jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having to trade away your privacy for access to financial services (where this is headed) is not OK just because the spying is unbiased.

This is a common red herring, like the proliferating surveillance cameras and face recognition - somehow it is always implied the main reason we should worry is the racial bias, while everyone being followed 24/7 by a digital private investigator is a secondary concern.
When it goes up it's "$40k", when it goes down it's "still worth 1 bitcoin"
It's amazing to think that even switchboard operators were a thing long into the 1980s.
There doesn't seem to be any hint of information about an API for this. There are links to API docs for the other two services offered by Webpurify. But not this one.
Illustrated: http://mises.org/books/trts/
I think a lot of people are missing the point. He has already decided that he has enough money. That's why he retired, because he saved up enough money to live the rest of his life.

It's a very russian mentality (I speak as someone who's parents moved from the USSR a year before I was born).
Sorry man, I think he was a one-off from the factory.
Calling a game 'addictive' is a playful compliment. Let us not mistake it for a serious assessment of the situation. Games do not foster physical dependency; they do not coerce the player to chase a diminishing high until his whole life is a ruin. Except WoW. ;)

I think addictive games come in two flavors, one negative and one positive.

The negative type are games that don't let you go, that you wind up playing long after you've lost interest in them. Games that are centered around a guild that needs you, so your friends draw you in. Games that must be played regularly and so form habits. Games that threaten to punish you severely if you don't frequently check in. This is a negative sort of 'addictive' gameplay: it eats up time, demands attention, serves as a second job. Games like these should be enjoyed briefly and then escaped from. Lucrative though they may be, I would not want to develop one.

Then there is the positive sort of 'addictive' gameplay, which I might call more accurately 'fascinating'. These are games that dazzle and delight, that eat your brain, that you wind up playing for 16 hours a day for a week because you can't stop thinking about them. Like a fascinating problem or a motivating vision, they push you to perform and learn. This sort of addiction always dies out eventually, but while it lasts it is enjoyable and rewarding. I would go so far as to say it's what gaming is about. Yeah, it may cause the occasional day of missed work, but it gets the odd hacker in a serious groove, too. I think games with this quality are excellent and even make the world a better place. I would strive to make any game I built so 'addictive'.
How many of you actually go to the Google homepage to search? With Chrome/Chromium, just type on the address bar; for Firefox have shortcut prefixes. (like "g hacker news" searches for "hacker news".)
Google had Bing envy, so through a massive engineering effort and R&D they have managed to reverse engineer and clone Bing's #1 differentiator. Let The Search Engine Wars Begin Anew!
The pH-theory of illness originated in Japan as best I can tell, and has spread to China in recent years. Perhaps Korea too.

Basically, the idea is that the body prefers a slightly alkaline pH (stay with me now). Rice, meat, cooked foods, coffee, black tea and smoking all acidify the blood, where as fresh vegetables and green tea de-acidify it. Acidified blood then leads to cancer, heart disease, and other chronic ills.

Ok, but the body naturally maintains blood pH in a narrow range. If this theory has any truth to it, then it wouldn't be "acidified blood" that's bad for you, but the energy and nutrients consumed, and the byproducts created and disposed of, in the course of maintaining proper pH against an acidifying diet. Low-pH urine might be a sign of the body working overtime to keep the blood neutral.

To this end, you can buy water ionizers that produce alkaline water, and drink that rather than normal water. According to the product literature I saw (my neighbors in China had one installed--a lot of money for a retired couple), the original research looked at villages around the world where people lived longer than their average countrymen. The common thread was slightly alkaline water (supposedly). I went online to check sources, and indeed, there was a lot of university-affiliated research along these lines in Japan.

This was 6 years ago. I'm sure you can find more information online, if you are curious.
Depends on the state. In CA yes you do. In OK/TX/MO I never paid the dealer.
Drinking 3 drinks a day, the amount necessary to have an effect on liver cancer according to the study, makes you pretty much an alcoholic, not just part of the vast number of people "who drink alcohol".
I have done a lot of punchdown jack connections, and a few crimp connections, and I have to agree that the punchdown connections (into a female jack which receives a patch cord, and the patch cord goes to the device) have been much more deterministic. It is rare when one does not work the first time.

I wasn't using structured cabling, just ordinary Cat5e cable.

But I think for a security camera, as in the parent comment, which may be getting PoE, the tidiest connection would use a crimp-down male RJ45. I would not enjoy being up on a ladder fussing with a crimping tool and 8 stubby wires.
I only have an amateur interest in JVM development, but doesn't this bug break some rules around GC 'object roots'? Even if 'child' and 'something' are referentially copied to local variables on the calling stack, I believe 'this' should continue to act as a root for both of them. I think.
Yeah, tech workers in SF making 150-300k certainly "can't afford to drive" I am sure.
Hey I have a sob story too. My parents own a 3 million dollar house and sent my sister to Harker for 20 grand a year, but only give me 20k total for college.

I mowed lawns, washed dishes, and worked retail before finding internships. But you know what? I still have more built in advantages than kids on need based scholarships. I'm luck my parents raised me well enough to get into good schools.
The shortage of doctors is not due to market conditions. The government limits the supply of slots in medical schools and residencies, which then limits the number of new doctors.
> I guess that most of that 50% running in HPC is FORTRAN77 written many, many years ago

Is this blind speculation?
On principle lockdowns work. If everyone is in a bubble, isolated from everyone else, no transmission of anything occurs, no disease, no nothing. Utopia. In practice this is impossible. The lockdowns you impose eventually get lifted and the ultra contagious disease catches up, then you impose new lockdowns, rinse and repeat. It's unsustainable. These lockdowns make sense when you're caught unprepared at the very beginning of a pandemic and are used to reorganize nation's resources and capabilities to be able to take care as much as possible for the minority of people at risk.

What is sustainable is being a sparsely populated nation in a dry climate, heat, summer, sun, most importantly - healthy non-obese people and not everyone being 90 years old with a list of chronic illnesses. Most nations aren't like that.

So sorry to burst your Jesus insecurity, but nobody is saving anyone by #stayathome. And this will be evident in a year or two when you draw the line and find out that nations with severe lockdowns ended up being not that better than those without any lockdowns.

This is the most highly contagious virus and it won't magically disappear. Mutations already kick in and there is little insight how current vaccines will fare in the long run. Lockdowns and mass vaccination every cold season? Good luck with that. I don't even visit the dentist that often.
Vultr allows you to use a pure pre-pay option. You can even pay with crypto and forgo the credit card. Your account gets shut down when you run out of funds.
iPhone users are probably among Facebook's most valuable advertising demographic (ie. lots of disposable income). Apple's decisions to block tracking are hurting them in a big way, and offering a paid subscription probably won't seem attractive to users if Facebook prices it at the full value lost.

We've trained people that everything is free. We can't get away from that now that the genie is out of the bottle. Furthermore, people might just decide Facebook isn't worth it for them at the level of functionality they provide. As more churn happens, the overall value of the network decreases.

Apple just checkmated Facebook.
Sorry I should have clarified: UberX is the problem. It is already being banned in more and more countries as governments come to terms with the regulatory changes required.

And whilst Uber is popular in the US outside it still isn't a well known brand and what they do know is the questionable behaviour of its management team (there have been media reports). So I don't see them disrupting taxi services around the world to the same extent as the US.
While I'd totally love to have a real-world adblock, I fear a wide-scale deployment will only make things worse.

See, such ad-block device to be effective needs to be able to distinguish ads from legitimately important communication like traffic signs or warning labels. This in turn will make advertisers design their ads to be as indistinguishable from content as possible. In the end, we'll win nothing in terms of ad reduction, but we'll lose traffic signs and other important information.

I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't have stopped fighting ads a while ago just to keep them from improving. Fighting advertsers is like fighting a fast-mutating bacteria. Whatever partial solution we apply makes it only evolve to a more nasty and disgusting form to be fought next season. I worry that the end result will not be lack of ads - it will be lack of information you can trust.
This same URL was submitted an hour earlier and got 4 upvotes. This one has 222 as I write this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923016

Timing is everything, I guess.
Me, too. I put one in my RAID, with part of my strategy is to use a variety of manufacturers and drive types so the drives don't fail all at once. This one is 50x the capacity of my cursed 75GXP...

http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/storagesig/media/docs/...
The density and sheer population of New York makes that an example that doesn't transfer easily.
>GamerGate has, as a movement, systematically refused to decry the harassment or take any kind of practical steps to curb it

As somebody that has watched GG from the outside out of fascination, I don't think this point is true and I think think it points to a broader problem online that I feel is becoming increasingly troubling - a failure to recognize that trolls are attracted to conflict and not necessarily representative of anyone on either side of an issue.

What practical steps to curb the actions of anonymous internet trolls would you have considered sufficient?
We use mercurial in our startup and if need to use git, we keep a mirror of git repository in our kallithea instance. We integrate git in our internal workflow using hg-git.

Not sure of others but in the early years we chose mercurial over git due to to its beautiful command line UI, conceptual integrity and easier mental model. Even today hg is easier to pick up for new developers in our startup compared to git, even though git has bigger mindshare due to GitHub.

In hg specially like the default setting for immutable commit history and explicit merges unless forcibly overridden.
https://oshwiki.eu/wiki/Ergonomics_in_Office_Work#Ergonomics...
And when I have wifi turned on on my laptop, I get a .5 second gap in bluetooth audio approximately once every thirty seconds.
I agree, except for the fact that the exact same things can be said of anything that becomes wildly successful.
The information flows are also incredibly complex and self-reinforcing with all sorts of impenetrable feedback loops.

Low wheat yield one year can cause reverberations throughout the world for many years to come. These can affect strategic decisions by businesses, which then affect strategic decisions among their suppliers, and so on.

Eventually the effects of weather patterns die out, but not before they have (perhaps almost imperceptibly) affected every business around the world, perhaps many decades after the initial event.

This, anyway, is how Mandelbrot speculated the autoregression, correlation, and long-term dependence of the markets might arise.

Trying to figure out the effects of an event in that world beyond the simplest, first-order ones is futile, no matter your resources.
my rpi boots from an old usb flash drive. It is slow, disk write is 2MB/s, but it is pretty stable so far.

But next time i will probably buy something from https://wiki.debian.org/CheapServerBoxHardware
Do you not think some of these domain extensions are providing value to people (like incorporating a "cool" domain name into branding like crisp.chat, frame.work or magic.link)? You don't have to use their TLDs.
It’s worth noting that they sell very high-peice dumb TVs for over 2000$ as well now, so I’d expect those to have pretty amazing panels built in.
I run a Ubiquiti UDM Pro as the router for my home network and slapping a few additional containers (it uses podman) on top like pi hole is doable e.g. using https://github.com/boostchicken/udm-utilities

I use it for pi hole and rclone backups.

It’s not exactly great as a home server if you want total freedom/control but it has a decent ARM SoC, a swappable 3.5“ drive bay and even though it’s got a fan I can’t hear it .

I only use it because it’s obviously running anyway and that was the least expensive way to add some things I wanted to my local network.
I might be wrong but what you pointed out is exactly why NFTs might succeed. Sure Nintendo has enough credibility to own and operate its own market, but for people who are trying to compete with Nintendo, the fact that artefacts are tradable outside the company's ecosystem and control becomes a point of differentiation.
I feel that they might be a little bit late.
Since the Linux community's "Aha!" moment regarding the usability of Desktop apps, Transmission has really taken off.

Even uTorrent's web interface is old news compared to Transmission's web interface.

Although - competition is always good.
Facing scrutiny +1
Being made fun of because you got nervous/self conscious on a stage -1

Not that I worry about Zuckerberg. He'll be fine. He'll probably get better at public speaking in the future and keep running a successful company.
>> The Zuckerberg hate is lame.

I disagree. I admire Zuckerberg's success so so much. He has made incredible business decisions. He has refused to sell out and is now looking at an IPO. The guy seems relentlessly good. And it's scary.

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

But we must be critical and it is important for journalists to put him on the spot right now because on a personal level, he does not seem concerned enough with his mostly naive user base. He is very powerful, he controls a lot of information. With Google and Tesla we see a rising mantra to do genuine good in the world. Zuckerberg's public appearance at the conference in light of his leadership abilities shows a man that is hiding things and it shows a man that in my uninformed opinion will not hesitate to push the limits to see how far he can grow Facebook.

Based on the statements he has made and based on the progression of Facebook's features, I fear where facebook is headed given the amount of private data it has access to and _more_ importantly the amount of behavioral data it has access to. Just my opinion.
Here's another video http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-video-facebook-ceo-mark...
The constitution also lays out what crimes a president can be impeached for. I have to explicitly say this so people don’t misinterpret my words: I’m not supporting trump, I’m talking from a purely scholastic position.

You can look up respected legal scholars from Georgetown who came to This conclusion during Clinton’s impeachment
The cult leader gets angrier and threatens his own followers who defy his demands for fealty. The rejection makes them all angry, cult leader and followers.

Trump and Trump supporters have been more caustic by far to Republicans who don't toe the line. They seek retribution and engage in threatening behavior, including death threats.

This morning Trump expressed his displeasure at the Vice President's unwillingness to engage in illegal activity, and then Trump sent a mob to the capitol where Pence was doing his job.

Four people are dead on a day of performative action, merely to count votes, with an outcome that was guaranteed on December 8.

Following this violence and death, most Republicans in the House supported and voted for this cynical, delusional lie of their cult leader. And had very little to say about the mob that was send toward them, by him. They had more lies to tell.

Trump spent five years of the previous presidency trying to delegitimize that president too, just like he's trying to delegitimize the next one.

Don't lecture people on how they should become milquetoast.
Covid is an extreme example. But I think the trade-offs that people are willing to make have changed. The health of myself, friends and family is critically important to me. In a world where most of our needs are already met health is the biggest existential threat we face.

This kind of threat could be exploited by bad actors. But the ultimate goal of keeping people alive and healthy is a legitimate one. I think more of the economy will be devoted to healthcare, fitness, and even "wellbeing". Covid was just a massive acceleration of that.
> I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can protest out front without worrying about that unfriendly man with his finger by the trigger to the Browning M2.

And yet your government offices abroad (embassies) are the most fortified I've ever seen.

I've been to several countries' embassies and the US one was like entering a secret nuclear bunker. There was airport-style security, and everyone I talked to was behind a massive sheet of bullet-proof glass; never mind the gates and moat around the building. This was in a small, US-friendly and highly developed country.

Then there's the excessive amount of security around any US governmental visit to a foreign country.

So I think it comes to a surprise to many outside the US that one of your main government buildings has less security than a museum even when all the most important politicians are inside.

But yes I agree, I think government buildings should be 'friendly'.
In Germany you are not allowed to change the car

E.g. there are these additinonal brake lights one could place at the top of the rear window. For a long time it was illegal to use them, even if you just glued them on the inside
That assumes it can talk to IT's systems, and it's done before the computer is "inspected". For a corporate laptop, that can easily be unlikely.
I see I see. I wasn’t really aware they weren’t happy about it, perhaps I could have been less lazy and checked.

All the more reason to never sell if you want to see out your vision. Facebook was certainly on the other end with acquisition offers not so long ago.

I’m also not sure that acquiring companies tend to like to be dealing with too many restrictive terms. Any kind of purchase is going to compete against alternatives, including building your own.
Erasing the parts of the pad that have already been used, overwriting them with new hardware generated random numbers would seem to help out forward secrecy. Or am I missing something?
$4B should buy a very, very fancy dictionary.
Here’s another example - one of the first ones I did, before I understood most of the options: https://youtu.be/X4R-8BchTd4

That one uses the default smoothing algorithm, which isn’t really suitable for anything acrobatic.
"I don't think that these are taken seriously by too many people, and they won't be in the future."

You're an optimist.

It's more likely we'll slide towards an Idiocracy future, where it's garbage that'll be praised to the heavens.

The contemporary art world has been sliding that direction for a long time, and outside the art world kitsch dominates, and it's probably only going to get worse over time.
Yeah as a rust user and believer even I cringe at some rust crusaders, I've seen the same for RISC V as well :(
It's five years off the average lifespan in terms of it being half a lifetime. And you spend your first 16 odd years under with relatively little autonomy anyway.

In terms of usable adult life, he's had around a decade at most. And the last 15 years are kinda crappy anyway. If you look at things that way, then it's questionable whether this is any kinder than just putting him up against a wall and getting it over with.
This is really scary for me, and I'm not even hosting any sort of illegal content.

For me the internet has always been a wild-west kind of place, one of the last places where politics and government and all of the paranoia-driven American madness didn't have a hold. No matter what crazy shit was going on in the "real world," it probably wouldn't touch the fabric of the internet. And today I wake up to find the RIAA using the government as hired hitmen to shut down seemingly harmless sites without any kind of warning or due process.

I know it was bound to happen sometime, and it would be naive to think the government was never involved in the dealings of the internet, but this truly saddens me. Our bought-and-paid-for government is finally making itself known in our last haven.

Has it really come time to move our domains to China, of all places?! And if we move them to a foreign power, who's to say that power won't tomorrow start doing what we're doing now?

I wish I had the money to donate to the EFF; but I don't, and I feel completely powerless.
My point was that I can guarantee that the law doesn't make that distinction - maybe it will in the future, but not today. Taking out flying objects is illegal.