jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Your messages would still be safe

Only the message contents. Everything else, like time, identities, communication networks is still at risk. What you are saying is very misleading since you completely neglect to mention the importance of all that non-content metadata.
Is that really true? Couldn't Google forcibly turn off the code-signing requirement on an individual's phone?

They've been known to reset passwords remotely in the past: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11330892/fbi-google-andro...
The biggest challenge I encountered when doing this exact thing was once you get beyond bootstrapping the project, and start implementing your first feature.

Great, you need an ORM, what do you choose?
Now you need a serializer, what do you choose?
What about validation, what do you choose?
Authentication, what do you choose?

A lot of these questions are boring and are not worth spending time thinking about. Almost all choices will leave you with some amount of headaches though (as will choosing Django).

The question to me boils down to... what questions am I interested in solving?
Refreshing in the sense that it's a look back at what worked and what maybe didn't work so other projects don't make the same mistake. They could have just flipped the code repo to "archived" and moved on without a word.
Wow. vitalik was one of the first Django freelancers I hired when I was getting started. Some of his code is still in production for one of my clients.

(Vitaly - if you're watching. Hi!)
I didn't mean "mystery" as "unexplained", I meant "mystery" as "magic, conspiracy, aliens..." type of interpretation which general public seem to take on lately.
Turing was interested in mechanical manipulation. The church turning thesis showed that he neededn't have bothered since lambda calculus, a term rewriting system, is equivalent to a Turing machine and dozens of other methods of effective computation. You can pick which ever is the most aesthetically pleasing.
That second link has a spare "d" after "publications" that broke it, by the way.

Thanks for the links
Unless you want to recharge your fob every week it has to stay passive as much as possible. The car has a bigger battery.
IQ—or more accurately the theory of general intelligence—is highly controversial inside the field of psychology. In fact a part from developmental psychologists—which might use IQ tests to determine if a child requires special needs—I bet by far most psychologists go their entire career without ever touching an IQ test or citing a paper because of IQ results.

It is true that the debate about general intelligence is huge. So you see a lot of papers written about it. But this is a subfield inside psychology (in fact a subfield of psychometrics which is a subfield of psychology; the whole field of psychometrics invoking skepticism among many scientist).

I’m gonna do you a favor and list sub-fields of psychology that work regardless of the theory of general intelligence and therefor work just fine without IQ:

* Cognitive psychology (and computational psychology)

* Neuropsychology

* Social psychology (and psychological sociology)

* Pathological Psychology and Psychiatry

* Developmental psychology (although they might use IQ tests; but for different reason as psychometricians do)

* Psychological first aid (not a science but a method; similar to paramedics but for trauma victims)

And here are some generic theories inside psychology which have nothing to do with—and might reject—the theory of general intelligence.

* Behaviorism

* Neurological determinism

* Evolutionary psychology

* Psychoanalysis

Even inside psychometrics (which is the believe that any psychological effect that exists is measurable; and that operational definition is a legitimate way to describe psychological effect) I bet there are people that reject the theory of general intelligence on the grounds that IQ is not measuring general intelligence, but something else.
Police just don't care about stolen cars. It's the same people who do it each week. They live at the end of the road at number 110. None of the stolen cars have ever been recovered, but they're all insured against theft so most people don't care and just buy another car till they get a model that's harder to steal.
Starlink internet may be the catalyst for an exodus from the cities(even though many smaller cities and towns do have good enough internet). Or at least a re-examination , given that so many are working from home.
> what happened 800 years ago that all that science just vanished?

A big part of the answer is the Sack of Baghdad in 1258 by the Mongol armies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destru...

>Contemporary accounts state Mongol soldiers looted and then destroyed mosques, palaces, libraries, and hospitals. Priceless books from Baghdad's thirty-six public libraries were torn apart, the looters using their leather covers as sandals.[36] Grand buildings that had been the work of generations were burned to the ground. The House of Wisdom (the Grand Library of Baghdad), containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects ranging from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed. Claims have been made that the Tigris ran red from the blood of the scientists and philosophers killed.[37][38] Tales of the destruction of books - tossed into the Tigris such that the water turned black from the ink - seem to originate from the 14th century.[39][40]

Baghdad at the time was the religious, political, and intellectual center of Islam. You could think of it as the combined New York, Washington DC, and Silicon Valley of the Islamic world. Think what would happen to American culture if all of a sudden, those 3 were suddenly destroyed. How would that shift the balance of culture? Something very similar happened to Islam in 1258, and I would say, we are probably still seeing the fallout of that to this day.
Telegram has one.
For ones want to dive deeper into collective motion and self-propelled particles: http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5017
Not only there is little sharing, it is very focused on English.
I don't see a problem in a manager participating. But what would the manager do if backlog is handled by the PO and work load by the dev team? I think any process would break down if a manager decides to fly solo and push extra work outside the framework, for example.
I actually used an entire paragraph from _Alice in Wonderland_ once. If I did it again, I might just make it Alice in Wasteland.

How doth the little tronodile
Improve his clanking tail,
And pour the glowing hobo bile
On every stainless scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes desert rangers in
With gently smiling jaws!

Alas, your password must also contain a number, and it exceeds the maximum allowed length of 24 characters.
Given the scale of the operation that the NSA appear to be running, I would imagine that it would be in the organisation's own interest to provide 'outward trajectories' for those employees who were developing doubts about the work they did. Better that (from the NSA's point of view) than a few dozen Snowdens.

I'd imagine a transfer from highly classified work to less highly classified work, followed over time with the opportunity to work with external contractors and then perhaps move into the commercial sector.
All of my passwords are actually my last two tweets chained together. This 200 character limit is really screwing me.
I enjoyed their 10 ways you're making your employees less productive infographic. Managers must realize open offices today are distracting, increase illnesses, etc. working from home at least once a week increases my productivity by an extra day for sure. Pay me for 5 i give you 6. No brainer and my gas appreciates it.
And as for slighly offtopic comment: have you noticed how hard it is to get various road side assistance companies to actually do something useful?

Few weeks ago slightly aged tire on my not so slightly aged car not only went flat but essentially disappeared on highway (in ~150 kph). As my car was recently broken into I did't have a spare (you are not required to carry spare in Czech Republic, but you are legally required to have some way of fixing broken tires, be it spare, quick-fix-kit or road side assistance subscription). So I correctly assumed that quick-fix kit is of no use when you don't have an actual tire to fix and tried to call road side assistance company which I subscribe to that even offers help with tire replacement. They told me that they cannot do anything else than tow my car somewhere (for like an 2 EUR per km, times two, which was out of question assuming I was like 400km from home) and fix the tire in 2 business days, so I canceled my subscription and went to get spare tire by some other means. In the end my girlfriend called her parents who got me spare tire by some networking and fast talking means in like half an hour, you simply got to like rural areas and people who are always ready to help.
My email wasn't in the Gawker dump and yet both my LinkedIn accounts got emails telling me to reset the password
No, it isn't. I was talking about this earlier on a topic about java. Magic is good, it keeps the 'I don't like magic' people away.

It provides a slow introduction to noobs and introduces them to the mindset that you shouldn't have to do a lot of configuration for things to just work out of the box.

Remove the magic and pretty soon we'll start having to use factory classes. Or a web.config file. Or any of the other annoying things you have to configure to some sane value every time you start a project with any other framework.
Maybe I should have said rephrasing instead of translation...
I suspect if anyone tried to convert a significant amount of bitcoins into ordinary currency, the value would plummet.
Also, comparing the value of one "bitcoin" to one USD or EUR is meaningless.
Unfortunately the documentation on the site only describes it in this context, but thats not a limitation.
Funny you should mention childish:
http://www.fsf.org/facebook
Damn you, Photoshop (presumably the only piece of closed software some people just can't do without).
My life-long, unscientific, uncontrolled observation of the sample space shows a strong inverse correlation between heel-height and years of formal education. A crude approximation of initial results shows a curious trifurcation at 16 years:

{[0,12) => <Lucious, 8" Stilleto Pump, Lucite>

,[12-14) => <Ellie, 5" Pump, Leatherette>

,[14-16] => <Steve Madden, 3" Pumps, Leather>

,(16-]† => <Ferragamo, 4" Pumps, Italian Leather>

,(16-]†† => <Ecco, Flats, Natural Materials>

,(16-]††† => <Birkenstock,Sandal, Vegan BirkoFelt>
}

† professional school

†† graduate school, science

††† graduate school, social-science/humanities
> Proponents of the FSF desire the hegemony of free software with the same uncompromising fervor as revolutionaries in russia desired communism in 1917.

Sorry but this is not true. Stallman already said many times that he doesn't think proprietary software should be banned.
In fact the first version of the emacs license used to oblige people to redistribute their modifications even when there were no re-distribution. RMS realized that was fascist and decided to only ask for source in case of redistribution (as in the gpl later).
That was utterly pointless. As China becomes the largest economy in the world, and its standard of living continues to rise, more Chinese will be able to afford to take high speed trains.

Meanwhile, the standard of living in the US continues to drop. And there are no high speed trains for Americans to take.

Another quality propaganda piece from TWP.
Eben Moglen http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ is a more winning spokesman for the FSF these days. I hope he'll forgive me for mentioning that there's plenty of him on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eben+moglen :)
Presumably you'd run one application inside such an image and between two images you do have isolation.
Why does anyone need any product or service? Some things are essential like medical care to ensure survival, shelter, calories, water, etc. But by and large, we are in the habit of eating and using certain unnecessary items, there is no "need" for any specific food or a private jet or a gas-intensive car. A bit of Stoicism in every human would lead to a lot of useful curbing of expensive habits.
I'm a big fan of steel bikes, so don't take this the wrong way, but you cannot build a steel bike as light as a carbon one for any reasonable price or robustness. The most high end steel bikes will barely be competitive with mid-level carbon weight-wise. If you are optimizing for weight, carbon is the only way to go. However, there is more to a bike than just weight :)
> I'm not even sure when I would slot that into my day, even if I wanted to.

Personally speaking, I listen while walking, running, or driving.
IDK what it's like in quebec specifically, but a lot of my friends in Ontario would have multiple space heaters (depending on how many people were around and where they were) that they would use in the winter months for more 'localized' warmth and the HVAC was more about keeping pipes from freezing.
This is kinda where I fall on this too. Lacking a lot of background on this and going off the post alone, it doesn’t sound like the author was “ahead of his time” so much as he was in the wrong field.

The point of a game is not algorithmic sophistication, it’s fun (to simplify in the extreme). If the game isn’t fun it doesn’t matter how fancy or impressive the logic powering it is. If you want to blaze new trails in modeling and computation, games are the wrong field to do it in as any advancement will tend to be overshadowed by whether or not the game itself is a good game. Sure there are enthusiasts that will be interested in internals, but fame in the realm of games comes with great game design, not algorithmic sophistication.

It’s like an artist inventing a new shade of green and using it in his work in combination with other colors and complaining that no one acknowledges the sophisticated formulas he had to use to produce his special shade of green.
Indeed, but such things are covered by other laws. Just curious as to why peoples mind doesn't go to removing copyrighted content, instructions for how to manufacture weaponry, animal-related issues etc. but seemingly always equate "posting naughty opinions" to "posting CP".
In fairness, the Facebook app is not developed in React Native. I'd be more curious what Facebook Groups and Ads Manager are like on Android (if they even exist), since those are the touted "React Native" apps.
maps and filters are things that have existed for a long time, and are extremely commonplace. They are also very representative of common operations in programming.

Not having generics means we can't properly build these ourselves, and Go doesn't offer list comprehensions, so instead we're forced to for loop.
And that's why we have list editor.
That's much too hilarious
"In general, Apple makes quality hardware. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't be able to charge so much."

My experience of Apple hardware, from owning it myself and from seeing how it fares for those around me who also use it, is that it's pretty, but poorly designed, lacking in features, and very unreliable.

They are able to charge so much because they market it well. Also, OSX is a decent OS in comparison to Windows, for those who can't be bothered to learn Linux.
IMO, the number of imperative-style for loops I have to write in Java (pre-8) is one of the most frustrating things in the whole language, especially after exposure to Scala (and later, to Java 8).
Sure, you can fail to capture any return variable (not just errors) in lots of languages. What is available to Go that isn't in, say, C++ or Java is the "black-hole variable" marked with the underscore _ so its very much a stylistic choice to insert it in Go where errors would be returned. Applied consistently, you can gain a lot of readability. But it is very much a stylistic choice.
Dont use facebook.
Use adblock.
Done.
No, but it does say "you agree any kind of claim we make is true".
Out of interest, is this any different to WaitHandles + async delegates in .NET? Doesn't look like it to me but I could be missing something:

Func<string> reader = read;
IAsyncResult future_x = reader.BeginInvoke(null, null)
IAsyncResult future_y = reader.BeginInvoke(null, null)

WaitHandle.WaitAll(new[] { future_x.AsyncWaitHandle, future_y.AsyncWaitHandle }); // takes optional timeout

string x = reader.EndInvoke(future_x);
string y = reader.EndInvoke(future_y);

write(x + y);
I'm trying to understand Bitcoin as a store of decreased entropy. It's an interesting information-theoretical question as to how much information will eventually be captured by Bitcoin, and what this ultimately means.
That's cool. They should pay artists fairly, too.
I curious about what the legal implications of this really are. As a layman, it seems to me that US Export Control laws still exist, so if any of the technical data being discussed in the standards meetings would be considered an export before, it still will now. The change is that the liability has shifted off of the Foundation and onto the American members. If the Foundation as a whole couldn't determine its legal responsibilities, the individual members aren't going to have any more clarity. Any chilling effect of US law and policy will therefore result in US members reducing their participation, rather than members of other countries being uncertain about their ability to use the technology.

However, given that much of the early work was done by US institutions, if any US contributions were considered to be unallowable exports, that would surely include contributions that already make up foundations of the specification. This move won't undo that, and thus could result in a worst of both worlds situation where members in other countries can't make use of current standards (if they want to export to the US), and US members can't contribute to future standards.

Of course this is all assuming that RISC-V standards are actually covered by US export control laws, and that those laws will be enforced. Probably nothing would come of this either way, although the pessimist in me worries that this move itself might trigger protectionists in the US government to go looking for reasons why RISC-V technology might infringe.
> The Supreme Court dismissed the Texas lawsuit with three sentences. Three sentences!!! SCOTUS is the only venue for a state to challenge any other state.

The same Supreme Court with six conservative justices? If Trump couldn’t convince the conservative justices anywhere (let alone at the highest level) that there was widespread fraud, maybe there wasn’t.
I think it's praising the Kims.
Perhaps it was an unjust contract in the first place that trapped a 19 year old thousands of miles away from home and with an unpayable debt over their heads.
As the server seems down, here is a mirror of the content: https://clarus.github.io/coq-renaming-emails/

(this is mailing list)

Here are some other links related to the discussion:

* wiki, where anyone can add proposals: https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names

* chat: https://coq.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/237655-Miscellaneou...

* forum: https://coq.discourse.group/t/renaming-coq/1264
Perhaps this is a water filter advert:
"Using activated carbon filtration devices (like Brita filters) can help reduce TCE in drinking water"

But really, how could they possibly narrow it down to that? How can they ignore all the metals that we are injected and sprayed with as possible alternative causes?
Can someone ELI5 the vibration isolation [0] part of it? I kind of get what he's doing, but would appreciate some analogy if it makes sense to make an analogy.

[0] https://dberard.com/home-built-stm/vibration-isolation/
Shipping your friend somewhere in a crate is definitely a hack, just not a software hack.
Theyre homeless out of necessity. They tidy up because they don't want someone complaining about them so that they get harassed. The japanese mindset on homelessness is shame.
Man, I've spent too much time in this space... I can only sum it up like this -

The mind is not a joystick.

Throughput is not the measurement of a good BCI.

BCI as a term should be abolished.

Someone is going to make something so seemingly simple, but unbelievably meaningful, to rule this space.
Because cars don't suddenly appear when there is a heavy rain.
This is a deep philosophical debate: Is mathematics invented or discovered?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/great-math-mystery/
Tell that to my landlord.
Yeah we're definitely in speculation territory here so I'm wary of going too far. But I would imagine it was not a conscious attempt clean up their act and do their job with a less heavy hand. The idea that they'd suddenly decide to have a change of heart and that the first people who encountered this new, soft-touch policing happened to be right wingers - I don't buy it.
Yes, after seeing the video today of the shooting, it's clear that the Capitol police were very barely able to keep people safe. But later, when so much backup arrived, it appeared as if many people simply walked away and went home, which is baffling to me.

The video: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/08/ash...
> Why should we be worried about "benevolent AI overlords" going rogue when historically civilizations with high percentages of unfree people were extremely violent?

I think you're making a false comparison. There's at least 2 different kinds of unfree regimes, the first being monarchies and dictatorships that use force in a top-down manner to control their subjects, and the second being the system of mind control which enslaves people by feeding them simulations that convince them that they are sufficiently free and safe. The latter version of an unfree regime still benefits from creating a form of slavery, but it's slavery of the mind. Imagine a civilization comprised of figurative Uncle Toms of the system. Sex trafficking is concerning, but it's a form of slavery that can only work in the 21st century by staying underground

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your point.
> It is used to differentiate "non-combatants from combatants in a crowded situation,"

Is it typical to refer to friendly forces in a conflict as 'non-combatants'? I would describe any armed participant as a combatant, reflective tape or no.
>1. All social media platforms are required to share APIs to allow other platforms (e.g., Diaspora, Mastodon, etc.) to pull as well as post content from/to the larger platforms;

Genuinely cool idea, but how would this work from a technical perspective? And if anyone could cross-post content on any platform, wouldn't the platforms argue that it violates their right to control content on their platforms?

And what happens if you get a concerted effort across platforms to block individuals based on political/moral stances? Within 2 days (I think) Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Redit and others have suspended and/or blocked content from Trump and various Trump supporters. The ex-first lady is asking "big-tech" to take additional actions, whatever that means.
> And do we really believe that a Trump-led dictatorship would be more friendly towards dissenting views or permissive of media platforms that broadcast them?

How is this relevant? We don't have a Trump-led dictatorship in the US. And since when is "Well it's not as bad as a <insert really bad scenario>" a well thought out argument?
Petroleum and gasses should be lighter than the rock surrounding them right, so if you move those up, the rock above those layers will be moved closer to the earth's center. So I would expect that that will cause the earth to spin faster, not slower.
Wooing a client isn't so different than pursuing a romantic partner in this way. When you don't 'need' something from someone, you are easier to be around. Your personal qualities aren't being overshadowed by your agendas.
Well, they do call it a toy implementation.