jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe, maybe not, opinions vary

If staying in a cheap hotel was cool, why don't I ever hear people bragging about the low budget roadside motel they stayed in? Travelers who randomly wander in might submit to being livestreamed, if presented that option. But people who go there, specifically, are doing so for the unique experience of being livestreamed", not for the experience of paying $1. Again, just an opinion.

Also, which seems like it would generate more outrage...

(1) A hotel where people can pay to be livestreamed on youtube.

(2) A hotel for people who don't actually want to be filmed in the privacy of their hotel room, but can't afford the room otherwise.

But you are right, it shouldn't cost extra. It should be a free experience (with the option to have it promoted somehow - for a small fee ;)
Or maybe risc-v is just good enough?
Anyone freely interfering at high power would be dangerous for everyone.
For the private room loyalty program, you would have to meet a quota, x number of stays in order to make yourself worthwhile to the hotel for them to forego selling you to voyeurs.
Cute, but now they can’t use their cookies to track you around the web because on every site their page has a different domain name. So this is actually an improvement.
If what my cousin told me of driving in South Africa still holds from back when he went there to get his master's degree, I dont think I could blame anyone for being more comfortable not driving.
Roman emperor Caligula supposedly appointed his horse as a consul.
7-figures per-year with annual returns of about 100% (not including the capital they use on margin), which is fairly typical for a proprietary short-term strategy
I think it mostly comes down to price (at least for me). They will always have to be cheaper than big cloud providers to stay competitive.
Agreed, but that doesn't mean that an autonomous aircraft will be cheap simply because it lacks a pilot. The cost for a Global Hawk is north of $250M, and it sure isn't a fighter bomber.
CPI is probably near CPI the problem is that CPI does not actually measure inflation felt by the average American. The basket of goods is not reflective of actual allocation.

Because of that the CPI value is significant lower than actual inflation
Dream on one can. But sorry mate reality bite.
If you can't both give up time to care for the baby 50% of the time (as opposed to one giving up all the time for 100% of the care, which definitely is backwards) then you have to realistically consider whether or not you should argue online that this is peak parenting. If you don't have time for your children, don't have them.
Probably not the best for my usecase? What sublime properties of optimal media players have I been missing out on by using exclusively VLC for more than a decade?
"Your language, that was made in c/c++..."

What's funny is that C was initially written in B, and C smoked the living hell out of that language. As it turns out, the speed of compiled code and the running time performance of compilation is two drastically different things.

If C++ was a runtime language it would be slower than a checkout line at Walmart filled with grandma's trying to get in the last bit of Christmas shopping after all of them had just found out their kids are finally going to come out and bring their grand babies to visit for the first time after all these years.

In other words, the way you measure speed and the way I measure speed are to different things. If you had to account for the time it took to grow food back in the old days when accounting for how long it takes you to make dinner, you could say that standing behind a line of grandmas is way quicker.

But both realities are not only mutually exclusive but if you were to ask me; one of those two situations is more gratifying and the other is absolutely aggravating.

Waiting on C++ to compile feels like waiting on a line of grandmas at walmart just so I can get something to eat.
At some level I feel that more screens become less ergonomic.
That’s what the article reminded me of and Archon was one of my absolute favorite games on Commodore 64. Complete masterpiece!
There are many ways to do IPC on a unix system. Dbus is a reinvention of IPC in the worst possible way. It requires a daemon to run and it requires every client to be able to parse and generate JSON. The worst thing is that those JSON packets are not even human readable most of the time. Protocols that are running on top of that are also not standardized. If you are lucky KDE and GNOME agree on something. Many times they don't.
> Stop this evangelist wars, your language can be great due to some other features (ease of use, knowlidge needed to be proficient in it, forgiveness of mistakes,..), you dont need to compare it to c/c++. It just doesnt make any sense.

What if the purpose of the language is exactly to be faster than reasonably written C? Then a comparison makes sense.

Also, I have written a language that is "faster than C" in a certain naive sense, and it was not written in C. It does generate C, but not the kind of C sane humans like to write.

That does not mean those wc comparisons are indicative of real performance, though. They are just meant as provocative ways to get attention.
TLDs,a solution to a problem nobody has.

It's just a programmers solution to a programmers problem.

The only reason .com even matters is because it got ingrained in people's minds early on.

You could drop all TLDs tomorrow and nobody would care.
I think you've misunderstood the nature of the attack. It's not Baidu or any other site that's being redirected to Github. A Baidu analytics javascript file is being replaced with a malicious file which loads Github via an AJAX call. It's not requests for JS from Github, nor is it an actual person looking at Github.
Better comparison would be easements. Utility companies can dig up your hard because the city has granted them an easement. Some properties are land locked by other private properties so there is easement for access. Go anywhere in rural America and these easements are quite common. Granting easements for passage to a public resource follows the same principles.
Bias maybe unavoidable, but trustworthy is an earned personal attribute. Context doesn’t affect it.

Some people have integrity and have earned their credibility. This exact kind of situation is when that matters.
How much space is going unused? I vaguely remember something back in 2013 about nonprofit groups having a small window to apply for community FM radio stations. But I assume there hasn't been a window since then.

Is that because there's no availability left anymore? Because radio stations don't want competition? Because it'd take an act of Congress and Congress isn't doing anything anytime soon? I genuinely have no idea.

I'd be more or less sympathetic to pirate radio based on the fairness of the legal avenues available. (And clearly I don't know much about those processes.)
Netflix's competitors are willing to burn short term money to try to make inroads, so the market is already distorted here.
The problem of unqualified freedom of speech is that it amounts to freedom to lie without consequence for those that have power. And once you can lie with impunity, you have a mechanism to consolidate that power, either by disrupting those hostile to you (fake news, astroturfing, etc) or by providing support to those that support your goals.
The trigger can be really complicated, though, complicated enough to merit the nontriviality threshold of copyrightability. If anything, Wolfram and the Alpha user should be coauthors, but Wolfram doesn't seem to think anyone else has thoughts complex enough to meet the coauthorship threshold.
I don't think this negates the parent's concern.

The parent uses an extreme example, but I think the underlying concern is: what assumptions get baked in when we assume the available environments are pretty normal?

Our modern environments are very abnormal compared to human environments for most of human genetic history. We can measure traits of statistically "normal" humans living in statistically "normal" environments and still ultimately be sampling in a weird corner of the possibility space.
So do many philosophical systems. They've been shot down many times before as irrelevant. Because Nietzsche is popular with certain vocal minorities on HN who are eager to make him look more credible than he has ever actually been on this topic is the only reason it's gotten this far, whereas other philosophical frameworks that have been floated here have been moderated away as immaterial.

And behold, the mods seem to have agreed to remove this from the front page. So at least we are being consistent.

> language games over gender

Don't think I didn't catch this, lil NRx buddy.
People are different. Some can't handle the light. Some can't see as well in the dark.

As one of the former, I find I am also very sensitive to light at night. Seeing a bright light within an hour or two of bedtime will push the point when I fall asleep back significantly.
> Dark Mode looks more like a terminal and signals "I'm a real big-boy hackerman" or something.

I suspect this is a big part of it. The interesting thing is, terminal emulators flipped to light backgrounds when it became practical (for instance, see the Solaris X11 one, or, later, Apple's one). The reversion to white on dark was a later thing.

I'm inclined to blame Microsoft; their Windows terminal emulator never went dark on light (though, interestingly, their bundled telnet and modem clients did). I think they were afraid of breaking DOS software that made assumptions about the black background.
I find it hard to accept that airlines are intentionally making their seats smaller with the primary reason to get people to pay more fees. It's much more likely they're trying to extract more profit on packed flights.

Also, claiming that making seating a slow process to get people to pay more fees is also suspect. The airlines are motivated to have on time departures because it makes it easier to turn the plane around. Also, the airlines have tried other mechanisms that are faster, but passengers rebel. For example, seating people by seat position (window, middle, aisle) doesn't make sense for people travelling with children or otherwise high-maintanence passengers.

Personally, I think the new model is great. The airline still gets your physical body where you need to go, and if you want nicer things, you pay for them. I find the behavior of other fliers affects the quality of my flights more than the airline.
You'd be surprised. I use JS-blocking on a blacklist basis, but previously I was using a JS whitelist: the first week or two was a little annoying as I remembered the ~dozen sites I use that required JS for their use. After that though, the vast majority of the one-off sites that I'd visit were content (like articles etc), and for those the actual desirable content is usually completely visible without JS (and everything loaded a heeeell of a lot quicker). Maybe once a month I'd come across a site that did something stupid like load the article text through JS, and if I felt like it it's quick couple of clicks on the Chrome URL bar to whitelist the domain for JS.
Back in the mid-1980's I worked for a couple of seasons aboard a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, dredging for oysters in the last fleet of working wooden sailing vessels in the U.S. At one point I asked the skipper if I could spend a day aboard as photographer rather than crew, and he graciously agreed. A fill-in took my spot on deck while I wandered around with my Pentax. The resulting pictures were developed and put in a box, and I promptly forgot them for 28 years. I stumbled upon them recently and decided to scan and upload them as a photographic record of a way of life that is pretty much gone. Those of you with an interest in history or traditional wooden boats may enjoy the photos.
It's a very good point you make and many have already made great comments in reply. But as a physician who strives to prevent errors, I will throw in my two cents:

The culture is changing. The youngest physicians are working more reasonable hours and spending more time learning about errors in medicine and being collaborative in preventing them. I can personally say that I have seen techs, nurses, medical students and even other physicians prevent a potential error by simply asking a question. Of course, ego can still get in the way... but that's when your tact can help. Something as simple as, "what if we did this instead?" or "did you mean to order this?" can make it easy for a person to admit their mistake and move on.

I encourage you to read one of Atul Gawande's books for a very approachable treatment of the topic. This is the emerging culture in Medicine.
How would I get the domain name from which the request originates? Referrer info can be easily spoofed on HTTP, and HTTPS does not forward referrer information at all.

Without being able to verify that the request is originating from the domain that is specified in the hash, it is still susceptible to the same attack. The hash, challenge and token are all still available client-side.

Basically the hash might say that it is from abc.com, but it could really be from any domain. So yes while the token might match the hash, if both the token and hash are copied it does not help.
Any amount of material can be moved any distance with an infinitesimal amount of force, given enough time... or maybe I'm missing something.
Personally, I find the UI very, very appealing. But will not purchase a WP7 phone until a proper browser becomes available, even Opera Mini will suffice.

On a related note, how come all the mobile JS frameworks neglect Opera?
If you consider Photoshop your main competitor, I think you need to do significant customer development; this seems to me a very wrong strategic framing of your product. There are many competitors that would be more appropriate to think about - off the top of my head, Axure and Balsamiq come to mind - and I think examining how they do things would give you a much better idea of how to create a business around your tools.
Is Comic Sans really easier to read for dyslexics, or am I missing an obvious joke?
I think that is to prevent money laundering.

How about a special mention for non-US contestants.
Correction, I didn't design it -- I created orderable inlines and foreignkey autocomplete and got jQuery in. But thanks for the kind words.
I'd say the 1500s belonged to the Spanish, who lost it big, very big, and the French came soon afterward to fill the gap, until Berezina and Waterloo. I was very surprised when I first found that around 1800 France had a population of ~29 million while England only had ~8 million.
The railway from Beijing via Xining to Lhasa in Tibet passes over the Tanggula Pass at 5,072 m (16,640 feet) above sea level (apparently the world's highest point on a railway) before dropping you at Lhasa at 3,490 m (11,975 feet) [1].

It takes two days at around 100 to 120 km/h over 675 bridges, though some recommend [2] that you spend a day or so in Xining on the way to acclimatise to the altitude.

Every train carries a doctor and oxygen to increase the concentration of oxygen in the carriages from 21% to 25% (but no pressurisation), plus a separate oxygen supply for each passenger.

I'm not a fan of China, but its rail network is something to behold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai–Tibet_railway

[2] https://www.yowangdu.com/tibet-travel/tibet-train.html
I find it a bit odd that Doctorow talks about the technology of oppression yet lately he's been using his own substantial voice to claim people who don't think Epstein killed himself are "conspiracy theorists":

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/malice-vs-incompetence.htm...

From his article:

> The point isn't that it's inconceivable that Epstein died as the result of a conspiracy, but the conspiracy theories that say that it has to be a setup because it's so implausible that prison authorities would be so totally useless are thoroughly disconnected from reality.

That's a complete strawman of what people are saying. No one thinks it's inconceivable that the prison system is incompetent. They do think the highest profile prisoner on the planet with ties to the most powerful people on the planet killing himself in a prison that hasn't had a suicide in 21 years looks like a conspiracy. I agree.

That seems very much like siding with the establishment to me.
> Could a community of hobbyists who share the same obsession make progress?

That's a very good point and worthy of its own essay. I'm thinking of how even though there are more scientists working than ever, breakthroughs are still rare.

Maybe combining Paul's idea with the idea of bringing such people together via forums/communities would accelerate progress? (And no, I don't think academic labs count). Ah, maybe something like the Polymath Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project
Rewriting your language, like any other piece of software, is a great way to lose your market position: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
The former NSA lawyer sort of has a point, but he is over simplifying in order to mislead.

The first option is to use provably broken cryptography, like 512-bit export grade RSA, that the government can just bust whenever they feel like it. Of course, so can pretty much anyone else, so this offers almost no protection.

The second option is to use secure cryptography, like 2048-bit RSA, that is thought to be difficult to bust in any reasonable timeframe. However, the government can compel you to hand over your private key, and they can then use that to decrypt whatever they want. An attacker could also steal the key and do the same thing.

The third option, which is what companies have begun to realize is the only method with actual security from criminals AND the government, is to transmit data without using a private key that they control. A good example is iMessage's use of device keys for parties of a conversation, without the use of a central key that lives on Apple's servers. They cannot be compelled to turn over the master key, and no one can steal the key either. If they have done their job correctly, there is no way to compromise the data that doesn't include obtaining someone's phone. This third option is what the ex-NSA lawyer doesn't even want to include in the conversation, even though it is what everyone is up in arms about right now.

It's also worth stating that this does not offer some new revelation in privacy. If I had sent you a letter in 1885, someone would have to actually GET the letter to read it and know what I told you. A system like iMessage functions in the same way: to know what I wrote you, you have to obtain one of our phones. The NSA is just sad that they can no longer pluck the message from the air.

One final note: there are so many methods of communication on the Internet, and more launch every month, that I can't imagine how they could all be monitored. Terrorists could be communicating with voice chat on Everquest 2. They could be arranging plants in their Farmville gardens to spell out coded messages. It's an arms race, and I don't want my freedoms compromised by governments trying to win it.
This is exactly how pop music today is made. It's all the same generic formula.

Why change a winning formula?
In England we have defense facilities disguised as farmhouses. We don't have land-based missiles but this [0] is/was a government bunker from which launch orders could be given. I wondered if you meant idiotic in the sense of unrealistic for America, or as a bad idea tactically?

[0]http://www.secretnuclearbunker.com/
The slope is equal to one, i.e., "100% of the incoming connections result in a request being successfully handled".

This is a dumb way to graph performance -- usually people look at either (parallel requests, requests per second) or (requests per second, request latency) -- but he seems to have done it correctly.
On T-Mobile: A merger with Sprint-Nextel has been mentioned several times. The combined company would have a customer base about the same size as AT&T or Verizon

After the difficulties of merging with Nextel (competing corporate cultures and different networks), I doubt Sprint would be eager to see history repeat itself. To have to run possibly 5 different networks (CDMA, GSM, iDEN, 4G/WiMAX, LTE) would be too much to handle.
> Prior to the failure, we had been seeing some anomalous behaviour from the A server in this pair. The machine had been taken offline and memory tests performed, but no issue was found.

Presumably the anomalous behavior was disk-related and yet they only test memory.

Why not check SMART status? Or if the RAID driver doesn't support SMART passthrough; move the drives to the SATA controller and boot off of a flash drive.

Also, there are tools to generate lots of i/o and test for failures, i.e.:

http://www.peereboom.us/iogen/
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tcptacek is correct: there is some need for government action here ahead of a crisis. The internet, while doing vastly more good than harm, has also created systemic risks which need to be proactively managed. Waiting for a catastrophe is howling mad.

I'm much more concerned with how "emergency" is defined. Ideally I'd like to see both executive and judicial involvement in mucking around with the net, since in addition to defending the nation under attack you are also effectively constraining hundreds of millions of people's civil rights in various ways at the same time. That's a little too much power for one schmuck and anything that might be called an emergency.
The fusion candle idea is neat. It's entertaining because it resembles the thinking behind real engineering. Most of the items from the article are like, "Gee whiz, let's spend about 2 seconds applying knowledge from a 2 second skim of a bunch of Wikipedia entries. Golly, look at the big numbers!"
Prompted me to run a quick version over our weblogs. You rapidly end up with big black splodges if you squish the time axis. I overcame this by multiplying the pixel colour by 0.8 for each hit to get a heatmap-style image.

Example images (first one on simple db hits; second one shows both fragment cached and non-cached page generation): http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7290/logdots2.png and http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4869/logdots1.png (DOS at around 6pm)

Takes around 2 mins on a pentium D (!) to generate both graphs from a single webserver's daily log, approx 1.3M log lines. I thought it would take much longer given the read/set requirement for each dot, so I'm pleasantly surprised.
I would suggest starting with language such as MIT Media Labs Scratch.
Which is a great resource, it is also an active project with web based ide.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
He is complete ass when he talks bullshit about MIT Media Lab without knowing about their current efforts.
The OP is an complete idiot lost in nostalgia, is he nicholas carr??
That wasn't the rationale. Diplomatic cables are classified for many reasons, and it's completely legitimate.
I doubt there's any chance of that, I outlined the reasons here, in response to someone who noted they budget 150 rounds per year for practice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187591
Thankfully they changed the name, in Germany it would be quite impossible to use it in any public discussion, as Der Puff is a special kind of boys club.
I was concerned about the missing KEYS entry, too.

I believe the script would fail if the two keys were on different machines, assuming both key names were provided as KEYS, though the {} syntax should have avoided that. By generating the key name in a Lua script it forces the two related keys to be on the same machine.

At the end of the day, calculating the server client side isn't necessarily messy. Surely the Lua script deserves a warning about the key name being generated within the script.

I think the ideal script would use two keys, the first being like `foo-{1234}`, and the second `foo-{1234}:exp`, with both key names being provided via KEYS. Then the native Redis clustering should work.