jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is that surprising in any way? Not saying it's right kr desirable but we've understood this phenomenon to exist in many contexts.

We buy expensive wines over better cheaper ones for the sake of feeling better. It's a life of interpreted experience not cold logic. Life would be too complicated to think of the actuality of everything.

It's got commonality with say a concept like pervasive direct democracy. Imagine having to make a decision a d vote on every single government act., even if only local. Most people would become exhausted of the process of this indefinite mobilization mindset.

So feeling more secure is easier than actually being statistically more secure. Peace of mind is important.

Look at insurance. You could probably run numbers and find other ways to minimize loss in the event of something catastrophic, but most of us just buy into external public insurance policies.
It it true that patches are dropped or forgotten? Or is this a personal opinion?
That is what I do not understand: why does everybody who is going to do "car hacking" thinks he needs to build his own device. There are cheap CAN adapters available. There are lots of dev boards from those different chip makers available. There are Arduino shields and BeagleBone capes available.

I just got some cheap Chinese Bluetooth adapters for myself.
Dialup
Yeah, it's really quite frightening that a first-world country like Australia is going the route they are. Not that the US hasn't made gestures in the same direction, but Aussie seems to be following through with it.
Really? So all the explicit rules and regulations about disclosure, etc that participants in the stock market must adhere to are not actually binding? Everything is just a big crapshoot?

Sadly, your assessment is just about bang on of how it actually is. What people are complaining about is that it is advertised as something else.

After the whole Bre-x scandal, there are now very strict rules on stating mineral resources. However, you can adhere to those rules, get money from investors to fully develop a mine and mill, and then sell the company for ten cents on on the dollar to a cayman islands based company, and the regulators won't bat an eye, even when you do most of the legwork for them.

You seem to talk as if the markets have always been rigged. It was not always like this. Of course there were always indiscretions here and there, but the way it is now is just ridiculous.
Read the article.
Visited link to Wikipedia article?
Daymit, how you can SURVIVE on 35K a year in USA???
Maybe somewhere in Mississippi, but not in North USA.
Still, you'll have to eat random crap from 7-11 and macdonalds...
> Of course, not every game was like this. Fallout was one of two games offering this much freedom. The other was Fallout 2.

There was at least a third one: Arcanum. If anything, Arcanum gave the player even more choices as one of the choices of infinite graduations was the player's navigation between technology and magic, which had consequences throughout the whole game.

Arcanum was also the second game series I've known (after Fallout) where playing "evil" throughout the game was actually possible and not a dead end.
And how exactly would you "verify" someone's name anyway? Ask them to scan in their passport? I doubt many, least of all here, would transmit sensitive documents to a website just so they could register an account.
Typically via creditcard. Pay a symbolic amount (e.g. $5) to create an account, allow at most 1 account per credit card.

I don't like the idea of verified accounts either, but if that's the price we have to pay to keep our discussions civilized I'm okay with it.
The original link wasn't working.
At this point in time, do you really think that viruses are incapable of sweeping the globe and infecting a significant fraction of humanity, if they don't provide a benefit to the host?
What you will want is a SFU. This is a non-exhaustive list, if others want to chime in would appreciate it!

* https://galene.org

* https://github.com/pion/ion

* https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls

* https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway

* https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup

* https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

* https://github.com/fox-one/mornin.fm
Yeah I'm not saying that people shouldn't be responsible for the things they build just that there are a lot of people who will give up their time for usually some small amount of money (given what they make hourly) rather than to just take that time for what they want to. Where I work we have little leeway to fix issues and clients do dumb shit all the time and we have to deal with it. why would you give up your personal time for some marginal amount of money?
Sure, so I have tracking protection too both through uBlock Origin, and Firefox' tracking protection feature. Yet, here you are, bypassing my tracking protections.
It's a good move, try using any of the US payment providers in China, forget app based services, can't even take money out of ATM there with Visa debit card
Pluto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur). It doesn't work on 10.15 (Catalina).
setInterval(x => $('#vote1').click(), 100)
I don't think being opt-in is a solution to the problem. Most people will click anything if it lets them read the page they're trying to view, and nefarious actors will take advantage of this. We'll just end up with an internet that doesn't work unless you opt-in.

I think the solution is: if you can't add the functionality in a way that doesn't expose information about the user's system, don't add it.
Football team coaching staff are almost like another team. Position coaches usually are ex players of that position but as you move up the chain it gets more into strategic management and thus by the HC level it's more of a manager role with architects underneath for offense and defense so less position technical knowledge more game knowledge.
I usually hate the cryptocurrency articles that get posted here, but I do like this one — a decent overview of technical challenges & possible solutions
When you are in consulting it's not rare to have to carry 2 or even 3 laptops.
Yeah they are still made with animal products. "Natural beef flavor".
So if you spend 14 hours a day for 5 years on a computer project that becomes useful, and a lot of people want it and pay you for it, you are willing to fork over most of that to the government since they provided you with the basic allowance that let you pursue this project, and your success is how they fund a basic allowance for everyone - you included.

While your friend, who did nothing for 5 years, maintains the same standard of living that you do.

I guess this could work, but to me, the level of "disinterest" required to be okay with this result is even more rare than genius.
https://app.netlify.com/teams/<team-name>/settings/billing
And the price of food is higher than the theoretical lower limit because we require FDA and USDA inspections. This prevents some number of Americans from opening "mom-and-pop" grocery stores.

I'll take the regulations, thanks.
There are a few guidelines but the FTC also has a general audience category.

Youtube is ignoring this and forcing a choice because it's easier to implement. They're also ignoring creators that are asking for age-gating with logged-in users only to prevent their video classification from being contested in the future.
Well, that's quite the subtle question. Yes, in my plan for world domination, the representation of display lists is also immutable trees (or, more precisely, DAG's) hosted on the GPU, and the incremental nature of the pipeline is preserved, so small diffs to the UI result in small uploads of graph to the GPU. But it also includes damage region tracking, which is not really a tree, and the very end of the pipeline is pixels, which is definitely not a tree.
I think it's fair to say they are paying her to do the bagging in the form of "lower prices" as a result of paying for less employees, but I get the concern.
Your question could deserve a book-length treatment, but one quick thing I can say is that the system is self-correcting. The more bells and whistles you add onto the Standard Model, the less anybody else will want to build upon it. And complexity doesn't rise steadily over time. Because of the LHC results, many models these days are a lot simpler (at least to me) than 10 years ago.

It is true that in addition to bolting on correct features, you occasionally need syntheses that simplify the whole thing, like how the zoo of mesons and baryons were explained by quarks. But at the moment, we're very far from having that problem...
The TurnKey Amazon EC2 documentation is available here [1], and the full listing of the AMI's is here [2].

Out of curiosity, why don't you want to use the TurnKey Hub (I.e., beta cloud offering)?

[1] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/ec2

[2] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/ec2/ami
It's pretty neat that they used the border-radius to make the actual div perfectly round. I love it when a feature is used for something completely different than what was intended (make rounded-corners).
Let me guess - Shoreditch triangle.
Nothing like a post on Daring Fireball to keep the iPhone/Android loyalty war on the front page of HN.

Does any of this really matter?
I think Honda and Toyota are designing these devices for their growing elderly population in Japan.
Just alittle more practice...
Interesting: Chinese music schools have > 90% perfect pitch students. American music schools: 4% (same as population average)
If one of the kwin developers had nvidia hardware, likely they would have cared enough to try. And if they didn't, how would they test and maintain the nvidia-specific code? Adding an entirely new code path for rendering would be a large support and testing burden that they may not have had the resources to take on.
Many "average" users don't know what they want, don't even realize the options that are available to choose from (i.e. the different ways an app can be built), and/or will accept whatever is offered.

Though it wasn't patently insulting, you have gone ad hominem - "to the man" - rather than the idea. Whether one is a developer or not, doesn't have any bearing on whether economy and efficiency are worthwhile values in a computer application. Although it so happens that developers tend to also be users. If they ARE users, then they represent users. Also in the sense of acting as an advocate of sorts for the user, developers represent users.

"Average" users having never been offered the thing being proposed here (faster and ad-free versions of the same apps, with the same network effects etc.), I don't see how you can state with any confidence that they wouldn't have chosen them, were they available.
It's actually closer to 5% according to Google's stats. Still far too low, but 5x higher than you thought.
Mandatory fanboi mention: see also https://luna-lang.org for a product that may hopefully become a worthy successor (and is fully open-source!).
Could/should there be an equivalent of a sports manager and/or sports agent? Like a headhunter, only dedicated to a programmer throughout that programmer's career? Hmmm.
> Is there anything that approaches the feature set of jQuery DataTables?

https://slickgrid.net/ have a look at the https://6pac.github.io/SlickGrid/examples/
External wars != internal strife. Also, Switzerland is still fairly homogeneous despite having several official languages. Moreso than say, China, India, even France or Spain.
You came to SF and are now enjoying life post-Uber. You have no idea how bad taxis were before Uber. You would never have gotten a cab pre-Uber.

I once waited 1.5 hrs for a cab to pick me up from a hotel. The idea you would just hop in a taxi and travel places was impossible pre-Uber. If you were downtown, you might be able to flag a taxi but once you arrived at your destination you wouldn’t be able to flag a taxi down depending on where you were. So you would have to call a cab and hope they would show up. At 3X the price.

This is part of the equation that you don’t get. Empty cabs would pass people on the streets because they would pick and choose rides to the airport because those were the most lucrative.

Safety was impossible. Now with Uber safety is better than it ever has been, you just don’t realize it because you don’t know what the taxi stays on safety were before.

If you don’t like the service, give them 1 star and complain. That’s how it works.
Phone phobia, anyone?
It's not a floppy drive per note, but per channel. Every drive maps to a MIDI channel.
There is often ongoing maintenance for sure, but if that is a concern a framework probably doesn't fit your project for other reasons already.

Frameworks are heavier, but in the same way a company gets heavier as it gets more professional and more complex.

I think your use case doesn't require a framework, so don't think my angle is to convince you that you do. Just that there is definitely a time and place for them.
My impression is that Wolfram came to such conclusions because he is obsessed with cellular automata and with their mathematical universality in discrete domains. Of course, they are useless in continuous domains, so it would be ruinous to his world-view if the universe were continuous. So it's a bit like ancient metaphysics a la Plato and Co., where the properties of the universe are inferred from first principles (which come from... where, exactly?) rather than from any empirical observation.

A review of Wolfram's book:
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...
I can understand that take on it.

Our take is more that if you can recognize what is wrong with the code on multiple levels then you can most likely write good code.

This is easier to check on non-trivial code when done through a code review then by getting the interviewee to write the same kind of code that every other interview looks for. The submitted code sample does this as well.

I'd also want people on my team to be able to successfully refactor legacy code just by looking at it and being able to identify where things can be better cleaned up and tested.
Sorry, the storage is EBS, the line in the docs is just misleading. We'll push a fix to the docs in a few mins.
That doesn't support your original statement at all. If you made the statement in error, then simply say so.
Well, that's the million dollar question isn't it? Should the State be allowed to keep this much stuff secret and still expect the Voting Public to accurately measure the effectiveness of government officials?
> THIS is the stuff that should be on hacker news!

If interested, see previous discussions of APE:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556286
The best part is when someone tried to make it work for the other 96% of the world but failed for 2% of the dates (probably because the other locales got less testing, again very US centric), so one ends up with mixed US/EU dates (the latter often also uses / as a separator, as . is only used in some EU countries).

It's so much fun trying to retrospectively correlate fatal incident data and failing to make sense of anything because some dates are inconsistent. Of course those dates are all the ambiguous kind, otherwise it wouldn't be -that- hilarious /s.
Yes, let's.

its 19KB, thats not awful.

The payload is 19KB. Then the browser has to run all that code, continually, for the duration of the visit. This sucks terribly on underpowered android phones, which is the most common internet access device on earth.

If you use Global Site Tag (as Google recommends) then it's more than twice as much code (and twice the GETs).

But so what.

So a small shop has better things to focus on, and obsessing over Google's idea of analytics isn't necessarily the top priority. That's what the whole article is about.

Would be nice if if it offered specifics on the "liability" but it does not.

Think of privacy as a limited resource: once you spend it, it's gone. In this case, you're spending your own privacy to get access to Google's dashboard. This could bite you in the ass if you ever found yourself at the negotiation table with a company that knows everything there is to know about your business.

And that's just one issue -- you're also, of course, dumping all possible info about your users into Google's servers as well, and you're not even getting paid for it.

And for the weight of an "extensive privacy policy", I'm not buying this as a great reason.

You're not alone, but there are more people every day who do. You handwaving it away is fine but doesn't invalidate the point being made.

Again, what!? I'm not seeing these prompts.

Congratulations, I suppose! But why are you acting confused? The author provided a link explaining them. Which prompts pop up vary according to the laws of the region Google geolocates you in. Spend a few bucks on a European VPN if you want proof.

I think your comment is the poorly researched rant. "What?" and "I'm not buying this" aren't sound arguments. You cherry-picked some bullet points, but ignored the citation provided, which expanded on every single one of them.
Agree that this argument is flawed. But given most miners are in China, that does give it an implicit control over the blockchain. So...
Thanks for the in depth explanation. So it seems that, during the interval (which defaults to 30s) they could possibly determine the TOTP value.

It seems possible to brute force, however as soon as the interval changes, by default every 30 seconds, the TOTP is now new because time has passed.

But assuming they could do some crazy thing like attempt 10,000 times within that interval, I suppose it's arguable that it should still be secure...

So upon research looks like it's quite easily fixed by comparing all digits individually, and then aggregating if all all true, but continuing the iteration and checks even if a false value has been found. I suppose that would cover this case.

Thanks for pointing this out! Will be adding an issue ;)
Yeah, I did not get it as a joke :) For sarcasm, you probably know, but people put a /s indicating it's sarcasm ;)
> If you actually took the steps of learning the basic abstractions, then for me it's really hard to see what you could still get rid of.

This argument basically sums up to "Developers just need discipline, and stop blaming the tools". While this is a sound argument on paper, the intrinsic complexity of software systems make it hard to pin the blame on developers. BTW This is the same argument Uncle Bob makes which is not so popular with many mainstream developers.

You're right about feature creep in k8s though.
> I've never actually read the ISO 8601 spec, like probably most people here

Indeed. The comprehensive Wikipedia article on ISO8601 is as far as we go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Thanks for pointing out rfc3339 - this appears to be the "useful part" of ISO8601 for data interchange.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
Well, this really can't fail. The challenge was to develop a ready-to market vaccine in the shortest possible time and several companies managed this task. That is why millions are already vaccinated.

Yes, you are allowed to ask questions, but why do you assume that all the involved experts at the pharmaceutical companies didn't ask those questions? And as far as I am aware, they did investigate different dosages.

So what we got now is their best effort given the many competing requirements. And yes, they might have a bit generous, but only a bit, as higher doses do create stronger side effects. And I am very happy they did, considering the mutations appeared in the meantime and the vaccines are still effective.

I am sure, the vaccines are going to be further optimized as more time goes by and especially more data becomes available.
Hands down Gatsby. It's just incredible. Can pull data in from almost any source (Wordpress, CMS, Markdown).
It's the fastest you can ever get, because it utilizes service worker and preload and caches pages on mouse hover. It works offline after you visited the page once.
It fully pre-renders every page on build time so works without javascript a bots can crawl the original pages without javascript!
There are at least two factors in motion in this question: the exponential growth of abstraction layers and the career trajectory of the observer. Up to a point somewhere in midlife, the observer will have increasing knowledge of more and more of the layers, whereas the average SWE will have knowledge of only the top few. Hence the observation of a quality decline. Wait a few more years until the ever accelerating layers are coming tetris-like too fast for you to handle with your declining brain power and the observation will reverse.
I think simple ads most people are OK with however you start to lose people when those ads track your movements like a creepy stalker, sell that data without your knowledge or consent, and tax your system with resource hungry js that adds precious seconds to your wait only to be served with a zero day or other malware.

Sites and ad networks have being engaged in a abusive relationship with users for a long time now and it's wrong to expect them to not try to protect themselves. If you want users to stop blocking your ads then stop serving them ads worth blocking.
Correct. Authentication should always be via cookies with "HttpOnly" set, since (a) the cookie is not needed client side and (b) it somewhat limits the damage XSS can do.
"Very few knew what it even meant and it was all documented and known by parts of the government. A government in war btw. A secret weapon that was not used against it's own people."

It's not brute forcing. You can place many people in their role and position, letting them do their job honestly without any need for them to have any clue at all about the greater scheme.

(This would probably apply more to the government scenario than to other scenarios, but for sake of the examples..)

Simple examples, more elaborate ones can easily be thought of with a bit more time:

Did the person giving the hijackers pilot training play a role that day? definitely!

Was this person to be blamed? in the know? no!
Doing his/her job in good faith and with honesty? yes!

What about those people scheduling an air force training that day, causing many planes and pilots that normally defend the NY airspace to be away from the area?
(assuming this was a 'purposeful move in the 'allowed to happen' scheme or something)

They were just following orders. Training pilots regularly is a good thing to do right? Who can predict that the lack of defensive capability that day would be such a bad/tragic timing? The people actually organizing the training? No! Would the pilots moving to a training need to be in the know? No! Can they be blamed? Not at all, but they might regret not being at their home base.

Just a couple of people in strategic places can move all the 'pawns' (not meant derogatory in any way!) to the correct place and time for the greater strategic (chess) plan to work / allowed to work / insert possible variations here.

These 'pawns' would often truly believe that they are doing their job to the best of their abilities and not be able to see any 'evil' in what they are doing.

Hope what I'm trying to convey is somewhat clear.

Once again, these examples are easier to make for the 'government scenario'.. which is not something that I fully support.

To be honest: I really don't know what really happened that day. I don't have a definitive answer that I want to 'push on to others'. I only know that the official story is something with too many holes and too many strange coincidences for me.
I did the same thing, then I read his comment on a previous post where he said the same thing and realized my mistake. I wonder if the prior paragraphs where he talks about building his online reputation may have inadvertently primed us to read the sentence that way?
Believe it or not, this requires a real change in process for most businesses. Not many hostesses are hawk-eyed enough to spot an unhappy customer leaving.
Probably a bad source: http://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-big-is-surveymonkey/