jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People should distrust foreign interference in elections. It’s supposedly illegal in the US.

Historically, “interference” has broadly included things like providing financial support to candidates, running news stories about candidates (or running news stations in the US, at all), and so on.

The lifting of these restrictions led directly to Fox News (which is an Australian company), which has long been a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. All of this happens despite the fact that it would be illegal for the Republican Party to take campaign donations from Australians.

We need to reinstate media ownership laws in the US.
These of things either recover fast or the entire grid collapses. There isn’t much in between.

That’s why this is so scary
It's not that simple. My 6-year-old son is having hard time - even with the Junior version on Android. Sometimes I do have issue with the regular version as well - it's much easier to write code than use the constructs.
It is pronounced almost exactly the same way (deux-points, point point) in french Canada. "Double-point" is valid according to Wikipedia, but I've never heard it before.
No . It's not . Only a handful of IT companies work on Saturdays
It may be, but people are going to continue sitting.

Maybe instead of telling people how dangerous things are (knowing full well that they will still do them) medical science should start working on a cure.

A pill with the same effects as an hour of exercise will do more to save lives than penicillin.
As someone who've worked saturday mornings for nearly 3 years (in Vietnam) I will say this: saturday is OFF.

A 1 day or a 1½ day week-end is not a week-end and I was a nervous mess after 3 years of that. To top that the saturday mornings were 95% useless because seriously what can you possibly accomplish in such a short time in a noisy open-space when your mind is thinking about how you'll try to relax during the short time allowed?

As for organizing something, I think programmers are grown-up enough to take care of themselves and decide what they want to do with their day off. You don't have to babysit them.
nearlyfreespeech is primarily a hosting service, with the distinction that you only pay for the storage and bandwidth that you actually use. So the way they bill you is, you put say $20 into your account with them and they'll deduct small amounts at a time from that.

I guess most people using their registrar service also use them as a host, so it makes sense to pay for it in the same way.
I almost missed my train stop yesterday because of this. I think the train works particularly well for me because:

- It's a routine, so I can plan a difficult job to work on
as I'm walking to the station
- There's no internet, so no HN/other distractions
- It's normally quiet

One thing I've noticed is that I can only get into the zone if I've got a hard enough problem to work on. I don't seem to be able to do lots of easy problems as efficiently as one large one.
Never heard that one before. "dash" or "minus" is all I've ever come across.
Yeah, these are brackets for me (), these are square brackets [].
Totally agree that you should not separate the web from desktop applications. The user doesn't care. They just want a fast response. Looking at an application like workflowy.com it looks and feels like a desktop app when using it. This is definitely the future.

I think 10 years from now any web page that has a 1 second response delay when clicking on a link or doing something on the site will be considered totally unacceptable usability ... um maybe make that 5 years :)
Composer/Packagist[1] is exactly like npm. It's even mentioned in the article.

[1]: https://packagist.org/
But your compensation still depends on having some "provably lousy coworkers", or worse, if they're all gone some people who are good will perforce get labeled as lousy.
Yes, that 1 dyno is not enough, and there are tons of other limitations (db use, etc).
The Model M really was the pinnacle of keyboards.
> Uber is effectively an instrument to shift economic gains from labour to capital by atomizing the workforce.

This is the entire gig economy/sharing economy in a nutshell. The platform puts most of the financial risk on the labor side (drivers owning the cars if you're driving Uber, owning the house if you're Airbnb'ing it, etc.) and simply taking a cut of each transaction. The platform owns nothing, the workers have very few rights, and the company has complete control of the market. This is VC utopia right here.

The next financial crisis is gonna show us just how fragile this system is, whenever that is.
Slavery is not a trade you choose to have practiced on you, it is a trade you choose to practice.

And as a slave, you always have a choice. It's not cost effective to monitor and restrain you well enough to keep you from killing yourself indefinitely. Lacking others, plenty of slaves have chosen and do choose this option. Same as if all physical work turns into piece/gig-work. You can choose to do it, or you can choose to starve.
I’m pretty sure patents are required for promotion in IBM. Very big insensitive for the engineers and research staff :p
Oops, my bad. I saw it in your profile and thought it would be useful to others (I hadn't heard about it before). My apologies!
That's a good one. What colleges are really looking for is:

1. Expertise in something the college values. For Ivy Leagues and the like, that's usually something academic or artistic. For military academies, that's leadership. Athletics for some schools, though you've gotta be world class or clearly heading there.

2. Good grades (unless you're going for a sports scholarship)

3. A few interesting extra-curriculars to show you can 'multitask' and aren't completely 1 dimensional.

But many parents seem to over-emphasize #3 to the detriment of #1 and #2. If you take them seriously you'll find yourself a jack of many trades, master of none. But it's the masters of particular trades/crafts/domains/knowledge these days that are irreplaceable, un-interchangeable, and who make the advances that push the human race forward, not the jacks.

And the ability to truly master something is difficult, a skill in and of itself. Those who develop that skill early in life will have a significant advantage over those who don't.

So if you find yourself trying to do all three and struggling to keep all those balls in the air, don't be afraid to drop #3. It's expendable.
That's not true of all institutions in the UK - you can transfer credits between Unis and you can change courses with in them too. Some courses are harder to switch between for sure. After 2 years of Uni (4year course) I had option still to graduate in 3 different faculties.
I actually want something more like CS Lite for Firefox that lets you create a white/black list on the fly (no pop-up dialogs or anything).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5207/
Not surprising. How many people over the past 7 years have gone to the ITMS hoping to buy some Beatles music only to found out that it was surprisingly unavailable. A deeper inspection may have revealed the longstanding feud between Apple Computer and the Beatles' music label Apple Records.

So for a critical mass of people the Beatles on iTunes is big news, and naturally they posted it to Facebook, which naturally got a higher than normal click-through rate. This combination of timeliness and virality is optimally captured by social media, and something for which search gets at best a trickle-down effect. But over the coming months, it becomes old news, and then people start searching for it.
What is the performance delta between debug and prod? What is the performance delta between tcc and GCC -O0 if you’ve had a chance to compare?

I also disagree with others that using a different compiler is somehow cheating. Engineering is about winning and choosing the right tradeoffs. Being able to choose a faster backend for debug is one that all compilers offer. Most people spend most of the time living with -O0 builds because they need to debug the code. Heck, 90% of complaints about Rust compile times are about its performance making a debug build and it’s where that dev team spends its efforts. This criticism seems misplaced although it’s not clear to me why there’s this much pushback that most other languages don’t see.
I was thinking this would be a eusocial use of psychopathy.
> Make it not cost more to me.

Seriously. I just ordered an item from Amazon because white the manufacturer's price was $6 less, they wanted $45 for shipping, while Amazon's was free.

I have to wait nine days, but it isn't that urgent, and I'll wait nine days to save $39 (the item itself is only $119, so $39 is quite a lot extra).
Teams are doing "engine in the loop" simulators where the sim sends throttle information to the the engine and feeds back the information about power response to the sim. I'm sure they could do more but it is expensive and of limited benefit.
Strange, I always thought that welfare state enabler were natural resources (like iron ore), the fact they had made through the II World War untouched and hard work of the post-war generation.

The association between the flu and that what happened 30-40 years later sounds a little bit like a click bait.
Unless you like confusing fingerings, and/or super limited range I'd avoid the recorder. A tin whistle is a _much_ easier to learn to play instrument, that exchanges chromatic playing (the ability to play in multiple keys), for a much more accessible second octave of range. Go for a brass or nickle round tube one (Generation, Feadog, or Waltons are decent brands).
> I would just lay down with my hands behind my back anytime I was asked to be searched and never consent.

You uh... Really think that's gonna work? At all?
Development mainly. Spring boot is great and I'm building on top. It doesn't come with a bunch of stuff out the box though:

* Meaningful production Auth flows (emails etc)
* Various admin functionalities (e.g. user management)
* A way to get paid (e.g. Stripe integration)
* Etc.

If there's a flavour of spring boot that comes with this out if the box then I'd be interested in using it.
Thanks for the link, I was wondering if Scott touched on this. Seems to be an adjacent topic but it's relevant nonetheless.

my tldr of that post: in the context of ideological/political theory, mistake theorists are engineers who want results, conflict theorists are warmongers who want to win.

Perhaps seeing bias in everything is just one of those warmongering traits -- because trust me, it's really hard to win against a neutral point of view.
I also remember that Kahvi Collective re-released one of their netlabel albums, "Tangents", to fix a mastering error, although they decided to actually charge for the new version due to mastering effort - their albums are usually pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp (including 0 dollar if you just want to download the FLAC version).
As the foremost domain expert on the subject (the subject being what I meant by my own comment), I can say with 100% certainty that it was in fact a joke, or rather a poor attempt to paraphrase Mark Twain's: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."

Of course you are right, optimization does take time, whether you are optimizing a computer program or a letter.
If you want to save cash, just get a tall chair.
"The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that..."

No, Theo wrote this: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129296046123471&w...
I thought of the recognizing a keyword issue, but then I dismissed it: syntax highlighting make it a non-issue. The ambiguity with using keywords in identifiers is valid, though.
It seems that the only way to actually be able to give those officials any form of repercussions would be to actually sue the government for damages.

I sincerely hope that the affected parties do sue the government successfully.
A better course of action may be prosecution of the RIAA under RICO statutes as they have caused damage of the property of others for claims which are false and which they ought to have known were false. They do offer 'protection' from these issues in exchange for 'licensing' fees. And it's clear that the record company execs have conspired to create such an organization.

This would create far more change than the prosecution of some low level bureaucrats, as RICO statues would allow the prosecution of the executives rather than lower level employees, as well as piercing the corporate veil to go after the record company execs rather than just RIAA execs.

The nice thing is that RICO allows for a civil claim where the evidentiary standards would be greatly relaxed, also a civil claim could not be quashed by reason of 'public interest'.
I am going to try and walk through the pilot/vip line at the airport.
Lots of little ui issues -- low contrast in places, boxes that don't quite line up.

I'm reluctant to actually go in and try anything because I don't want to mess up the data your users already have there.
Thanks for your answer. The point about the snapshots is a very good one, for some reasons I didn't think about it.

Rewriting data in place can be tricky, if you have old enough snapshots the newly added space may not be enough. I hope they will find a good enough solution.
Ah yes, forgot that bit. You're correct I use i3.
How do you know it's not going to be used after the user explicitly accepts sharing data?
I highly recommend the book "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street"
There's a collapsed feature.

If you are in a child comment, you can click on next to go to the next comment/discussion
Thank you for turning me on to this, I'm aware of Paul Betts but not this project in particular.
That's a surprising misconception. I hope we quickly overcome that.
Alpha Terpineol is in pine trees.

Benzyl Alcohol is in many plants and foods.

Ethanol is, well, ethanol.

Ethyl Acetate is found in many alcoholic beverages and is a simple ester of ethanol and acetic acid(vinegar).

Limonene is orange oil, found in citrus peels.

Linalool is found in many spices and flowers.

I'm not sure if you're seriously trying to scare people or making a sarcastic 'di-hydrogen monoxide' style joke.
Anecdotally, I eat 3 meals, about the same as anyone, but I’m probably less prone to diseases of affluence than I would be if I drove everywhere. I’d wager that most Americans have a couple hundred extra daily calories in their budget that could safely be spent commuting by bike.
Isn't it crystal clear by now that Driverify coin (explained in the post) will happen any day IRL?
Hyperlocal decision making is needed across the boards and it is why our country was designed as a federation of states. It wasn’t meant to place so much power in a federal government and it didn’t anticipate centralization of public education through institutions like teachers unions. Unfortunately what we are seeing now are brazen power games to oppress one’s ideological or political opponents, and it includes things like the education system, where there is massive, tribal opposition to choice in education.
difficult to get this through without going through the established channels and dealing with the politics straight on
Skimmed over it, from all those companies they had to sue, only Gigabyte seems to have been cooperative.
Great work! 3D with dithering is just so cute :)
Uppercasing keywords makes it easier to read the code. Apple's Pascal tooling did that, IIRC.
That makes sense. The common words are the one you hear most, so the influence of the dominant language is the strongest with those. But the words that are more complex you hear more often, and, being complex, the acquisition has more friction.
As I recall their tweet did not indicate that they had direct access to the identity (such as name or address) of those people. I think they mentioned their municipality?

Of course they have the raw data, but it's possible the people who sent that tweet just have access to a database that contains only anonymized data.
So, the best tip I've heard, and what I tell patients who want to minimize who want to minimize injuries, is to pretend like you're running on ice or glass. Try and focus on absorbing the impact of each step and try to distribute your weight evenly so as not to 'break the glass'. I think I first heard it through a TED talk or something, I'll see if I can't dig it up.
> and that if you use the well hidden unbranded builds available in no repos it's possible too.

Except those builds don’t have an updater, which is kind of a major QOL problem in a web browser.
Where did the idea of a "year of the Linux desktop" originally come from, anyway? I often see people joking about it or advocating it (Linus, even!), but I've never seen any sort of foundational essay or manifesto - does something like that exist?
I don't see how any of these points directly threaten piketty's conclusion, that "r > g is a force for divergence," at least as they are presented here.

The first counterargument is nothing new. It's in the Solow model for Pete's sake! It only threatens the returns to capital as a theoretical conclusion in the distant, long-run future (going off the Solow model). Piketty has made an empirical argument off historical data.

The second paragraph saying most of r has come from capital gains in the financial market just looks silly before the one saying most of capital gains has been from an appreciation in land value. I don't know if that is how the original argument goes.
Actually, it was first used without any support from twitter, then transformed into a tag-like functionality

Same with retweets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_Use
>it's hard to claim Piketty making mistakes without most probably being politically motivated to do so.

Precisely. The media and punditry love to emphasize that economic models didn't see this or that crash, or can't explain this or that phenomena. Yet this guy writes an incredibly well researched, deep book, and the same people pile on because his conclusions don't model reality to a tee. Economics doesn't work that way. All researchers can do is attempt to get incrementally closer to "the truth".

We're going through some interesting times of awareness of wealth inequality globally, so both the "socialist" side and "capitalist" side have exaggerated his conclusions, and thus the guy can't stay out of the news.
Slack encourages 2-factor authentication:

> Download and install either the Google Authenticator or Duo Mobile apps on your phone or tablet.

Hey Slack, I don't have a smartphone. What am I supposed to do?
Who do they reflect the attack to though? Baidu? They might not even know this is happening (well they probably do now, but not sure what they can do). The GFW infrastructure itself certainly isn't publicly addressable.
The post notes that the breached database is the user table, which would not contain chat history. I agree that making this abundantly clear makes sense.
Multisig solves that problem.
I dont see these running power amp sections. I was initially excited by this development as well, but I am hoping KORG doesnt just throw these "tubes" in every DSP synth, drum machine and prosumer piece of gear they make and say "NOW WITH MOAR TUBES!!!!"

I would be interested to see analog gear built front to back with this stuff however...
> I don't think there is a single engineer working at Etsy who thinks PHP is the best language out there

Nota bene, the creator of PHP works for Etsy

(Hey thanks for the comment, Will)
Yes. I use it when I need to resume a SSH session. Given proper configuration, switching SSH tabs/connections is as easy as switching browser tabs...there is no real need for me to use screen for such a purpose.

Thank you for the suggestion tho. :)
This doesn't say he used them, only that he stole them. Plus, he got caught.
> We can say that sending someone to jail for putting Buddha on a flyer is objectively bad

I don't think this is 'tu quoque'. I have not heard a lot of people (on HN or otherwise) saying that castigating Matt Taylor for wearing a racy shirt is objectively horrible.

This would make me think that it is a cultural thing -- i.e. I am alone in thinking it is objectively bad; and therefore probably culturally un-attuned. Therefore, my belief in its objective badness must be wrong. Hence, I believe that putting people in jail for showing a Buddha with headphones, might also be a culturally okay thing to do for the Burmese (just as shaming Matt Taylor for wearing a racy shirt till he cries on TV is culturally okay in the US).
Medicine did not start advancing rapidly until around 1800 when people first started using statistics to determine what worked and what didn't, rather than anecdotal evidence.
running the top 10k passwords on each hash will likely get quite a few hits, and not take much compute time... the overlap to accounts that are owner/admin accounts is unknown.. just the same entirely possible. (not counting for slack's password complexity requirements)
I'd normally write this off as immature blogspam but when I see stuff like this in the thread:

> that a lot of their code is some C code written in 1998

I figure I could remind Ms. Zeng that the real world runs on legacy code. Everything from spaceships to airplanes to the airbag controller in your car that might save your life one day is probably running "some C/Ada/Fortran code written in XX". The hot garbage that is EDA software designing your phone and laptop is probably from the 90s. The code that tabulates your bank account at the end of the day is very likely ancient. There is good reason for all of this. In fact I'd be legit horrified if the code tabulating my taxes was done using some flavor-of-the-week JavaScript library. TurboTax has been around since the 80s-90s so I'd expect the mathematics libraries to be stable and vetted by accountants and unlikely to change.
Can you buy loose high density magnetic tape?
There was a comment in a sister thread positing that Cryptocurrencies currently use 1/3rd of the entire data center energy use on the planet.

I haven't looked into this, and I don't endorse this data or the comment, but it's likely relevant to your question:

Bitcoin uses about 1/3 the energy of all datacenters in the world put together.
Datacenters use about 205 TWh/year.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow...

Bitcoin uses about 75 TWh/year.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

And that's with everyone on the planet using normal money every day and just about no one using Bitcoin.
The US currently consumes ~64M tons of CO2 / year: https://www.iea.org/reports/putting-co2-to-use

We need to remove somewhere between 100B-1T tons of CO2 from the air to get back to safe, non-planet-warming levels: https://nanransohoff.com/A-mental-model-for-combating-climat...
That's great. The market for C02 is already there and cooling towers exist everywhere. I have a gut feeling this could be licensed to the large players for their new builds, even if the co2 is just used onsite.
It was my understanding that Microsoft pulled the rug out from developers multiple times by making new OS versions not quite backwards compatible.
Try when it’s a 44 year old and he’s been there twenty years, leaving his fingerprints on every process

“We have to listen to Dave, he built this place! We can’t replace his code!”
If you ignore a red light and kill 10,000 people? Maybe. That’s what this kind of software hack is.
We (ab)used the shit out of that kind of thing in SproutCore way back in 2008.

In situations like single-page app building, it's very useful.