jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, the whole idea is to keep it simple. Look at Lua for a language that can be implemented in a weekend and is still a very serious language. Admittedly, you would probably end up spending a lot of time in the design phase if you were to create your own language, but once you have that, if it truly is a simple language, the implementation is not a problem.
I use whereby as well, I highly recommend it.
> It is appalling that @github flagged the JuliaImages org without any prior warning. This has broken the #JuliaLang ecosystem in a pretty bad way because many packages depend on Images.jl.

Well they control the platform and its Julia's fault for choosing them and hosting the entire repository and essential ecosystem on GitHub instead of self-hosting the essential repositories themselves. This already happens to all Github-hosted projects in general.

Ideally, in a self-hosted environment involving open-source projects, a trusted sys-admin of the project would be on-call and step in to fix the issue, rather than wait for support or even the GitHub CEO to step in and fix it for you.

Platform-wise, congratulations to GitHub for showing once again why free and open-source projects should be self-hosted using either GitLab, Gerrit, cgit or Gitea instead of being centralised in one platform.
I can understand better privacy of cash when buying something uncommon. But when doing standard everyday shopping, I don't really see much point.

It's either:

1. Every day I pay with a card at the grocery store, this leaks information about my whereabouts, or

2. Every X days I withdraw cash at the ATM, this also leaks information about my whereabouts

Is there any advantage (in terms of privacy) of using cash in such scenario? The only thing that comes to my mind is that price is also leaked when using a card. But I don't see much use of this information.
you're misrepresenting what I said:

> they actively bypass the security control on the host-system where it is installed - this is literally what malware does

it is not equal to malware. It is what malware does, which is an important distinction. If you're OK with a product disabling the host-system security controls and still happy to trust the product with this taken in consideration then fair enough: use it, defend it, and evangelize it as much as you want. As somebody who has "security" in the job title it is a problem for me.

> And they fixed the local http server flaw.

it wasn't a flaw or silly design bug, it was a conscious design decision to gain market share which other players felt too risky. please read the NPAPI spec and why it was deprecated. A company doing this has no place in an enterprise network!
To understand how a monopoly is currently being built, please read:

Amazon caused this problem themselves because of hidden pricing policy/behavior that causes artificially low price-fixing. They’ll never admit this is what caused the problem.

Amazon punishes 3rd party FBA/prime sellers for raising prices by removing their listings from the “buy box” or removing their prime badge. Amazon brags to customers that they “found a new seller to sell you this item at a lower price” but in reality Amazon forces sellers to stick to their low prices because if they are ever raised to meet demand, Amazon removes prime status, effectively killing sales.
(A class action lawsuit was filed last Thursday for exactly this, Amazon got sued a couple years ago for same thing, I’ll find link and repost)

So you had an entire swath of consumer goods (“essential” and “non-essential”) unable to increase prices in response to demand.

Amazon fulfillment centers are basically the equivalent of toilet paper right now.

I can’t imagine how Amazon continues to get away with such blatant price-fixing. They will drive every major online retailer out of business.

Edit: for all the downvoters, if Amazon allowed sellers to raise prices in response to demand on non-essential items, it would have slowed sales volume and not overwhelmed FCs, and my wife and I would not have a 3 week lead time on children’s Motrin.
No, sorry, you still need a source. In fact cytokine storms aren't the only driver of pneumonia and we don't know yet exactly what the mechanism(s) behind ARDS is. Immunology is outrageously complicated, and not well suited to that kind of pronouncement.

You just have to do the science, there's no way around it. And realistically we may not have time.
Idk about budget colas but Fentimans Curiosity Cola is pretty nice, and you don't need billboards on streets to get me to buy some. (I don't think I've ever seen an ad for Fentimans'.)
I don't know, perhaps people who follow the news (which is mostly propaganda anyway), and like to see some alternative propaganda.

On the other hand, if no one is looking for it, why would DuckDuckGo need to do something special about it? Sticking to the telos would suffice.
Having worked a variety of skilled and unskilled blue collar jobs before working in software, this article was spot on in many ways. One eerily relatable part was the example about:

>someone who isn’t getting remarried a month after their fourth divorce.

At a past job I heard that a recently married coworker had used a drive through chapel for the service. I was pretty surprised and asked him about it. His memorable reply was to shrug and say, "Well when it's your third time you mostly just want to get through it quickly".

As it happens I ran into the couple five or six years later, after having left the company, and they were still together and seemed happy.
You should try vim dude.
Yeah maybe it's not the same solution. But it's a solvable problem, I believe. I trust that the Amazon team had this conversation 2 years ago, and came to some conclusion that the risk was manageable. Would they send their lawyer to congress fighting FAA regulations if an 8-year-old kid with a pellet gun could knock one out of the sky?
This is misleading. He thinks emacs' interface that genericizes VC should have git commit and push be treated as combined and atomic, largely because he thought BZR worked that way by default (rather than actually being configured that way particularly for the emacs project).

After much "wow, that would be awful" convincing by people who are more familiar with git and could articulate why one commits privately on purpose, RMS later changes his stance. What I saw him eventually say was that commit should remind the user that they may need to push to publish (and emacs should add a vc-push command), which is quite reasonable.

To be fair, this is the issue with trying to put a generic interface over systems that don't -quite- work the same way. You tend to favor lowest common denominator. And sometimes there's not a "least surprise" workflow for everybody.

The wind of the conversation now seems to blow towards one workflow for vcs and one slightly augmented one for dvcs, which seems correct.
You are better off finding a local goodwill or used book store. It was a very popular book in the 70's and 80's...
Do you mean Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy? I just read about this in Chaos Theory Tamed by Garnett P. Williams. Really interesting stuff with respect to information theory in dynamical systems.
I had a laptop once that for some reason wouldn't use the battery even on a full charge. So, naturally, as soon as the power cord was pulled out, the laptop crashed.

Would make for a pretty good DMS; being deceiving with a battery attached and the OS reporting a full charge.

I wonder if there's a way to modify the mainboard (knife a lead or something) to be incapable of using the battery while still charging and the OS still being able to get reporting data.
#998moretogo
I still own that card. Used it to run cp/m in order to run Wordstar. FYI, Microsoft also wrote Applesoft Basic.
Doesn't that have to involve your skill in the performance, e.g. sports betting is still illegal in more than the number of states they say they are operating in, isn't it?
>A 3-GB data plan from T-Mobile for your iPad mini is $30 per month. Yet if instead of an iPad mini it’s an iPhone 6 Plus, which requires a voice plan too, your phone bill is $60 per month.

This is just not true. T-Mobile has a phone plan that's 5GB of fast data, unlimited slow data, a handful of minutes you can ignore.

I have a cheap plan that has unlimited minutes and unlimited slow data, which I think hints at the real end-game. Don't toss out the old infrastructure, just stop price gouging it now that data can truly compete.
I agree, that's why I say it was almost inactive for about a year, not 15 months. The point is, the real delay was bigger than 6-9 months, at least it's how the one could think about it.
It's a good point for Firefox to embed is own certificates.

I wonder if there is such unauthorized certs in Firefox manager.
We use Sicstus Prolog, which we connect to .Net by a provided set of interface-classes

It also has a bi-directional interface to Java, but Sicstus is unfortunately neither free nor cheap
Why didn't you copy to a tmpfs and overwrite that version instead?

Seems more likely to have installed programs on read-only media and a little tmpfs, instead of a writable binary and no tmpfs.

Do you have any information on some of the other strategies you researched?
I'm writing a git-like, so i'm curious your thoughts on this. What would undo, do exactly?

Eg would it make a new commit, reverting the previous? Would it undo the last commit, dropping it from history? Would it undo the last commit, putting the contents into staging/unchecked?

My git-like is for structured data and is very very different from git. Conceptually though, it's similar in that it's a hash tree of content addresses. So it'll conceptually suffer the same problems, if i wanted it to.

My plan, due to the nature of the project, is to for the most part avoid conflicts and be more forgiving in the primary flows. This makes sense (imo) because the nature of the application is about data retention moreso than it is strictly VCS. It just has VCS fundamentals to reach into, should they be needed.

But as i dive into the primary user flow - it feels like there are always a few cases that seem primary. Undo is a great example - making a new commit (revert), undoing the last and dropping it (hard reset), and undoing the last into staging all seem like primary UXs.

A lot of Git feels like the primary UX. I struggle to think of single concepts, like your undo example, where a simple path will be right to the user 90% of the time.

Thoughts?
I've not been clear enough.

> only shows retweets from people you follow

yes, but only shows you _select_ retweets from people you follow. You don't control that. Anything in your timeline that is curated can be used to manipulate you. And those retweets and likes are enough. Just wait until you see a retweet or like and think "but that's wrong / I disagree / waat" and try to catch yourself - you've been shown it for a reason.
“When people are fearful, be greedy. When people are greedy, be fearful.” -Buffet quote I think about a lot over the last 12 months
pytorch can use more than one core.
Investing and poker have some fun commonalities. One that I want to focus one in this particular case is: always play the game you know well and know how you're going to win it [nuances, 0]

In Poker: find the fish, understand why they're fish and exploit it [example, 1].

In investing: find underpriced assets, understand why they're underpriced and exploit it [examples, 2, 3].

From this perspective, Buffett doesn't understand how price movement works in tech companies.

And that's ok.

[0] You can't win everything of course, but if you're going to play a losing game by default then you're basically buying information. Once you have enough information, then it's all about execution. I daresay that Warren Buffett has enough information on a particular method of successful investing. That's all he needs, so he needs to focus on games that he knows how to win.

[1] E.g. through math/theory or math/data -- if you can get your hands on it -- (random player vs tight aggressive player)

[2] E.g. through math/theory or math/data (population will grow to 11 Billion --> economic productivity will therefore grow because bigger global work force --> world economy will grow in the long-term)

[3] Buffett's famous example is of course his own brand of value investing. The central thesis of value investing is: if a company is going to close shop, the scrap value of that company will be higher than the market cap of that company. There's a lot more to it, but that's the gist of it. One nuance, for example, is that you then try to pick the companies that are the most severely underpriced, have amazing management and a solid competitive domination strategy (e.g. crazy brand recognition or a certain asset that has a really high barrier of entry).
Thanks for the reply! It helps to understand the principle, but I was also curious how you apply Rational thinking to everyday situations. Using math as a tool is great, but that might only work in some situations.
With MySQL, you'll still have to switch to root to connect by default? I honestly don't remember, since it's been ages since I set up MySQL manually.

If MySQL actually allows administrative access out-of-the-box without any kind of special authorization, then that's a terribly insecure default.

With PostgreSQL, you have to switch to the superuser to configure things further because that's the only sane default you can have on an unconfigured system. If you can run commands as the user PostgreSQL is running as, you are "safe" to trust, and PostgreSQL will let you in.

UNIX ident authentication is also is extremely convenient for local applications, since you don't even have to have a password for the account, or make the PostgreSQL server network-accessible in any way.

Oracle can do the same thing, and so can MySQL, apparently (with IDENTIFIED VIA unix_socket).

MySQL user management has its own complexity in that you have to manage "user@address" identities, and the same user at different addresses or auth methods can have different permissions. How's that "simple"? With PostgreSQL, your users will at least map to the same user regardless of how they authenticate themselves.
The original comment is pretty entertaining. The commentator assumes that they better understand business than the two men with the best record in recent American history. Buffet continues to follow his general principles very well of buying great businesses for reasonable prices and holding pretty much forever. Not following BS trends and buying wildly overpriced tech stocks like Zoom, Zillow, or meme stocks like Gamestop or AMC is a huge plus in most value investors minds.
It seems to be a platform for other plugins/themes to target
What powers did they not exert during the Trump administration?
Can someone please do an ELI5 for this? I have no idea what it is, what it relates to, or why it's important, other than:

* It's about 'bots, and

* It relates to Discord.

Thanks.
There is no reason it can't all be done on-device. That is indeed how the current "Enable camera access?" etc. system works.
But why even? What would be a realistic use case for such scenario that wouldn't be simpler, cheaper, and more reliably served by more conventional means?
The ban on xach.com was removed a few weeks ago.
If you need more documentation about deploying using Shipit, you can find it in the deploy set of tasks: https://github.com/shipitjs/shipit-deploy
Obviously, Math.random() must win inevitably.
Yes, it looks like, I didn't know this project.
I reacted to the CNN article[0] which said "The browser tab read"

[0]http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/25/asia/malaysia-airlines-web...
Many websites would be dramatically improved if they stopped fucking about with stupid pointless javascript and just delivered content, marked up for HTML and styled with CSS.

Some websites have applike functionality and so they need javascript. I am not talking about those. I'm talking about newspaper sites that preload a huge chunk of JS before displaying any text.

(The way you've asked this question is sub optimal.)
What!

So you get 1 buck and teams of lawyers get 70 million?

Better to use small claims, at least you'll get thousands. And most small claims courts? No lawyers.

If everyone took google to small claims, it'd be the death of 1000 cuts for them.
How does near-welfare state do innovation and research in pharmaceuticals? How do countries with universal medical care performs in terms of research and innovation and treating rare diseases?

Shkreli's ideology was when it comes to innovation in Pharma and America's patent driven capitalist nature towards it is the reason why America leads the way in innovation.
iirc that was to drown out even less desirable articles.
This is a good point. I bet the level of radiation is an OSHA violation. Nothing like one government agency fighting another.
Not necessarily. Some Prolog implementations have module/packaging systems, some don't. Prolog is a weird language - many details feel very antiquated* , yet on the whole it's way ahead of its time (esp. constraint programming). I think it would fare much better as an embedded library (like e.g. Lua or SQLite), rather than a freestanding language. Working on it, though I will likely finish other projects first.

* Case in point: Loading a file is "consult"; I assume this is historically because Prolog was originally a language for doing NLP in French. (See e.g. HoPL-2.)
On a semi-related note: I wonder if that development can be a good basis for improvement of current noise-canceling headphones. Right now, they don't perform too well with fast changing sounds -- like background noise of office etc.
All hosting services go down occasionally. If you want to stay up you need to build a fault-tolerant distributed system that spans multiple regions and potentially multiple providers.

Also, Amazon should fix EBS.
Just what I've been looking for, a no fuss explanation of the basics and beyond. cheers.
I guess this is why the other book lending services got crushed ...
Very few cloud SLA's seem to have teeth to me. Amazon's SLA gives service credit equal to 10% of your total bill for the billing period if they blow past the 0.05%. This is a lot better than some cloud providers that will simply prorate the downtime, but pretty crappy in terms of actual business compensation. It's equivalent to a sales discount almost any organization with a sales staff could write without thinking about it - meaning Amazon is still making money on every customer even when they've blown past their SLA - assuming every single customer fills out the forms to apply for the discount. Hint: Many won't, see mail in rebates.

A number of tier 1 network providers offer certain customers SLA's that are clearly in place to prove that they invest in redundancy and disaster planning. ex: less than 99.99% --> 10% credit. less than 99.90% --> no charges for the circuit in the billing period.

This reflects an understanding that downtime can hurt your business/infrastructure far in excess of the measurable percentage.
That was a typo, however, as his legacy continues the typo remains.

Also I disagree with your burger flipper comment, his beliefs were really what made him, him.
I'm curious why you say that. I found it very impressive from a technical standpoint.
We solved that by making ATMs unmanageably heavy. Not the best option for a drone.
(I live in Canada)

They can do whatever they want. I go to a variety of places for lunch. Some places have tips, some places don't.

When they have tips, I tend to tip based on extent and quality of service(I never tip with percentage).
My average tip for a lunch service is about four dollars, when they go above and beyond, are especially prompt and helpful, or respond to my emotional condition, I tend to tip higher.

Lunch is my only daily meal, and service at lunch is just as important as the food in my opinion, whether I'm taking somebody along and want to be taken care of, or just trying to eat something that will relieve stress from work.

I don't experience any pressure while tipping; I just add my few bucks, and if something special has happened, I add a couple more; I don't bother myself with percentages, except maybe to keep above the bare minimum 20% gratuity so I don't get any funny looks out the door.
I wouldn't think so either until I received my first one - its surprisingly useful. In fact my current backlit mechanical keyboard is one of my favorite purchases in the past few years for me - for something I use so much, spending $100-$200 is as much of a no-brainer as a great office chair.
Thank you for this post TheOtherHobbes; glad to see someone who can articulate the issue better than me.

The idea that people can just 'move a bit further out' is flawed here; we're not the US, running a car is far more expensive, for one.
Oh, you know how TC is. A better example of a classy article could be from one of their writers, Jeff Carr.

Nonetheless, they have a great team and are still one of the best sources of up-to-the-minute tech news.
Awesome! I looked under "Even More" and didn't see a hotels option. It would be great to have that option as well, on a smaller scale of course.
Who could Microsoft possibly get to replace Ballmer? Besides Bill Gates, of course...
Pandora and Skype can network in the background; I don't understand why Instapaper can't. Maybe it could play some John Cage while downloading to qualify as an "audio" app. :-)
Come on. It's been in continuous use ever since then. Jane Austin used it, for heaven's sake.
That's not really accurate.

The stock market does not generally act as a mechanism to allow investors to funnel capital to companies. The stock market, as most people think about it, is really a secondary market for fractional ownership of companies.

The process by which that fractional ownership came to be owned by other people is the process by which companies are funded (companies go public and sell shares to the public. this is the major process by which the stock market helps companies raise capital (in exchange for equity)). So all the trading that happens intraday, or even holding some stock for years and years generally does not actually serve to invest in the company.

The question of whether this is a good thing is entirely orthogonal to the point of the article, which seems to be that reading news fast gives you information about markets.

While marketmaking is indeed a valuable market service as described by hugh3, the AI in question doesn't fill that role in any meaningful way (the AI stock picker seems to be a market taker -- it actually removes liquidity when it sees opportunities)

A defensible argument for algorithms like this is that they help maintain market efficiency/ensuring that risk in the marketplace is accurately priced (if such a thing is possible). The AI basically is incorporating news that the world knows and acting on it. If the AI didn't do it, then the markets would, but slower. The fact that its making money on 20 second timescales just means that its getting news 20 seconds faster than the rest of the market, which isn't particularly shocking because you might imagine that the rest of the world is responding without the benefit of an AI that reads/interprets articles in bulk.
This minimalistic design has long been a cornerstone of Google's brand. That they are changing this (and why) is noteworthy to anybody who cares about design on the Internet.

If you don't like the story, you can skip over it to the next one. :)