jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"All I can do is point to the zero deaths since 2001 caused by passengers smuggling dangerous objects onto planes." - As I noted above, we have recently had a few close calls. It appears the terrorists are adapting. Personally, I'd rather we try to stay ahead of them than wait for your sentence to change to "well we had zero deaths until 2011 when ..."

"Flying is far safer than many other common activities whose risks we gladly accept, and that would remain true even if terrorists blew up a fully loaded 747 every year." - I have used this argument myself (yes I have argued your side as well). However, it does not capture the broader impact - economy etc (this may be why they continue to target planes). Frankly, I think the terrorists could accomplish their goals in many other far easier to accomplish ways but I wont help them here.

I understand your view. I just don't share it. You attacked mine by saying the scanners added zero value. I forwarded a link that while critical of the scanners also noted they were as "effective as a pat down". Unless you think pat downs add zero security, then we are back to security vs personal privacy.
It's not a new trend. App Engine has had issues for a long time. Here's an article I wrote early last year about some of its problems and proposed solutions that the GAE team could use to fix them:

* http://www.espians.com/why-app-engine-is-not-appropriate-for...

But, despite the various problems, I still use App Engine for various applications. There are few platforms that can even compare to its power and simplicity. And good luck finding a NoSQL datastore which offers the power and scalability of App Engine's one.

In fact, if there was a decent open source alternative to the datastore, I'd switch away almost immediately.
That is not the intended implication. The US is not currently powerful enough to add a full-fledged war against Iran to its docket of wars.

Military power = technology * money * public will

Since the public would not accept the sacrifices necessary to engage in an all-out war with Iran, the US is hamstrung. How to fix this? Simple, increase the public will toward war with Iran. Since the American public is growing skeptical of warmongering claims, and Iran actually has the moral high ground in this case, the US has no choice but to keep from the American people information that would cause some parties to demand a war that could not actually happen.
Maybe so, but I wouldn't be averse to recruiting a cofounder...
It seems that a general consensus from feedback thus far is:

1) It is difficult to tell what the site does, and
2) Once that's figured out, few people stay because the site doesn't seem to solve a problem they actually have.

You mentioned iteration; What do you mean by it, specifically? Have you made substantive changes in functionality? Or have you simply added "most requested features"? The difference here is important, as it may be the difference between finding a problem that needs solving and adding resources to a solution searching for a problem.

My recommendation (for what that's worth) is to engage in a bit of customer development, the initial goal of which is to find who has the problem that you feel like you're solving. Hasenj noted that the calculations seem very simple (given, many contributors here are programmers and/or math nerds). That said, you do not know how many of your actual customers may be thinking the same thing.

However, if you can find (and by find, I mean specifically target, talk to and learn from) a group of people who consistently benefit from your service, you are in a much better position to move ahead. Effectively, this group will act as your cheering squad, providing feedback upon which you can grow and word-of-mouth upon which you can ultimately scale.

I consider this to be much more important than the design (although that is important as well). While better design may attract people to stay longer and/or use your service for the first time, it will not help with retention unless you're solving a problem that people legitimately have. Design doesn't provide an accurate indicator of scale-potential; Function does.

You may have known all of what I just told you. Hell, you may have already done it all. If, however, it was new to you, I would suggest checking out Steve Blank's book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, found here: http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

Best of luck!
I think they were right to reject it. I have done plenty of math but I still couldn't 'grasp' the significance of the scheme system, and while I'm sure it is very important to the few people who understand it, I doubt the readers of Nature are among them.
Nobody uses these terms to describe these things. The fact that you described the crazy way CC calls things with more familiar terms is specific evidence of that.

Air hockey doesn't use "counters" it uses a scoreboard or score keeper.

Number sentence is not what these are called. We're teaching children the wrong things. Now they have to learn the concept twice. Once wrongly, the second time correctly. It's objectively the wrong way to teach.
The slides read great, and the concepts are important. It's something I'm personally intrigued by[1]. Very interested in Cycle and your experiments. Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/joelhooks/react-rxjs-angular-di-todomvc
I usually share a volume between containers (eg:: a volume for wp-cli cache, another for -g npm_modules).

What benefits would toolbox add ?
Vim user: I think you mean ^ and $
It’s no secret that there were tensions betwen Docker and Red Hat that culminated around 2016, when Red Hat’s desire to capitalize on the success of containers ran into Docker’s own ambitions to compete with Red Hat. Those tensions were eventually resolved (or at least diminished) by Red Hat shifting gears to Kubernetes as their “next Linux”.

The drama you’re talking about is from that period - 2015-16. But “crun” was launched in 2020, a full four years later. Frazelle left Docker years ago, as well as most of the people involved in those feuds. Runc, containerd and docker are chugging along drama-free, and are maintained by multi-vendor teams. There is no interest from anyone outside of Red Hat in forking or re-writing those tools. It’s just a tremendous waste of energy and in the end will be problematic for Red Hat, because they will be building their platform on less used and therefore less reliable code.

The world’s container infrastructure runs on containerd, runc and docker. Not crio, crun and podman. Someone at Red Hat clearly is having trouble accepting that reality, in my opinion because they’re having trouble moving on from old grudges. I really wish they did, because all of that wasted engineering effort could be deployed to solve more pressing problems.
In brexiteer quarters, the expectation was that the whole EU would have collapsed by now and they'd be begging us (I'm a brit) to take their money and thanking us for being right all along and agreeing to work in pounds and furlongs...
I certainly run into them rarely, and if I do have an issue it is usually solved by bunging it into some purpose built standard or third party library and calling it a day.

I’m sure people have jobs that deal with this, but the low-level form of the problem is not something that I could see one encountering in a meaningful way for building a standard CRUD app or service.
Governments with unstable currencies sometimes impose restrictions on the ability to buy and sell them, and bitcoin makes it easier to evade these.
Even that seems unlikely to be problematic for anything short of literally constant seeds AND a generator becoming extremely popular.

The vast majority of people reuse low-entropy passwords, figuring out what password generator someone used would be a much higher bar than figuring out passwords, and just knowing the insecure generator wouldnt reduce the entropy by that much.

Actually, a password generator on GitHub that generates the password that is literally just seconds-since-1970 would still be a good generator for almost all use cases.
runc and containerd wouldn't exist if Redhat hadn't created the OCI specification and work around docker to make things interoperable. Docker, Inc was not playing ball and then redhat had to work around them. It wasn't a grudge it was just them keeping their business safe. The Open Containers Initiative was essentially designed to force Docker Inc to try to play better with others. They donated containerd to the OCI due to the reality that docker was about to be left in the dust.

For reference, this was the shirt that Docker Inc was giving away at Redhat summit years ago. I was there. I saw the shirt, and thought it was in very poor form. https://twitter.com/SEJeff/status/1125871424126767104

As Rambo said, "But Colonel, they drew first blood."
I interpreted "platform to push..." differently than the "topic touches on...".

But I agree we don't need a political battle here. Thank you dang.
> Why should anyone care about your opinion on btc? You don’t even seem to understand why a currency should be scarce (in the economic sense).

And why should anyone care about yours? You seem to be operating under the extreme naiveté of someone who believes that the massive presence of bandwagoning speculators, would-be manipulators like the Elon Musk/Winklevoss billionaire cheerleaders, Chinese miners buying massive amount of asics, various schemes such as Tether, are irrelevant to Bitcoin. A currency is subject to real world conditions and influence by real-world actors. It's not a system that can exist only perfectly in a vacuum.

> This would be a good opportunity for you to reflect on why USD are decreasing in value while BTC are increasing.

You can say the same of $TSLA, $GME, or any other meme of the moment. Why did BTC increase in value in 2018- until it didn't?
I would absolutely pay for this. It's only about $20-30 more than a taxi (after tip) or about $40 more than an Uber. I'd pay that much for an hour or two less travel time.
For manufacturers, the profit margins on illegal drugs are absurd. A lab in Mexico can make meth for $500/kg. Once that meth is in the US, it can sell for $60,000/kg.[1] In other words, manufacturers can lose 90% of their product and still make tons of money.

Unless the DEA intercepts practically every drug drone sent across the border, people are going to keep at it. The money's just too good.

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/...
I like the idea of having a separate decryption device. OS reads encrypted data from hard disk, sends it over an encrypted link to your cell phone, which partially decrypts the data block (using one pass phrase), and sends it back over the encrypted link to the laptop. OS driver then finishes decrypting that block using a second key before passing it to your program. Writing back data just requires a public key, so write operations don't have to go to your cell phone. The idea is that your drive would never be fully unlocked, and the computer wouldn't ever have the full decryption key on it (neither would your phone).

Add in the always-on voice recognition that some Android phones have, and have the key wipe itself as soon as it hears "Freeze... FBI".
A Chinese here, I'm deeply ashamed by this malicious action at a national level. though DNS poisoning wasn't new for Chinese netizens but it was always poisoning A records to varies foreign military sites like DoD or some Korea sites (which also makes no sense at all). At scale of this big, those shameless bastards running state censorship machines has been outrageously attacking on random innocent site owner, this is far beyond unacceptable.

And starting from like a month ago, a lot of people on the Chinese internet started to decorate the GFW, and concludes with "for your own good" shit. I can see from those fragments of thoughts, China is not going to stop the GFW, and as Moore's Law advancing, it's going to be even worse.

Sorry for swearing, the feeling of "there's nothing anyone can do to stop this BS" just leads to greater despair.
Use a weather balloon or rocket or something and go high on the Mexican side. Then head over and essentially become a guided bomb. Even with a 1:5 glide you could get many (50km?) km over and fall directly to the pickup site. A toy version of an ICBM.

A quick search shows people doing the same thing for fun, so this must be used or not have enough payload capacity to make it more profitable than other methods. Perhaps the risk and cost is all about the pickup and 2kg is just as much work to get as 200.

I suppose if the craft had a real detachable payload, it'd be really like a bomb. Perhaps complete with fake drops to act as countermeasures to surveillance.
You are making pretty big assumptions about neural networks and consciousness. When people are in a vegetative state after a bad accident, their brains are still functioning to some extent - but it hardly means they are living / conscious.
Worst case scenario: you die, or you die after lots of torture. Why not look at the most probable case, which is nothing happens? There's a quote from Richard Stallman that applies here: "They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to learn this particular lesson."

Personally, I fear writing certain things with a username that's easily associated to my real name by the public at large, not the government with their clever tools. That's because I know the real and not-so-improbable consequences of doing so[0]: losing my job and getting blacklisted from the entire industry I've spent most my life trying to improve in and contribute to. It can be economic death. The threat of the mob is much realer to me than the threat of the government.

[0] https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-bad...
If this were the USA it would certainly be bad enough to warrant prosecution of the researcher. I am not familiar with laws in the UK, however. Keep in mind the similarities between this research and weev's research.

This type of blatant insecurity definitely should be punished and I wish more policy makers both cared, and made the effort to understand the terminology behind phrases like "No authentication", "Plaintext", Etc.
I really want to try OpenSMTPD, but I need it to hook into my Dovecot backend for SMTP auth (SASL would be awesome), and it needs to work with in-line email filtering (i.e. when a message is rejected as spam by amavisd I need that error to propagate back to the sending server). I haven't found good information on how to do any of that yet.

Right now my pipeline is pretty simple:

Postfix accepts -> milter (amavisd) -> dovecot for delivery

I would want to replicate something similar. Do you have any good resources or information?
I'm pretty sure you'd have a case in the EU (at least the "completely private" BS seems dodgy), not sure about the US.
It's not quite like the Adapter pattern. Instead of adapting two different classes to work together, a monad's for extending a type to add new behavior.

Think of something like Java's Iterable<T>. It takes a type T, and extends it with the concept of a sequence of items. It also gives you all sorts of extra goodies for doing useful stuff with sequences such a function to transform from a sequence of one type to a sequence of another (Iterables.transform) and Iterables.concat, which takes two instances of Iterable<T> and concatenates them.

This is close to, but not quite, what a monad really does. To get all the way there you'd want to have a function called Iterables.transformAndConcat() with a signature roughly like this:

Iterable<T> transformAndConcat(Iterable<F> from, Function<F,Iterable<T>> func)

It differs from basic transform because the function it takes maps from F to Iterable<T> rather than simply from F to T. It uses that to get a set of Iterable<T> that it then concatenates to produce the final output.

This ends up being a really powerful function. It can be used to do all sorts of things, including replacing the behavior of both transform (by supplying a function that always returns an iterable of length 1 for every input) and concat (by supplying an identity function). More generally, it lets you take functions that take some input and output an Iterable of some type and compose them to produce more complex behaviors.

As a more expansive example of the concept's power, even for OO languages, let's skip over to the other managed platform: A version of this function (in this case called SelectMany) forms the core of .NET's LINQ library. LINQ's query syntax includes facilities for all sorts of SQL-style querying, including grouping and joins, and virtually all of it ends up being compiled down to calls to SelectMany(). In turn, this means that if you're writing code in C#, you can the query syntax with any generic class that conforms to a few rules, including having an implementation of SelectMany().
You're missing the point. This is not a paper on image acquisition, it is a paper on image processing. Because they began from scratch, they used very favorable image conditions. They are not pushing the idea that their capture format is representative of an application.

We have no idea how hard it would be to recover an image using 50-5% of the light. No one has written that paper. Same for resolution. The paper does not claim to address that question so it seems silly to critique it for not doing so.
The idea of implementing cutting-edge NLP algorithms is fantastic and greatly needed. However I believe the multi-licensing will not be sustainable in the long term. It limits the ability (and interest) in others contributing into the library because you'll have to get a copyright transfer for any pull requests in order to merge into the commercial branch. It seems difficult to imagine one person being able to develop and maintain a library of this scope. This is particularly true when they are dependent on it for income rather than some tenured academic who can invest all of their time into the project without much risk or need for short-term gains.
It supports TCP/IP as well, and with OS-9 I think at least it's possible to connect to that directly using a serial-to-LAN bridge. It also supports local IP connections as well, which makes it useful for emulators, as DriveWire is much more capable and featureful than simply loading disk images.
Computing parallel: 24-hour news is like busy-waiting, but what people really want is a signal when something actually happens. The biggest reason the news has lost its legitimacy is that 24-hour news means that a lot of news must be invented, overemphasized, or endlessly re-hashed in order to fill time. This makes it harder to convince people that what you're talking about really is news.

I've ended up getting most of my political news from the Charlie Rose show on public television. The vast majority of episodes are about non-newsy things, like culture, business, and philanthropy. Every once in awhile, something important is actually happening, and there are a couple episodes about it before moving on. It has only made the whole idea of always-on news seem even more ludicrous to me.
Evangelical Christian here - regular Church going, missions, Bible study, etc. Most of my programmer friends are atheists, but I also have quite a few programmer Christian friends, and a lot of agnostics
Could people have anticipated this and speculated to make a bunch of money (with the side effect of smoothing out the demand)? That is, bought a bunch of ... semiconductors of some interchangeable, reliably-demanded sort (I dunno, RAM? Generic Cortex-A77 cores?) a year ago (or whenever production was plentiful), stockpiled them, and sold them for profit today?
Ah interesting, I had never suspected you were more directly connected to the country.

But I'm not disagreeing with you, the salary ceiling is low, I was just noting that it wasn't as low as 1k/1.5k (yeah, 2k/2.5k is more like it, the taxes don't help neither)
So if your mac dies, you effectively lock yourself out of any servers ? Or do you have a backup key ? If so, how do you protect that ?

Not criticizing, just genuinely interested in how to best manage keys.
While typesetting is pretty time consuming (I guess?), it was still a massive improvement over copying things by hand; it set the stage for mass production, so setting was done once, but then they could make an infinite amount of copies of anything. Mostly bibles, but still.
I'll use an analogy. We web developers are building a boat using a 1992 Toyota Hilux as the hull.

Top Gear proved it was well and truly possible. It's a popular mode of transport. It carries things. It has an engine and a mostly metal body.

It still isn't quite a boat

Web apps can walk and talk like native apps, but they aren't. Sure one off things like a Facebook or spotify or meme generators can rightfully be served from a web app - but applications for computing and getting work done?

Oh and don't forget about mobile devices - what amount of web apps do you prostulate people use there?

> SPA will be a cleaner architecture AND provide better experience to the user.

This. This is nonsense.
They're tied with the invention of kerosene.
Agreed, and needless to say, I use metric system at work (engineering).

Now only if we evolved to have 12 fingers, we would have a supercharged metric system in duodecimal (base 12). Far superior to the decimal number system we use today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
Odd, I'm getting
$ ./printimage.com image.jpg

run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter for ./printimage.com
I once have been told that development teams smaller than 20 developers have no business in using k8s, due to the complexity to brings. If something as essential as the infra so complex it is not readily understood by everyone on the team, a few (more than one) team members need to become the experts on the matter. For small teams this is simply not worth it.
I'm not entirely sure that's true, there are plenty of good options. But none of them are as easy to start with for sure, but it's deceptive. Like you said, basic functionality sucks and for any decent behavior if you have customers you need to know which addons to use and pay for them. There is no reason for them to be free, but at least if you're using Wordpress with addons you're in full control of your customer data. Holding your data hostage to force you to pay more is incredibly hostile.

If you're serious about your ecom and you're in it for the long run, it's worth it to pay for a custom solution. Control your code and your customers data.
Actively tracing contacts and testing them would be the key thing. When one person is found to be infected, you figure out where they've been and who they've interacted with, so you can test those people. Any of those people test positive? They go into quarantine and you trace their contacts. That's how you slow and eventually break the spread. Note that contacts don't need to be symptomatic to be tested.

Instead we're effectively doing the opposite, which is testing IF AND ONLY IF you BOTH have symptoms AND can prove contact with a confirmed case. Which doesn't do much to stop transmission (it's too late at this point; you've already spread it), and certainly doesn't give an accurate picture of the prevalence or behavior of the disease.
there are prepper sites, and if you look in the "shadows" you may find a lot of specialized literature that aught to be free for humanity.

the prepper culture is really something elso tho, there is a local group that is just about the one group that i want to have as far away from me as possible.

have a look around here for example that ought to be a good starting point:

https://www.reddit.com/r/prepping/