jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's nice to see an article that focuses on the common strengths of programming languages, and what came out of them, instead of the usual X vs. Y content. There is often so much common ground (especially between dynamic programming languages) that many solutions and knowledge are easily transferable and could be shared as well, independent from actual code.
> The $300,000 is a perfectly reasonable coverage.

Really? My liability insurance in Germany covers up to €100 million per accident, and that's pretty standard. I always feel a bit anxious when driving rental cars in the US (even with SLI) considering how sue happy Americans are.
SEO isn't the only reason why you'd want to return pre-rendered HTML.
Somebody rewrote hub in Go a while ago and called it gh. The team behind hub only decided recently to merge in gh and make it the new, GitHub-approved version of hub.
That's fair. I'm still using Firefox mobile with adblocking, so I didn't consider that.
Oh please. I watched some Dutch historical TV footage over the last week. The years after WWII were atrocious, there was shortage of housing, clothing, etc.

The 70s and 80s were not without problems either ( I vividly remember the 80s ). Existential threat, bad economy, high unemployment.
Doing anything with those big vendors is an absolute headache, and requires a lot of vendor-specific knowledge/experience, which is expensive (and their offerings are generally expensive and/or harder to estimate pricing on).

DO/Linode and others are perfectly fine serving a sizable audience of users who do not need the complexities that those larger vendors offer.

I struggled for days trying to add more disk to an existing ubuntu image on Azure in 2018. Documentation sucked - both what was there and discoverability. Their instructions just... didn't work, the UI was incredibly .... Azure wasn't my choice - client had O365 and their 'IT vendor' had 'credits' on Azure, so... I had to go with Azure... and it was a huge time sink to do some basic stuff that is literally a few clicks with DO and Linode.

Yes, I don't think I can create private VPNs in the cloud with DO - I don't need to for most projects. The level of functionality DO/Linode/etc provide is adequate for a lot of projects, and they are growing their new functionality to serve needs in a way that seems usable by people without needing to be a certified expert in BigVendorCo.
I don't see that tweet.
>We would argue that inspirationally led private companies should front all missions involving humans as cut-price high-risk ventures.

definitely we must make allowances for the profit motive - I mean just two specimens of Aliens would be worth millions to the bioweapons division.
Could this not be reframed, rather, more as in "how do we evolve to digital currencies that address these (valid) issues?"

Alternatives in the digital currency space exist and are being created every day by a variety of stakeholders and individuals.-
What’s uptime like on DO managed databases? The primary thing keeping me on AWS is Aurora for MySQL. The uptime we’ve experienced is phenomenal.
I don't think it needs to burst. Though there will certainly be times when it goes down there is no reason it'll even go below current prices.

Historically prices have always gone up, so as long as you aren't near a peak it's probably the lowest the total market will ever be.
Isn’t the Moderna vaccine dose larger?
Edit: Whatever it’s 2:30 am here I am just beating a dead horse.

Not quite I am saying the effect demonstrated is more significant than that was suggesting.

The distance between lines of latitude deceases as you move north. That’s what allows for 24/7/365 coverage in the continental US before the Equator.

Anyway it’s also not just about time spent near though not reaching the poles. The effect is also significant at 30 degrees North vs the Equator and thus the entire continual US benefits.

PS: As to 52 degrees North, much like over the ocean satellites can reach further south than just the area beneath them. Which is why the constitution reaches further north than seems optimal at first glance.
So, the government knows every purchase they make, tracks everything they do, and can take it all away whenever it wants? No thanks. And what about homeless and old people, are they disenfranchised too? A cashless society controlled by a government or a corporation means a powerless society.

Norway has had similar tax return approval by text messaging for almost 20 years.
The issue with Signal that annoys me most is the complete lack of any meaningful backup/export on iOS. I lost my entire chat history when I got a new phone because their bizarre "proximity based" solution failed.
Heh?

Your - your device - is one of the "End" in End-to-End Encryption.
If the spammers implement PoW, I am not seeing how the numbers change. Instead of seeing for example 1 million infected PC's and VM's sending email, you would see 1 million infected PC's and VM's doing PoW.

Ill give you an example of how this played out in the past. Up until about a decade ago, if I enforced TLS on my mail servers, about 80% of the malware bots could not connect as their libraries did not support TLS. As more smtp libraries added support for TLS, the malware was updated and now enforcing TLS only limits a smalll subset of spammers. There was no added cost to the spammer. So yes for a while, PoW will create a window of time where there is less spam for those that adopt this. The spammers will eventually catch up. Nowadays malware frameworks are much easier to update.
Somebody will need to take the counter-trade (the arbitrage dude) and unless he can redeem to close the circle, he is going to stop.

USDT are redeemable to your bank account if you have a good sizable balance (talking 7-8 figures). You'll get it deposited from some of their offshore shell companies. But you didn't hear it from me :)
Calling it disingenuous I would say is inaccurate (which would have been a better word than disingenuous). The post said might. I take that to mean that is the earliest instance the poster knew of personally. If that was disingenuous that would mean they were knowingly giving inaccurate information.

Thanks lgessler, interesting further reading.
not OVH, we were using 'Free.fr' ISP transit, one major ISP in France.
What I mean by repeated automated queries is actions such as whole IP ranges scanning.

But you are right, it can lead to confusion so I removed this mention.
I love writing. I love creative expression, writing down observations, focusing thoughts around an intent or story. Writing code just happens to be a form of writing that I can do for a living. You start with a draft or something already started and you shape it into something that people like to use. I love writing.

Be careful with a diary though. Especially if you tend to be self-critical. Your own worst critic. I had one for a few years in a low, workaholic phase of my life and I was depressed rereading it in moments. So many negative thoughts. Ouch. I prefer now to write positive stories. Highlight the positive, accept the negative.
In the case of recording police can they really have any expectation of privacy when anything they do in the course of their duties may be examined in a court of law? I should think that would remove any expectation they had legally speaking. IANAL so if any lawyers feel like answering I would be curious to hear their opinion.
Thanks for this link; it could not have arrived at a better time. Need to go paste this into a couple email threads... ;)
"When I’m browsing a path on a slow-ass NFS connection, it slows down my typing to a crawl while it does a network roundtrip ls’ing the directory every damn time I press a key."

Huh?
We solve it by building Smslltalk-specific version control. Monticello, which cwp and I built for Squeak, is a Smalltalk-only DVCS that predates git and hg and has become the de-facto standard. Earlier systems include ENVY and StORE. After using any of these, flat-file, language un-aware version control feels clunky.
Will try a "special" shower tonight, let you know if it works for me.
Stream of consciousness helps you "get it out" where you can objectify it much easier and treat it like an external item. So, it's good that you are feeling better, but you will (at some point) want to pivot those subjects so you actually feel better about them. Otherwise they will just be skeletons in the closet.

Get it out, acknowledge you don't feel good, objectify the issue, then do your best to find the good aspects in those issues so they are no longer weights.
I highly recommend this course as well.

I believe the official link is http://mooc.cs.helsinki.fi/clojure
Keep your server-side interactions (aka state) outside of the scope of your components and pass in data as properties.

There is an intrinsic connection between state and external environment that must be grasped before you can start building isomorphic modules.

I'm not sure why jQuery and React would ever be used in the same project. If you want an isomorphic solution to retrieving data check out https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-request and enable and convince 3rd parties to enable CORS on HTTP endpoints.
It's not about the elitism. I, for myself, mostly loathe most of the "independent" movies that come out through festivals like Sundance, because most of the time you can see right through them from the first 15 minutes of screening. What I do miss is the middle ground, like a 20-million crime movie which would keep me stuck in my seat for its entire duration.
Please stop with the probabilities.

We can demonstrate, our universe exists.
Claims about the number of universes (>= 1) are untestable (for now) and should therefore be considered speculation.
Where is the proof NK did it ? did the FBI at least made a case against NK? or just because the president says NK did it,it's true? well maybe it's good enough for most people but that's the problem,it shouldn't be.
Good advice! The book is definitely dense and packed with useful information. I didn't read Clojure for the Brave and True yet, I'll add it to my reading list, thanks!

However, I found it easier to digest than Let Over Lambda which was a real mind bender for me a few years ago. Being a LISP fan before learning about Clojure definitely made learning it much, much easier. It also made me appreciate the language early on for its impressive beauty, elegance and simplicity.
A ghetto huh? Many apps I bought are on the App Store (many can be bought outside the app store too so I bought them directly though). I'm not sure how well MAS is doing but a ghetto it is not.

Target market? Well lets try the average user who is much better off with buying from Apple who already has their credit card than going through some little website and their pain in the ass credit card form, registration and what not.
That's the abstract. For the concrete, here's the standard pile of examples. Note that all of these have ways to create or interact with them other than the monad interface, but those differ from example to example (often substantially). Monad captures one similarity, there are differences as well.

The list monad represents nondeterministic computation ("nondeterministic" in the sense of representing all possibilities, not in the sense of picking a random one).

List:
return x = [x]
bind xs f = concat (map f xs)

Maybe represents computation with the possibility of failure.

Maybe:
return x = Just x
bind Nothing _ = Nothing
bind (Just x) f = f x

State carries some data that can be read and updated in the context of the computation.

State:
return x = \ s -> (x, s)
bind m f = \ s -> case m s of (x, s') -> f x s'

A Parser, from parsec, is a bit complicated internally for flexibility and error handling, but the gist is that it represents a parser action that may consume a portion of the input stream and produces a value.

Parser:
return x: a parser that consumes nothing and produces x
bind m f: a parser that runs parser m, passes the output to
function f, and runs the resulting parser

Functions that all take the same type can be treated as a monad. This is often codified into Reader, to make things clearer.

((->) r):
return x = \ _ -> x
bind m f = \ r -> f (m r) r

And of course famously IO, representing actions that produce a value and may interact with the world at large, forms a monad.

IO:
return x: an action which does nothing and produces x
bind m f: an action which, when executed, executes m, applies f
to the value produced, and then executes the result of f
Capitalism is more strongly correlated with freedom than inequality and prison. Think about what it was like before capitalism was around. Monarchs dictated everything. You did what you were assigned to do, which was pretty much what your parents and grandparents did. Capitalism allowed people to take risks and change their professions. The requirement to succeed was to provide something of value to others that they would buy from you. Those that provided more value were rewarded more. Sometimes capitalism can create incentives for a zero-sum game, but the vast majority of transactions are win/win with synergistic value creation.
> The article is trying to implicate old rich men in wheelchairs

In other countries we call such individuals 'oligarchs.' They probably are not involved much in the day-to-day nuts-and-bolts operation of these programs, but I'm sure they are involved in high-level goal setting and direction.

There's really nothing all that new or surprising in the original linked article. We've known for a long time that there is a revolving door between every level of state and federal government and any number of business interests. Basically this is regulatory capture on a massive scale -- possibly up to and including the executive branch, NSA, DOD, and the entire government. While some of the information about the Business Roundtable is new, the CFR is a well-known old boy network club for power brokers.

The article does contain some dubious speculation, but it's not central to the core thesis or to the long view.

America like all large-scale complex societies is an oligarchy. Democracy is largely an illusion, or only operates at a low-mid tier level. The big decisions and long sighted policies are set by career bureaucrats, special interests, top CEOs, etc.

The question we should be asking other than "who" is "why?" Is it just the natural tendency for bureaucracies to accumulate power, maybe a desire to suppress any future labor movement, and exaggerated fears of terrorism? Or is there a specific rationale, something that these people expect to see coming down the road in the future that they're preparing for now?

One thing I've wondered for a long time is whether the Internet is seen as deeply threatening by high-ranking powerful individuals. The last time there was a major revolution in communication, namely the popularization of the printing press, the result was a flurry of revolutions that saw quite a few oligarchs lose their heads.

Another potential threat I've wondered about is fossil fuel depletion. If additional sources of energy can't be brought online fast enough, it would basically necessitate the decommissioning of the middle class -- so-called "power down." The end result would look not terribly unlike the first of the Hunger Games films, with a few high-tech enclaves and a vast population living in medieval squalor. There's your civil unrest requiring over 400,000 troops.
A company that hires somebody 'at-will' has no obligation to keep them employed forever. Employees at places like WeWork, which are transparent with their unsustainable nature, should understand that and act appropriately. IMO, it's a detriment to worker's rights to believe in this sense of Big Brother Capitalist altruism.
What about inorganic physical objects, like a shower head?
Well the feedback loop is much faster with a solution manual than a professor. I agree there is a line between leveraging the solution manual to teach yourself more quickly and just copying the solution. My quantum mechanics professor would give us the solutions to the homework before we were expected to turn it in so that we could learn from his explanations.

I agree that you have to a some point learn how to approach problems which you haven't seen before, but almost every field I have seen, the right way is to start by copying solutions of others until you understand it and then riffing from there. My father was a professor/researcher and he said you shouldn't start a problem unless you knew what your solution was and what you expected it to provide.

In fact much of the research work I have done is see if technique from field x will apply to field y after I have become an expert in field y. Or push to edge of field y and take the next logical step. But pushing to the edge of field y almost always requires working through the solutions of the people who have been there before rather than reinventing the wheel.
The index is missing some content on Safari thanks to an error (OS X, 8.0.2, private browsing enabled):

> InvalidCharacterError: DOM Exception 5: An invalid or illegal character was specified, such as in an XML name.

Seems like an useful combination, but doesn't make me feel great when it's got an error on a mainstream browser.
This is certainly scary stuff, but I was a bit annoyed with the line:

"...consequences such as when Target notified a woman's family that she was pregnant before she even told them. "

I've heard this story referenced time and again with respect to motivating people to care about privacy and tracking. I'm all for privacy, but I feel like: (a) we should have more recent anecdotes about the consequences of tracking than a story from 2012, (b) the mechanism that Target used to infer this is far less intrusive (not making it OK) than what we see here, and (c) its really not strong enough an example.

Not that speculation is the way to go, but what about the possibility of someone being turned down for life insurance due to this information?
> "torture is sometimes permissible" is not an evil opinion held exclusively by evil people

I took air to mean that support of torture eliminates a person from the top strata of the category of "good person" - by itself a handwavy categorization - that should be held up as some kind of exemplar of virtue, as pg has done.

It's a point I happen to agree with, and regardless of whether or not you think Dante would create a special place in hell for rich guys who provide political cover for torturers, it does undermine to some extent the premise of of pg's article.

Writing an article like this about someone you actually like is dangerous. As Pappy Boyington said, "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum."
Critical type here. There's something missing from his review. The company seems to fire people on the spot for little mistakes, from what I've read above. There has to be a lot more dirt, he just hasn't encountered yet.
You could do it either way, but probably asymmetric due to usage patterns.
The protests were the largest civil rights movement in US history.

That's several orders of magnatude larger than the largest trump rallys and riots.

Painting BLM as one unified voice of violence is totally dishonest.

Protesting the police is not violent, calling for justice is not violent. The continued, undeniable unaccounted murder of citizens by police is understandable reason for a relatively small portion of the BLM protests to turn ugly, and the police have a major, direct hand in that escalation.
Right, but these tech empires didn't 'seize control' just the other day when Capitol was overrun. They have been slowly ratcheting up control since years. Slowly boiling the frog while providing an ever-increasing dazzling trinkets of technology and convenience to the general public to distract them from festering underlying issues is their tactic.

And they're succeeding all too well, and very much in cahoots with most governments, elected or not. Ultimately decentralisation of power/wealth has never succeeded in human history so far. It's just that in the last century or two, it has reached ridiculous levels of disparity, even though superficially it seems as if ordinary people are more empowered than ever.
When is tether org involved in this?

From your example the only thing that happened is that now you hold x euros and Kraken holds x amount of USDT.

Unless Kraken goes to Tether org and asks "hey I got these USDTs, please give me the USD" no redemption has occurred.

That some people can in effect transact USDT for fiat via other mechanisms (like your example above) says nothing about Tether org backing or reserves.

Until you go to Tether org with your USDT's and ask them for USD you won't know if they have the reserves.
I believe that's spot on and not only for "the other side".

By now, there seem to be a lot of fragments that used to be part of "the left" but were alienated or pushed out over disagreements about gender issues.

The discussion if feminism should a) create equal chances or b) also correct past wrongs by inverse discrimination has been around for a long time. But only recently has it become so divisive.
Reminds me of https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=buildroo...

I'd wager you could actually put a real linux shell in your website with that!
Sure, or you can run a bnc like we used to in the old days. If the only way to use IRC in an ergonomic fashion these days is to sign up for a third party service like the lounge or a shell account, it's not really a good look for IRC.
Agreed, but it implies that piece of digital work has inherent value of some kind, otherwise it's just a vector for sending or storing money. I guess the question why would someone think it's worth that much? It seems equivalent to buying a house for some ridiculous amount and then "donate" it to someone.
It's really the fact that it amounts to a picture of someone... I think it follows all celebrities can now NFT all their pictures and movie screenshots... something that by itself seems worthless since actors perform in a film, and the story is the central piece of artwork I think (in most movies). Anyway, it's interesting regardless.
Smart but — highly doubt Russian electric will be “clean” in the foreseeable future.
I don't find it unreasonable for a smart first grader, or even kindergartner. I'm unsure whether it is doable for a typical one.

I based my earlier response on what I knew from others as children. But, seeing your response and those of others in this thread, perhaps I was mistaken. Then again:

>American parents and teachers are doing an unexpectedly bad job of teaching it.

I can't speak for American parents but American teachers aren't so good in general.
It was money well spent for Google. For Oracle, it was money thrown away for nothing but bad PR.
I don't see how an unenforceable law would help deter people who want to claim a non service animal as a service animal. As mlyle notes above, there is no formalized certification or training process required by ADA, so anyone can claim they have PTSD and they trained their dog to be a service animal to help them with their PTSD. What is anyone going to be able to do about that?
I don't want to speculate but Microsoft's embrace of Linux and Github has been frightening to me.