jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As was pointed out at the time these laws were drafted, possession of an A to Z could aid terrorism, not to mention possession of the Anarchists Cookbook. Then we get the usual nonsense of people who like to smoke a joint are accused of funding terrorism.

We are all terrorists now. Hence why we are all spied on. Get used to it, as no one seems to care.

BTW, the solicitors dealing with this, they are same firm who embarrassed Teresa May over Abu Qatada, when she got her dates wrong and couldn't kick him out. If there is anything unlawful about this, (morality and decency well aside as they simply don't count,) they will find and prove it. For reasons I cannot go in to, I have experience of how good they are. It should also be remembered that the law in general is under attack from this government, and although it is strangely under reported, the legal profession is deeply unhappy, to say the least, with this government. For those who don't know, legal aid is being slaughtered and that will wipe out a lot of solicitors firms who defend and protect the poor from blatant abuse and injustice, who make up the vast majority of criminal cases. For some reason this government wants to sell contracts to people like haulage firms to provide legal aid to people who cant afford solicitors for a little money as possible. Legal aid is currently bad, this government want it worse. Legal defense will be based on price, conviction will end up being based on police say so, with out question. So, if you are poor you will never be able to get impartial advice, since the contracted solicitors will be working to the bare minimum clock. So, essentially, they are trying to deny justice to the majority of defendants, while relying on the lie that the majority of solicitors are rolling in unearned unjustified cash, which I assume you is a lie. So, any chance of exposing, even damaging, this government will be thoroughly pursued. In short, to me, this firm being involved is the best news so far.
That's a bit of an ad hominem for a book review of a book that he didn't write, isn't it?
To complain about contention under multithreaded workloads seems to be missing the point. At the point that multithreaded workloads are becoming a problem, the ingestion rate is huge (hundreds of thousands of insertions per second). For an in-memory database, that may not seem like much, but for a disk-resident database, that's a lot.

I don't know what a "hybrid compacting data structure/B+ tree" is. Is there somewhere I can read about how you get the best performance in practice with it?
Exactly, and the fact that previous / older editors (and operating systems) have solved this "problem" supports the Zen Master parable.
I liked Simple’s UI and budgeting tools a lot, especially the “safe to spend” thing, but I don’t think running everything directly from a checking account is wise. It’s really better to have a credit card that you pay off every month, with solid fraud protection and rewards, and touch your debit card as little as possible. Simple’s snazzy software is not too useful when you do that. I ended up using a traditional checking account and YNAB.
That doesn't really compute. Audio decompression is pretty light on CPUs these days.

It takes about half a second in a single core to decompress a 4 min MP3 to WAV in my 2012 MB Air, including writing to disk. In a gaming machine it will be way less. If anything, the audio could be decompressed and cached on demand, when loading levels, or even during installation.

Also sound cards do not participate on the decompression process. It's been CPU from the start, baring rare exceptions. Sound cards just receive raw PCM. There used to be hardware codecs but they're not really common, especially in consumer/gamer-grade soundcards.
> What I can't figure out is why did it displace "plain SMS" or other tools.

SMS was unreliable, at least back when it was used. It was common for someone to receive it hours later or at least many minutes later, when it was too late. Informing someone you just got the message they told you about in-person a while back was a common occurrence. You also don't know when a person received your message, so you would opt to call them anyways if they take too long to reply with something even if they were just busy. Basically, the 2 checkmarks on each message is the killer feature.

Spam is also a problem with SMS.

Email is something that never really took off in mobile devices. I suppose everyone saw it as the same thing as SMS, with the same issues. Perhaps worse, since an email client needed to poll the server for new messages. SMS is something people did since before smartphones. Dumbphones didn't commonly have real support for email. Also, email on a mobile device meant you had to setup the mail client, and you didn't have to setup anything with SMS, just give people your number.
I've never heard of thorium being used in smoke detectors. As far as I know it is always Americium, including in David Hahn's case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-241
I understand you're poking fun at the common expression used by bitcoin fanboys (or to mock them), but in reality this is neither good nor bad for bitcoin. I personally feel no differently about bitcoin today than I did when I first learned about it (trading at < $1 at the time).
You're going to have to change your nick ;)
I think if that's the case holistically, that what you like to do that other people think is "work" literally can not be monetized in the current economy, then that's just a tragedy. If the economy hasn't developed a model for what you uniquely like to do then I think that's just a very unfortunate reality. However, I wonder if perhaps you're taking it too literally. It's quite possible that what you like to do has manifested itself in economically unpalatable ways generally, but if you thought creatively you MAY find that there are economically beneficial places that aren't so obvious where you fit perfectly.
I had to propagate colors across a graph with a billion or so edges and had an easy time doing it in-memory in Java with a 32GB laptop and sub-byte data structures. In fact, it takes more time to serialize and deserialize the data than it takes to do the actual calculation.

I'd say, however, the trend is towards data sets being much bigger and I break non-scalable tools frequently in the data profiling process; you can extend the non-scalable ways of doing it by using multiple cores (which is sometimes easy) or SIMD instructions or the GPU. I have even sometimes gone down the rabbit hole of optimizing something non-scalable and hitting the wall. So I am using scalable systems increasingly.
Sounds like you are moving the right direction, so maybe you just have to do the extra phone work for a short while (something that won't scale) until you can resolve the other issues. The good part about doing it (and a completely valid reason) is you will learn a lot about your clients and who best to target and how to make things work so you don't waste time working on things that won't matter.

Good luck!
It may not be that deterministic, as if it's either diet or social context. One thing can feed on the other.

It can start as an emotional response, deflagrating an inflammatory process, revealing the nutritional deficiency. Or it can start with a nutritional deficiency, deflagrating an inflammatory process, which the brains reads as depression.

This mechanism is already seen regarding stress and magnesium. High stress -> Mg depletion. Low Mg -> Stress symptoms.
GP said dev server, not laptop. I think in that context it's reasonable.

I used Vagrant for CI builds for a while, and I would have liked the ability to automatically share an internal url to the environment so that when coworkers submitted code that broke the build, they would have a single link to follow to get access to the particular environment on the particular server that serviced their job.

Some vagrant envs are also somewhat complex to set up - I could use this for teaching people how to use things like this: https://github.com/stackforge/puppet_openstack_builder
From "The Zen of Programming":

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Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle.

"Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!"

The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?" he asked.

The novice thought for a moment. "I will design a new editing program," he said, "a program that will replace all these others."

Suddenly the master struck the novice on the side of his head. It was not a heavy blow, but the novice was nonetheless surprised. "What did you do that for?" exclaimed the novice.

"I have no wish to learn another editing program," said the master.

And suddenly the novice was enlightened.
Nah, Android is the other way around. The core Android platform (the AOSP) is free software, but the Google services are proprietary.

This looks like they're going to allow people to view the source code, but not actually use it. My impression is that it would be similar to Assembla's not-really-open-source license [1]

[1] https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/breakoutdocs/Singleton_De...
I think people should lose their money and learn why it is a bad idea to keep your bitcoins in something pretending to be a bank, an exchange, and other things all in one.
All corporations play politics (whether well or badly), but some corporations emphasize that aspect of doing business and some deemphasize it . . .

Which side Tesla (Musk) happens to fall on is an open question, I think - perhaps you disagree?
Putting in my +1 for a ChromeOS option.
Also people are allowed to hate things, like being rude. 'hater' is not an insult.
I wonder if this can be applied to a startup, not just romance. The first few things that comes to mind are Apple's "just another day that you will never forget" and Google's Cr48 pilot program. Both have an element of uncertainty. In Apple's case it was the nature of the announcement, and in Google's case it is whether or not you will get one of the pilot laptops.

In both case people's attraction seems to have been peaked more than it otherwise would have. So uncertainty can be a powerful tool if used properly.

Of course, I'm thinking about applications towards startups because I'm not a really socially adept person, and am therefore not too sure how one could go about deliberately creating uncertainty in a social relationship to attract a female.
I like ProjectEuler, does that count?
Ray is smart and very insightful. His predictions are informed and often durable. I find his self promotional tone, constantly referring to "my" theory and what "I" did, grating and difficult to take seriously. I haven't read much of Kurzweil, but I did meet Aubrey de Gray, who I find to be a similarly toned snake-oil hawking hyper-intellectual self-proclaimed messiah of this new technological religion.

I do find these guys thought provoking and informative, but how they seem to take some sort of credit for advances in technologies simply for predicting their impacts, with self-promotional gibberish, is irritating to say the least.

This article is similarly interesting, but it comes as an attempt to defend his legacy rather than add to the debate. While he makes some strong points that his critics are often ill informed, overall my respect for him has been damaged by his willingness to bend his past words. How can I trust anything he writes in the future?
Interestingly, the comment that starts with "21 years" has 21 points.
Now that it's clear that this is a hosted MySQL service, how can we be sure it's reliable? You claim to be very scalable and reliable - well, what makes you that way? For example, we know MongoHQ runs on Amazon's infrastructure.

These are mostly all just questions related to how your site portrays the service you have obviously put some serious work into. I think it does a pretty bad job of selling your service to somebody that knows about databases that is shopping around for a hosted solution. I think it currently seems to try to hide all of the backend specifics and cater to people that may or may not care about the actual backend questions. These are just my thoughts trying to help you out! Not trying to be negative or degrading.
You could run tor hidden services on these things, to keep wikileaks afloat covertly. Install them above dropped ceilings, if possible.
I haven't used them personally, but my understanding is that BDD's are increasingly used for formal hardware verification.
Thankfully the cars are at least converging on the Type 2 connector. It's a shame though that with the ubiquity of contactless payments, I can't use many stations without registering and applying for a fob or card to arrive in the mail.
I wonder if it was anything interesting.
Given Trumps comments about women and Giuliani getting caught with his hands down their.
The statement "not able to keep his hands in his pocket" is super on point.
I'm confused. How is pointing out someone's HN handle doxxing?
I recall 39. whenever someone suggests rolling their own form component library along with the project - it's pretty much the same issue.
The question specifically included sci-fi.
They’re not? Obviously many of the spacecraft we’re used to spend a fair bit of time in the atmosphere, but even real manned spacecraft have come in different shapes and sizes (usually variations on spheres and/or cones).
If nothing else, the original title is too long - there is a limit on HN title length.
Some do I'm sure. However if we see something unexpected and it turns out to be true that means our ideas of physics are fundamentally wrong. While it is long term good to correct our understanding, in the mean time a lot of the real world depends on us being right, and so until we correct the theory who knows what will work. I'd hate to find our margin of safety on nuclear bombs was too small and it is only luck that they haven't all blown up in their silos over the years.
This is pretty rare. Almost all test of twins that are in doubt are identical.

Don't have a source right now but I remember because we wondered if we should take a test as well. In retrospect (now 40+ years old and still looking very similar) it's hard to understand why we every doubted.
I don't understand, what does that have to do with anything? The issue being discussed is Tether, and how it's totally a pyramid scam since it doesn't hold 100% in reserve.
MacOS has a "head pointer" built in to their a11y preferences
Don’t know why you would go with didn’t understand rather than didn’t care. I thought the prevailing theory was that it was used for measuring internet speeds.
The common reason I see for vacuum enthusiasts bashing on bagless units is air hygiene; as soon as you take out the canister, you're releasing a bunch of the vacuumed matter back into the air and breathing it into your lungs. This can probably be mitigated by carefully emptying the contents outdoors, but a lot of apartment-dwellers can't really do that.
I thought the same thing - xda + jesusfreke+usb mini is massive nastalgia.

Found an old thread to take you back: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/modified-rc30-full-versio...

If folks remember one of the first hacks on the g1 was the physical keyboard actually sending keystrokes to the terminal (which allowed to enable SU)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android)#Rooting_thro...
Yes I feel your pain in that one. There’s a way to turn this off in the settings... one of the first things I do with any new Windows setup.

Another major peeve of mine: Windows lets you drag a window so that its top edge goes outside the bounds of your display. It should stop when the top edge “bumps into” the upper bound of the display: I prefer to have most windows full-height, and I have to be extremely finicky and careful when dragging documents around in Windows. On Mac this is not an issue: I can “slide” full-height windows from side to side by dragging them slightly upwards as I drag them horizontally.
I don't know. I have no real love for SBT but I have yet to find a build tool that I actually like and that covers all the use cases and has the ecosystem that I want. Maybe it is just a really hard problem and extremely resistant to creating a simple interface. Unless of course you consciously decide to punt on the hard cases (which if fine sometimes).
If you're on a Linux system you can actually make this work better with sssd. So sssd's architecture is actually client-server over a unix socket.

So all you need to do is create a very simple base container layer that just installs sssd-client, and wires up /etc/nsswitch.conf to use it (your package manager will almost surely do this automatically). Then just bind mount the sssd socket into your container and boom, all your host users are in the container.

If you already log in with sssd you're done. But if you only use local users then you'll need to configure the proxy provider so that sssd reads from your passwd on your host. In this case the host system doesn't actually have to use sssd for anything.
> This is a very talented team on a very small and well scoped project. It can be written properly.

Talent does not preclude you from making mistakes

Most projects start out small and well scoped. That doesn’t mean it’s going to last.
That would be fantastic! email on its way...
How quickly is the bit rate degrading from Voyager?

Like if it’s 160 bits per second now, how long until it’s 100 bits per second? 10? 1?
So it's like a compatibly layer like wine except built into the binary. Does this bloat the binary as well?
I've been a mac user since 2002. I've been getting tired of fighting for access to my own system with each successive OS update. I upgraded to Bug Sur last week, and will be switching permanently to Unix or Linux within a week.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I do think most parents push for what’s best for their child regardless of any circumstance. At the same time, I feel the immigrant success story unintentionally hides the effects of structural and historical racism.

For some 85-90% of Black Americans, the comparison would be: “My family has been here for centuries. My great-great grandparents were slaves. My great grandparents and grandparents were physically, violently terrorized in the face of social, economic and political pursuit. It’s only been 65 years that anyone in my family has had their Constitutional rights legally guaranteed. Nonetheless having no cultural origins outside of the U.S. and no apparent choices for fleeing this persecution, my parents figured out how to push me into gifted programs at a mediocre school district.”

How the immigrant experience and descendant-of-slave experience compares in terms of hardship doesn’t matter. But I think it’s important to call out that your parents were seeking a better place to build a life, whereas most Black Americans are seeking to build a something better in a society that has shunned them the majority of its existence. That has an effect... not in making Black parents dumb, but wary and highly cynical.

I’m guessing this will get downvoted, but it’s for context, not whataboutism.
If there is a significant gap between Ethereum and the second most profitable coin, taking Ethereum out of the market will make the whole mining business less profitable.

(This will in turn make some operations no longer economically viable, dropping GPU demand)
What's the "Correct Thinking"?
Police unions go even further with 'warrior training' in that many cities banned the actual police force from paying for it and then the unions go around the intention of the law and pay for it themselves.

I'm like 55% sure it's something I'm not comfortable legally banning individuals from choosing this for themselves - but I would like get rid of that style training and mindset. So idk maybe I'd be ok with limiting personal freedom here specifically because it's harmful to the greater community. Maybe similar to other public health laws that put public ahead of individual. Maybe there is legal precedent I don't know about to sway this tradeoff?

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/bob-kroll-...
I initially had a knee jerk 'sky is falling' reaction to this article, but I believe the problem is less these "underrepresented minority children can't cut it so we shut the program down" and more COVID-19 has devastated underrepresented minority families and children cannot even hope to enroll in the program. Resources are stretched within these public school systems and perhaps we need to address that for the year.
Or honestly this can apply to much of the commercial meat industry. It usually isn't pretty.
Further down on the page:

> Optimized for size and speed. This is not the same Ruby you'd use for building web apps with Rails (far from it).

> DragonRuby is powered by highly optimized C code written by Ryan C. Gordon. He is one of the core maintainers of libSDL
I hope not. My mind works well with the syntax of Lisp languages.

BTW, at Racketfest two weekends ago, I heard no mention at all of the alternative syntax.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a neutral move with some pedestrian reason like "we'd like to be able to dynamically change our Safe Browsing endpoint in the future" or "let's not hardcode our API keys into Safari"?
In the US those are called "cashier's checks".
This is a tricky balance.

No google are not profiting from borrowed content. You can always deindex yourself by robots.txt or otherwise.

It's just google is providing a huge value to the market and content creators have gotten lazy and now waking up to that all other options of publishing are going away or are way more expensive.

Google is in damage control mode. And will rather deindex all news sites, not pull search entirely.
What is the real issue in your view? That ml-systems don’t work? In that case I strong disagree, I use multitudes of them every day (and you most likely do as well) and they work very well.

As someone working with building ML-systems that solve real-world problems I can say that distinction between known unkowns and unknowns unkowns is a very useful one.
"Software giant Microsoft Corp said was confident its search product Bing could fill the gap in Australia if Google withdrew."

This is opportunistic at best and a bad idea for the internet long term. Shame Microsoft is encouraging this only to gain market share.
yes, I completely understand your point. i'm a huge fan of Erik Satie for example and I'm lucky enough to be able to play 4 of his songs on the piano. I'd love to - at least - hear him playing his own compositions, but ofc it's impossible lol.
And poof!, the last million years of evolution, up in smoke, but in centuries instead of millennia.
I imagine it (on average) helps more than watching someone stream playing a videogame would, so if one gets the benefit of enjoyment in the same way from both, in roughly the same degree, then even a small benefit towards learning could be enough to tip the scales.

But that only applies if one is the sort of person that would get said enjoyment out of it.

In the general case, where one doesn’t get that, idk.
You've written a powerful eulogy and it sounds like music to my ears. Rest in Power Chick!
Sounds very promising! Looking forward to giving this website builder a try. I built my first website with a simple website builder tool too (Wix) . By the way, here is a great comparison on website builders that helped me decide on which tool to opt for - http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builder-categories/w... .
It's fine to be skeptical, but far too many people turn it into blind contrarianism. Far too many people talk about the flu vaccine in terms of conspiracy theory, which is not productive for anyone.
Thanks for patronizing me. I have used it extensively, professionally for a time and I think it is highly inconsistent and frustrating.