID-19 despite not being FDA approved for that indication because it's approved for other indications. This is called off-label use. What FDA approval for treating COVID-19 would mean is that the drug could be marketed for such use. In a pandemic, I don't think that's a major consideration.
Zoom is cross platform and doesn't require an account. FactTime and Hangouts are walled garden systems that aren't competing in the same market.
Is it known that this man voted for Trump? The article doesn't seem to say anything about his political beliefs.
Don’t take prescription drugs without a prescription. In particular, don’t take an overdose of illicitly obtained forms.

I’ve criticized Trump plenty during this outbreak, and I’m worried that he and others are over promising chloroquine’s potential. But blaming this death on him is tenuous. He didn’t tell people to go take it recklessly
I'd say CLI access is an even higher bar. Even in most medium-sized companies, the website people would never be able to get shell access in a reasonable amount of time, if at all, as they might be using web or CMS hosting.

Scale this up to a government organization, and the chance of it happening is basically zero, especially in an emergency. And even if they host their own web servers and manage to get access to them, the chances of them being able to run Docker or really anything besides what they were set up for without unreasonable effort are slim at best.

I'm not saying Netlify is a good solution, but it's one that a single creative tech could figure out and set up in a day and would be almost guaranteed to work well.
A responsible man would have advocated for clinical trials, the only way to know if any drug actually does what it's supposed to do. There are dozens of drugs, experimental and repurposed, that show activity against SARS - remember there was that epidemic in 2002, and since then people looked at the virus, knowing it was going to be back.

But Elon Musk is not a responsible man. He is Mr Foot-in-Mouth on Twitter many times over.
Not sure if that's relevant.

Once a drug is approved by the FDA for one disease, it can be used off-label for other purposes.