jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm speechless. Well, almost. Apple revolutionized the music industry, how music is sold, and how it's listened to. It revolutionized phones. Its iPad changed consumer computing, media consumption, user interface expectations.... Five year olds are totally at home on an iPad and think a screen without touch "isn't working". As they get older, all screens will have to conform to the new reality. They revolutionized shopping for music, movies, and apps. They revolutionized brick and mortar retailing with the most profitable stores of all time.

And Google has changed human access to information so profoundly that I can't adequately explain to my kids what it was like growing up in a world so cut off from things other people knew. Google Earth is something from science fiction. Street View lets me get to know my way around a town before I travel there. I can take my kids for a walk past my old homes in four different countries. Astonishing. And Google's self-driving cars may make driving off-limits to humans in another few years.

Then there's Microsoft, with thousands of smart people working for decades with billions of dollars of resources to work with---the most powerful of them all until what feels like "recently" to me. And the evidence of their innovative power: we have one of several game platforms, a billion-dollar write-off tablet that they can't give away, and a kind of keyboard that accounts for less than 1% of keyboards in use today. Oh, and other stuff that "didn't become as popular as these".

I'm not saying they never came up with anything new. I'm saying that relative to their size and resources, their innovations were trivial. Their huge impact on business, on consumer use of the Internet, on the tech industry, on governments, and so on, came not from revolutionary innovation but primarily from their relentless efforts to monopolize markets.

Of course, the lifeblood of a company is profit, not innovation. Without subsidies from ad revenues, Google's innovations could dry up quickly, and cheap knock-offs could eventually take away most of the markets Apple has revolutionized. But even if their profits prove short-lived, their amazing contributions to society will live on. I doubt many in the future will feel the same about Microsoft's contributions.
Any detail on the numbers?
There are definitely elements of racism rooted in Classical music. Classical music is not something that was historically accessible to the masses. Minorities have not always been allowed to participate in it the same way White people were allowed to. with a quick internet search you can find out more from more legitimate sources.
The PDF states that they somehow knew the actual weight of the airplane.

Which make you wonder why they still use the estimated weight when they can have the actual one.
This, and Netscape frontpaging :)

... it's like the 90's are staging a comeback, wholesomeness and all ...
I'm curious, as someone knows probably only enough about this stuff to get myself into trouble, what am I missing out on by just pushing to heroku?
When I got into software development around 2013-2014, only dialup and satellite internet were available in my area, and nobody had really nice computers (mine was an old, secondhand netbook). As a result, I can't overstate how much I appreciate informational sites consisting of 'plain' Web 1.0 HTML/CSS. They loaded fast, didn't lag when doing something as simple as scrolling, and didn't break when the connection dropped. They were also easier to archive with wget, which was very important to me given the instability of my connection.

Thankfully that was the heyday of jekyll/octopress, so there were a lot of accessible dev blogs.
I'm on Oracle Linux.

Newer kernels report this in /proc/cpuinfo, and also /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities.

When I run the UEK 5.4 kernel, I can see the following:

$ grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | uniq
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHz
$ grep bugs /proc/cpuinfo | uniq
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit
$ dmesg | grep DMI:
[ 0.000000] DMI: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, BIOS P70 05/24/2019

When I run the RedHat-Compatible 3.10 Kernel, it doesn't report the bugs.

This is Oracle/RedHat 7.9 Maipo, and lscpu doesn't report the bugs under either kernel.
I generally reach for pip-tools, when I need to pin versions in a requirements for a deployable app, like an api.

It's by far the simplest option I've found.

If your project is a library, just use setup.py and express your deps abstractly (min, max or version range). Don't pin to specific versions at all, if you can help it.
I have telemetry disabled, but I would be happy to answer surveys for them. I've done so multiple times in the past. Surveys used to be the standard method for gathering user feedback, but they've fallen out of favor. Now everyone wants to do everything using telemetry and other automated data gathering. I wish surveys were utilized more often these days. Talk to your users!
> It feels much easier to reason about but then again maybe that's just because I'm more familiar to it.

I'm a professional C++ programmer for a decade and have started to look
into Rust, and there's no way that C++ is easier to reason about.

There's no automatic copying of complex data in Rust, you can't move
something away and later use it again, you can't invalidate interators
and this list goes on and on.

At the beginning you have to get used to the borrow system of Rust,
learn the idioms, but after that, it really seems to be in a lot of
parts a better C++.
That's why you remain neutral and sell premium, especially on ER with insane volatility crush.
I don't think a pre-beta product needs any defense further than the fact that it is pre-beta. Besides most of the 'reviews' were positive about the OS and critical about the hardware which is merely the conduit for the OS at this point.
> What happens when Amazon launches their competing streaming video service?

Amazon already happily takes a small cut from competitors' businesses: from the many third party sellers who sell through Amazon's retail sites.
I'll switch when it can convert image attachments to ascii inline, I don't want to open a separate program to look at all those adorable pictures of kittens in my inbox.
Why? As a professional security researcher, what makes you believe this is unlikely? I'm not saying I disagree with you, but it seems like you have additional context for an a priori belief that this isn't what happened.
Timezone?

Seriously now, it's just silly to include times like these and have no timezone. I assume they're in San Fransisco time?
American, although mostly Argentinian (long story!) living in Brazil here.

To be honest, I can't see much of what you say, but then I live in Southern Brazil (Santa Catarina) which is, at least on average, a much more developed part of the country.

Sure, internet and electronics are still expensive but it's very safe when compared to Rio/São Paulo and the schools some of the best in the country. A very good place, generally speaking.

The only point where I have to strongly disagree is your statement about entrepreneurs in Brazil. In fact, when compared with other countries I know (Argentina, the UK, et al.) Brazilians are the closest to the American entrepreneurial soul I've seen. Sure, you have a bunch of people that want to work for the government because of the stability that provides and loyalty for 'the company' is still very deeply ingrained, but in general every Brazilian dreams of having their own business and the government is doing the best it can (short of cutting taxes, unfortunately) to make that dream come true.

(Lastly, and off-topic, I'd like to point out that the perception of 'regulation' as something bad is a very American concept. 'Regulation' is what keeps 'us', the consumer, safe from 'them', the faceless and impossible to sue corporations. Not the oppressive force the American free market pundits make it out to be. Corruption is a bitch though.)
You have trouble believing that a huge bureaucracy could do something that stupid?
The 2p coin should have gone a long time ago. It’s exactly the same weight as 2 1p coins. It’s huge though.

I also have a big problem with the pound coin... it’s far too heavy.
Compared https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Joh... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Pau...

Seems more or less a tie to me. [0] Especially compared to this chap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...

[0] Actually, it's not a tie: If you add the entries on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjectures_by_Paul_Er... you get a clear winner.
That's awesome. Did not know that about Marx.

Any educated person who looks at cumulative human history can see this.

History as a rule is filled with subjugation by the powerful for thousands upon thousands of years.

There's the argument that policy cant reduce inequality, only plague, revolution, war, and state collapse, have ever reduced this.

What we have now in modern America is an anomoly... and if one looks carefully at the growing inequality...we're moving back towards equilibrium.

Wish history was taught better in schools.
That would have been interesting for many, many reasons, the poetry of which being the least interesting. They're a sovereign nation so what happens when you manufacture guns in Indian country? How beholden are you to the BATF's regs, assuming you build with the intention of the firearm never leaving the res?
As a followup to the sibling comment, note that closures aren't the only way to achieve the same effect, for example:

class MyDecorator(object):
def __init__(self, func):
self.func = func
def __call__(self, one, two, three):
# do stuff
return self.func(three, two, one)

ie. you can just as easily use a class instance to store your state, instead of a closure. I routinely use both methods, depending on which is more useful at the time.
Actually, it's all worthless.
100% worthless.

I have literally never seen an innocent infringement defense succeed due to a missing copyright notice in a situation around websites (and in fact, in a lot of countries, it's not even possible anymore)
People are talking about how updating the date isn't legal unless something copyrightable has changed.

I'm not a lawyer, but I've been in meetings where management decided the year needs to update, so that's when I started using this snippet:

in ruby html.erb: <%= Time.now.year %>
for jekyll > {{ site.time | date:"%Y" }}
LOL dude. hide where you're from? this is America. what makes you think anything you've heard from anyone about where they are from is the truth?
The Lawgiver gun from Dredd, which is one of the most influential examples, used grip sensors. It also tagged each bullet with the gun owner's DNA, which is in some ways an even more interesting idea.
It's an open ended question with lots of jumping off points to talk about implementation details and design. And as far as the backend being trivial (it may well be), if a candidate said that in an interview, I'd ask them to walk through how they'd roll their own WebSocket solution. With a different candidate it could jump off into a UI focused discussion. Lots of possibilities.
What would prevent people from disassembling this, replacing a few parts and making new gun? Making hand gun is very simple once you have basic components, such as barrel and bullets.

I am worried that this will become yet another obstruction for gun holders. Germany (and EU) is crazy, pepper sprays or even pocket knives are banned. Neighbouring Czech rep. is more liberal and has comparable crime rate.
Some people still try to interpret the 2nd amendment that way, but DC v. Heller[1] made handgun ownership an individual right.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
To be clear: I'm not seeking to challenge your view, and the kind of "learning" I'm talking about is not only the formal education system, but also the consensus among people who discuss these things, news articles, etc.

What I find interesting is how the average US person and the average Westerner (I.e. people in the US sphere of influence during the Cold War) differ on this. To the former, it was a necessary act -- terrible but just -- to end the war. To the latter, it's an abhorrent and immoral act committed by the US.

More importantly, the US seems unaware of how the rest of the world remembers the atomic bombings. It seems many in the US readily accept the Vietnam war was immoral (the domino theory becoming less and less accepted as justification), but not as many think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki likewise.

To repeat it once more: I'm not that interested in discussing whether it was moral or justified (I've had my share of this discussion over the years) but more on why the perception of the US and the rest of the world differs so much.
The national security of all countries involved. Sensitive diplomatic information is often better handled by diplomats. Unleashed to the masses, it may cause unnecessary aggression, maybe even riots somewhere. Not to mention that it puts a lot of people's lives at risk.
Well i'm glad to see you never take breaks. Err, except when you waste all day on HN?

Don't criticize others for spending their free time differently from you. The same arguements you posed for HN work just as well for video games.
For what it's worth, I'm a female former English major.

(Who also happens to be learning how to code.)
If the locals are "just as bad if not worse" why did you single out Hasidic jews? Yikes.
http://theinfo.org/ is a good one as well (by Aaron Swartz)

get | process | view

get (http://theinfo.org/get/tools)

process (http://theinfo.org/process/tools)

view (http://theinfo.org/view/tools)
No. But they have fun!

An acquaintance bought one of the first Compaq computers. He paid $4000 for it. He kept it in his office and would tell people: "When that computer came out, had I instead bought $4000 of stock in Compaq, I would be much wealthier today. Instead I bought the computer, learned to program it and did OK."
That was my experience. Even though I have the means now, the cost is not proportional to the service benefit for me.
Isn’t that twitch? Twitter is text only AFAIK. There is no background music there.
A couple of days ago this clear, brief introduction to AWK was submitted: http://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html
I agree. It's important to keep in mind that non-sociopaths can be as ruthless as sociopaths to people when they don't think of them as people.
I get your argument, but it sounds like a weak version of the claim that there is a strict ordering of priorities in the world and that only the top priority should ever be worked on.

Heck, even if the site was only for "novel" questions, according to your logic, only the most important unanswered question should be visible, until it is answered. Otherwise people might be incentivized to answer the second most important question instead.
You also have to show that it could not have been more beneficial for the employee to be doing something else.

You can't discount opportunity costs. If Oprah was giving away cars to everyone who went out to eat lunch at a local strip mall, you can't reasonably say that a person who found a quarter on the break room floor benefited by staying in the office to eat lunch.

You only observed the conversation that you observed. You did not observe all the potential conversations that might have occurred instead of the one you heard. The value of such conversations is the result of an expected value calculation, based on the potential benefit multiplied by the possibility that such benefit would be realized. That involves a lot of guesswork, obviously.
Handylock is really cool and free but does not use the bluetooth LE. It will cost your battery..
But to build it in 4 days!

This still strikes me as the height of 1990s programming moxy.
Sentinel smears the SPOF out into a redundant (but still memory-backed) system. Backups mitigate the risk of data loss further. AOF can also be used but may cancel out the performance gains.

...and none of those change the fundamental durability/performance tradeoff of the system, nor do they replace a proper scaling strategy for an RDBMS.
One of Rob's ideas - the GOPATH - is something that I enjoy very much and even port the concept to other languages, sometimes. However, it seems that the community as a whole didn't embrace it. I feel isolated, but in good company :D
How does the BOOX compare to a Remarkable?
Thank you! I appreciate it. Glad you found it helpful.
Yes, we need to keep the app updated all the time to keep with the always changing APIs.

We are not looking into going to different space right now as it's never as easy as replacing some core components, but thanks for the idea :)
According to a chemical engineering professor I took a class with, it was virtually impossible for the Bhopal disaster to have been accidental. Chemical plants use different types of pipe connectors to ensure that the wrong kinds of chemicals aren't mixed - getting water into the tank would have required connecting a "square" pipe to a "round" flange [1]. The government investigation and an independent investigation confirmed this.

Fun fact: UC was involved in a dispute with one of their unions just before the disaster occurred. I'm sure that was a completely unrelated event.

[1] They aren't actually square and round, they use a sequence of locks which don't fit together. A "square pipe into a round flange" is merely an easy to describe visual which gives the general idea.
MongoDB, at least at first glance, seems easier to install than CouchDB. The Erlang dependency might be a little off-putting. That could easily explain it's apparent greater popularity.
Have it go through your facebook account & you have to click some sort of confirmation link in your email before your resume gets posted.
It's not just two messages colliding on the exact millisecond. They can collide on subsequent blocks. So if Alice sends a 10 block message that starts at T_0 and Bob sends a 5 block message that starts at T_5, then the server learns information about half of Alice's plaintext and all of Bob's. Each client should use an independently-chosen and unpredictable IV.

You are incorrect on your statement that the corrupted server needs both the plain and encrypted versions of a message to send bogus messages. Without authentication, the server can flip arbitrary bits of a CTR message. This opens up several types of attacks. You should apply a MAC to the ciphertext.

I think that the encryption needs to happen entirely in the client and you can't rely on code downloaded from an untrusted server.
http://w3counter.com uses MongoDB capped collections which are aggregated into partitioned MySQL databases.
DPI is a pointless term in comparing different medium. One of the comments mentions Dots per Radian of viewing angle which I think makes much more sense. Don't need/want my TV to have 300DPI, but 30 DPI would actually be pretty awesome there.
I wonder if the error was due to the huge increase in orders they must have gotten after their 80% off sale a month and half ago?
If you would like to propose improved crypto code, I would love it. Honestly.

But "javascript is a messy language" is not inherently an attack. You can obfuscate just about any language. Do you actually have an attack in mind based on the fact that it's implemented in the browser?

It's true I don't have a deep understanding of the AES algorithms, and the AES code, as stated in the attribution, isn't even mine. Again, I'd love improved code. But you have yet to make any rational argument that javascript in the browser is inherently unsuited to encryption.

I completely agree that the many attempts to make SSL irrelevant by doing all the encryption in JS (and usually horribly naive JS) are foolish. That's not the point. Bonchat isn't a shopping cart or a mail reader. SSL is for securing communication to the server. Bonchat is an experiment in securing communication against the server. Do you have a better way than client-side encryption?
>Most of the people that now live here have ancestors that followed the rules as my ancestors did.

This is something of a myth. With the exception of immigrants from China, who were barred by the United States starting in 1880, there really was no such thing as an illegal immigrant until the 1920s. To suggest that one's own ancestors played by the rules, so why can't the current generation of immigrants, is to ignore the fact that the rules at that time were completely different. Given that many of our ancestors came from pretty desperate circumstances, it's entirely likely that many of them would have immigrated illegally, had the laws of that era been analogous to our laws today.

>those that have broken American laws getting subsidized college education costs such as in-state tuition and other monies. In other words, you have people who are not American citizens getting in-state tuition rates that are not available to American citizens who grew up in other states.

This seems to hold children responsible for actions that were taken by their parents, when they were minors. Would you really accuse a 2 year-old of breaking the law if they were brought into the country illegally?

Further, in-state tuition is a benefit to taxpayers of a given state, and it provides opportunities for residents of that state to develop skills without having to go elsewhere. I don't see why someone who has never lived in state X has a claim to in-state tuition at X-State University, based only on their American citizenship. I do see a case for providing in-state tuition for someone who grew up in that state, went to high school there, and was the child of taxpayers, regardless of their educational status.
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A moral judgment is "it is wrong to do X". It isn't a moral judgement to say "We don't want to spend our society's money subsidizing drug and alcohol addiction, we want to spend it on getting homeless people jobs, houses, etc." It isn't a moral judgment to say "we have observed that drug and alcohol addiction are harmful to the addicts and to the society we want to create, so we don't want to spend our money on that." Usually people aren't quite so precise and assume that the "we have observed ... to be harmful" is understood.
Besides everything everyone else said, keep a book of your friends, and how to contact them. Then as often as you can, reach out to them. Even just a text like "Hey, how's life" is good to keep a friendship going.
> drivetrain depending on a device which is known to fail

Uh... the drive train itself is "known to fail". Everything wears out. Everything breaks. You just aren't surprised when your transmission needs rebuilding or your brakes or shocks need replacement because those are "car things" you've been conditioned are normal. Well, electromigration is just another kind of normal wear and tear to be designed into the device.

And it's the design here that was at fault, having incorrectly planned for the replacement rate. But there's absolutely nothing weird about building cars out of parts that fail over time!
https://twitter.com/bradlarson/status/1360230872658698244

https://twitter.com/texasmichelle/status/1360287563898974211

I think we just have to wait for the meeting video to be posted
From someone who only uses the basics that a browser has to offer (simple is better), I just wanna say, I don't mind the update. I rather like it. Thanks for the hard work.
Desktop OSes are for browsing the internet and editing documents... complex, rapidly evolving, not very reliable or sensitive to reliability. It's terrifying enough to involve a Mac in a stage performance.
Did you have your wisdom teeth out? Are your teeth straight? That makes a huge difference.
I searched for quiet fans, and could never find any reputed to be quieter than Dyson. I'd love a recommendation, if possible.