jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's what I said...

I think it's more than a little hyperbolic to describe their actions as 'rabid racism'

They had a legitimate reason for suspicion. That reason wasn't the color of his skin, it was the color of a computer screen (a screen that flashes green hundreds of times a day flashed red in this case).

It's quite obvious that much ignorance and xenophobia followed, but I don't think it crossed (laughably subjective) line of 'rabid.'

A friend of mine who is about as 'all American' looking as you can get (white, tall, former marine...) tripped the same alarms after he had been firing a gun at a range the day before. He had an obvious and clear explanation for the alarm, so his experience wasn't as invasive, but they certainly gave him a hard time about it.
Everything sounds accurate, and what tends to happen to those in SF, except they are replaced by new 20-somethings.
While the US is likely the largest market, there are plenty of opportunities elsewhere. Ignoring those might be part of your strategy, however if you are willing to take look at what Europe or Asia have to offer you might be facing something quite unexpected as there are tech start-ups everywhere.

I live in Finland and there is an emerging start-up scene here already. Also there are plenty of older, steady-going companies, that have proven business models, who have start-up mindsets towards new things.

If your plan is to create a thriving project that aims to address a specific business problem, you are going to need a group (even small) of likely minded people. There should not be any "work for food"-ethics attached. No body will work for you for food, but many people are willing to work to create something they believe in.

Why exactly do you want to be in the US? I've lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg for quite some time. It is hard to imagine, that you won't find anyone in those cities with summed population of almost 20 million, who is willing to work with you on your or their ideas.
You could take that concept pretty far. There's no computer system that doesn't involve a human element (CS101). And yet some of the most clever people spend their time finding ways to hack the machine element. Their work inevitably gets understood and integrated into software, either through voluntary submissions through bug bounties or otherwise.

Social engineering has been understood for a long time, and yet we can't develop defenses in the same way we can develop defenses in software. So we have an underpaid workforce of software hackers uncovering vulnerabilities which get patched and an overpaid workforce of social engineers exploiting unpatchable vulnerabilities in the human condition.

Who is really being exploited here?
"not being allowed to join a pump and dump scam, even if they aren't pimping" isn't the worst suffering in the world.
> If the UX is better around this, I think they would.

The UX isn’t the point. Why would anyone want to use a protocol with $8 transaction fees and no recourse for vendors stealing their money? We all have credit cards in our pockets that might even pay us cash back to use them, and if a vendor fails to deliver I can get the charges reversed with a phone call.

It’s not a conspiracy by “the powers that be” to keep Bitcoin sluggish and unusable. It’s Bitcoiners themselves who reject proposals to increase block size (see the BCH drama)

Bitcoin holders don’t want people spending or using coins. They only want people to do things that increase price: Buying and hoarding.
Germany. I wouldn't be surprised to find them for <1 EUR here, too, I was being a bit conservative in my estimate.
I wonder if that correlates with overweight populations. If so the entire world is going in that direction, although USA is a bit ahead.
Isn’t Toyota the biggest automaker by number of cars? If so, that means they’re selling cars in every small corner of the world. They can’t move fast, there’s probably not enough lithium being mined right now to support a complete switch. So they’re taking it slowly.

What’s more galling is that they’re still trying to make hydrogen cars happen, and that probably explains a lot of why they’re not going as fast as they should on electrifying their offerings.
Anecdata: I saw an incorrect CE mark (presumably China Export) a couple of weeks after learning about it (Dec 2020).

The citation's from 12 years ago and may no longer be accurate.
Only two kinds of languages.
Yes, the UK has the DPA-2018 legislation which basically implements GDPR in the UK. [1] Its application is supervised by the ICO. Subject Access Request can be issued to pretty much any public institution / company [2]

"You have the right to find out if an organisation is using or storing your personal data. This is called the right of access. You exercise this right by asking for a copy of the data, which is commonly known as making a 'subject access request"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018

[2] https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-copie...
This is not twitter. Please do not use hashtags here.
Yes. Please feel free to assume that everywhere I say “plain text,” I mean “plain text that is not intentionally obfuscated.” I apologize for not being clear.
How so? One of the most popular (if not the most) websites for developers out there is pretty much HTML + CSS. JavaScript is used, but minimally.

"Modern" experience is not necessarily the same as "good" experience. Good old server side rendered pages are fine; SPAs are being built just because "we can", not because they are actually needed (sure, in some cases,SPAs are needed, e.g., chat sites).
since when is HTML lighter than JSON?! this use case was what propelled JSON into the mainstream.
I doubt it's entirely about looks.

I would sooner believe that it has to do with the limits of human squeamishness not extending far past what we can personally see, touch, and hear.

This is the classic problem about war. War is always a hypothetical until you personally experience combat. It's harder to be shocked by drone bombings than infantry raids. Torture that isn't called "torture" is just a tool in the War on Terror. Etc.

Same goes for environmental destruction. It's easy to sleep at night after dumping a bunch of chemicals in the river as long as you personally don't depend on the river for your survival.
Absolutely. Direct indexing has some unique benefits. Of course it's a bit more complex to track everything, but that's where we come in.

We've had users get quite excited about ESG indexes. Especially with "forking" more traditional indexes and removing companies they're not morally aligned with.
That works fine as long as you don't care that advances in computers and cryptography would one day (maybe after you are dead, and likely only with some notable effort) allow someone to read your data and (much more practically) you are extremely confident you can't lose control of your key somehow.
Judging by how much interest this has garnered on HN, there does seem to be a market. I think people would at least like the option.

Every time I buy a laptop, it's a matter of tradeoffs. Some of these tradeoffs are technical (like battery life vs power), but some are purely based on what level of planned obsolescence the manufacturer thinks they can get away with.

I'm not sure if there was ever a time when manufacturers competed solely on putting features into their hardware, but the situation right now is at least as much about how many antifeatures they can get away with. The "free market" stops working when every manufacturer does this and the barrier for new offerings is impossibly high.
That's not the way I remember it. The way I remember it, someone got up on corp. G+ and said "everyone put your comp in this spreadsheet" and by the end of the first day ten thousand people had filled it out and nobody cared.
I don't understand. At ANALYZE time isn't, all other parameters being equal and adequate (costs, GEQO at max, effective_cache_size ...), the probability of obtaining a representative set of columns better with a larger amount of randomly-selected values? Then at planning time isn't the the devised plan of better quality?

Adding sampled values may be bad performance-wise, for example if the planner cannot take everything into account due to some margin/interval effect, and therefore produces the same plan using a bigger set of values. The random selection process may also, sometimes, select less-representative data in the biggest analyzed set. But how may it never lead to the best plans (which may be produced using a smaller analyzed set) or lead to (on average) worse plans?
Solidifying final holdouts to adoption, stabilizing price at....
What if they added posts? Either metal driven down into the road that a car would not go through or plastic ones that would deter a driver from running into them? I think that would provide more of a sense of physical separation.
Most career waiters make more money from tips than wages. Customers are willing to pay more when they know exactly where their money is going.
Yeah, just like Chress or Go played by a computer is fundamentally empty because something something something. But just like computers with Chess and Go, they are likely to exceed our abilities or at least meet them, in time when judged using neutral and objective measures of performance.
Can someone answer, what is the entry method of CRISPR in adults, don't it need to change all instances of a cell to be effective?

I don't really understand the delivery method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Netscape_Internet_Ser...

> Netscape ISP is a dial-up Internet service once offered at US$9.95 per month. The company serves web pages in a compressed format to increase effective speeds up to 1300 kbit/s (average 500 kbit/s). The Internet service provider is now run by Verizon under the Netscape brand. The low-cost ISP was officially launched on January 8, 2004. Its main competitor is NetZero. Netscape ISP is no longer actively marketed, but for a time its advertising was aimed at a younger demographic, e.g., college students, and people just out of school, as an affordable way to gain access to the Internet.
Fear of running out of HN sockpuppet spam? Terafyle fixes that: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kyropractor
Doesn't it strike you as weird that there's a concept of "jobs moving overseas"? And that it's usually presented as a bad thing? Somehow even apparently reasonable people still have these blatantly discriminatory tribal attitudes and don't stop to see how unjust they are.

Back in history, white railway workers in America were unhappy about jobs going to Chinese immigrants. We even still have that but with Indians and call them "H1B"s which hides the racist undertones. Yet I've never heard anybody complain about "jobs going to local youths". Somehow a baby born near our house seems to be treated as a more deserving human being than one born somewhere else.

When jobs move overseas, that's usually a good thing, we should celebrate it! It means people overseas are getting more jobs! Very often those are even the same people most in need of more jobs so it's win-win.
Singapore is effectively a single party police-state. The only difference between SG and China, is that the PAP is in many ways, much more benevolent than the CCP (and economically, SG has a weird form of economic libertarianism). The ‘fact’ in this instance is mostly reasonable, but still open to a fair amount of interpretation. Before you celebrate a government seizing power, ask yourself if you’d like your political opponents to be wielding it, because they inevitably will be.
And again you show that you have absolutely no idea what "plagiarism" means.
In a similar situation. In fact stupider. We have a 120Gb baseline of data inside a relational store. The vendor has a file stream option that allows blobs to be stored on disk instead of the transaction log and be pushed through the DB server rather than using our current CIFS DFS cluster. So lets stick our 950Gb static document load in there too (while i was on holiday typically) and off we go.

Do thing starts going like shit as expected now it has to stream all that through the DB bottleneck.

So what's the solution? Well we're in big data territory now apparently at 1.2TiB (comedically small data and almost entirely static data set) and have every vendor licking arse with the CEO and CTO to sell us Hadoop, more DB features and SAN kit.

We don't even need it for processing. Just a big CRUD system. Total Muppets.
> Depends on the dick

not really, sorry I had to

back to the topic, HDFS is really somewhat waste of disk space, especially when used for something like munching logs

> At scales of 1pb+ (which is about 1/2 a rack now) its much much cheaper to use off the shelf parts with 24/7 support than "softwareing" your way out.

depends, if you need monthly reports from logs, as long as you don't loose storage completely, then using even second hand hardware or decommissioned from prod is cheapest choice
Clueless American here: other than state actors what's wrong with SMS?
At least people will hopefully learn the lesson: promoting un-federated services using closed software will always lead to people getting very hurt no matter how nice the company behind them is.
if you understand the window ranges, especially the default one there is no surprise at all
Still not help if you consider GDPR et al. rules, at least in the EU.
I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason behind that. But I must say, I already forgot two pins and there's now a pop up for the third one asking me to insert it every time I open the app, and I have absolutely no idea what this pin is either. Not entering it though doesn't seem to be preventing me from using the app though, so that's also weird. Meh, still not too much of a deal breaker to stop using Signal.
notice how amazon gift cards go for higher than face value on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=amazon+gift+c...

My only logic is that its a form of money laundering.
Try this:

select ord, table_name, first_name, last_name, total_rows
from (
select table_name,
row_number() over (order by table_name asc) ord,
count(1) over () total_rows,
from all_tables
where table_name like 'B%'
order by table_name desc
) where ord between 10 and 19
order by ord

This is basically what Oracle Apex does. You can do this without window functions, but it gets a bit more complicated.

I like to add total_rows so that I can show a "rows 10 - 19 of 81" header. You can also get the very first and last values by adding theses columns:

first_value(table_name) over (order by table_name asc rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) first_name,
last_value(table_name) over (order by table_name asc rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) last_name

Alternatively, you could get the very last and very first whole rows by changing the outer where clause:

ord=1 or rownum=1 or ord between 10 and 19

And then it would be easy to have a nice header with "rows 10 - 19 of 81 (Algiers to Zimbabwe)" with very little code.
Ah well, here in my country post pandemic almost everything runs on WhatsApp.

From Assignments being shared by teachers on school classroom groups to now payments via WhatsApp.
> "dey took'r jeebs" groups are complaining about immigrants in the US.

Which are largely conservative.
POP was written in 1999

The last Unix release with people from the the Lab was UnixWare 7.1 (1999), the last from AT&T in 2001.

Anything else is not Unix.

We know Rob wrote Utah 2000 in that year.

That's 15 years ago.
> A Government source said the decision to block the 32 websites were taken after thorough “filtration process based on a strict regimen”, and there is a proper committee in the Department of Information Technology in place to whet complaints. [1]

This is unbelievably ridiculous, if not downright stupid. Even as our Prime Minister speaks of bringing about a new digital revolution, decisions such as these show how badly equipped the lawmakers are in dealing with issues relating to technology.

Blanket bans like these are not only a form of internet censorship which flies in the face of the establishing principles of the largest democracy in the world, the lack of any details or explanation before issuing an outright ban on several important software hosting websites and content providers just evokes an image of a myopic government with incredibly poor understanding of technology.

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/now-modi-govt-blocks-3...
From the article:

"A team of Snapchat curators will stitch together photos and videos from the app’s users at celebrations in Dubai, New York City, St. Petersburg, Russia, and other posts around the world to create a documentarylike view of how people are experiencing New Year’s Eve. (The photos and videos will be included only if users give their permission.)"

Anyone know more about how this works? I'd be curious about the process behind sifting through all that content, seems like it would be really tough to find good stuff and turn it around as quickly as they do.
Would GeometryInstances go directly into an acceleration structure? Surely objects which point to the geometryinstance and each have a worldspace transform are what go in the scene level acceleration structure...

Generally it's advisable to templatize acceleration structures so they can natively cope with triangles, objects and possibly other primitives (spheres and curves) separately.
What is the difference to using say optipng?
They should rename Twitter to Scaler.
To clarify, I didn't make this site, just discovered it while googling how to accomplish this without Fireworks.

The "beauty" of 8-bit png is how it degrades acceptably in IE8, IE7 and even IE6.

Try comparing a large round icon in 1-bit alpha (ie. gif) vs 8-bit alpha, it's much much better.
I mean that, model bits are inside controllers, for example :-)
I actually like your advice but it's such an obvious sales pitch for your software.

Your ulterior motives make me nauseous.

P.S. I would probably try your software if it wasn't stuck in windows land. Why not make a WebApp?
I'm still not convinced. Currency has gone through many corrections because of counterfeiting and I feel pretty confident that most people won't be able to counterfeit money (especially with the new designs). Bitcoins also do not have the backing of the government (and it never will, unless the government is issuing them, which would defeat the purpose). A security flaw in any of the peers could potentially mean lots of stolen money/devaluing.
I've been using these records with XMPP servers for some time now and it works quite well. An added benefit is that you can run services on non-standard ports and make this information available via DNS. Of course if the web supported this, it might make it fun for people stuck behind firewalls/proxies run by administrators who think it's a port 80 world out there.

In the case of Jabber/XMPP it seems to be universally supported by servers now. Most clients should support it as well. Both are required to support it to be XMPP (RFC 6120/6121) compliant, possibly because there was no standard privileged port that could be allocated.
Don't forget to drink perfect tea[1] while you're making this.

[1] See upcoming articles about how to make a perfect tea (involves drinking a perfect coffee).
The first thing I'd say is that while this must be stressful there is no point worrying about what you can't control. It follows then that you must feel that changing your current situation (or the politics surrounding it) is not within your control - as your Boss is ignoring you. If that is true (and it is well worth considering if that is the case) then the question here is what do you want to achieve? If it is learning a new technology - then that's great, use the time to learn it.

I have previously found myself isolated within a large compnay and used the time to learn. In my case the situation resolved when the politics changed (change of leadership) and I was re-engaged.

I've found it helpful to have a goal beyond technology - so learning a new technology would be a means to another business (social or political) outcome. As I'm sure you've experienced, technologies come and go.
This is the core problem with so many software efforts now, there are just too many efforts that portability suffers.

I remember years ago mucking around with my home computing environment, making it so convenient, custom UI shell, monitoring widgets, highly customized bash environment with all sorts of fancy utilities that were just so handy, and all sorts of nifty features everywhere to tackle any problem I encountered.

Alas, the second I went anywhere else to do something--some friend or business's system, none of that underlying infrastructure existed. I lamented, "oh if only these other people followed my model I could just use X right now," life would be better.

At some point in my career I realized I was just wasting a whole lot of time customizing my native environment because those features were non-portable and the more I dealt with working in other people's environment, the more I realized I should just focus on learning the best way to do things in the popularly adopted environments because it meant my knowledge transferred almost everywhere.
My wife teaches people to ride horses and she notes that both people and horses often perform poorly when they are thinking about what they're going to do later as opposed to right now.

Doing something athletic you get hurt that way.

Many of my strange behaviors are like this: I might want to be in a room at 70F but I have a choice of a 50F and 90F room so I just move from one to another. Rather than being focused on one thing I flit between a few different things to manage my homeostasis.

(e.g. this is problematic if the "temperature" is the temperature of relationship you have with someone, or if you get hit by the ball because you spend 20 seconds focused on your "inner life" after feeling uncomfortable spending 40 seconds watching what seems like Brownian motion)

From stress I was grinding my teeth and messed up my jaw, getting a bite guard was life-changing, but now I am using the one treatment for TMD which is backed up by the literature: biofeedback.

The pain really does go away if I relax my Masseter muscles: relaxing in general is good, but those specific muscles are the real goal. I would start with this theory of meditation

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/heart-and-soul-heali...

as the most general, but note that I turn my attention specifically on to the level of tension in that muscle that I am experiencing right now. I could have used something of this type

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/312488939/myowaretm-har...

but often I can find the sensory nerves I'm looking for without machines. (e.g. if you are quiet you can feel your heartbeat)

So meditiation-relaxation-biofeedback is one toolbox to look at.

Another one is the Pomodoro method which formalizes the "back-and-forth" where you take timed breaks to give you some time to recharge.
I've been working in a Windows shop for 2 years and I'm to the point where I just tell people to rewrite things in Powershell. It has native json support so yes, jq is obsolete.

On this list, I've looked at elvish before, it seems like it also is designed to make jq obsolete, and it is much more posixy than Powershell (though I think parts of posix really hold shells like Oil back from being as powerful as Powershell is and something like elvish may be.)
The inscription translates as “Iahweh is the bearer of the secret name, the lion of Re secure in his shrine.”

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--quoted from Article

Iahweh seems like a Greek transliteration of the Jewish God Yahweh.

The question I have is who is the lion of Re?