jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> In future, the firm said it would also look at accounts where people have logged in but don't "do anything" on the platform.

Yes, Twitter is going to purge a lot of accounts, the same accounts Twitter boasted about having pre IPO in order to fake growth.
What you said is true, but they will free up old usernames

FTA- "previously unavailable usernames will start coming up for grabs after the 11 December cut-off"
Fair enough. The deep pocketed corporations do still get preference over little people though, even if Big Daddy Government gets his slice first.
I'm with you - in a way, goodness, sure looks like they're getting a lot of attention, but like others -- "until I hit the comments on hacker news", I thought it was satire[0].

[0] Actually, I thought it was clever advertising by Atlassian -- and I actually started feeling cynical about the whole thing (I'm not a huge fan of their products but theirs are among the tools we use where I work).
No, I give you a dataset. You make transformations on that dataset and you try to sell it. I say — "hey, I own your underlying data, so I should have ownership of your transformed data, and thus the proceeds of your sale."
Put any other name on this other than Tesla and it would have been laughed off stage (try the thought experiment). The Tesla name on it makes all the difference as you do look at it through different eyes, the eyes that says fuck the current norm and the horse it rode in on.

I will never buy one, but its no uglier than any other big old truck, anyone who can see beauty in a truck, any truck, has too much testosterone for their own good IMHO.

Maybe TopGear can re-do the destruction test they went through with the Toyota HiLux to see how it really holds up to the competition. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk)
I thought this was a parody on our current landscape ... then I realized it's a real product?
Eisegesis Alert!!

A more suitable bible text would be Romans 13:1-3, which makes it clear that everyone is subject to governing authorities.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
It's adding a load of unnecessary tools and services to address a relatively simple process.

People forget how simple the web can be.
As a small business owner you are probably going to have to take loans to get you through the next 6-months. If economic activity doesn't come back whatever you borrowed against is going to be seized by the bank. So most likely we see foreclosures. I hate being bearish but Friday's close was ridiculous and shows we have room for a downside move in the markets. It really appears that there is nothing the government can do right now.

I hope I am wrong but I am switching to buying puts this week.
Kinda funny that this modern tech needs to be used to read a plain html page offline.
This is interesting... I wonder if we're eventually going to see that this virus is worse for Italian/Spanish/Portuguese genetics. Italy has been hit super hard, New York (the most Italian ancestry in the US) is being hit hard. Just a hypothesis, don't everyone try to kill me at once, please.
I enjoyed many hours of GPL before I had a family. Now that they’re a bit older... any steering wheel recommendations? ;)
Well, yes. You have 1 data point. How does that undermine what the OP said about an IFR of 0.5% or the average age of victims being 80?
...a good point, horribly argued. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy because he is mentally handicapped and is not responsible for what he is doing. How does that relate to a woman only making 80 cents on the dollar? It's an awful, awful analogy.

The implication is that a mentally handicapped man shouldn't do what he does but can't be blamed because he isn't responsible. But women should complain about earning 80c on the dollar.
And thus why we have Yubikeys and other hardware tokens.
"I’m not saying women are similar to either group"

I'm just lumping them together in the same group. Uh huh.
Portal: Narbacular Drop

Wolfenstein 3d: Catacomb 3d

Note- I'm not certain that the games on the right are the originators of the genre of games on the left, but they certainly came prior.
Nice to see this project is progressing since it was last posted. I personally have a similar thing hacked together for some specific server monitoring stuff, would love to someday port all our analytics over to something like this.
I'm not sure why anyone gives Scott Adams credence as an expert on anything other than creating a fairly successful comic strip.
https://www.crunchbase.com/search (change location to Columbus on the left)
If you don’t like the popular social media sites, it’s never been easier to make your own.
> 4 packs of Phillips 40 or 60 watts used to be sold at the dollar store. $.25 cents per bulb. Or any hardware store had them for $1.19. Home depot currently has LED bulbs for 1.25 per bulb, 5x the price, IF you buy in bulk. 1.75 (7x the price) per bulb if you don't buy in bulk.

Which is a nonsensical comparison, given that (good) LED lamps (which you can get at around that price) not only save a ton of energy, but also last a lot longer. Those 1.75 give you the same amount of light over their lifetime as 2.50 worth of incandescents you buy in bulk, so it's already cheaper even if you ignore the energy savings.

> Maybe if you spend money to buy in bulk then 2 years down the road you will be financially better off than if you bought incandescent bulbs.

Suppose you are a poor family. An incandescent light bulb fails. What do you do? Well, you move the bulb from your most-used lamp to the one where the bulb failed. Then, you buy a single LED bulb for 1.75 and put it in that most-used lamp. Assuming your typical household, your most-used lamp probably is a "60 W" lamp that gets at least 3 hours of use per day.

The replacement LED with the same light output uses about 8 W, possibly less. At 52 W less power consumption, that means that at (1.75 - 1) / .1 / (52 / 1000) = 144 hours of use, or about 48 days, they have already saved the 75 cents that they paid above the price for the four-pack of incandescents. Another 108 days later, they have saved another 1.75 in energy costs, so now they can buy the next LED without exceeding the total cost of 1 dollar.

So, yes, you have to be able to invest an additional 75 cents for less than two months in order to be able to switch over to LEDs. I am not saying that that can't be a problem for some, but you are sure way overblowing the scale of it.

In the long run, every single LED you buy saves you around 50 bucks total (replacement and energy costs), so once you have managed to come up with that 75 cent investment capital at the start it's about the best thing you can do if you are poor, and in no time you will be able to buy LEDs in bulk, too. Except, of course, that doesn't really make much sense because they last so long, so you are probably better of buying single bulbs when you need them, because they only get cheaper and more efficient. An incandescent bulb that you changed once a year you won't need to change for the next ten years if you switch to LEDs.
Yes, but if you don't accept before 1 July, you will have to find another solution for your messaging needs.
Consider all the CPU energy "wasted" on playing games which contribute absolutely nothing to society.
Reach out to us (https://getprobe.io) and we will work with you very hands-on to get to a state where you trust your data :)
Not just that.

Based on the reports, some of the rioters were carrying blue lives matter flags. I would say it's pretty obvious there were shared sympathies between the mob and those protecting the Capitol.

Being overrun by attackers is one thing. Ignoring them would be dereliction of duty. But assisting and siding with them? I don't even know what you'd call that anymore.
Might work with one wired and one wireless. Otherwise, maybe with an external graphics card if supported, failing that a VNC or other network display protocol server streaming to an external rendering unit across ethernet or wifi. But honestly, I think we reached peak multiscreen ~2010 and it's sort of falling out of favour these days except in a minority of fixed workstation environments. In which case, I'd be waiting for the 16" Pro later this year.
Yeah, it lags like a second between when the light goes on and when the camera turns on.
Whatsapp is used (at least here in the EU) for a lot more than staying in touch with your friends. E.g. having a young kid, it's used for: the class' group, arranging playdates, etc. Not using Whatsapp makes it much harder to arrange your social life and that of your kids.

Then there are also many organizations/companies that use Whatsapp to set appointments, for chat support, etc.

In many EU countries Whatsapp is pretty much replaced SMS. Only a small minority of folks have Signal or Telegram. iMessage is probably the only other thing that shows as a blip on the radar, but only a portion of the population has iDevices.

I agree that this is a bad situation, but WhatsApp became popular when it was still independent and their profit model was charging 1 Euro per year (which was much cheaper than SMS). Now abandoning Whatsapp is difficult due to network effects.
It was quite the adventure watching this all on TV from Europe.

One thought that comes to mind is that I'm sure the most heavily armed nation in the world could have gotten rid of these people in no time, but perhaps they didn't because of the symbolism of the location.

Here in Brussels' main court house (a massive imposing building like the Capitol), a guy once just strolled in and shot and killed a judge (correction: a judge and a clerk, in 2010) and then just strolled out.

The minister of justice said they would not improve security because they wanted the place to remain "of the people, for the people" (paraphrased from memory, it doesn't make total sense but you get the jest of it).

I have friends working at the European parliament where at one time was a group of people protesting against the presence of Marine Le Pen, rocks in hands. There were exactly 2 (unarmed) "security guards" present who told my friend they obviously stood no chance if these people decided to charge. On another occasion 100 Kurdish protestors managed to break in to the building. But they just don't want these places to look like Fort Knox.

In the end, a guy in buffalo costume fooling around on the senate floor is better than puddles of blood.
"Miller said the company provided scientific data to the IARC showing the safety of glyphosate, but that the agency largely ignored it."

Scientific data is a term that means nothing by itself.
You could double blind test that drinking a 200ml Roundup solution has no mutagenic effects on blood cells-from a one time measurement of blood drawn exactly 30 seconds after drinking the solution. There you have 'scientific data' that proves nothing.

I think government should not wait too long to go into discovery what had been known of this by Monsanto researchers and subsequently been suppressed.
I think art is about the relationship of the viewer to the work, not about the explanation for the work's creation. The viewer is the place where it all goes down.
Thanks for your work in the Racket world. Thanks for Pyret too, I just do not use it ... yet. I check out your site often enough bc your work comes up a lot here.

I am curious how are you typically advising (Brown?) students to use this. I have a work computer, Windows 7, and 8GB of RAM with SSD disk and running Firefox 38.02a Developer Edition. After disabling NoScript, it took somewhere 2-3 mintues to run. This is an improvement over my last attempt, which crashed my browser a few months back, and I did not try it sense. Is this normal? Did kids have trouble loading it up in class on less powerful commodity machines, or is there something messed up with my laptop in particular?

It is super impressive you have a whole PL toolchain in browser, but does this not actually cause a barrier for your kids? I know I am a FOSS/terminal/off-the-net type and an outlier, but not having offline access would be a bummber to me.

Granted, I will evenutally get around to attempting to compiling the different compiler phases on my personal laptop, bc I do not want to do Node on Windows right now. Haha.

Still, I wish tools like this were around when I had to learn in C++ in uni, as running g++ on a Solaris box helped me along in my eventual love of Unix environments, but really distracted me with a focus on tools and less on theory and real experimentation with languages. Somewhere in between was later use of Python and REPLs. I can see why hardcore instructors like yourselves argue for Schemes, because the early focus on interactive REPLs does indulge a certain curiosity and playfulness that would have really helped me consider CS earlier in life. Again, I am not sure if inverting the order (start with theory, then focus on tools) would have made a difference in the end, but you NEU and Brown Racket guys have shown some real intensive work on CS and PL pedagogy. Thanks for your work. I browse your books often and I hope your passion continues to rub off on me. :-)
No iOS version.
I fail to see why you call it ugly, the most important thing is not if it is beautiful or ugly but if works well, and helps development.
I'm looking forward to having you in the class!
Except that they're not buying them on the open market; they're redeeming them for face value. At least that's my understanding. The only reason it hasn't been done previously is that there is significant administrative overhead in some cases to do so (up to and including an act of Parliament), and only recently have market interest rates fallen below their coupons.
Appelbaum also mentioned they have advanced crypt-analytic capabilities against AES, but the evidence right now supports that these advances are not enough to break AES in the general case.
I found this while Googling for unrelated OpenBSD stuff:

http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-ab...
This is detailed in the article. If it were easier to go out and purchase the game than to copy it, then you'd be more willing to do so.

The problem these days is that it's ridiculously easy to crack DRM, so it's often useless. Back in those days, you needed specialized equipment to get a perfect copy, so you had no choice but to buy the legit game. Therefore, it did, in fact, increase sales.
Indeed. If everything is a startup, then we may as well discard the word since it conveys nothing.
I think it's like anything, it has more to do with the individual differences.

For most people, cooking and eating aren't a big deal. Others create Soylent because it's too much to bear.

For most people, the standard interview process is fine. For others with self esteem (or other) issues, the process is so threatening they have to opt out entirely.
Since it strangely difficult to look up, I'll leave this here for reference:

The acronym ABC stands for Atomic, Biological and Chemical. It's a cold-war term that has since been updated twice — first to NBC (nuclear), and then to CBRN (adding radiological). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRN_defense
So, if someone robs you at knifepoint on the street and takes your wallet, your wallet has not really been stolen, because you failed to wear adequate protective gear?
Currently, no, but once I have kids I will wish I could do this in order to spend more time with them. I wouldn't want to work fewer days though, I would prefer to work five six-hour days a week so I could get home earlier.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/california-pipe-water-alaska/
I think the main thing missing in the discussion is organization or team size. Given that the author is a CompSci researcher for the past 40 years he may not be in touch with the reality of how organizations are structured and the impact of that on software development.

If it is a start-up with 5 people, the software probably is the specification. If it is a large organization of devs (25, 50 or 100 people), then you will see more documentation, some of that specifications.

There is likely a threshold in the number of people where the number of communication paths between them is too large to rely on informal ways of communication. Maybe its 15-25 developers. The larger an organization is the more bureaucracy gets introduced and you now have people whose role is to write specs and requirements docs, etc.
Your argument proves that the time taken can be no less than O(n) in the number of object references in live objects. The (potentially billions of) unreachable objects are never touched.

I agree that limited RAM environments are important. Asymptotic complexity only matters when you're effectively operating at the asymptote.
Yes

I don't love it, but it works (better than the alternative)

And we don't have any more weird conversations about trying to get the entire software, all the tasks, in one sitting.
>says Dragos vice president of threat intelligence and former NSA analyst Sergio Caltagirone.

I put as much faith in him as I do in a former GRU analyst making claims about the CIA.
30 years from now, we might have to spend a lot of money harvesting all that tritium back out of the ocean to feed our fusion reactors.
My first online social experience was Usenet in the 1980s. It was very common for people to use their real names (though certainly not everyone did). My university encouraged real names, the rationale was that if you use your real name you will be more courteous, and only say things that you would want to be associated with. It's much easier to troll and engage in flamewars and generally be an asshole if you do it anonymously.
I mean, as someone who got into lifting ~3yrs ago, I was told (and read online) to rest for ~3 minutes for strength training and 1 minute for hypertrophy. In fact, I had been training that way until yesterday when I read this article, so I don't think it is quite a strawman.
My 2020 Intel Macbook Air crashes every single time it falls asleep while attached to an internal monitor, on Catalina and Big Sur

I have just accepted it, on a personal computer I am less likely to need to keep a ton of things open so it's okay if I lose all my windows on crash.

On a work computer I would not be able to accept this - thankfully my work 2018 MBP on Catalina handles this fine.

I previously had an Ubuntu Dell XPS at work with a similar problem and it was horrible losing my tabs and terminal windows 4-5x per work day
Yes. I stopped drinking coffee around a month ago. First week my withdrawal symptoms were pretty bad, but now I'm feeling good. I miss the taste though. I stopped drinking coffee as a sort of experiment and to reset my relationship with it, but right now I don't experience a real want to drink. Perhaps down the line I'll start drinking regularly again or a coffee here and there will be fine. We'll see how it goes.
And go... where?
Yes, pretty close. In Jeeves, sensitive values are essentially pairs of values guarded by a label: <k ? vHigh : vLow>, where k is the label, vHigh is the high-confidentiality "view" (corresponding to, for instance, my sensitive GPS location), and vLow is the low-confidentiality "view" (corresponding to, for instance, some coarser-grained version of my location--such as what country I'm in). Rather than roles, we have these flexible policies can be arbitrary lambda functions that take a "viewer" argument. Each policy function is associated with a label and returns "true" if the label can be "high." The implementation evaluates each part of a multi-faceted value in order to return multi-faceted results. These results are "concretized" according to who is looking at them: given the viewer, we can use the policy functions to determine what the viewer should see. The implementation overloads Python operators and does dynamic source transformation (via the @jeeves macro) in order to support computations on these multi-faceted values.
The PAL version was slightly below (0.985 Mhz) and the NTSC version slightly above (1.023 Mhz).
The fact that Sencha is named "in the tradition of Java".

I found that rather chilling, myself.
I dont think they made it harder. In the old model it took a putty knife to open - now you just have two screws.
Sorry for the confusion; kallena is a friend who saw my earlier tweet about this (http://twitter.com/kylebragger/status/16226804498) and posted it here.

Just to clarify, this isn't any kind of job posting for some stealth web startup. Rather, I am a technical founder keenly interested in knowing more about people like me, and trying to organize that data in a meaningful way.

I have taken your advice and added some more info about myself into the Google form.

Thanks for the reply.
+1: I'm doing almost exactly this with an old Macbook, with a good quality outboard DAC to drive my amp/speakers.

So I appear to be target market for this product...
i'd put this info on the survey's front page. i skipped filling it out because it didn't feel like a good idea, too light on details
I don't want sleazy salespeople to act all friendly just because you are hoping to sell something to my company.

I DO want industry acquaintances to be able to pretend they remember my first name when we bump into each other.
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I'm searching for long-term cooperation, but one-off projects are also great. I'm open-minded, passionate, and honestly love to work on fantastic digital experiences.

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Not where I live they don't. Is this a US thing?
Considering I've driven past buses covered in bumper to bumper ads for McDonalds, the local hospital system, and a pawnshop this morning, I think it's safe to say getting your name and logo on a vehicle isn't an insurmountable task. I would consider starting a helicopter-as-a-service to be the greater challenge.
the question reduces to something like "is society entitled to the brain cycles of particularly smart people?". if so, then one can criticize just about anything smart people spend time thinking about that doesn't create material returns for their communities.
Regarding mental state: this study covers June 22, 2020 to the "present" (the paper is dated April 1, 2021, but I don't think it's an April Fool's joke). I suspect that people are to some extent calibrated to pre-pandemic expectations. I know I can't get things done like I could have in the Before Times, either because of mental state or because of more distractions at home than usual.

Figure 1(b) of the paper might suggest that people's estimates are worse on tasks that require flow, although I don't think there's enough data to be sure.
I don't think it makes sense to try and put a number on it. It makes more sense to look at narrow sources of income and ask "was this wealth earned or extracted?"

In many cases (e.g. rental income from property passed from one generation to another that is managed by an agency) it is extremely obvious.

In other cases (e.g. dividend income from a company you founded) it is less so, and there is probably a split.

With outrageous sums of wealth (e.g. Bezos) you can bet that it's probably almost all extracted. I doubt we'd be losing much productive labor (if any) by taxing all people with assets over a billion $.