jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, the rise of Bitcoin reflects a more general phenomenum: the decline of authority.

Somehow, the widespread exchange of ideas and information enabled by the Internet is making people question authorities which were previousely accepted without question: moral, scientific, and (here) financial authority.
Nice work. Do you think you might do a follow-up adding redirection and pipes? Then a third with job control? ;)
There's nothing stopping companies from shipping their jobs overseas. It's always been an option. Luckily (for Americans), we as workers carry significant advantages over those who work overseas. If we didn't, there would be no reason to hire locally at all.
Your comment was fine. We're grateful to everyone who participates here even though English isn't their first language. HN is a highly international forum.
Does anyone else want to engage in deep work, but can't for organisational (not personal) reasons? Heading into this article I thought I'd find some commiseration, but the first dotpoint was:

> Breaking complex unknowns into simpler unknowns that can be further split into individual tickets

Jira is precisely the attention divider I wish I didn't have right now. It gets real tiresome trying to work on something big and important that takes 2-4 weeks (e.g. fix the test suite), but getting steered away from it by management towards smaller tickets.
People only need to wear masks currently when they are infected
You do now understand that TypeScript didn't lose any of the flexibility, power, or paradigms of JavaScript, since it's by definition a strict superset of JavaScript, so it only adds programming paradigms, not subtracts them, right? Or do you disagree with Andrew Hejlsberg, its designer, or the definition of "strict superset"?

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

>TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing to the language.
Because the kind of people who are in that bracket will spend it...
I never got far in China Town Wars. Still have my copy; guess I should start it up next weekend to give it a second chance.
Rookie mistake: It's not just about the FLOPS, the interconnect matters too.

There is a reason why everyone builds super computers in a large local cluster. It's so they can have a high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect between all of the compute. The second you need to shuffle partial data results between compute nodes, you have to pay the latency hop. Interconnect quality is often a huge bottleneck, ignore it at your peril.
There is a FreeBSD port of the FAH client: http://freshports.org/biology/linux-foldingathome

The installation is as simple as "cd /usr/ports/biology/linux-foldingathome && make install".
My dude, in a market, if there's no buyers, the price of equities becomes zero. If you want to help people preserve their net worth, what you want is more buyers. For the sellers, maybe they require the liquidity to pay for essentials? It doesn't matter. What matters is that if nobody is buying their shares are worthless.

The people focusing on mass-producing ventilators are likely in China where the quarantine is in the process of being lifted as they have resolved the situation.
This really resonates with me. I focus pretty obsessively on the issues addressed here. It takes me a long time to write code that I'm happy with for exactly this reason. I often feel guilty about this, tweaking working code for aesthetic reasons, justifying it in the name of clarity and maintainability. It's good to hear that others value this quality of balance and taste in code.
Nice infographic.

Needs to add symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency to fit the headline though.
My guess is setting the sysctl "net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize" from the default value of "1" to something else.
These seizure notices are not 508 compliant. Isn't the government obligated to make all websites under their control accessible to people with disabilities?

There isn't even an alt tag on the giant images with text.

Now Im just sayin' but if they're using stupid loopholes to seize these domains, couldn't they be sued under the americans with disabilities act?
> Would you agree that an artificially scarce intellectual product is better than nothing?

False dichotomy, people will continue to create whether they are paid to or not. Creativity doesn't come from money.
pretty cool Fred!
I think the design is a spoof on http://isyournewbicycle.com/
It's like 5MB and you have to be connected to the Internet to use Uber in the first place.
> Because "incognito mode" is not about tracking! It is about saving information on your local machine.

Expecting laypeople to understand that distinction is probably a bit optimistic.
Well it means actually acknowledging what happened vs the Trump admin staying quiet on it. As for the arms deal, the most recent arms deal was brokered by the Trump admin [0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-admin...
The same equivalent code in objective-c is significantly smaller than the same code with swift. Swift has a lot of implicit specializing templates which really bloats code size, like it would in C++. If you compare binary sizes of apps from the pre-swift era, you'll notice many are far smaller. Like I remember tweetbot being 4.5mb in the pre ios 6 days.
I stumbled, well ok I basically spent a couple of minutes googling, on this when thinking about this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277945

Whose protagonist was not blind, but rather felt that dyslexia prevented using the command line and kept them on the Microsoft stack. In fairness, not using the command line is the only really sad part of it as far as I'm concerned.
Actually HN is served from Sam Altman's fitbit now.
Not out of spite, but to protect the workers as they remove the trucks, which the article cited as a specific concern. It will have obvious ramifications in decreased value of the truck, but that’s an expected side effect of deploying it as a paramilitary blockade in a large city anyways.
Very interesting, especially the method order part. I dislike the order you chose, and yet, I would be tempted to use it on my projects anyway, because being congruent is so important to me.
It never crossed my mind they could lose on purpose. Until now.

Considering the size of the desktop market and the size of the mobile market a few years from now, they could, very well, sacrifice one for the other.
Why on earth would your hand be anywhere near the head of an operating milling machine?

Accidents happen. You slip, or get tired and careless and then suddenly your hand isn't where you expect it to be. On a manual mill, it's more likely that your face, not hand will be closer to the bit as you monitor how it's cutting.

A chemistry senior was killed by a lathe at Yale last week working alone late at night when she was pulled against the machine by her hair.

An average size lathe with a 6" chuck will pull 18" of hair in a single revolution. At a moderate speed of 300 rpm that's too fast for a person to react. In the battle of human vs. 3hp motor, human loses. I've seen enough photos of human bodies turned into hamburger by even small industrial machines to not take the danger seriously!
While it might be true that TAs are "undervalued" in their paycheck, you have to also account for the fact that the university is often paying 5-20k+ for your tuition, fees, insurance, retirement, and other costs of being a student and employee. They are also training you to be an academic. Teaching undergrads the fundamentals of your field is very useful towards that end. Graduate school is not something to be undertaken on a whim--it is a huge commitment in time and resources. Ultimately, graduate school is not something to pursue if you're trying to make more cash.

I left a lucrative and successful career in IT 5 years ago to pursue my PhD because I wanted to research and teach in academia. I have met many other students who left lucrative positions to come back to school. Universally all these students understand that this career choice is not about the money, it is about lifestyle. The academic tenure-track job market is fiercely competitive and can be brutal. The tenure process is tough for young faculty members. Ultimately, a doctorate is for those who are passionate about pursuing high-quality, highly technical or theoretical research (either in academia, the government, or private industry) or for those who have a passion to teach at the university level.

I'm fortunate to have secured a tenure-track position at a research institution starting this autumn. The salary I'll be making will be considerably less than what I would have been making, not to mention the 5 years of not making a decent salary. The ability to continue pursuing my research agenda, collaborate with incredibly bright colleagues of my choosing, work more flexible hours than in my previous jobs, create and develop courses for undergrad and grad students which may have an enormous impact in their careers, and spend more time with my wife and kids makes me very happy with the "value" I'll be getting out of the time and effort it took to pursue a PhD.
@dstein Things couldn't have changed more. We're giving away $40k in prizes to people building the coolest gaming and music experiences in HTML5 right now: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/dev/unplugged (closes May 8)
you might be interested in the interview with him on the WTF podcast
Yes, that is true as it grows. However, I thought that Square planned to make their systems ubiquitous and use that leverage to lower fees and pressure Visa to make changes to merchant guidelines and offerings that benefit Square's goals. Yes, this is speculation as I'm not involved, but Jack Dorsey has an expansive mind and the fact that his ambitions for Twitter included its current role in exacerbating political revolutions suggests he wants Square to have similar power in business.
Ahhh... it's an article about using IMPACT Engine. I should have known we weren't going to get collisions in a 30 minute web-tutorial :)

I've been stuck for a week on pixel level collisions in HTML5 (though to be fair, my day job has taken enough of my attention that I've not had proper time to focus on it).

I've saved this for later... I'm hoping to get a chance to look at collisions again this weekend ... but in the meantime, if any Gurus stumble through here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5750541/trouble-with-perf... there's still a few points up on stack for it!

Oh maybe I should set a bounty! :) Who wants some sweet delicious stack-overflow points ? :)
A bare hand would probably just be cut badly. A hand with gloves can be pulled into a cutting tool that will then dismember your arm.
Quick question for those who know more about security than I do: what about passwords? They haven't stolen unencrypted passwords, have they?

If I have the same username and password on another service, should I be rushing off to change my password right now?
Apparently first threshold for cutting of hydro storage pumps below 49.85 Hz was undercut very briefly. Immediately afterwards the frequency reaches that threshold again, so I assume those measurements were working as planned.

Below 49Hz larger consumers would be cut off in steps of ~10% of the network load. AFAIK this includes large industrial consumers who are legally required to have the equipment in place to allow for that.
I actually try to take paper notes of almost all IRL/online meetings I take part in :)
I was answering the other posters question as to why the recount on it's own didn't just resolve the dispute.

However, there was a forensic analysis done of a Dominion voting machine in Michigan with some disturbing findings. You can read the report here. [0]

> While the allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission (FEC.gov) guidelines is 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008 percent), ASOG’s forensic analysis observed an error rate of 68.05 percent, which is a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.

> In the ASOG audit, all log entries for the 2020 election cycle were found missing in the Dominion equipment they analyzed—meanwhile voter adjudication logs for previous years exist. Removal of these log files violates state laws and prevents a meaningful audit, even if the Secretary of State’s office wanted to conduct its own audit.

> The ASOG audit also discovered software changes on Oct. 23, 2020, and then again on Nov. 5, 2020, just after the election. In accordance with the Help America Vote Act, this violates the 90-day Safe Harbor period which prohibits changes to election systems, without these systems undergoing recertification.

[0]: https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20423772-antrim-cou...
Georgia has a poll book. Do you know what a poll book is, and how it works? When a ballot is received, the name of the person is entered into a poll book. Therefore, when you see a poll book and a pile of ballots, you can check that the counts are the same. Entering data into the poll book is therefore one of the most critical parts of an election, and is the part that is critically observed by election watchers.

You cannot merely smuggle in pre-filled ballots, as the ballot counts would not match the poll book counts.

You would also need to explain how poll books were falsely updated.

If someone smuggled in fake ballots, AND somehow managed to falsify the poll book, it would be possible to use the poll book to ASK people if they voted. You could then find people who say they did not vote, but there is a record of them voting.

It is therefore trivially falsifiable with current election procedures.

Or is there something you think I'm missing?

Here is the critical moment where the woman in Michigan argues with a Republican, claiming without evidence that the poll book is off, when it was literally trivial to check it. (Look for the tweet with "Holy smokes the sequel is even better!")

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1334311448340795396
This seems to support self-domestication hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication

Scarps left by humans generated differential survival environment where less aggressive, more cooperating individuals were able to get closer and closer humans and get the best bits. At some point most domesticated individuals could form bonds and cooperate with humans. Eventually humans could take over and use selective breeding to finalize the process.
I agree that it ought to be that way, however those with power tend to want to hang on to it. How do you solve it? The US has a term limit for the President, but you can stay in Congress/Senate/Parliament for life if re-elected.
What went wrong with their local device transfer solution? Asking as I'm on iOS and have yet to get a new phone.
Major tangent, but a product that I can't believe doesn't seem to exist is window fans (not AC units) with passive shutters to prevent air leakage when not in use. I've actually built an exhaust fan in our rental house that somewhat meets these specs.

There are so many old houses that rely on window fans for fresh air or exhaust. The fact that these fans are literally just open fans with all the leakage that entails is quite inefficient.

This seems like a product with the same BOM cost as an existing popular product but with incremental energy benefits and no need for construction.
CDPR already said that they won't pay. Stock price would take a major hit if they reversed the decision.
Conway's Game of Life in APL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Not every conspiracy is illegal or unusual. They're still _wrong_, especially when perpetrated by governments against their people's will.
You really want to see a CPU made out of relays:
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/

Note, this is just the CPU - he uses an 8K CMOS RAM unit.
The weekly diesel discount might also be a good way of attracting loyal customers from local businesses who operate diesel vehicles.
Insofar as morals and ethics are the result of human thought, I think the sciences of neurology and psychology have a great deal to say about them. This is, in part, Harris' point.
Perhaps Firesheep was used?
Honest question: where do you place the goalpost with regards to news on corporate malpractice?

If not from whistleblowers, which have a long track record of being persecuted extensively and subjected to very personal and very damaging retaliatory attacks if not for anonymity, then in your eyes what warrants questions?
Oh interesting. Can you please explain how this will be useful for recruitment companies? How their process will look like?
The population pyramids of Germany, Spain, Italy are interestingly similar while the economies of the latter two are in deep problems. Retirement age in Germany is 67, wait for it. Putting aside the tabloid hysteria I dare to presume that this was one of the main reasons of Brexit. The entire Europe will hiccup.
WHAT? I think parent was talking about trams.
Is it just me, or is the feel of the comment on this post different than other HN posts? There are a lot more snarky jokes. A little more combative. It feels like why I stopped reading Reddit. I hope it doesn’t metastasize to posts on other topics.
A redditor posted the text of the article in a comment:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2tnkf4/first_licens...
It's important to note that MLK was not a street name before the 60s, so most every street with that name was renamed from something before that, often in a depressed part of town. My racist relative used to say "never live on or near MLK, because you know it's a bad part of town".

Ironically I used to live one block off of MLK in Berkeley, and it was quite lovely.
Just for future reference, there are some extremely large differences between the social programs, how they are funded and administered, their scope and their availability in the countries you mentioned and among the countries that are members of the European Union.

As a citizen of one of those countries, hearing such a statement sounds very much like what I would imagine saying "Personally I favour American/Russian/Chinese/Indian style capitalism, it seems like a proven approach" would sound like to a resident of one of those countries.
No matter what your thoughts on Middle Eastern politics, Rupert Murdoch is actually right this time - it's cringeworthy to think the president of the United States passed up a face-to-face meeting with the prime minister of Israel in favor of this. Whatever political party the next one's from, it'd be nice if they actually did their job.
Thank you lkrubner for the article. I will be reading it over shortly.
I actually have listened to this on audio tape. It is an awesome book and I'd recommend it to anyone.
Do it, I worked in HFT for a year and enjoyed it. It's a small and secretive world. People that go this route don't tend to start up "how to" blogs on HFT, and you'd likely be shunned by the community if you did.
I wish I'd known it was so easy! Seriously though, there's been nothing around here that pays anything above a joke wage (senior web developer for £15k yeah?). Much as I'd love to get out, I'm stuck for the time being.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141218-machine-intelligence...
> But I really need to use SolidWorks and Photoshop

Why not install WINE?
There're several versions of both apps rated as "Gold" in appdb

Photoshop: https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17
SolidWorks: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=318
Lazy and eager evaluation are both sequential evaluation schemes, and are properties of language implementations, not of languages. Haskell is thus not lazy (nor is any other language). Rather, Haskell is a non-strict language, meaning that lambda is just abstraction, not abstraction-plus-strictification as in "strict" languages. Non-strictness does not imply sequential evaluation or indeed any particular evaluation order. (Ditto for strictness.) For instance, speculative evaluation is a parallel strategy that can implement non-strictness.
This is a fun idea, it would let anyone be a hedge fund manager. List the managers own money invested, other's money invested, commision rate, associated social media accounts, "risk"/diversification metrics, proportional and absolute gains/losses since inception (for what it's worth).
Personally I would still keep the majority of my investments in an index fund, but for a particular kind of person I can see the social aspect is very engaging.
Reasonable voices get downvoted. Social media rewards extremes.
They probably should have announced this before they poisoned the CentOS well.
Right; I have no doubt that Blue/people inside of Blue are having serious thoughts about 2nd stage re-use, at least to a level roughly equivalent to what you pointed out SpaceX has revealed.

However, I suspect 2nd stage/full re-use is fundamentally so much harder than 'just' 1st stage re-use that it requires a full re-use design from top to bottom, a la Starship/Superheavy.

Of course, Blue has been historically far more closed than SpaceX, so it's possible that they have legit, in progress full re-use! That would be great.
Same, I don't remember seeing images in emails since forever. But then again I use Thunderbird and not a fancy web client. Hell, even our corporate outlook settings prevent external images from loading.

Always amazed me that some marketing emails still use images for all content, when I see that I just laugh at the empty email.
That is only a problem if you create mandatory fixed-cost liability requirements. You can solve the problem by allowing companies to opt-in to liability requirements for some benefit. As an example, we could require that any company that wants to advertise security must do so in the form of a number specifying how much they will pay their customers in the event of a breach. So, they would not be able to advertise something like: "We have a secure cloud database.". They would instead be required to say: "We have a cloud database with $10M security." and in the event of a breach be forced to pay out $10M to its customers.

So, if a company is small and unable to afford any security, they can just set the number at $0 which means it is the customer's problem. However, if the company is big and people have security expectations, they would need to specify a reasonable number that would alleviate those concerns. As long as the number is clearly communicated and you are not allowed to fraudulently or misleadingly advertise a different number, then customer's would be able to make an informed decision with respect to the security level and liability they are accepting from their vendors.

Obviously there are some complexities with respect to properly communicating this information. For instance, for a consumer-facing company you would probably want a per-consumer number instead of an aggregate number. As an example, if Apple were to claim $300M for the iPhone, that might seem like a large number to an average person, but that would only amount to ~$1.50 per iPhone sold in a year. You also need to prevent misleading advertising that might attempt to divert from the quantitative liability they are actually accepting. However, the base scheme of mandatory labelling requirements along with opt-in liability should allow for a solution that is hard to bypass while being flexible enough to support both small and large businesses.
I have nothing special to add here, just wanted to bring attention to the excellent episode of The Good Place (S02E06) that handles the Trolley Problem in a humorous (and very literal) way.
Thanks! Appreciate you checking us out. Getting a lot of engagement, we'll be bringing folks in as quickly as we can handle.
For those who don't know, Jeff Dean is probably the most respected developer within Google. See http://research.google.com/people/jeff/index.html for some of what he has done.
Good luck!

This is a momentous leap, but Hackety Hack is an amazing project, and totally worth it.