jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I started on a TRS-80 with tape casette backup programming basic at a local computer lab. My first computer was a commodore vic-20, then finally the commodore 64 :).
An FBI agent in the article:

"You’ll have to understand, when a person of your… background walks into here, traveling alone, and sets off our alarms, people start to get a bit nervous. I’m sure you’ve been following what’s been going on in the news recently. You’ve got people from five different branches of government all in here - we don’t do this just for fun."

That's profiling.

Edit to add: in other words "The questions about race/religion weren't profiling, because they weren't used to select him for additional scrutiny" is false. They even admitted to subjecting him to additional security because of his "background".
I don't see why working for Google would make someone irrelevant. There's every reason to think that his choice was a reasoned one.

He gave a talk recently, broadcast by the BBC, which he used to raise the issues we have with tracking, click-bait, and misinformation. His audience looked to comprise quite influential people.

The fact is he saw the potential his software had; that the combination of server, browser, and markup could revolutionise the world, even before anyone was using it.

It would seem foolish to silence someone like that, and careless to advise people not to listen. I'm certainly not saying that we accept his opinions without question, and I'm sure he would agree.
Kind of amusing that this PDF is hosted on Google's servers, given that Google is running the largest surveillance operation in history.
I went to Catholic schools throughout High School. Tell your friends not to worry, the kid is still listening to songs about shaking your ass, the parents just aren't hearing it.
I agree with you. JavaFX is better than Swing for most use cases.

I gave the Swing "Hello World" example because it shows a minimal, simple example of how little code is needed to create cross-platform GUI in Java.

JavaFX is also technically an external library now since Oracle spun out JavaFX to OpenJFX and Gluon has taken over development and maintenance, although many but not all OpenJDK distributions include it.
This is precisely what every linux distro does. Nix isn't providing novel functionality for bootable OS images.

But a bigger question for the ergonomics of NixOS: Are NixOS and Nix prebuilding for ARM now?
You realize that drug tests don't detect psychedelics. And it's ridiculously easy to grow your own psilocybin mushrooms (the spores for which are legal to purchase in all states except California, Georgia, and Idaho) if you're worried about the supply chain.
OSM is good, but at the same time Google has three major benefits:

1. Traffic data harvested from people whose location data is being shared to Google. This allows for much better routing as gmaps will automatically route around traffic.

2. A team of paid developers making probably one of the best driving-routing algos out there. I've used osmand and the routing is absolutely trash. Same with the web version of OSM. Until this improves massively, gmaps isn't going anywhere.

3. Incredible search. Searching for places on OSM just isn't great, and gmaps has all the extra bells and whistles when it comes to searching for, say, "restaurants" and it gives you different cuisines, price ranges, etc... Perhaps when considering a solution like OSM, this is better suited to a separate restaurant search app to keep OSM from bearing the burden of having to accommodate all these uses.

I say all this as an avid OSM contributor. I love OSM and I really want it to be good, but it's just not there yet.
> Imagine if everyone who disagrees with you was greedy.

Didn't say it was everyone, gave two examples of two well-documented individuals, and said that this would be true of "some" people.
I am not sure whether you have an incredibly good filtering system or have got incredibly lucky.

I have interviewed similar numbers and have been repeatedly complimented on my ability to put people at ease, but have encountered exactly what the grandparent comment says. It really opened my eyes seeing so many with many years on their CV but struggling with (literal) fizzbuzz.

This experience accords with most I have read about online (starting with the semi-famous coding horror article [0]). It is your experience that differs from the norm, honestly.

[0]:https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
Here is a comparison of US life expectancy vs a selection of socialist governed nations[0].

US life expectancy may have plateaued, but doesn't appear to be in decline, and it's still above even Cuba, which has perhaps the highest amount of social spending on healthcare as portion of GDP.

Meanwhile, Venezuela and Mexico are in clear declines.

With regards to which extremes of the political spectrum have the highest body counts, I would say the far-left Marxist states are the clear winners, with somewhere in the region of 42 to 160 million killed.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
While it does go down from time to time and can't be relied on for a serious product, I've had a couple fun projects using that server for nearly 5 years now, without having to touch anything.

It's still great that they provide this service. I'm curious if anyone else is hosting a slightly more reliable public server as alternative.
Honestly if they just picked a different emoji collection, I would be happy.
An example: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-...
>We've been working on a JupyterLab based product for the insurance industry - not machine learning but shares a lot of the features - e.g. possibly long running models etc

Cool. Do you have a link I could check out? I exchanged with someone a few days ago who is working /has worked in the insurance sector. Could you send me your contact information or add it to your profile? I'll ask them if they're interested in getting in touch with you or take a look at your product.

>Trying to land our first (fairly large) customer at the moment!

Nice. We're coming at it from the other way: we've had organizations as clients for our consultancy and we built complete custom machine learning solutions for them [as in, sometimes doing 3D printing to serve data acquisition, writing libraries for BLE devices, to the models, and web/mobile apps, as they wanted us to completely handle everything]. After doing that for many years, we clustered problems we consistently ran into, and then decided to build our internal platform to help us deliver better.

>Can you share any more on what your plans are especially from a business perspective?

First, keep our sanity. It feels really good to see all the tedious work we don't have to do anymore on the consulting side because of what our tool does for us. We continue to do consulting to keep our finger on the pulse, plus the problems we solve are really cool and diverse.
> Because all I see are rioting by people who have lost any upward mobility they might have once had.

Isn't this what ultimately fuels all civil wars?
It's unsurprising; beyond Twitter/the Web most people outside of Iran were apathetic about it. Those who did take definite action were definitely too few to really take on an actual government.

The outcome was never really unexpected, but I think there were positives in the whole thing to be taken away. Like the idea that it;s hard for a government to cover up their actions from the rest of the world any more. Or that not even attempts to block Twitter were wholly successful.

That's unfortunately no practical use to the protesters in Iran - but it's a positive start! And I can't help wondering if the first real tech generation, as they grow, will provide a "real life" power base to actually bring online action into real world results.
malloc() and free() is what I meant by "standard memory allocation functions". I'd say program that is in the position to use madvise() effectively has implemented it's own heap allocator.

Also, MADV_DONTNEED is only usable in some specific situations, like caches. I don't see how it could be used to implement things like "on low memory, trigger garbage collection and trim the heap to the smallest possible with munmap()".
Nope, just sincerely curious.

They need to show the warrant to enter suspects house but don't need to do it when seizing suspects property in public space. That's what confused me.
I'm not surprised.

They are overpriced and never changed with the times.
This is exactly what I do, except that I'm using the $5/month droplet from DO, although I don't live in China (currently in Oman), and the censorship here isn't no where near as bad.
You can't take the literature grad school out of the boy.

But isn't that Suzanne Somers - Wire interview seriously... whatever it is? Come on, who else am I going to get to watch that? :)
In the video I saw of the person who got shot, it looked like she was climbing into a room that already had both police and other rioters inside - is that incorrect? I’ve also seen pictures of people inside Pelosi’s office, including on her unlocked computer with emails displayed (albeit I assume these weren’t confidential - the only one mentioned was about the security breach).
Maybe it’s more of me showing my naivety but I still think of a recursive function call as bindings and computation. My mental model is f(x) -> f(y(x)) = f(x) -> g(x), where g is a function wrapping the body of f. It’s surely not what the compiler does, but it makes thinking about recursion no more complicated than thinking about any old function. Then the only thing I need to think about beyond that is “does my environment support TCO, or am I certain my data fits in the call stack?”
> Boeing lost a lot more than this just to market forces -- the cost of lost business, the cost of repairs, the loss of future good will.

How much did they actually lose? I mean, excluding coronavirus essentially destroying passenger airflight... Boeing does not have competition in many areas. The US military won't buy Airbus, Dassault or Saab planes, the NASA won't exclusively shift to SpaceX because ULA space flight is actually a job program. On the passenger airflight side the only competition is Airbus who have limited capacity.
Is that a realistic scenario that cannot be solved by just building out capacity? I don't see this discussion in South Korea or whatever where everyone and their grandmother stream like crazy since forever.

It sounds like completely invented scarcity. If necessary have the state chip in if the infrastructure is too expensive but do we really need to ration internet access?
Yea I still don't know what the input level is for the robots, did they use some sort of dance notation[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation
Only after reading your comment!
There will be others playing this game.

(But they won’t run “full” Windows or OS X. That has failed every time it has been tried in the last ten years. Ask Microsoft.)
Get a PO Box.
Eek. This seems like a mistake, as iOS 4 has not shipped yet. Apple still has time to fix it.
Python offers most of the same abilities, though Pythonista culture seems to emphasize them less.
This is a very deceptive title. The "Dev Team" -- the guys who do the iPhone cracks like redsn0w, etc. -- often crack prelease versions of iPhone OS updates well before they go final, but keep the cracks private to prevent Apple from "prematurely" patching them so they can be used when the final (or GM) version is released. This crack was almost certainly not found in the last 24 hours.
This may sound absurd, but I wonder if this has ever been seriously tried as a training platform for competitive swimmers.
Linus, Chris Mason (who's doing BtrFS), Ulrich Drepper (because he's really angry all the time), and uh, that British guy who's number 2.

Damnit, you're right.
Indeed, a good tradesman is never unemployed, and they usually make good money.

On the other hand, I guess there are people that would rather risk unemployment than the "blue collar" perceived stigma.

Not to mention that many of the well-paying trades are actually not easy to learn! I have a lot of respect for them.
As others have said, I checked the site and couldn't find the meaning anywhere I looked. Granted, I did not check the entire site word for word, but you would think they would make it obviously clear somewhere what the letters stood for.
This is a neat little sting, but looked at honestly, it's entrapment.

"Commonly referred to as The Glorblar Problem"

That phrasing is a cue that the student is expected to either look something up or to refer back to notes or memory of lectures or discussion of the Glorblar Problem in class. Why else mention it, if it were an honest homework problem?

We know they didn't hear about the Glorblar Problem in class - it doesn't exist. For the same reason, we know that hitting the books, either back at the dorms or in the library, wouldn't have turned up anything.

Remember that this is homework, not a test. Yes, presumably the problem is doable without any reference material. The students don't necessarily know that, though. They do know that they've been prodded in that question to at least check their thinking or work against external information....which isn't available to them through the channels they've been permitted to use.

So, the professor deliberately tempted people to look up something online, then amused himself by busting the people who did. Cute method, but it proves nothing other than "schmuck bait works".
I think that's exactly the point: while those myriad of technologies allow you to mitigate some of the downsides of distance, they still don't have the accidental factor that random hallway conversations have. I can walk by someone having a cool conversation in the break room and join in. I can have lunch with my coworkers and seamsly switch back forth between work discussions and personal ones. And I don't have to follow anything, check any mailboxes, or type any responses arbitrarily limited to a certain number of characters.
It looks like there is a reprint?

http://www.sleddriver.com/

Which takes you here where you can purchase a limited edition for ~$400 USD

http://galleryonepublishing.com/BlackbirdStores/product_info...
Unfortunate choice of wording on the authors part, because it makes it seem like your solution is less drastic than his, whereas your solution is actually more drastic. To quote the author: "removal means move to a rubygem".
it isn't coming up for me either
Why is Facebook getting distracted with this? Facebook has so much going for itself, why censor a 2 men company and cause all the negative PR?
An earlier post explains it well:

https://medium.com/dome-kit/building-awareness-b89f1ee8b7fb

"I’ve found there’s two main reasons why people build geodesic domes. Some folks do it for shelter and others build them for pure enjoyment of the shape itself."
Two years of patience?

You can still open source in-progress software.
On top of using Firefox as my default browser everywhere because I want to see it have more than the 5% user share mentioned at the end of the article, I've additionally replaced Chrome itself with Brave when I need Chromium rendering. I have no idea if BAT coins will be a thing, but the idea is neat (and relevant to your comment) and the care towards privacy plus the ability to turn all the BAT stuff off is satisfactory.

More broadly, though, I agree with your comment and think there are additional unlisted problems.

I pay for Ars Technica because they offer an amazing cross-format (HTML, RSS, PDF, etc) clean browsing experience for paying customers plus sent a branded Yubikey plus had clear online cancel buttons instead of hoops like other publishers. In my personal utopia, every news site would be served in this cross-format ad-free fashion.

I honestly wish they'd send a new branded Yubikey every year so I'd always have an important branded physical reminder of their existence as its the best and most useful tschotske I've received as a thank-you-for-subscribing gift (and probably likely so for others in the HN crowd).

Ars Technica is one of the few sites I regularly visit directly (just like I visit hckrnews.com to often and directly). Just like here on HN, I directly visit for the content curation and occasional comment (both of which is better than social media algorithms).

Which lead me to the consideration of a third problem...

3) Users try before the buy. You can only begin the process of receiving money after they've read enough content.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more cryptocurrency-based $1/week type subscriptions to unlock the content/features/etc for a week at a time (or perhaps forever, if a user sent enough cryptocurrency).
>We take the security of your information very seriously

Isn't that getting to be a little bit of a cliché to the point of insulting ones intelligence?
There are some things you simply cannot control, like who your family is. You cannot focus on them. As far as others go, they might not be doing things in the right way, but they are trying in some capacity. Some do not even have that. Everyone is dealing with their own problems as well.

We are thinking of you here on HN. I can do nothing for you, but would always make time for you.
> So far, four guests have taken him up on the offer

So, it's not exactly a popular option.
Of course David Brooks objects to "the personal is the political". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political He is a conservative who strives to limit debate to avoid unfavorable turf, and rape is an inconvenient subject for him. But rape happens, even if it's not fun for David Brooks to talk about.
It's getting hard to tell where Google ends and the government begins.
Covered by a different news source a week earlier, offering different details and photos: https://soranews24.com/2019/11/13/japans-cheapest-hotel-char...
This argument is the same as the one MPAA makes about lost revenue due to piracy, which in general is bullshit, because there is no guarantee that those people pirating stuff would have ever paid for it if pirating wasn't possible.

So the answer is easy - you can't talk about stealing "attention", when the "attention" you're talking about never existed in the first place.
As others have said, in isolation and perfect manufacturing capability, it's absolutely true a monolithic die is better.

However, because each die is smaller, you can be more aggressive with your binning, potentially having a larger number of chips which you can bin into a higher frequency bucket.

Ultimately, it's a matter of trade-offs, and what's right in one place might be wrong in another (see, e.g., AMD manufacturing mobile APUs on monolithic dies versus all their desktop and server parts using chiplets).

We are seeing more of the industry moving to chiplets and similar solutions, notably Intel with their tiles.
I mean it's a big leap to say that. Insinuating that he's a troublesome character to work with when most people say the opposite is quite strange. Even if it is related to his personality, sometimes people just don't get along in a workplace. The choice between Dean and Gebru for Google is a fairly easy one in this situation.
I love IRC but saying the IRC protocol does anything well (or is even a documented and agreed-upon protocol) is a bit of a stretch.

Otherwise, agree with the thrust of your statement. I believe getting Signal into the hands of more users is an overall net good and if stickers are the answer then get to making some stickers.
And hell, movie trailers are copyrighted too, and I assume aren't licensed for arbitrary distribution. So posting/sharing a trailer using DropShip is likely copyright infringement too.
If the police search your house in violation of your rights, it doesn't matter if they find the bong you made of Elvis's skull that you stole, and use to smoke the hundreds of pot plants you are growing. They can't fucking use it.

This detainment is illegal, it doesn't matter what the hell they did. Release them, and try again legally this time.
Pimp slapping developers works well for Facebook and Apple so why you miss out on all that fun, right? Next time don't take the personal touch and email them personally. Instead wait for their app to gain a following then suddenly ban them and let them cry like bitches. Then send them a form letter saying their account was banned for violating the new ToS you haven't even posted yet, and by the way this communication is considered a national security secret so they can't talk about it to anyone including their spouse. That's big pimping. Then sign the email with "You've been Dropboxed, bitch!" That'd be your tag line. You're my hero.
Oh very true :)

I tried to help back when DDG started out here. DDG was doing 'funky business' on my BB curve 8530, which made it unusable. I offered assistance with making it BB friendly. He asked for screenshots.....(drumroll)

Do you know how hard it is to make screenshots of a BB device? GAH. You need it plugged in a Windows computer (sorry, no Mac or Linux) and have a package on your BB, and run a program with the usb cable connected, and the screenshot goes to the computer. WTF?

On a I(Phone|Pod Touch), I press the sleep button and then tap the home button. CHING

"Completely aside"... Im ditching my BB when my contract ends :)
That's what dropping classes is for.

If you try to do something and fail--especially something that the median undergrad in your school can do successfully--it says something about you.
Which is great, except you are punishing the crime, before it even occurred.

This is pretty disingenuous. You really think their assumption that Dropship would quickly turn Dropbox into an illegal file sharing haven is an unrealistic grasping of straws?
>DMCA takedown notice is a legal threat.

I think Drew was mistaken when he called it a "takedown notice". That term has a specific meaning, and judging from the linked article, what DropBox actually sent to the OP was not a takedown notice. Instead, it was just a message saying that DropBox had received such a notice from a third party and consequently disabled access to the allegedly infringing file.
i can promise you we're not trying to piss off the HN audience, but sometimes we manage to anyway :)
I think it was probably a combination of low usage (because a lot of people either use Kindle or a DRM-encumbered EPUB platform like Adobe Digital Editions), and the fact that Microsoft likely was more concerned with prioritizing porting over other more critical functionality like Active Directory integration into the Chrome codebase.

Presumably if Google decided to add EPUB support, Edge would get it back too, but Microsoft hasn't decided that feature is valuable enough to add onto their modifications.
Unlimited vacation as a perk at US tech companies and startups in particular is a total illusion. I'm sure they never use 4 weeks a year that most Europeans are legally entitled to and if they tried would probably find that it is not nearly as "unlimited" as advertised.
This is a snarky reply and specifically not what I asked for.

I have watched quite a few videos with Thiel. He has degrees in law and philosophy and is quite financially successful. Thomas Jefferson he is not, but I don’t think he is “just not that smart.”