jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I counted seventy one (!) factual errors by the time I got to the section on the Leslie Speaker, where "rotating motors" become "horns" that are "picked up" by speakers. That makes two PhD students today on the front page of Hacker News who are talking straight out their asses.

This entire article bums me out. If you see a scathing editorial printed in The Atlantic (you won't -- editors NEVER correct the really bad articles like this one) that's me.

"... motors (essentially two electromechanical horns) that had been rotated
to create a Doppler-effect-based vibrato. These horns were, in turn,
picked up by the dual speaker units."
CS 103 at Stanford: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/

The course reader [1] covers the first half of the class and is pretty good.

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs103/notes/Mathematical%20Fou...
If Jake Appelbaum had any technical credibility, he would have claimed something other than a break in SSH for his talk. :(
Makes sense, though paradoxically, that market is growing by around 10% per year.
To spend coins on yourself you must have received them first under some identity, so it does not ease money laundering.

It could eventually ease money laundering between countries where laws are different. For example, sell drugs from Netherland, receive Taller coins, buy virtual things from your company in France to move it there. But in fact you can already do that, buy a coffee shop in Amsterdam, and transfer your income after taxes to your bank account in France. Great your are a drug baron living from France now.

What it will prevent is for a country to block their citizen from buying something illegal from another where it is legal, as it is done with card payment and drugs bought online.
Or, hear me out, requiring certain levels of transparency from content systems that have started to augment such fundamental constructs as human-to-human communication and information sharing.

There's nothing inherently wrong with automating content discovery; it's the cost function being optimized that I think we would almost all take issue with.
Yes, AI is popping up all over. The amazing thing is that "deep learning" actually works. We've had neural nets since the 1960s, and by the 1980s, most people in AI were convinced that was a dead end. Yet now neural nets are doing useful work. They haven't even changed much. They're just bigger, and with slightly different weighting and initialization functions.

Now we have the problem that we don't really understand what they're doing when they do work.
It's certainly the best one IMHO, but not necessarily good.
yeah, i agree, this simply isn't going to work.
It's probably a very competitive market out there for her so perhaps she needs to "remind" her readers to hire her but not her ex-coworkers.
This struck me an interesting, and very pertinent.

Why are corporations so fleeting? ... Bettencourt and West discovered that corporate productivity, unlike urban productivity, was entirely sublinear. As the number of employees grows, the amount of profit per employee shrinks ...The graph reflects the bleak reality of corporate growth, in which efficiencies of scale are almost always outweighed by the burdens of bureaucracy. “When a company starts out, it’s all about the new idea,” West says. “And then, if the company gets lucky, the idea takes off. Everybody is happy and rich. But then management starts worrying about the bottom line, and so all these people are hired to keep track of the paper clips. This is the beginning of the end.
What is the role of China in this article other than in the title?
Nothing. But it catches attentions.
> Instead, Fridman et al. found that the players reacted by adjusting their playing, quickening or slowing their tempo to better synchronize with their fellow violinists

Not to take away from paper’s conclusion, but that is what professional orchestra musicians do. You are taught to “blend in”, regardless of whether the whole section is rushing or lagging.

A conductor can fix tempo issue, but can’t fix a un-synchronized section.

I’d like to see this experiment repeated on some soloists. (You do see soloists fighting the orchestra sometimes, to enforce their own interpretation, rather the conductors)
How's signal different? It's also in the same position as whatsapp was a few years ago. For the time being it may be better, but surely it is not a long-term alternative?
Unless you're buying a new flagship every 2 years you're probably not meaningfully more secure than you would be on a desktop. And buying a new flagship every two years is probably less realistic for most people than running purism or Tails. Those at least only will cost you time.
Looks like those .de sites have been hacked
>China and Russia didn't engage economically to change the regime. They did it to make money.

The West engaged Russia and China to make the regimes liberalize. It was really common to hear that a Chinese middle class will bring in democracy. The West got nothing, and the regimes only became stronger and more oppressive.

>YES! When Obama engaged Cuba, the entire political calculus of the country changed almost overnight.

Your long quotes are actions before agreement or negotiation, and it was done as a result of economic hardship (as they themselves acknowledge). Alleviating these hardships did not lead to liberalization, but seemed to have removed the impetus to make more changes.

>Iran was very open to cooperation with the United States following 9/11, right up until they were included in the 'Axis of Evil.'

Right, people who scream worse on a weekly basis and are proudly calling themselves enemies of the US were really offended.

They were willing to tactically let the US off their enemy. But friendly relations require a firmer basis then temporary cynical cooperation - they require the regime to change a few of the policies that the US finds abhorrent, and for that there was zero willingness (They even kept their nuclear program running until the Iraq war spooked them to temporarily shut it off)

> Why does the wealthiest country on the planet need to be in a pissing contest with a small Caribbean island nation over something that happened under the Kennedy administration? Or a theocracy on the other side of the planet over something that happened under Jimmy Carter?

The US got over all that long ago. As early as the 80s the US sold weapons to Iran! It's that the US has a problem being friendly to totalitarian murderous regimes which also have an aggressive foreign policy and officially declare themselves anti-US.

The first makes engagement difficult to square with US values, and leads domestic voter blocks to really oppose engagement. The second makes engagement difficult to square with US interests. The third is just an extra insult.

Friendly relations require the regimes to change policy on at least one measly point. China remained oppressive, but its 'peaceable rise' was really peaceable for a short time, so the US kept friendly relations. Now that China isn't 'peaceable', Biden can't afford to go back to the way things were.

Had Cuba moderated their domestic policy, Hispanics wouldn't have been so susceptible to GOP ads this November. Now, Biden can't risk losing them, so you can forget about a new agreement with Cuba.
The majority of the most powerful organizations are firmly in one camp
It's political hyper-reality

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

The 60+ generation grew up in a time where the morning tv broadcast and whatever they could read at the town library was concrete black and white truth. There was very tight control over the distribution of any information media

Now, everyone has a voice. The problem is that these older people are still socially conditioned to believe that because something is on an expensive computer, or in a book, or a man is saying it on a screen, well - it must be true! Because back in their day in the 70s if you saw a video on a screen it was an exercise that cost thousands of dollars.
Because if you discover how to fix Spectre completely, that would make (specialized) news.

Given common high perf microarchitectures, that's quasi-impossible. You can use somewhat efficient mitigations though.
> This feels chilling to me, maybe I’m alone.

You are not
You may notice there's quite a gulf between "uncomfortable" and literal sedition [1].

> To oppose by force the authority of the United States government; to prevent, hinder, or delay by force the execution of any law of the United States

[1]: https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-pr...
I think there is a decent chance: Fox News, talk radio Limbaugh types, Rupert Murdoch media, and even the likes of CNN have all been fomenting this for ratings and $ for decades.

Fox and right radio have pushed insane junk that millions actually believe. It created the widespread tinder before social media.
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Is there a twitter handle so I can follow the articles published?
stolen from http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-3.ht...
Ancient tale.

There's this SR-71 Blackbird stooging around Cuba on a top-secret mission, at FL500+ and Mach 2+.... when they get a call requesting them to change heading "because of traffic at your altitude".
Traffic at THEIR altitude ??
Anyway, they comply, and shortly, yes, there's an Air France Concorde out of Caracas (Air France flew there in the early days) slowly sailing across their flight path.

Just imagine... two guys in bonedomes and full pressure suits, in a cramped cockpit, watching something like a hundred people in shirt sleeves or summer dresses, sipping their champagne and maybe just starting on their smoked salmon hors d'oeuvres, flying at their altitude and nearly their speed....
Apple can't succeed in the Enterprise market the way RIM does unless they do two things:

- Make a cheap iPhone. Something companys can hand out to their employees for $200 a piece.

- Make a iPhone with a physical keyboard.

I can't really see them doing any of that, but who knows for sure.
Hell I can give you currently held beliefs that I can prove wrong:
Global Warming:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647
Big Bang:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bang.php
Floride is good for you:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/accidents/acute.html
Mercury is good for you:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a910652305~...
Keynesian Economics :
..Just look at the dollar index.
We should probably ask the creator himself whether he can do these things :)

I am merely a user who wishes to utilize the resource and hopefully with the help of HN get others to contribute to it.
Grandpa: "I'm an old man, no one listens to me."

Lisa: "I'm a young girl, no one listens to me."

Homer: "I'm a white male aged 18 to 49, everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are."

Homer holds a can of "Nuts and Gum: Together At Last"

--Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
Well, I'm pretty sure they're already doing something similar to that. And you consistently hear the best teachers complaining that by teaching to the test they're doing a worse job of teaching.

Developer productivity is really hard to measure with universal statistics -- every attempt to do so has failed miserably and usually made things worse. Does that mean that nobody should spend money on development?
Kinda reminds me of Suns Fortress language which can be rendered to richer display. Look at some examples at http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki/Fortr...
Sorry for the late reply.

I think (but am not 100% sure) that by the time your PhD comes around you have all your coursework out of the way and only attend department seminars for PhD candidates, post-docs, professors and the like.

I'll send my research into the matter as it goes forward where I take a proper look at the ethical nature of free software. It's not just some philosophers and programmers and business managers who don't see it as an ethical issue. But this is the case for a lot of social conventions that aren't widespread, like vegetarianism.

"classical logic clearly proves too much; but doesn't intuitionism prove too little?"

I've never seen the difference formulated like this. But I see what you mean. Intuitionism restricts your proofs (in mathematics anyhow) to constructive proofs so, for instance, proof by contradiction is generally not permissible. But my feeling is that classical proofs don't tell you very much. For finite models they both work, where potential infinities (or stuff with recursive properties) are involved I feel that intuitionism stops you coming to needlessly silly conclusions. Sorry if this is all a bit vague. I'd have to show you what I mean by addressing it to a particular area.
My comment was regarding physics in general, not a subset of math/geometry. Are you saying my comparison to the Zeno paradox is wrong?
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OK, thanks for information to you and maxaf.

I only know one guy that went there a bit (academic) and he loved the place.
I wish the money goes to the Afghan people. I wish also if it did, they don't build another Dubai, but focus on teaching children and make a new enlightened generation.
I think that's a good summary. Also, it's easy to imagine the SVR poking at all companies which sell high-trust applications[1] to many government agencies, and running with the ones[2] that worked.

Regarding whether the password thing was a coincidence, I wouldn't be surprised that, if other large enterprise software companies were severely hacked, similar stories surfaced. That doesn't mean it's a coincidence, of course, but may mean that this is average among enterprise software companies. One takeaway here is that software companies shipping trusted software to third-party networks have an exposure more like Google or the Federal Reserve, not like other software companies. That's not how (a lot of) the software industry has acted.

[1]: NMS, systems management, facilities management, possibly CRM

[2]: Where one was detected (because the attackers chose the wrong target in FireEye), others have probably occurred and/or are active now. While this was very sophisticated, it wasn't Stuxnet (https://blog.erratasec.com/2021/02/no-1000-engineers-were-no...).
Yeah, I find it funny given that they published like 10 books on Solr and Elastic Search combined. I guess they don't have time to eat their own dogfood. The problem with breadth publishing approach!
"Gnu" is another name for a wildebeast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest
I would say the websites as well, compared with other startup websites, those website design still stays in 90s.
There is a common theme to early Java discussions and discussions about golang right now. I'll sum it up as "All that power/functionality/expressivness of language x is really a distraction from getting stuff done. Further it complicates the software development model of large disparate groups."

I'm not sure that theme is wrong even, but to many of us who lived through early java, golang's least common denominator approach to developer sourcing is eerily familiar.
SSL is hard not only because the pricing barrier, but also setup hassle like these. Thanks OP!
The interesting question is if you obtained insurance this way (almost certainly fraud IMO) and got in a big expensive wreck, would the insurance company really be on the hook to pay your costs? (And would they figure it out?) Not a bet I'd like to take...
I worked at a building that was right next to the runway under the flight path for a major international airport. We could wave to people in the windows.

Our AC went out (In las vegas - it gets to 120+ some days in summer) and they brought in portable A/C units that were louder than the planes.

Then they took our bottled water away.

While these issues aren't normal they are out there and they are replicated by employers who don't value the sanity of their workers. Yes I got out of there. Yes I'm working from home now and agree with practically everything on this list. Especially the bathroom.
My point is not that OP doesn’t deserve to work somewhere better, but that his coworkers deserve that as well.
Hate to inquire directly to your situation while you've been careful to avoid specifics about role, but: are you a programmer/coder/software engineer/whatever they call hackers these days? :)
When SCOTUS accepted the cert petition, it granted two questions: a) are APIs copyrightable and b) if they are, is Google's use fair. Breyer's opinion explicitly lays this out, but doesn't explore API copyrightability any further than "assume it is for this discussion."

Playing Kremlinology here, it feels like Breyer originally had an opinion that explained that APIs were not copyrightable, but sacrificed that section of the opinion to build a 6-2 majority. It's really weird that the opinions took so long to come out for how simple they end up being--why is this coming it in early April instead of early/mid February if it's written like this? My supposition is that there was a much more sharply divided court, running a 3-3-2 or 4-2-2 opinion, and by dropping the discussion of whether or not the APIs were copyrightable and instead saying "it's at best thin copyright" (i.e., it's copyrightable but good luck ever winning infringement) the opinions collapsed down into a more simple outcome. One thing's for sure: this is the case I'm most interested in finding out all the backroom discussions that went on here.
IME, daily standups exist primarily for management to take attendance. This is usually framed as "removing any immediate blockers to keep employees productive".
>I often wonder why is that, and I doubt that it is because somebody (or the capitalist system itself) would actively prevent me from engaging in the hobbies that are more grounded to the real world.

I've thought about this and have since I was a kid who enjoyed Harvest Moon while not enjoying growing plants in the garden, something my parents didn't hesitate to call attention to.

Speaking for myself (but expecting at least some of this to generalize to others) I think there are quite a few factors.

* The immediate turn around between work and result. If I want to grow strawberries, I have to wait months from start to finish. In Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley I get results in under an hour.

* The ratio between input and output. Strawberries can take many hours of labor over those months, and while I do get strawberries (or money if I sell them) in exchange for it, the overall enjoyment per hour spent is much lower than with virtual strawberries.

* The clarity and simplicity of the rules of 'the game'. If I grow real life strawberries, there are many things that can destroy them that I have little knowledge about or that I can stop. Industrial farmers might be able to control for most of these, but as a kid with a family garden I'm at the mercy of these factors. In a game the rules are much simpler and the risks much easier to understand and account for. A game with too many risks for the reward ends up being an unfun game and I can pick a better one, but we are stuck with a single instance of reality.

* Ability to avoid what I don't like. Expanding upon the freedom that games offers, I can avoid content I don't like. For example, I don't like spiders. In real life gardening, I can't avoid them. In a game, I can either avoid them or settle for a compromise involving virtual spiders that are simplified to the point they don't activate my phobia. This can even expand to avoiding laws of man (building things virtually that would never pass legal building code) and even laws of nature (building things that would collapse in reality).

I don't think economic system plays a major role in these factors. Sure, it is related in a few areas, but even if were to pick the most optimal legal and economic systems I think the end result would still not be as good as a game because of the systems beyond our control which can't be changed.
Schemas are also a lot more usable than namespaces in SQL, as a random note.
I'm starting a project in this realm right now, though only three sensors to begin with. Generally I'm leaning towards "everything in Postgres", but I think I'm going to store the raw sensor data in the filesystem.
There's some kind of pole in one of the photos, but yeah, looks like a pretty tight fit.
You can edit the start time of the day -- just click on it. I guess it's not clear enough that's editable, I'll fix that.
He's commenting on Zed the actual person, not Zed the on-line persona that you're talking about. These aren't necessarily the same things.
A co-worker had a vespa stolen by thieves who apparently drove up in a van with power tools and cut down the parking meter it was chained to.

Not a whole lot you can do about a very motivated thief.
Meetings are fixed events that work well in something like Outlook (so you should definitely use it for that). But for planning an entire day, hour by hour, it's hard to plan in Outlook, and making small changes is very difficult when every item / event is steadfastly fixed, even though you don't particularly care about when it happens.

In short, Outlook is great for keeping track of fixed events and appointments, and Timeslot would be great for planning the things you need to do in a given day, hour by hour.
The other responses are talking about headphones, but with regard to loudspeakers (and given that this is Hacker News) you can always pick out your own components and build your own loudspeakers. That will allow you to tailor the speakers to your specific sound quality and aesthetic requirements.

It helps to have access to decently-equipped wood shop, but if you don't you can try asking a local custom-cabinet maker if they will cut and assemble the box for you. IME they are receptive to these types of projects since they can often use scrap from their other projects which allows them to make some money from material that would typically be wasted.

Some resources:

http://www.madisound.com/

http://www.parts-express.com/ (full disclosure: I am a PE reseller)

http://www.diyaudio.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Loudspeaker-Design-Cookbook-Vance-Dick...

http://www.speakerworkshop.com/
The only thing a framework does is give you new functions to call existing PHP functions. That slows down everything down and results in shoddy junk code. In over 10 years of php development, I have yet to see a single real-world case where using a framework was better than just directly writing lean php code.
No idea, I haven't worked for a sales heavy tech company before.
Why not use a normal car and a trailer?
So, is this basically illegal in other countries? Does that mean we should expect the Cybertruck to be US-only?
The A1s and A3s I see on that list seem to beat 6.5s.

Also it’s a bit weird to compare super entry level 1l audis to this. They’re in a weird segment with lots of compromises.
With the smooth straight sides you could probably use large suction cups or magnets to attach rails or hooks. It would be nice to have hard-points for a more permanent fixture and one that wouldn't be so easy to steal.
You can never tick enough masculine boxes.
I use a simple spreadsheet with rows of 1st of every month. First few columns are Assets (Bank Checking, Savings, Retirement, Investments) Then Liabilities such as Credit Cards, Loans). Then the simple sum of these two in next column gives my Net Worth for that month. Next Column adds its to the same of previous month, giving me total net worth. Then a %age change from last month.

All balances are as per 1st of month.