jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And email is under constant attack. Especially corporate/business email, but personal accounts are now targets as well. Basically anyone with a bank/ebay/paypal account is a target if they have an email address.

Spam, malware and phishing are huge problems with email. I doubt it will exist forever in its current form. I expect more and more restrictions (on sending and receiving) and more and more walled gardens as corporations and people attempt to better defend themselves.
Is this "espresso" format the future for the economist? There should be a link to the full article at least, I read this rag purely for the analysis and this format is a bit short on that.

here it is in full:
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21646802...
You misunderstand the concept of shockwave, and no, there is no contradiction in my statement. I'm pretty sure you understood the sentence, but decided to move the conversation towards my personal behavior.
Just static link? Or do what windows software does, so ship dynamic libraries with your application. I do not see the issue.

> There is no well-defined "Linux platform"

There actually is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base
Apple is a bad example.

The fixed battery increase the overall durability and reduces materials over a design where there was a compartment that could be opened.

Apple does battery replacements inexpensively relative to the cost of the device, and they supply batteries to 3rd party repair shops.

They have also explicitly declared their intent to increase useful life of their devices as much as possible.

The mantra that their devices are intended to be disposable itself becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it leads to the exact behavior of consumers prematurely replacing devices rather than simply having the batteries replaced.
> Would we still have the problem of climate change?

Probably. The electricity needs to be generated somehow and it was within the same time that Arrhenius proposed the Greenhouse effect and suggested it could help crop yields for the rising population.
Hi, OP here. I made this little tool in a few hours to play with SSS, for an upcoming interactive article on end-to-end encryption. It uses the @stablelib/tss NPM package to do the heavy lifting. The UI is made with ChakraUI [1] & Next.js [1], source on GitHub [2].

[1] https://chakra-ui.com

[2] https://nextjs.org

[3] https://github.com/franky47/francoisbest.com
When it matters, I think we have shown to be perfectly capable of moving fast. Just look at how quickly we came up with a vaccine for covid. In a state of war (or cold war, or pandemic) you cut the red tape. Approval processes that typically take weeks magically take only hours.

But it is true that when there is no particular urgency, the multiplication of bureaucracy and regulations compounded with the complexity of modern technologies makes it difficult to deliver cheap and fast.
>The trends are separate and not related.

Sure, but as failure of any given component becomes less likely, the advantages of making it replaceable cease to outweigh the disadvantages. An M1 MacBook Air with replaceable RAM and SSD would not have the same performance, battery life or form factor. 99% of Apple's customers care way more about those things than they care about upgradeability.

>But it is already recognized that firms like Apple that indulge in this already know that the profit from such unrepairable devices offset the additional expense on the R&D required to create it.

I'm baffled by this claim. If all Apple wanted was to make their laptops unupgradeable then they could just solder on generic CPU, RAM and SSD components – no R&D needed.

I try not to use the term 'conspiracy theory' lightly, but the claim that Apple's transition to the M1 architecture is motivated primarily by 'planned obsolescence' really is a conspiracy theory.
I wish there was some info on how many tons/km2/year C02 could be removed.
Yep, thanks for the addition!
OP here - I'd love to hear some thoughts on this article. I really struggled to know what level to target it at, and it was mostly just for fun. I just blog for the sake of it really. But I'm happy to fix any inaccuracies or amend things if people enlighten me here.
This is a small side project I built to see how people play the game of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. It is funny to see how many people concentrate on beating the bot, instead of maximizing their score...

The code of the bot is available on GitHub: https://github.com/haltakov/prisoners-dilemma-bot

I publish the high-score list regularly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/haltakov/status/1364349097554116615

I'll be happy to answer any questions!
It's a market for garbage disposal. How is that not capitalist?
There have been several postings about this already: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=oscilloscope+#!/story/past_week/0/... .
Right, but the police do not decide which laws to ignore and which to enforce. They are the enforcement arm, not the legislative. No one should be alarmed that people when people are arrested for peddling illegal drugs.
Anyone have a working linking for the videos in ArsDigita? The rm files are downloading and showing length but not playing for me
Paul erdos was an amphetamine user in his later life.
He's a highly reputable cryptographer, and a ... controversial ... software developer. I would trust my life to the algorithms. I wouldn't trust my appendix to the code.

The software is delivered over HTTP (not HTTPS) and not cryptographically signed. I've always interpreted this as a statement that, if you're not qualified to review what you just downloaded and make sure it's not malicious and that it faithfully implements the algorithms, that download isn't for you.

For what it's worth, Debian considered qmail "so buggy that it is not supportable": https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510415 There's a fork called netqmail that's more actually usable.

In a similar way, libsodium is effectively a nacl fork that's actually usable by normal people. I think I've seen more people review libsodium than nacl's code itself (especially the custom assembly versions of various algorithms).
It's an entitlement because developing something like this requires an absurd amount of time and money. Why should they work for free. Do you work for free? Would you consider your boss entitled if he expected you to work for free?

What's my view of OSS? I'm thankful for it. Yes, it's free work - they're working (although doing it for pleasure) and giving it away as a gift. I guess that's the difference, I view it as a gift, others seem to think it's immoral to work for pay.

Edit: Please enlighten me, what exactly is immoral about charging for software that takes thousands of man hours to create?
I do feel puzzlement at people submitting utterly unrelated spam to this site.

Partially I suspect there's no need to be choosy if it costs next to nothing to submit here and partially because having another site linking to the spammy site is good for SEO.
Well said. Repression may have something to do with it. Its sad, and probably somewhat due to the vicious cycle of demonizing homosexuals which causes some to act out.

I apologize for my careless remark. I volunteer in a boys club, and from that viewpoint pedophilia (against boys) is by definition homosexuality.

But I agree completely, in the population at large its orthogonal. Again I apologize for a hasty remark.
I would love to do this without sharing my extension data and bookmarks with Google. They already know what I search for. I don't really want them to know my favorite porn or cooking websites.

How difficult would it be to add a different provider for Chromium sync, or make a small server component that would allow anyone to decentralized-ly be their own provider of a sync repo for their browsers?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1442163

The compromise I suggested here addresses both concerns (ease of use and security)
or just a random noun@posterous.com? Or make it user-configurable?
I know it's just a blog post, but the section on "Parametric Polymorphism" says that the same code executes for any type. But in the example given, "a > b" will evaluate to entirely different operations depending on the type, and in fact only works because of the other types of polymorphism. Since this is such a common situation, I might not make it a first class citizen in the taxonomy.
Rents at the high end are completely stagnant, which is why those new apartments aren't being renovated. Not having a property tax leads to hoarding and not putting property to productive use, which screws everyone but the princelings.
No, it doesn't imply that, at all. My least favorite thing on the Internet nowadays are shallow fault-finding comments like yours from people who just want to interject themselves into discussions where they have nothing substantive to say. I used to be that guy and still have to actively resist the temptation. Don't be that guy.
So the same way that 'new money' is used to describe newly rich people? (as in "look at his car, you can tell he's 'new money")
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2009/Moglen_Cardozo/

Despite its title, Bilski is only talked about in the last 1/5 of the talk. The 4/5 before that, he goes through a historical perspective of the patent system.
A small electric engine, I believe. In this case probably a play on how we call web renderers "browser engines". Servo is Mozilla's next-gen browser engine.
In this case, it's not typography - it's the closet thing they can get to graphic design using ASCII in one line and still being dignified. If instead of a colon it was a pretty little fig leaf we'd all feel more pedantically satisfied. Unfortunately, that's not possible in titles - so they use a colon.

Regardless, I'm guessing the editor of the New Yorker has been to their website. Her approval defines what it is that the New Yorker does, and what it is known for. Sniping at such an organization previously known for pedantry is a bit presumptuous.
I really hope flash goes away too, but I don't see software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, etc going away anytime soon.
+ Ursids meteor shower

Unbelievably clear skies, 53F, bedroom community with little light pollution.... should be great.

Jupiter set earlier (with Neptune).

Pink Floyd, DSOTM on the playlist in tribute.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026590
I guess that's the way the game is played. Eventually one or more engines will flourish, take off and become wildly popular.
Even on a phone, I suspect the interface and the content need to be in harmony so generalizations like this are a bit excessive.

And moreover, just about thing you view on the phone will be something people also view in another way - as a website or a paper magazine. It's aesthetically and economically justifiable to have the two-plus views be in something like harmony. Facebook's infinite scroll on the website seems clunky, yet it's somewhat logical to have a relation between website and iPhone app.
Thanks for saying that much better than me.
Wireless is not fundamentally different than wired. What if considerations like this were made for home internet service? If Qwest had allowed to block Skype because they wanted people to keep using landlines at home?

The Skype blocking has to go. I have a Verizon phone and Skype is so thoroughly neutered, it's absurd. They even ruin skype-to-skype calls by forcing the app to use only 3G, not wifi, and routing the call through an 800 number to Skype. Calls within the US, even when dialed through Skype, are actually carried by Verizon. On the other hand, my plan has unlimited data - it's just plain stupid. Same with text messaging... a total scam at this point.

So, by doing this they are preventing the next innovative applications. Better not be planning on doing something that might cause AT&T to make less money, folks!
I'm a developer with a paid app in the Android Market. If my only choices were to accept rampant piracy or to prohibit users from having control over their own hardware, I'd take the first without hesitation.

Of course that's a false dilemma; my app is earning several hundred dollars a month with zero marketing and zero copy protection. The vast majority of apps are not going to be Angry Birds-scale hits, and that's true with or without piracy.
I have used Expression Encoder for creating demos. http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4_Overvi...
This isn't the right conclusion to draw from his investigating. All he showed was that, as you said, few people upgraded from the free app to the paid one. This does not necessarily mean that the free app did not significantly help the paid app sell. Maybe it was fairly common for one geek to buy the app, show it to his friends, who would then try it because there was a free version and not ultimately ever buy the paid version, but still talk about the app and introduce it to people who did buy the app. There are uncountably many other situations like this that could have happened and caused the presence of a free app to have helped the paid app; this is very far from a controlled experiment.
The arguments about universities are based on flawed assumptions, ie that you go there to "get" knowledge from professors. In fact, the knowledge has always been there to get, should you wish. Universities are there to put like minds together and allow them to develop wider skills and give them the resources to extend our collective knowledge. We've had public libraries with easily available educational content for over a century.
Not just a billion people but millions who are just now entering the workforce
This happened to me after I had formatted (new PC), and since I had just started using Firefox as my main browser and did not see this change on Chrome, I believed that Firefox had been gimped by Google in this specific manner.

Needless to say, this was the straw that made me switch to DuckDuckGo instantly, and I've been happy with it, especially with the ability to use the Google bang (!g) in the infrequent case it's required.

This has taught me a valuable thing about A/B testing though—don't make an experiment any longer than it needs to be, and a refresh should bring them back to the old behaviour, just in case it's bad enough to make them switch completely.
The solution to people not having enough children is to have more children, you could enlist people from abroad to help with the effort, but you could also try to raise the birthrate using the existing population.
There are usually different types of spot, from RV with hookups to a simple campfire for a tent. As someone who likes camping, this issue regularly rears its head for me. There are sites that I have only been able to visit twice in four years due to lack of availability for me, despite frequent checks.

It's not really all that hard to understand, it appears on the face of it to be supply and demand. There are a lot of people throughout America who love camping and not all that many sites at the popular locations relative to that demand. Has been this way for many years. I imagine the problem is likely particularly acute in places such as the Bay Area given the population density and climate, as well as the more popular National Parks like Yosemite, Yellowstone etc. If you haven't recently visited one of the major NPs at peak season you might be genuinely surprised how many people cram into these places.

I've taken recently to just booking whatever I can get - I often don't have much choice but to take what I can find that's actually available.
ndp in ipv4 is called "arp" =D
> Countries exist that have dozens of languages and tribes. They usually have endless social problems, unrest, civil wars and often break up.

Oh yeah, the history of the Swiss in the context of Europe is just non-stop insanity and violence. If only they could aspire to be more monocultural and peaceful, like their neighbors, the Germans...
I own zero Apple products so am not the customer for this, but I do like being able to support people, not a faceless corporation.

That said, I swapped to Mullvad VPN recently due to the Private Internet Access controversy.
You’re right about Office being sticky, but that is changing. Heaps of people are using Google Sheets for basic spreadsheets these days. Advanced users will stick to the tools they know, but I’ve reached the same conclusion as the author of this post. Licensing issues, nagging about cloud subscriptions, inconsistencies between Windows and macOS and the lack of Linux support have become so painful in recent versions of Office that using LibreOffice no longer feels like a greater inconvenience – just a different inconvenience.
I don't think that comment implies he disagrees with free speech - my interpretation was that he's talking about how some of Scott's supporters seem to think the NYT piece shouldn't have been allowed.
i'm at a loss.

>In fact, there are cases where interchanging the order is not allowed when you're in that situation depending on the integrand.

yup exactly in the cases where fubini's theorem doesn't hold and therefore those cases for which the integral theorem doesn't hold.

Leibniz Theorem: Let f(x, t) be a function such that both f(x, t) and its partial derivative fx(x, t) are continuous in t and x in some region of the (x, t)-plane, including a(x) ≤ t ≤ b(x), x0 ≤ x ≤ x1. Also suppose that the functions a(x) and b(x) are both continuous and both have continuous derivatives for x0 ≤ x ≤ x1...

Fubini's Theorem: If f(x,y) is a *continuous function* on a rectangle R=[a,b]×[c,d]...
Hi Nick,

In the case of Authzed, we provide a gRPC API [0] which can be used from any application or language that supports gRPC, as well as designed client libraries for specific languages [1] to make integration even easier.

Applications primarily integrate by making Check requests [2] at any point in which a protected resource is being accessed and Write requests [3] at any point in which permissions are granted or removed.

Source: I am the third cofounder at https://authzed.com :)

[0]: https://docs.authzed.com/api/overview

[1]: https://docs.authzed.com/lang/lib-index

[2]: https://docs.authzed.com/api/check

[3]: https://docs.authzed.com/api/write
There is such a thing as an “inverse Conway maneuver” where you do exactly that.
The best is to remember this reporter and newspaper and trust them less.
Culture > methodology

Culture either allows and values questions and improvememt or it doesn't. If it doesn't then methodology will not override (read: fix) that.

Waterfall or not, or otherwise isn't really relevant. Culture is.
I think it's more likely that faster CPUs will make CPU hog pages less noticeable. Companies keep making bloated pages but users will decreasingly care.
Governance is not synonymous with government. All governments are coercive and unethical, but governance is fine as long as it's consensual. Facebook practice governance as well but generally only over people who have given their consent. I'm not one of those people, so Facebook has never tried to exercise authority over me. That's obviously not the case with the government that claim the area I live in as their territory.
not OP, but an avid fish user.

I switch to bash about once/month:

* for/while loops with a lot of logic that I don't feel would be worth translating to fish

* dealing with obscure/strange other things that again wouldn't be worth the time to translate to fish

ultimately, I feel that I get such benefit out of fish that the occasional switch to bash is worth the pain.
That’s right. This system has a high hit rate baked in, based on matching the data structure to the real world usage with a predictable set of content classes. Very elegant.
Very specific example there. Central banks can mismanage currencies, especially when the top government is bad. Film at 11. This doesn't make state currencies inherently bad or wrong. Might as well argue that the fire service is bad idea because that one time it didn't put out a fire.
Java developers are spoiled for choice.

There's everything, from the simplest possible https://sparkjava.com/, to the a little bit nicer https://javalin.io/ (which has a Kotlin wrapper), to the high performance and full framework https://vertx.io/ (which always had great multi-lingual support within the JVM), to the newer and GraalVM-friendly https://micronaut.io/ and https://quarkus.io/ ... for the Enterprise-only crowd, you still have the JEE successor, https://jakarta.ee/ and Oracle's own https://helidon.io/#/ (which likes to position itself as microservice focused, like Micronaut and Quarkus). Not to mention lower level libraries you can use, like https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ and https://netty.io/.

Ktor has a tough fight to become dominant even in the Kotlin world.

Spring Boot is, still, definitely the most popular option, but it's still just one of very very many!
> We do ask customers to fill out a relatively detailed health survey, so that we can explore associations between the oral microbiome in health and disease.

So, you're learning from customers these associations, and after a significant number of customers you could offer statistical associations to future customers?
Thanks for your question. I do not believe I am a representative example of the homeless population.

But I would venture to say I represent the effects of a culturally biased view of the entire homeless population. A bias that inaccurately portrays homeless as somehow 'deserving' of their miserable situation(s).

Drugs, mental issues, stupidity ... after all I have seen out here these are not typical root causes of homelessness. They are typical consequences of being homeless.

So i was renting a bedroom in a 2bd apartment. It wasnt a motel. I had been living there several months and there were no known issues although I could tell we likely were not to become friends due to differences in value systems. I suspect he has lied successfully many, many, many times in the past.
Every organization you listed has fact-checkers, even Fox News, if you can believe it. That doesn't mean they're infallible, but they will all publish retractions when they get the facts wrong. The notion that major news outlets do not fact-check is itself a disinformation campaign... I wonder who might benefit from such a narrative? ;) I'd add that facts are easy to come by! They are a super useful tool of disinformation, and presented in the right context will fit any narrative you like.
I'd gladly add another concept: how to quickly navigate into unknown territory. Experts might not know everything, but they can analyze a new situation quickly due to accumulation of concepts and overcoming new situations over the years.

ps: and ultimately, when I compare my younger self to me right now (in music) .. the only difference, is a subtle blend of patience and sensitivity. When you don't know you try small things without waiting too long or digging too deep. A newcomer may often go paralysed or stuck on the wrong intuition.
Just out of curiosity, what do you consider to be significantly deeper? Would you mind offering up an example or two?
Why rust ? can't Julia offer enough speed?
Congrats for selling all your possessions. Since I really spend 95% of the time using 5% of my stuff, I think I should do the same.
QUERY_STRING isn't decoded. What am I missing here?
you want to drop connections either upstream from your machine or before nginx ever connects. assuming that is, you want to block certain connections.
When did Anonymous disable an interbank network?
I think a lot of people are still on regular leopard or older versions of OS X. So it would make sense for apple to flood the market with Lion once its out. Lion will have a tighter app store integration for sure.
Anyone do a camera app that triggers the shutter by voice? For example, just after the phone hears 'cheese'?
GNUStep is trying to catch up.

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_portable_code#Port...