jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I know that the word "everyone" is now often used to mean "the vast majority of people", but I'm not even sure that the vast majority of people would have voted for reducing civil liberties in the aftermath of 9/11, had they been given a vote. The mainstream media did a good job of manufacturing the illusion of consent, but that does not mean that actual consent would have been given had it been asked for. For example, I often read people say thay the 2003 Iraq War was overwhelmingly supported by the US population, whereas polls from the time show that it was not even supported by a majority of poll responders.
A redeeming factor, at least in software for Medical Devices, is that the FDA recognizes that Use Error is a "thing" and that manufacturers must be aware of ways that an operator may be confused and misuse the product and provide mitigations for them (RTFM is considered an absolute last resort).

We're not allowed to just blame it on the luser and get away with it any more, and that's a Good Thing.
>Riding an ebike in 39c is uncomfortable but not unthinkable.

Exactly. Before 1950s 90% of the people walked, rode bikes, horses, etc in all of these places, everyday, everywhere.

Billions still do all over the world in similar climates.

It's not like we need cushions, air conditioning, and so on, to go from one place to another in the summer heat.
The STM32MP1 seems a bit underpowered though with a a couple of A7s, an in-order 32 bit core ARM put out in 2011
The Chinese government is not actually a market. It is a regulator and possibly a customer.
Or maybe they assume that an American tech web site, populated by mostly American residents of one shape or another will be comfortable with F.
Yes, +1 for AirVPN and their client Eddie which is in complete rewrite mode now, so we can expect awesome things. :)
This is why I'm super irritated Microsoft dropped EPUB support in Edge when switching to Chromium, and why it's so frustrating that EPUB support isn't common by default in operating systems: It's literally just HTML/CSS in an opinionated structure. EPUB should be as ubiquitously supported as PDF is today, no browser has an excuse for not supporting it.
This is why Hacker News is a big joke among real tech leaders. Literally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LOLHackerNews/
> You can already do many things with crypto that you cannot do with the traditional banking system

OP meant legal things.
> I'm relatively new to Javascript. I've been bitten by both of these recently. I wasted an hour where I added a third argument to a function but missed a place elsewhere that was sending only two parameters. That makes it harder to change your code.

How? Sure, if you make a breaking change it requires you to hunt down all callers, but JavaScript’s dynamic nature does that anyway.

It makes a lot of things easier, too, though it's not without gotchas (the most frequently encountered, IME, one being functions that you normally only use a subset of the arguments combining with functions which take callbacks where you normally use only a subset of the passed arguments interacting in surprising ways; the sibling comment on the map/parseInt combo being a good example.)
Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.
I'm pretty sure you don't need a question mark.

reMarkable is a small company that is now shipping their second device. Apple has shipped iPads for 11 years, even if they updated the hardware at every step, they still can rely on a well established supply chain.

It feels off-putting to see people get into this entitled mindset that requires that small companies price their products in the same low ranges as well established ones can afford to - either through unethical production practices, or, like you mentioned, economy of scale - or they're not worth it.

PS. Sorry to rant at OP in your replies.
> You go to some cryptocurrency hangout, pay some stranger a hundred bucks in cash and they transfer a hundred bucks in Bitcoin to your wallet. You go pay for a VPN with it. Then everybody can see that A transferred money to B and B transferred money to C, but nobody knows that you're B and those are the only transactions for that wallet.

Essentially you have to create a brand-new, single-use wallet for every transaction, am I wrong?
Have you heard about George Church's idea?

He says it's possible to modify the dna of cyanobacteria so that they become immune to their natural predator: the cyanophage.

Apparently cyanobacteria consume an incredible amount of CO2 every year, but then right away release it again after the cyanophage kills them.

Seems like a potentially workable idea, but I have not heard him give the details anywhere.

He is at MIT & so are some of you guys... go talk with him! Maybe it could be used inside your towers as a way to more efficiently capture the co2?

Thanks for doing what you all are doing btw. We desperately need a solution.
You have to bring all of those same things to a Nomad deployment as well. It’s generally more lightweight than Kubernetes, so it might be easier to wire those other components in, but you do still need to do that work either way.
It's difficult to get the point across on the Internet, but lrossi's statement is just nonsense. std::jthread has not introduced any new risks with respect to locking.
drink wall st. ESG kool-aid if you want, i have seen diamond merchants in ESG ETF componens. go figure.

your electric cars as well combustin engine cars use lot of energy worse than Bitcoin. oh cars get you from point a to point b. guess what, Bitcoin gets your value from point a to point b more efficiently than anything else out there yet and it maintains so keeping it as the hardest money known to humans

gold mining, banking services use lot of energy

you playing xbox or publishing dumb articles on an ad-tech trojan horse also takes energy

learn and adapt , else get extinct
Surely it does - I'm not claiming there would be zero effect. But I find the idea that it would kill VC investment just ridiculous.
I just run Windows as a host, then start VMware in exclusive mode.
If it made over $1b in a year previously, and had such insane load times, its very plausible this bad coding has cost them north of another $1b.

Probably ranks pretty highly up there in terms of damage to company financials, due to a lack of care.
It's great to see more legal materials online, but this is not well done. It does not contain dates that would allow you to determine if it is up to date, and it does not contain committee notes that help interpret the rules. See law.cornell.edu[1] for an example of a great way to make law accessible.

[1] Ex: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre
You make too much sense for the run of the mill liberal.
This actually made me angry. The "humor" is based on pointing out the denseness of programming instruction in audio format, as if to say, "This is so hard, who would be stupid enough to think that this is a good idea?!?"

I have a blind friend who is a programmer who LISTENS to source code in order to program. We are both in the same Computer Science PhD program at a well known US University.

This video insinuates that programming is so complex that only "normal" people can do it, and that is offensive.

And, for the record, I do not use Swift, but I could understand exactly what was being described. This video is insulting.
Zoe can't decide that other people don't put her works on YT. And ContentID, which is a way to deal with that situations, seems to come with some interesting additional terms now.
And the Manterrupting.
And that fix in the latest beta. So it is coming.
As someone that has lived in both the UK and France, I have to say the French medical service is several levels above the UK NHS.

Even during the pandemic I had excellent care. Compared to a friend of mine that had gallstones and was in terrible pain and was told the wait would be a year. He ended up paying to go private as he was in such pain. Had his gall bladder removed.

I had a few health issues myself over the past two years. I never had an issue getting a same day doctors appointment, never had to wait more than 5 days for a scan (MRIs) and no more than two weeks for a procedure (gastroscopy under GA).

Really opened my eyes to how bad things are with the NHS right now :(

Of course the French system is not perfect, claiming so would be stupid. But when all of my friends and family back in the UK complain about getting GP appointments or month long waits for scans I can't help but think they're doing something very wrong when France has a similar population size, GDP, etc. and my experience has never been anywhere near as difficult or slow as in the UK.

Even before the pandemic getting an appointment with my doctor in the UK was a pain. So much so I had sort of conditioned myself into avoiding do so unless it was something important so I avoided it the same in France when I first moved here. But seeing how functional the system is it really changed my attitude towards visiting my doctor. I am far more proactive now getting anything that hangs around more than a week checked out without question.
US have already pressured Swiss to remove bank secrecy, which is kinda a big deal.
duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21636583
The 433Mhz band is quite interesting - key fobs, garage door openers, and other cheap and cheerful "wireless" technologies often work on this band. Part of the fun is finding out what! Tune your SDR and go hunting...
> Nobody was fired, supposedly, in relation to that demonstration.

According to Google, but the workers are claiming otherwise.

> but it’s quite possible that they had that day off.

Indeed. In fact, with Google's flextime policy, can't they simply choose to have that day off?
Switzerland has been a tech hub for a very long time.
Encrypting something is security by obscurity: the password are hidden, why wouldn't the url be hidden as well, the same way they are for every other password manager?
Ethan Zuckerman, you are the one!
Disingenuous. That's not the only argument that is being presented.
> Are the other popular submissions here, on programming languages, the internet, entrepeneurship and what have you of similar low quality, but I just don't have the experience in those fields to realize it?

Yes, absolutely. There's some niche topics that I happen to know a lot about, and the top stories and comments tend to be very superficial and/or plain wrong.

On the other hand, there's usually someone around to call out the inaccuracies :)
Looks like Turkey/Azerbaijan have made their homework regarding online propaganda.
Or perhaps that the pressures against legible expertise are worse in the US?
> I'm hoping someone can succinctly explain the hate for the NYT.

In the past week these were enough for me to consider the NYT is done, it's rotten to the core (150 staff signed a letter against Donald McNeil) -

Taylor Lorenz

Donald McNeil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128752

This article/rant is wrong about what the issues are. I assume the upvotes are the Soylent connection, the headline and an attempt at a solution (ghost.org)
If that is indeed their conclusion then yes, it should say that, perhaps in a somewhat less biased phrasing. In a similar vein, the Reuters title might be called "US government with extremely poor transparency track record raises deep self-serving hypocritical concerns over international report that doesn't paint US enemy in a bad enough light".
Stock purchases are settled after 2 days. If the buyer goes broke before that, the seller would be left holding to bag. To mitigate this risk you need to post collateral.
Wrong.

The quoted part of the standard doesn’t talk about sizeof(char). Sizeof returns the size of its operand in char-sized units, therefore sizeof(char) is tautologically 1.
Proving innocence?
So that's where we are again?
I thought an achievement of modern times was the concept that you have to prove guilt not innocence.
Your bank is using a bad SMS service provider. With a SS7 uplink (versus a cheap SMPP connection), it should arrive within seconds, with a delivery report for the sender, if desired.
I've been wanting to do this for a while now.

Surprisingly, if you look at the date of the post, it was originally written on April 23rd, 2010, a few weeks after the iPad was released.
or that in LISP every DSL still looks like LISP

<bait>When your language is already at the top of the beauty chart, why would you write a DSL that is not also beautiful?</bait>

It is really a programmer choice. Lisp programmers generally love the way Lisp looks because of the advantages awarded by those looks (check Myth #7 here: http://www.algo.be/cl/myths.htm). But you can certainly create a DSL that requires more extensive string parsing, and CL provides a lot of help towards that end, including native translations of strings to Lisp objects where your parser needs them.
While I wouldn't claim this is a reliable source, you could check out Dave Emory on Assange (http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-724-wiki-of-the-d... and http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-725-leak-this-wik...). Emory tries to connect Assange, the Swedish Pirate Party, a Nazi conspiracy, western intelligence agencies, and an Australian brainwashing cult of bleach-blond children. He also points to an interestingly dyspeptic cnet interview "Wikileaks' estranged co-founder becomes a critic" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20011106-281.html) with the founder of cryptome.org who (news to me) helped cofound Wikileaks.
Well, Google uses algorithms to rank websites; the retailers unprofessional practices are gaming Google's algorithms by increasing the number of inbound links pointing to their site, which increases their page rank on a search return on Google and increases traffic.
And yet, he is still a top search result somehow. I wonder if other forums are not being as dilligent with rel=nofollow, other legit factors are helping his ranking, or if it's all seo.
I applaud the use of rel="nofollow". The New York Times article seemed to blame both Get Satisfaction and Google, at least in the beginning, and that's ridiculous.
Another web3/cripto rubbish. Remove one walled garden for another thing even worse
Main points from http://www.apple.com/macbook/:

* Dimensions
* Keyboard size
* Screen resolution
* Trackpad features
* Wireless capabilities
* No fan
* Battery design and battery life
* Operating system
* Apps
...

Seems like a bunch of features to me.

Can't view Apple's videos since I don't have Quicktime, so I can't compare there.

Edit: Apple's page is prettier than Microsoft's.
Aha, you're right! Same behavior for me.
you might have an AWS account but not necessarily to run a web app, cause you're in the "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis".

The latter becomes more attractive now, and once you have learned to use AWS's X tech to run $SILLY_SERVICE you might end up using it for $SERIOUS_SERVICE.
For me the real benefit of college was being put with others into the same class, the access to research labs, the face to face interactions with professors, and the access to face to face academic focused student organizations. (Honestly I should've done far more on the networking side of things.)

Those are not going to be easy to replace, but there should be a compromise where you can get these things without the greek life and less 'sports first and foremost' culture and with a massively reduced cost. MOOCs can definitely plan into this and even replace a lot of it for self starters, but I do think I would have been worse off without the social aspects of my university years.
Wondering if it's not a rebranding: with Windows 10 running on raspberry pi, what's the catch ? Are they simply abandoning the 9+inch tablet ARM devices?
Exactly my thought.

I went to their website, tried to find non-trivial calculations and I couldn't find any. I really don't know why there is even a question of whether to raise funding or not.
DoD members get screwed as well, as seen in several high profile instances, but you can't just point to a couple cases and think that indicates a trend. I'm sure surveys of large tech companies and the DoD would show that professionals choose their current employer because they're treated well. We have enough mobility in this country that large scale mistreatment would be met with mass exodus and ultimate failure of the employer.
If it becomes too much work for a single person then you just find a second person. When that becomes too much you can find an entire team of people, all contacted by a single email address. This is how customer support is done.

Everybody is more satisfied this way, users get quick feedback that their problem is being looked at, developers get enough information put into the bug tracker to be useful in fixing the issue and the number of useless bugs to wade through goes down immensely.
Doesn't seem to work with Pioneer's AppRadio or with Apple's Carplay.

Being able to display on the vehicle head-unit is a killer feature for me on a GPS app, so I'll be sticking with Waze for now.
Look, I'm all for weird stuff, but when a site features ads that read "FACT: Cancer is a Fungus, It Can Be Prevented" and two "X banned/hate this video"... hmm, how about no?
I'll toss a link to this article along similar lines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/nyregion/order-that-police...
JavaScript + CSS. Initially the image has position: absolute; and then once you scroll down a bit it's changed to position: fixed; which fixes the element relative to the view port.
You get used to it after awhile, believe me. I've been living like that for the past 4 years. There are times that it hits you and you want to change the way you live, but then you forget all about it until you think about it again.
Yes, but Silicon Valley's mistake (not necessarily PG's mistake) is thinking that what will kill Hollywood is technology. It isn't. What will kill Hollywood is the marriage of technology and the new content creation and distribution models that the technology enables. Curran's point is just that cute cat videos will only get you so far. It's what comes after that that no one seems to have figured out yet. The current approach is desperate attempts to access or reproduce Hollywood's content, and that surely won't work.
> The only thing that matters about your coworkers––the only thing––is if, after the year's over or the project's done, you'd work with them again.

I'd agree that's an important aspect, even a very important aspect, but hardly all that matters.

I could work with 10 of the nicest people on the planet, but if we all like each other & don't accomplish anything, is that really, well, good for the company?

Then again, that does explain most board of directors.
Except that bandwidth is not actually free. Setting up on a high quality network of mirror servers around the world is usually ~$50 per TB (on something like MaxCDN that we use) but more like $100+ per TB on something like Akamai. That's buying commercial bandwidth on server networks. I mention that as SourceForge has a worldwide network of servers they get from all sorts of companies in exchange for advertising and that we can use for free.

We could setup on something like an unmetered host. We'd lose the worldwide network and geographic closeness of the servers to the downloaders, of course. You can get a 1gbps dedicated unmetered connection for around $800+ a month (not including the actual server) at several providers. A 100mbps dedicated unmetered would not be sufficient for PortableApps.com as it would only total 20TB a month used fulltime (of the theoretical ~32GB max it could push if you discount overhead, etc).
I think that being alone and loneliness is two different things. One can be alone without feeling loneliness, the same way, one can feel loneliness while being surrounded by people [other people mentioned the quality and health of relationships]. When one feels that the Sisyphean task is easier because other people go trough it is comforting. But I think what would make this experience easier is, being aware that it is more absurd to end it. One may put oneself in the crowd to feel the warmth, or one can worm one’s mind and stand for what one believes.
Dunno that is the case… Kinda implies it will replace SQL when in fact most people involved realize it's meant to coexist with SQL.
Plus, some of the non-relational paradigms actually predate the relational paradigm.
He's a national treasure.
I love whiteboards, they are much better than paper: more space, nice colors, easy to see, very easy to collaborate on, simple redos. That's actually the biggest thing I miss from going into the office: nice huge whiteboards that cover the whole wall, not the little dinky ones that office depot sells for exorbitant prices.

I found a solution though: Lowe's sells a 4'x8' sheet of whiteboard for fifteen bucks, now I have my whiteboard covered wall in my home office so I'm happy again.
> There's no need to have collective worship. No religion stipulates this as a requirement. Collective worship is only important with regards to collecting money from a congregation.

This is not true in Islam (the religion of my home country) nor in Christianity. Worship within a community is a critical aspect to the practice of both of those religions. It's necessary for supporting each other, socializing children, etc.
That's not the big challenge. Upzoning and higher density increases the value of the land. That's why developers want to do it in the first place. Cashing out when someone wants to buy up your neighborhood's land, and getting something nicer somewhere else, would be the purely-financial play.

The big challenge is that people chose to live in a certain place because it had certain features. And people don't want to have to move constantly. So folks pushing to change the nature of the areas will always cause opposition ("why do we have to leave or change, why can't they go somewhere else?").
We live in Northern California. We bought this house at the bottom of the 2008 crash. Our gains are considerably more than the exclusion limit. (One of the many stupid things about the tax code is that the exclusion limit is not indexed to time.)
Twitter already cloned Clubhouse last week: https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-twitter-spaces-b57b6...
Let's assume the US and China are the only states the WHO, a UN Org could extract useful information from based on this write up of the lab theory:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...

Note, these nations are listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Note Lord Acton (also from a state listed there) states the meaning of that list in the context of the UN system:

“All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Now, what has the WHO done wrong vs what is outside the abilities of any part of the UN to address?

I will summarize my very simple position again:

The WHO did a good write-up, if you want to look beyond what a UN organization is allowed to do then do your own inference.

You seem to be implying the WHO should do something else that is consistent with its position and the fact that choices by China and the US are beyond its control. Maybe you can elaborate on what that is?

If you are suggesting a reform to allow a UN organization to force these nations to not be a global threat in every area, including health, then I'm happy to hear it.
Disagree. Bitcoin forked into other tokens, but the original token's guarantees have not changed. The other tokens are free to function independently of one another but there was never a guarantee (by the protocol or agreement) that Bitcoin would be the only token in existence.

Your profit was actually made possible by others adopting these other tokens which is entirely external to Bitcoin's protocol or community's desires. And as we've seen with some Bitcoin spinoffs, forking does not guarantee profit.