jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I really can't see any compelling point here of why Blowfish should be avoided when the case is that its benefits panders well towards the intended means, just because there are obvious risks involved - as with all ciphers. These risks you point out exist today in one flavor or the other for AES as well; exploits loom around them, too (and to be fair, AES, too, has its fair share of dangers that Blowfish is immune to), but you seem inclined to ignore AES' case seemingly only because of its young age. Mind you, Blowfish has had its share of prying eyes, too, but I don't think that the amount of scrutiny involved in these two ciphers weighs particularly much at this point when both ciphers are still unbroken. What you're laying forth in AES' favor is really the exact same tune people sang in favor of DES 20 years ago. I find it ironic that, given Blowfish's strengths, you pass all of its use in modern software off as plain, simple vanity. Is OpenBSD's use of Blowfish vain in any way what so ever? Is interest in, or a requirement of, high performance or a compact codebase vanity?

And, just to end your weird assumption, let's also be clear that I threw out examples of cryptography libraries for the surplus value of having additional choices at hand, not in any was as passing out advices on what ciphers to use for what purpose. I don't like when people imply that I'm an indoctrinating zealot.
In case somebody's still interested in the cheat sheet, I just published it on my journal: http://giu.me/09-06-2010-visual-studio-2008-and-2010-default...

Google viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiu.me%2Ffile...

Direct link (PDF): http://giu.me/file/VisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSim...

@spoiledtechie I've sent you the links via mail ;)
I have been doing a lot more networking in programming and entrepreneurial groups recently, and have occasionally found myself frustrated when these people I have meet don't want to go grab a drink on a friday afternoon. Similarly I get frustrated when my girlfriend and friends are not interested in my constantly talking about my new startup. So while this is probably not a particularly deep revelation, it is an interesting and helpful reminder that each group can give you something you need without having to overlap.
No, you can't just do a "Magic for X" and get away with it.

Skilled labor is not something you want done "Insta."
I think most level headed people would accept the fact that there is sexism (botth men and women). I think the author is trying to say that sexism against men is passe.

There is a tremendous amount of hue and cry over women's sexism versus sexism against men in today's world (please stop bringing up 1000's of years of injustice, an act of sexism should be treated as an act of sexism, irrespective of gender). And there are a lot of people out there in denial about it, which is a shame.
> Diesel used to be something of a waste product from refinining gasoline

It depends, but anyway it's more certain that originally gasoline was a waste product from refining lamp oil (which is closer to diesel).
Interesting proposition. I've got a counter offer, invest $100,000 in the named companies (It would require a bit of financial juggling to make that completely work but it could be done) and liquidate in 2020, with whatever you get back going to charity.

But that sidesteps the issue of bubbleness or not. Really the question is whether or not the private valuations of these companies is in excess of their "fair market value" (like Box's was) and so the private investors are over paying for participation. Sadly we can't just convert these privately held companies to publicly held ones to its hard to run the experiment.
They were specifically written because LA was an unlivable smoggy hell. Diesel particulates and ground level ozone was killing people and causing everything from asthma to cancer.

I was regularly told to stay indoors growing up in LA. You still get a couple dozen smog days a year, but only a couple extreme days. That is way down from the 150-200 days of extreme smog a year that forced me indoors as a kid.
The solution is to use interoperable messengers, like Element which works with all other matrix servers and clients.
Yes, Nomad does not include the service mesh, so you need to set up Consul too. Setting up Consul is a little harder than Nomad, but still simple, and Nomad will integrate with it without additional configuration, so it "just works" when it discovers the Consul service.
The great divide: the ones who think America is Great, and the ones who merely think that their own tertiary education group is Great.
I like it!

https://i.imgur.com/qAfcgzH.png

Can't comment on the monetization, but I have an idea for it- A lookup function such that the following could be accomplished:

You take a PDF of a real-world Book, that only ever existed in physical book-format prior.

Have your system read the book, and rewrite it with links and information on the content of the book. For example, it could search proper nouns for people places things that have a wikipedia page, and makes those instances a link to their respective wiki.

Additionally, events of consequence could also have links to their wikis for drill down on things spoken of in the book.

Another interesting aspect would be for it to build a list of characters in each book read, and being able to correlate series based on the recurrence of people places things in common between volumes.
>"I've read that sociopathy may be related to a dysfunction of the brain's ability to sympathize with others."

Perhaps they fail to empathize or sympathize with their "future self", which is who they view as the recipient of whatever it is they should be scared of currently.

Though of course, IANAP.
> Facebook is very good at making sure you only see what you agree with.

For organic content, their algorithms (before considering paid reach) are organized around making sure you only see, approximately, what you've actively indicated you want to see (which isn't the same thing as "agree with" -- if you positively engage with things you disagree with, you'll see more of them.)

Of course, Facebook's revenue model is entirely based on people paying -- either via ads-in-the-overt-sense or paid reach for posts -- for more favorable treatment for their content than the relying on the normal algorithms and (in the case of ads-in-the-overt-sense) even the basic opt-in following mechanism would provide, so its not at all the case that it is good at making sure you only see what you agree (or have positively asserted an interest in seeing, even.)

Though they do let you opt out of ads from a particular advertiser or particular ads, so they are arguably fairly good at making sure you do not see what you have actively requested not to see, which is different than only seeing what you agree with (or even want to see.)
I upvoted you for the insightful reasoning but I disagree with your stated premise that

> The argument that artificial intelligence requires understanding how intelligence works is an argument that natural intelligence requires Intelligent Design.

I think that statement makes sense when phrased that way, so it is an attractive idea. However, I don't think it's true. From an evolutionary standpoint, biological intelligence developed naturally because biological components are natural. Furthermore, machines do not develop when left in isolation, while biological organisms do. If you leave a large population of simple machines running in an environment, this is overwhelmingly not likely to result in a machine intelligence millions of years later. Machines were developed by humans and do not develop in the same way; comparing the two as in your Intelligent Design argument doesn't make much sense.

I do not think artificial intelligence can arise naturally because its components are not natural. This discussion could also foster a discussion on two other interesting questions:

1. Does intelligence require organic components that operate in a deterministic way (i.e. the brain) to transcend it from merely a "machine"?

2. If intelligence requires biology, where do you draw the line between creating an intelligence through natural human reproduction and creating an artificial intelligence another way?

Personally, I believe artificial intelligence does not require biological components, and I believe that under certain circumstances, it could develop unintentionally from a relatively advanced computer, but that is not the same as naturally.
How do these kinds of deals affect existing institutional investors? Are they going to see their stakes diluted when the debt converts?
I don't know it enough to love or hate it, but I'm reading one of Paul Graham's books where he says (paraphrasing) "Don't worry if you don't understand LOOP; no one understands LOOP."
taking that guy seriously is a really great example of how desperate things have gotten out there.
Which I bind to f6 for convenience.
Every time you take an UberPool and aren't matched to another rider, Uber pays out more to the driver than you pay to Uber (for unmatched UberPool rides riders get a 20% discount, but drivers get their full payout: this generally obliterates Uber's margin).
I haven't really found an open source vertica style columnar store either, and I find this mystifying.
> And that, in a nutshell, is why I don't really want to buy an eReader. They just seem too restrictive.

It does depend on your reading interests, but one big difference between books and audiovisual content is that there is an enormous selection of books that are out of copyright. If you like to read those, you can obtain them for free and without DRM from sites like Project Gutenberg.

> Until things get sorted out, I think I'll pass on the eReaders.

It's never going to get "sorted out". From the perspective of the retailers, this is a good thing. It allows them to make more money. Why would they ever change their policies?
I'm having a very hard time swallowing the pill that computer scientists, of all the things the technology can accomplish, would spend their time actively making it better just to piss of deists.
I got the same thing from LinkedIn.
On a related note:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/mens-lives/200810/devin-frie...

This article, while somewhat old, does a great job of discussing just how shallow that 100-year "achievement" really is. We may live near each other, but that doesn't mean we interact in non-superficial ways.
You should also mention Mochi Reloader and Distel. The first one takes no time to set up and removes so much friction from the dev process. Distel requires some set up and learning time, but that will pay off very quickly.
I don't understand any of that. I feel like what I imagine a marketing guy feels like when he reads an engineering document.
Nice! I see you even included your sources.
However, unless I'm mistaken, for the "cheapest" part, you get info from a few big names (uniteddomains, gandi, etc), compare between them and then return which is the cheap of these?

So it means a cheaper, albeit less known, registrar might exist for any given domain, correct?

Edit: Replying to myself, I think I'm right because for some domains, you list no registrar.

For instance, .alsace [1] has a "No results found :(" for registrars, while a quick google search gives 1and1 [2] as a registrar for this tld

2nd edit: it appears Gandi also registers .alsace so I don't really know...

I found this list of accrited registrars [3] that you could probably use, but it doesn't seem to be up to date since .alsace is not included in it.

For those curious enough, registry for .alsace is [4]

[1] http://tld-list.com/tld/alsace

[2] http://www.1and1.fr/alsace-domaine

[3] https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html

[4]http://www.mondomaine.alsace/
js running on your domain can read eg login cookies

at least if you cname definitelynotads.yourdomain.com to js.ads.com, the javascript running on definitelynotads... can't read host-only login cookies on yourdomain.com.
It is. "Structural typing" is basically "compile time duck typing".

One major notable advantage is that you are checking the existence of every method you may call, not just the ones your tests happen to use.
I worked in ad space 7 years ago. Companies that provide content need to get paid for the content one way or another, either paying a fee or ads, nobody can argue with this.

There needs to be an organization that imposes ad guidelines(like only specific formats, not being intrusive, etc) for both websites and ad companies. They should verify the ads/websites based on user reports and if they find something, to kick the company out.

All companies that follow those guidelines should be whitelisted by ad blockers, probably something implemented at browser level.

Otherwise is just a useless chase.
In "The PayPal Wars" [1] I read about his destructive behaviour as X.com / PayPal CEO. Because he became CEO of the merger of X.com and Confinity (owners of the PayPal brand back in the days). See e.g. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinity
Man, I'm sorry to hear about your experience :(

I've used bazel in a different environment (C++) and it has been amazing (compared with other C++ build systems).

Another comment below mentioned to stay away from bazel for anything else other than C++ (and maybe Java).
I have recently received business email from France, that signed off with "Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations les plus respectueux" (Please be so good as to accept, Sir, the expression of my most respectful greetings).

That's a pretty traditional French signoff, but I gather it's finally passing out of fashion now. About time.
The room temperature catalyst data looks pretty promising. Not sure of the feasibility of building out huge electrocatalytic CO2 scrubbing capacity, or if there is enough gallium in the world to actually do this.
> It is totally baffling, do people really need military and police intervention to force them to not get a deadly virus?

It's insane how quickly people veer toward authoritarianism. Just a little bit of fear and the fearful demand everyone follow orders and be good little drones. I'm sure those people really appreciated your paternalism and your spying on them.
It seemed steep to me as well, but I’d prefer us to err in this direction vs. permitting gatherings of 100+.
Did you mean bolt instead of propeller? Bolt optimizes binaries, propeller is an llvm fork with extra information and a special linker.

Neither is made to do the optimizations you are talking about, that is what regular llvm does.
I managed to get a part of my family to Threema. Just the part of "you are paying for the product, thus you are not the product yourselves" was reasonable enough.

In my friends circle we are all on telegram (after trying wire which is just buggy as hell), but I think this is mainly due to its multi device story and then fact that it is not WhatsApp.
FWIW, I am currently using a CalDigit TS3+ with a (Intel) MBP, with dual displays (one over DP, one over USB-C (DP)). They work as separate displays, not mirrored.

I also tested an HP G2 Dock [1], because its dual-DP ports gave me more options, only to find that macOS can only use those two ports as Mirrored to each other.

Apparently [2], this is because the HP G2 implements its two DP ports as DP1.4 MST (Multi-Stream) on a single link, and in that mode macOS will only support a Mirrored configuration. It cannot (as of Big Sur 11.1) use them as separate displays.

I'm told you can also use the HP G2 with separate displays by plugging one monitor into one of its USB-C outputs, kind of like how I'm using the CalDigit TS3. I tried the one labeled USB-C (DP), and that stayed mirrored, but apparently I should've tried the Thunderbolt downstream port instead. I returned the dock before I knew or could try this.

All this to say, I'm disappointed by the mess of an ecosystem that Apple has built around Thunderbolt 3. But I can't say I'm surprised.

[1] https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-thunderbolt-dock-120w-g2

[2] https://medium.com/@sebvance/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...
I hope you're fine with Telegram sharing your location data.
"both sides"
Literally Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) asserted that today's rioters were antifa, a few hours ago. Please stop spreading disinformation.
I mean, it’s annoying, but I’m at the point where I wonder if it does matter at all. I don’t let WhatsApp access my contacts or photos. I tried very hard for a long time to not give Facebook my phone number. But if any of my contacts agrees to this, my phone number is given to Facebook (without my consent). So, what are my options really? Delete my account? And then what? My number will be given to them anyways.
> You can't make people's beliefs go away by silencing them.

Actually you can, but that's not what I want to get at right now.

The problem is that these people there went to the Capitol for the sake of violence and not for the sake of being heard. What I am going to say is not true about conservatives overall, but definitely true for every single MAGA cultist out there.

They generally have completely baseless opinions and are not ready to discuss anything, have an argument, learn or compromise. This is what democracy is based on: compromise. Therefore, they are fundamentally undemocratic and if you're being honest they are fascists.

So fuck their ability to spout their violent garbage online. These are dehumanizing assholes incapable of discussing with liberals and finding compromise. They just want a dictatorship suppressing and killing liberals, if possible.

Good luck America, you need it.
I agree with many of your points. What has happened in this country is tragic. Our media hasn't helped by constantly pouring gasoline on the flames and the pandemic has kept us from even being able to really talk to and address one another, ESPECIALLY people who live in cities.

This is utter madness and it has to stop. We have to start to see each other and people and not adversaries. You might like something I wrote last night about how the American mind has been fractured:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-h...
What exactly do they accuse him of?

Edit: nobody has an answer? It seems a very important question. Like if you say “spreading fake news”, you are saying Twitter should act as an authority of truth. Since they can’t possibly be that, where does that leave us?
I think you could easily label anyone arrogant if they're questioning authority. Besides, nobody likes arrogant people, and arrogant people cant be "victims", so why not write it into policy? They might as well say they target assholes.
>> There are tables where you can play 250k in one hand. Not for me ever but I have a much much smaller balance.

To my knowledge the highest stakes spread online are FT NL/PLO games of 500/1k (so buyin is $100k) and 2k/4k limit (you could theoretically buy in for what you like but the largest you could play in a pot would be 24 + 84 = 48k

>>> They make more money by being trustworthy than not.
>>> It has happened but it has usually been detected by players noticing unusual patterns in a players actions/win rate.

Not sure what you mean here.
Someone who "became visibly upset and arrogantly pointed his finger in the agent's face when asked why he did not have an airline ticket for a return flight." is different than someone who expresses discontent in a non-threatening manner.

The anecdote described by the agent about finger-waving is not in the guidelines. The actual guideline is very loose and will be interpreted by screeners as they see fit and as they see convenient. And they could use it in both situations you described.
Can you cite some specific claims where the lecture was wrong?
yes, who watches the watchers?
The article was essentially asking is quality of life after agriculture better than that of hunter-gatherers. Scientific advancements themselves aren't an answer to that question. At the end of the day, the same things that mattered then matter now: health, companionship, relationships, social status. Technology does not across the board enhance these things (and in many ways it reduces the baseline of these properties). So if you want to make an argument that technology makes us strictly happier than our ancestors you're going to have to provide some kind of reasoning. Isn't that what's expected around here?
This idea is something that's been really interesting me a lot since the US Govt started doing this and since all of the craziness with the internet in the middle east.

The Pirate Bay is working on a "P2P DNS" network: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/fed-up-with-...

Unhosted is a project that seems to be trying create a decentralized cloud: http://www.unhosted.org/manifesto.html

and what was mentioned before, i2p and tor.

This is all very interesting to me. It's like authority structures of all different kinds are putting their thumb down right in the middle of the web trying to crush it's autonomy. The inevitable backlash will lead to the fragmentation of the web in just as fundamental a way as the walled gardens that cell phone/tablet/game console companies create.
What you said isn't the opposite of what I said. It's actually entirely orthogonal.

You might want to spend some time with child development literature. It isn't all that difficult to understand. I mean that as a positive suggestion, not a criticism, and that it's much easier for a layman to get into than, say, particle physics. Just be sure you keep an eye out for what is the result of solid studies, and what is just some professor's pet idea somewhere, but the former is available, and it paints a complicated, but interesting, picture.
What do you think of authors going pseudonymously onto Amazon and posting 5-star reviews of their work? Of companies doing that for their products? Of political astroturfing?

Sock puppetting by a famous author is toward the least slimy end of a pretty slimy continuum.
Is this project your personal work? That's what Show HN is for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

If so, you should add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. If not, please don't put "Show HN" in the title. You can still make a regular submission of course!
You've seen different footage than I have, then.
Do they actually ever use it? I know it theoretically means that CBP can search anyone’s home in NYC without a warrant, but if they never actually do it, they might get shot down in the courts if they ever try.
I'm planning on giving BlueVine a try: https://www.bluevine.com/checking/

Relay looks interesting too: https://relayfi.com/business-banking
The control board for my furnace is ~$150 (gas/condensing). $800 sounds like that includes labor of installation since they are somewhat annoying to replace as you practically need to take half the furnace apart to do so.
Just because someone votes for Trump doesn't mean they aren't sick of his incompetence/dishonesty/corruption. It just means they prefer him to the alternative.
Then use neither. No protocol allows you to not trust the implementor, and WhatsApp has shown signs of accessing keys.
On this note, what is people's favorite way of scaling out Postgres? I'm told Slony + master/slaves configs are good for scaling out read-heavy situations, but it seems that there are a ton of alternatives on the market.

Is there a comprehensive guide on the various options and tradeoffs for this kind of things? Good resources one could use to learn more about it?
'fast' is a terrible word, IMHO. Denying yourself food for a handful of hours is not the same as denying yourself food for several days, and yet both are considered fasting.

How long were the fasts you took? I am curious because my lifts suffer when I have not eaten breakfast, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the exhausted feeling in my muscles, which I attribute to the lack of food.
Unless you saved a bit from yesterday's kill.