jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> No one really (really, outside of comical personalities) ultimately cares about "tight control [over others'] consciousness".

Many governments are participating in different kinds of censorship as well as organized disinformation campaigns. You may agree with certain policies ("drugs are bad" or "citizens are simply better off not knowing certain aspects of reality"), but the "control over consciousness" is a fact.
> the adoption of electric cars and other electric transportation will help the entire world population by reducing air pollution and climate change.

This one tired old argument again. While reducing air pollution is a plus (at least in city centres), electric cars are nothing but green washing. If you really are concerned about climate change and pollution, reduce the need for cars and own no car.
Abandon Euclidian- and single-use zoning (i.e. reverse urban sprawl and make cities liveable again), improve public transport, make cities walkable, improve bike infrastructure, etc. etc.

In other words, put in the actual work instead of shifting the problem around and creating even more intrusive infrastructure that needs to be built and maintained ("tunnels", "hyperloops", blah).
Sounds like a good way to produce cookie cutter shows for the sole purpose of getting government funding.
I am really sad that so much of our elite media institutions are deeply Luddite. They wear their anti-technology, anti-progress biases like badges of honor.

It’s likely a signaling mechanism. The elite doesn’t need technology because they don’t need change. So opposing change signals that things are good for you already.

I don’t love Elon Musk but at least he dreams big and has a change-positive attitude. Because I think things do need to change.
Sorry I just got this in my other email address lol.
To be clear, that is active investment 101. You start by taking a portfolio matching your benchmark, then you apply an "overlay" which expresses your view.

If you have no views, you match the benchmark (a good start- that's what you get judged by!), if your views are good (more x, less y) you make your alpha. Excellent. If your views are bad, said alpha is negative. Sad. But you probably retain a high Beta to the benchmark index.

My view remains that stock picking is bad for the average retail investor. Custom indexes are just stock picking with bells on.
An open source one at that!

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/
>> If the government wants you in prison, they'll find a way.

The issue isn't that they want people in prison. The issue is that they don't want people to know what they're doing, and they're resorting to the threat of prison to keep people quiet. It's actually perfectly reasonable to try to prevent the "bad guys" from knowing what they're up to or what their methods are, but that is getting to be more and more in conflict with peoples desire for transparency and in some cases peoples explicit rights - to free speech and privacy in US for example.

This raises an interesting question to me, as I see similarities in many other places where conflicts of different types tend to escalate to absurd levels. Do people just default to yelling louder, pushing harder, more of whatever? Why does this keep happening?
Reading my wall posts became a list of people essentially saying "my life is awesome and yours isn't, here's why", which was explained by photos, videos, and wall posts.

One of the girls in my social circle at the time I had an account made herself a "public figure", I'm not sure what the criteria is for that on Facebook, but her offline life is anything but that of a celebrity/public figure. The level of people "faking it" just gets annoying.
Totally agree - here's a quote from our YC Application Summary that we're submitting today...

"Mid-stage product owners that rely on all-in-one user user analytics platforms eventually outgrow the simplicity of those tools. Many choose to build their own user events datawarehouse at this point."

Sounds like I'm describing you personally ;)
PHP default is 10 if that helps
But GitHub has in no way attacked China's sovereignty, so as long as GitHub's servers are located within the territory of nations that allow their business to operate. If China has a problem with its citizens accessing content hosted on foreign servers, it certainly has the right to block access. If Chinese citizens then become perturbed due to their reliance on that foreign service, that's a Chinese problem, not GitHub's.

If I were to stand on a sidewalk outside of a church with signs saying "You're God is false, Heaven doesn't exist, you're going to die and disappear forever," and a parishioner decided to punch me in the face to stop me, they would be in the wrong, not me.
If we took a poll I suspect the majority would be thinking of the Amazon service - I know I was. The date the projects were introduced isn't necessarily relevant.
Hey thanks for the long response. I totally get the premise of peppering I think my problem is with this sentiment "A properly implemented, simple pepper can only help password security and can't hurt it".

From all the advice I've read security and crypto they don't work like that. The assumption is the other way around. A properly implemented, simple pepper can only hurt password security until proven otherwise by rigours testing and analysis.

Time and time again we read stories of a tiny implementation detail that created a sly and subtle vulnerability that simehow leaks information about original plain text by interrogating the cipher text.

bcyrpt with a large work factor and a per user salt is a PROVEN method to prevent attackers learning the plain text. Until I see evidence from a trusted cryptanalyst I'm not going to roll my own by adding in pepper they didn't plan on being there.

EDIT: sorry let me make my point a little clearer. In the event that the hacker can access the filesystem or memory -- whereever you store your pepper -- could the hacker use the pepper and an implementation detail in the peppering technique to learn information about the plaintext or the salt? This question is what needs to be answered by qualified cryptanalysts before developers start using peppers wide-spread in my opinion.
What a great game. Anything that inspired the Half-Life games is good in my book.
Don't forget pay raises that come with promotion often include more responsibilities. So then if the raise is net negative or even, are the increased responsibilities (and possible time committments) worth less?
Do they really throw that stuff away? You can make juice and the like with it; no-one would ever know what it looked like.
I had a single office at my last job. I'm in a shared office today. At my current job I feel much less aware of what's going on around me because I spend all my time with headphones on.
I'm definitely excited to see where this goes. For all its boneheaded decisions, Mozilla does seem to have some soul left.
I don't see how that's true, but I'm open to having my mind changed. But a comfortable listening level with well-insulated headphones/IEMs for prolonged hours shouldn't be damaging. It can be tiring but having periods of quiet (home life, sleep) re-invigorates them.
Similarly, appliance stores will sell you a refrigerator at half price if some of the paint got scraped off on one side in transit.
Really? All of this is on your list? If I asked for 3 mandatory meetings a year you're NEVER going to work at my company?

How do you go through life being so rigid on such relatively trivial issues?
Update #10 [1] will please travelers: AdHoc mode allows you to use it even when you ordinarily can't get a TV stick to authenticate through the lame-o hotel wifi.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-t...
True but no one is suggesting that the USA should mimic the Israeli system slavishly, they should however learn from it and devise their own system with the intention to detect and deal with the potential bad guys as early as possible while disrupting every one else as little as possible.

Henry Ford did not invent car manufacturing nor did MacDonalds invent the beefburger, they just made mass manufacturing scale well. The USA needs a transport security system which works at American scales and doesn't tick people off.
see also: http://js1k.com for a more 'grass roots' demoscene-y sort of contest.
I dunno, I'm in canada before I got my unlimited txt plan, its 15c per txt to receive and 15c per txt to send. Its highway robbery.
This was a fun contest, but I was disappointed to see the majority of winners were games. In fact only 7 out of the 'top' 16 weren't games.

Also there was no discussion about why the winning entries were judged as they were, so the opportunity to learn what made a 'great web app' was limited.

Finally, the contest got a lot of criticism for allowing 3rd party APIs and frameworks like jQuery - I can see both sides of the argument on that one.
Done: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/e6wkv/please_hel...
Try Reddit. Wider audience.
Perhaps he meant that the users who are sending the message [to the "email list" with an SMS number on it] will pay.
It's more subtle than that. They don't think they are explosives. They are merely ensuring that no liquids are taken through security. If no liquids are taken through security then no liquid precursors to explosives are taken through security. What's more, if it is known that no liquids can be taken through security then the bad guys won't even bother to take liquid precursors to explosives through security. This begs a number of questions but, in the meantime, security personnel can throw confiscated liquids into the trash without worrying too much about it.
No. Package manager should never send a bug reporter upstream. It's the package manger's job to investigate the issue and file a bug with upstream including proper context, unless the bug is reported on multiple distributions.
In general the older nodes work better for radiation and other cosmic forces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening

That's why they don't use the latest and greatest in the space.
Problem is that ARM & AArch64 were considered a "weird architecture" by the non-Android linux stack until really very recently, and the migration to a new architecture is still not plain-sailing in many peoples' experience. Without the assumption that most open source package authors are implicitly trying to be architecture-independent to some degree, we will literally all be stuck on x86_64 for the rest of our lives (the migration to amd64 itself I remember as being a number of years of people working on "unsupported" stuff FWIW).

For users on "weird architectures" to be petitioning that a move the pyca authors are making is causing inconvenience to them is perfectly reasonable in my eyes.
They're talking about dress shoes and boots which are constructed so that they can be resoled.

They're right, too. It's not hard to get a decade or more of good use out of footwear built this way; I've already done it with one pair of boots, and I'm about four years into the ones I got to replace those. I'm not overly gentle with them, either - I don't do urbex any more, but when I did, I did it in the same boots I do everything else in. They'd get scuffed, sure, but cleaned and polished, you'd never know the difference.

I don't know that I'd want to use a pair of well-broken-in 9-hole loggers as running wear, but I don't know that I wouldn't, either; a well-designed shoe or boot can take all kinds of insoles, and while I rarely run unless chased, I'm sure there's a wide range of options available for those who do. And when they wear out, you can replace them, just like you can have a cobbler do with the sole proper when that eventually gets thin.

I guess I don't really know; as I said, I'm not a runner, and maybe there's something about disposable footwear that I'm consequently missing. But it's not like we throw out a whole car when the tires get bald, you know?
1989 Miata checking in. I drove it daily for 2 years. Now I have a newer car and I still pick to drive the Miata every time I’m alone or I’m not going to Home Depot (I’ve taken it to Costco though with great success).

I’m getting a bunch of turbo components tomorrow so that may change things.

The only things I’ve HAD to repair are... the top. $250 and 4hs later I have a new one on that’s been great. Everything else has been track oriented upgrades and tinkering out of boredom.
It’s even running on an old Megasquirt ECU I put together as a teen, so it’s not even Japan reliable, and it’s still more reliable than many of my friend’s cars.
Here is an idea:

Don't take the Saudi money. Don't take any money.

Just build it, and ship it. Work a regular job and work on your startup at night.

Create a product and charge very little for it. Wipe out the competition with a better / cheaper product.

Once you think you are having an effect, short your competitor. Continue to ship your as good or better product for 1/3 the cost.

Take down the world powers.

Just an idea.
Nowadays we don’t just rewrite from scratch - we create entirely new languages to rewrite IN.
The “wokeness” of the silicon valley is skin deep when it comes to money.

It’s about giving us coastal liberals fake warm and fuzzies so that we will ignore the source of our employers’ wealth.

“We are super lgbt+ friendly and our CEO is gay. We are so inclusive here is a picture of him with Mohammed BoneSaw, who would gladly behead 80% of the company for being infidels who do not follow wahhabist philosophies”.

Don’t worry. If it comes up in conversation, Somebody will quickly change the subject and say: “women can kind of drive there, and now that Ivanka made it so Israel can trade with KSA and UAE thanks to the ‘Abraham Accord’ it’s all good, man”.

The important thing is that money exchanges hands and the forms have been followed (intentional Dune reference). It doesn’t matter where that money came from as long as it isn’t Iran or North Korea.

This is about disrupting it, crushing some sweet valuations, and making a killing.

Now get back to bitching aboit the homeless people you have to step over on your way to $10 lattes and $15 avocado toasts.

Cash rules everything around me, get the money.

Dollah dollah bill y’all.

(Edits: typos. Neuropathy + small iphone screen makes accuracy difficult)
surprisingly, your comment is referenced in the article towards the bottom, along with a suggestion on how to prevent your kind of comment
But where is the line? Is the stack size specific by any languages? Many language's compilers will eliminate variable assignments as an optimization. Since I can view a stack trace in some of those languages, then would that make that not an optimization? Like, if I just inserted `let x = 3;` in the middle of my function, but never used `x`, it would disappear from the compiled code. If I look at the stack trace, I wont see my `x` variable. Is that an optimization or a semantic language feature? Does it matter?
Ironic — the article shows up obscured by a full-page overlay and a banner with my favorite phrase "We value your privacy" (I read this as "your data has value to us"), that goes on to say:

"We and our store and/or access information [...] and process personal data, such as unique identifiers and standard information sent by a device for personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, and audience insights [...]

With your permission we and our partners may use precise geolocation data and identification through device scanning. You may click to consent to our and our partners’ processing as described above. Alternatively you may access more detailed information and change your preferences before consenting or to refuse consenting. Please note that some processing of your personal data may not require your consent, but you have a right to object to such processing."

I can then click "MORE OPTIONS" to enter the deceptive dialog, where you think everything is off, but really everything is hidden under "LEGITIMATE INTEREST" (another one of my favorite sneaky phrases). I don't know how you can really turn the tracking off.
That's what I was wondering: if you came upon a cache of 5-1/4" floppies, what are the odds of them being readable? How well will the magnetic media hold over, say, three decades?

(While I'm sure there are lots of reasons you might want a floppy drive, the case I have in mind is "Hey, here are our old financial records from the 80s" or "I wonder what's on this disk in grandma's attic".)
> should be called out for it by the rest of the world

The rest of the world isn't really calling the US out on this out of fear of retaliation. Why aren't you doing it? Are you also afraid of repercussions inside your own country if you call them out? Knowing it's a crime and keeping quiet makes you complicit. Unless you don't actually care about the crime, just the perpetrator, which invalidates the premise of your comment which was:

> A government should not be able to act like that and still get to to interact normally with the rest of international society.

Obviously it can. Other government and the hundreds of millions of people they represent prove it.
> The value prop just isn't there until our ability to control, program and integrate these complex robots (cobot stuff) gets better.

When you ultimately drill down to brass tacks though, you're left with a chicken and egg scenario. We need better programming and integration for this to be time-effective. We need more time programming and more time integrating for this to be a value proposition.

You don't get there without some idiot like myself saying, "I could spend 1000 hours walking with my dog... or I could spend 1000 hours programming my robot to walk my dog..."
Seeing your list, it does seem like things the government of the U.K. cares about but it’s debatable whether they want more or less of these things.
Didn't WhatsApp actually cost like 1 EUR/year before FB bought it?
But who is selling their (temporarily) valuable bitcoin for worthless tether instead of USD?
Not really but given the terrible hardware/network connectivity , wouldnt have made much sense now.

Because of this thread, I looked through my old backups and I actually still have the code. Should get it working again sometime
I lived in Chicago for 22 years and had my fair share of deep dish growing up, Lou's in particular because we had one not more than five minutes away.

This is total blasphemy as a Chicago native, but I think Paxti's is the best deep dish I've ever had.

Although this test should be taken with a grain of salt, there is no comparison between Lou's fresh out of their oven and the shipped, frozen variety.
This is cool, although I thought it was going to be something different.

One of my biggest pet peeves with ADHD trying to work on a Physics/Math degree was the excessive wordiness of books. I generally have a photographic and methodic memory, and so many proofs have tons and tons of words in them.

Oddly enough, I got along best with the older russian professors. I talked with one of my professors about this. I guess most of them had been taught in a much less wordy matter, and taught with even less words because English wasn't their primary language.

There's a few books that have been around forever, and they have a completely different level of readability between the editions. The Churchill/Brown book of Complex Variables and Applications has added something like 100+ pages of wordiness to the book since the 60's edition.
One pet peeve about math education: calling "imaginary" numbers that makes it seem like there is such a thing as a number that is "real" in a literal sense. All numbers are actually imaginary, they exist as isomorphisms to things in the real world that have numbers or can be counted.
At least the Japanese rubyists remember how to have fun :)
Double tap is now going forward (just like the double click on a computer), and swipes should be supported but aren't entirely yet. The zoom isn't possible but it scales automatically to the device size now, so it's alright I think
What indication do you have that this person is "pretty smart"? They are obviously blinded by Apple hate and spewing nonsense that's been rebutted in this thread.

A "pretty smart" person would be happy that iPhone has on-upped all the competitors. Does the GP think that e.g. Android is going to say "well darn, looks like they made something better. Time to quit"? Of course they will come out with something to compete. As someone said elsewhere in the thread: this is a win for us. We should be happy that iPhone is pushing the envelope just as we should be happy that they changed the game to begin with. You don't have to like them or use them to benefit from their technology.
Uhm, source? Many have called the old screen great but that’s not the same as saying that improvement is impossible or undesirable.
1. Not likely on the iPad, because in order to get 326 PPI on a 9.7" diagonal device, you have to pack 2530 x 1898 pixels onto it, which is 610% increase over the currently shipping specs. That kind of display takes a lot of power to drive, and would perform extremely poorly compared to a similar device at 1024x768.

The iPad already reportedly falls pretty flat under conditions that tax the GPU's fillrate. Sextupling the amount of work that the GPU has to do likely wouldn't do the device any favors for performance or battery life, both of which are key marketing points.

Googling seems to indicate that the iPad has an A4 Mali GPU, which has a fillrate of about 100M pix/sec (by comparison, my desktop's Radeon 4850 has a fillrate of ~24 billion pix/sec). Each paint operation paints a certain number of pixels, and you'll do several of those per frame. At 1024x768 (786,432 pixels), the maximum fillrate-limited FPS to paint a one-pass single-color surface is about 127 FPS. Now, increase that to 2530x1898 (4801940 pixels) and your max FPS for the same operation drops to about 21 FPS - and that's just for painting a single color. Actually doing anything useful would utterly destroy the device. To compensate, they'd have to put in a beefier (more power-hungry) GPU. It's quite possible to build a device that would perform well at those specs, but it would be very expensive, and very difficult to fit into Apple's typical sexy form factors with any appreciable battery life.

(It's been a few years since I've done high-performance graphics work, so if I'm off here, someone please correct me.)
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I have purchased the "no ads" upgrade which has removed the Skimlinks embed.
That would break the SMS functionality, which is why they limited posts to 140 chars in the first place.
My argument is that all children inherently want to learn. All children desire a good education, defined as being in a supportive environment where their curiosities can be wholly quenched and allowed to thrive. There's no child that's born not giving a flying fuck about anything, only children who don't have that curiosity beaten out of them by the world. Labeling literally children as irredeemable only adds to their beating.

Why can't we have summer schools and before/after-school tutoring?
Why not use the official IRS free file forms?
If you're going to use phraseology like "owned by everyone", it seems reasonable to expect that you use tooling in line with your goals.

Especially when Matrix is right there, or Mattermost, or IRC, or email.
>To be fair, most "mac is better" list do the same.

That hasn't been my experience, but okay.
It's literally one feature - each of the different "ways" gets rewritten.

It's why Scala 2 and 3 are able to maintain pretty good interoperability.