jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh, he is from time to time, but it's mostly towards people from the outside who pop in at random and tell OpenBSD folks How Things Should Be Done. I get it that some people tend to think they know what's right for any and every project and I'm sure their heart is in the right place. But at the same time I can see why this comes across as impolite to order people around like that. Dev's responses are typically proportional to BS dumped at them. But taken out of context it's easy to paint them as hostile and ego-driven.
Certainly, but personally I would still like to keep logic out of configuration as much as possible.

If I had to pick an actual language for configuration I would probably pick Javascript, mostly because I like JSON's syntax.

My instinct would be to say that if you need non-trivial logic, you may have an issue elsewhere with separation of concerns, and should move that code somewhere else.

But I will concede there may be a cases I'm just not aware of where that's unavoidable. Almost everything I do involves json or ini files anyway so I haven't really worked on anything incredibly complex.
There are videos of talks on both Genode and OpenMirage from the OS conference I organized back in November [1] - I tried to get a Qubes talk too, hopefully this year.

[1] https://operatingsystems.io/
It varies depending on what the demand is for that night. For example, I imagine the Last Night of the Proms requires a lot of queuing.

The last time I went though I think almost everyone in the queue got in. The person who sells the tickets in the queue can normally tell you what your chances of getting in are.

My advice is to arrive 30-45 minutes before the performance, with a blanket to sit on and some snacks and just have some alternative things to do in South Kensington in case you don't get in
You must be right, as a non-engineer I probably caught the wrong name during the conversation.
"Mental Practice" Now there lies the key to the door...
Seriously? Get downvoted for this?
To clarify, $24.5 billion was Amazon's revenue in 2009. Net income was only 3.7% of that, or $902 million.
are you suggesting they make a notable amount of direct money off the app store?

Or are you suggesting the more indirect: more app stores->less confidence, more confusion, less sales->less device sales->less revenue
In my observation, for what it's worth, current China regime does not react well to losing face. They just dig in further. Not sure if it's a cultural artifact. We have seen that time and time again.

However, China will react to economic loss. As such pulling out of China, surely and quietly, is the best approach.
And yet private organizations so often want to sit on the moral perch and pet themselves about all the non-profit oriented actions they take.
Time to add “skilled in network-aware agentless automation” to my resume!
An Australian Prime Minister road tested "liberated from their jobs" but that was deemed insensitive: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-18/abbott-announces-supp...
I've played a few VR games that allow you to customize your avatar. I've tried male bodies, female bodies, robot bodies, ridiculous carton bodies... everything. At no point did I feel that anything was wrong or out of place. This is true for everyone who I've loaned my headset to.

I think trans people are overgeneralizing from their own psyches. They feel like they are in the wrong body, and they assume that everyone else would feel the same if they were body-swapped into the opposite sex. But as far as I can tell, only a tiny fraction of people experience this. Gender dysphoria seems to be about as common as aphantasia or synesthesia.

Personally, I don't think of my body as part of my identity. It's a machine that I ride around in. If I woke up in the body of a woman, I'd be really annoyed but I doubt I'd go through years of hormones and surgery to be perceived as a man again. It would be easier to learn how to use the new body than to try to make it closer to what I'm used to.
Maybe have a free unencrypted service, then use those users to train the spam detection. Then the spam detection runs client side for paid users.
> Hard work by itself IS pretty much is meaningless. As a consumer I really don't care (for the most part)

I'd argue the ongoing direction of consumer advertising suggests that you're not as craft-agnostic as you claim "as a consumer." Everyone's brands are trying to connect with human experience and human effort, and an appeal to human problems. Even computer motherboard advertisements have a funny tendency to omit the spec sheet and the price and focus on what they let you do and how they're different.

And then there are companies like Apple.

> But may well be a necessary ingredient in many/most cases. But I'm likely not buying your product over a cheaper/better/etc. competitor because you put in more blood/sweat/tears.

Again, I'm not sure this is true. But the idea that "hard work is meaningless" fundamentally ignores that the basis of an economy is goods and services, not money. Without those goods and services, which are essentially the definition of hard work, every other aspect of the business would be meaningless.

So at some level, hard work must matter. And if it didn't, why are companies copying the designs? Can't they just scribble something on a default shoe and call it a day?
Its not really wrong. The atmosphere absorbed most of it but some made it through because there was so much of it. The atmosphere happens to absorb most of the high energy wavelengths involved, it also absorbs many low energy wavelengths. There are 'windows' of wavelengths which get to pass through to different degrees. The details are intricately grasped by quantum electrodynamics, but don't really lend themselves to accessible wording.
Hint: capitalizing things and tossing about assertions about behavior of HN readers the way you do significantly undermines your credibility. If you really want to advance the argument you are making in good faith, you need to adjust your approach.
> Porn addiction is a very real issue

It's literally highly contested if it even exists. The evidence base is extremely poor.
C++ and Perl are bad examples here. They are really expressive languages. I’d like to see the same developer using Go or Java 8.
The JVM has had specialized bytecode for SAM types for a long time now, you cannot really get more "first-class" than that. And really it's just an implementation detail than doesn't make the language more or less functional.

Scala isn't simply an evolution of Java. It offers a type system that goes beyond what you can do in F# or OCaml. The fact it's multi-paradigm and plays nice with Java's OO model doesn't make it less functional than these two.
> What's missing from that stat is where they saw porn. Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Imgur, etc are full of porn but aren't technically porn sites. If that's where kids are accessing porn then blocking porn sites will not fix the problem.

The proposed legislation is insane, but it also requires all of those sites to implement age verification.
The context up-thread is removing trees in a wider strip to avoid them falling on the cables and tracks. It's not about tearing down buildings, which tend not to fall over in the wind.
I'm a habits freak. I've built 6 daily habits over the past 4 years with ~90% consistency (except workout^^)

A few hacks helped me be that consistent, so I added those in the Habit Tracker.

If you decide to give it a try to increase your consistency, I'd be very grateful to hear your feedback as the app is in beta.

You can reach out through Twitter (link in my HN profile), even if you think the app shouldn't exist :)
If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to.

If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to leave.

Things like that really if we're going to get honest with ourselves about where things are headed.
Here's the one between the US and the largest economy in the EU:

https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/108th-congress/27
“It feels like negative value bets don't exist in investment.”

Options are deliberately negative EV. They need to be negative EV to be long so that there is an incentive for option sellers to sell premium. Otherwise option seller would just get steamrolled every time.
>until you've built something

I think their point is that they don't want to DIY at all. They want a consumer product for living off-grid.
For Android I can recommend "Shelter"[1] which lets you setup a work profile, so you dont have to share your contacts, files, etc..
Downside: If you have already a work profile, it does not work (Android allows only one work profile)

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
tl;dr: thegrugq argues that it's possible for SolarWinds' security to have been inadequate, yet that security posture to have made no difference in whether they were hacked by the SVR.

thegrugq argues it's very likely:

> I’m perfectly willing to believe that their build servers were using “admin:admin” and that’s how the Russians gained access to inject their code… but, this was a clandestine intelligence operation. They did not succeed merely because SolarWind had poor password hygiene.
Good point. I'd imagine we could leave it voluntary, and just start the "delayed 2nd dose" policy later.
The discussion of abortion is off-topic, and likely to become the kind of dog-pile that overtakes the original thread.

In general, the onus isn't on you to "expound the numerous facets" - but I think it is on you to expand on your own claims to the point they can be understood; for example - what is a "human right", are you talking about legal rights, or your own opinion; What is a "pregnancy" - do you include all trimesters, allowing abortion up until birth? etc etc etc

Note, I don't really want to get into the discussion, I'm just pointing out no-one could understand you position without follow-up questions.

> There was enough in my statement to squabble over.

True, but the same can be said of any unsubstantial post - you want me to charitably ask for substance, but "unjustified" statements are a dime-a-dozen, and can easily flood a thread - It's just as easy from my perspective to down-vote and move on.

Providing a fuller context in the first place, to me, proves greater good faith wrt wanting a good discussion, and a better guarantee the continuing the conversation will be productive.
The failure with "he could be right" is here:

He could be right because... (these are just generic examples)

- He mentions renowned research by XYZ who has through years of painstaking research concluded (as cited in XYZ peer reviewed journal) that the basis of his argument is sound

- He's an expert in XYZ field, having worked at XYZ company which clearly demonstrates proficiency in XYZ subject material

- He clearly elucidates, citing several researchers and with clear, understandable diagrams how the phenomenon XYZ works

... Yet you make no effort to construct a premise to base your claim upon. Because no real premise exists: the article's author makes no effort to support his own claim about the future.
It was indeed an (uncited) quote from a wikipedia article which is hardly the same as concrete evidence :-)

Regardless, it is certainly the case that we have evolved to be able to sit comfortably and take weight off our legs - that, I think, is indisputable.

I would argue that the buttocks provide a structural base for the weight of the body which would otherwise be transmitted through the upper parts of the legs more so than they are in reality. That is something of a guess, however.
The leaders of the Chinese communist party have already found this long time ago. As I known the old leaders of the chinese communist party change their blood of PLA periodical to keep them health. one article could find here: http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395 (in Chinese)
This just means the last speakers are hoping to pass their insecurity problem on to another group of new "last speakers" to suffer it for them. Nothing against an individual having that desire, but for a 3rd party to help them, it's really doing any overall good. It's just moving the problem to somebody else.
> Use the right tool for the right job.

In that case a webgui is certainly not the right tool for the job.
I'd not want DMSO anywhere near my eyes.
AJ from Gandi here.

For the record, we found out about tld-list.com via this thread. We don't pay for advertising as a matter of principle. We don't even have an affiliate program (though we get so many requests for it that we're considering it).

@timbowhite: Nice work on the site. Feel free to contact us, we'd love to send you some swag! Is the code open source, by the way?
Yes. "will join Globe Runner effective April 1, 2015."
Multiply throughput. Do it the Copenhagen way. Make it a bicycle first city. Reorganise urban planning around this. Build the infrastructure.

Almost as many people commute by bicycle in greater Copenhagen as do those who cycle to work in the entire United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_Copenhagen
Not related at all
Books, outside of proper context, contain no useful knowlege. They assume too much context and access which is not reasonable if the civilization changes significantly.

More realistic is having and supporting efforts like Open Source Ecology... i.e. having a network of people who have the knowledge and hope enough of them survive in a disaster scenario.
I think your general vibe is good here, but I don't think you need the posting limit, necessarily. Compared to Facebook, to make it less about re-sharing spam and the like, and more like a conversation, what you need is:

* More emphasis on text (which you already have, great)

* Less emphasis on photos. I hate how when you create a post on FB with a lot of text and photos, photos get much more space within the post layout, it should be reversed if you want a conversation, and if people want to see a bigger version they can always click them to blow them up.

* Links aren't treated as special. You can include them in your posts and people can click them, but they shouldn't result in including a photo+description on the post.

* No sharing other people's posts. You can copy+paste and link to their post (which will only work for other friends of them), but no re-sharing.

Especially those last two mean that you don't get the 'spam' of people sharing content from other people or websites.

Anyway, overall great job, this is definitely something I wanna see. Facebook is full of news spam/hot takes and the like, Instagram is largely just photos and videos, I really want something that's focused on what my immediate friends and families wanna talk about (not just share photos of).
I think that’s the age when most workers start moving into positions where they no longer need to actively solve hard, abstract problems, and the brain starts to atrophy just like a muscle that gets no exercise.

Combine that with an increase in stress levels due to no longer being able to directly ensure the success of work and you get a managerial brain grinder.
I was building a social media network about 6 years ago. I failed to get enough users since the native apps were just web views that had a lack of notifications. @CitrusFruit How did you get so much attraction to slowsocial?
His fans believe any video by him is the god given be all and and all statement on any topic.

He employs a large number dishonest lines of arguments. Drawing large conclusions for limited unrepresentative data. Not actually fairly representing the things he is arguing about. What he does is build narratives to lead viewers to the conclusion he want them to reach.

> Can you point me one of those egregious errors he made? Because I looked at this whole thread out of curiosity, and every single commentator criticizing him, did not provide a single concrete example.

I have not one of his videos in a long time. I remember watching his videos on Falcon 0 and struck by him clearly have no understanding of the issues with his driving goal seeming to be to gather all possible evidence and building a 'Busted' narrative while ignoring any evidence that points into another direction.

In general, looking at his videos he seems to have made a career out of calling Musk an idiot. To be fair their are a lot of low equally low quality channels that made a career out of calling Musk a genius but those are equally stupid.

He even attacks some of those channels in his own videos, but its very telling that those are the kinds of channels he interacts with. Because that the level he is playing at.

> It's a new genre...Scientific Entertainment ( bit still scientific) Not sure everything in this short life of ours, needs to be taken so seriously:-)

You don't have to be serious but I very much get the vibe that he thinks he is very serious and his fans think he is very serious as well. A also think he is deeply unfunny and his videos are pure cringe to watch. Somehow he is a genius who knows everything about everything and yet his videos production quality is worse then a 8 year old on Instagram.

His channel is the kind of channel that is designed around making online interactions worse for any topic, not better.

This is the kind of video that I find actually helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43ckxS8gJY
Does anyone else find it amazing how we are able to collectively rewrite entire ecosystems every time new language comes along? Web frameworks, network libraries, image libraries, parsers/serializers, etc.?

And the second realization is that the idea of polyglot programming has utterly failed. A lot is due to what kinds of APIs can be exposed between components, and that seems like an inherent problem of communication between different languages.

But there are other areas where you'd think we'd have wider agreement by now: the semantics of data types, runtimes, ABIs, memory layouts, etc.

I guess there are lots of reasons for differences. But it's kinda sad how much effort is spent re-writing stuff that already exists and works in a different language.
It reminds me of (a miniature version of) the Heathkit Hero, an educational robot from the 1980s famously featured on Nickelodeon's Mr. Wizard's World. Heathkit may be gone, but it's good to see the spirit of the original Hero live on in these little (and affordable!) machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_(robot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2vT2hkF0A
What about http://coinx.com/ ?
The correlation is in terms of fractions of a year so they add up to an average of plus-or-minus a few month over a lifetime. The three curves don't seem to have a very close relationship to each other though there are some similarities.

I assume that if they are getting a meaningful correlation, it is over a large amount of data. It seems logical that at large scale, date born would correlate with a variety of things in various areas - social class and wealth come to mind.

I think it's a matter of taste whether one says "wow, throw enough data together you find unexpected correlations" or "garbage in, garbage out". A life insurance company could eek out a bit of profit changing its price structure on this data - if it didn't have far more to lose if the use of such tactics became public.

I bet someone can use this to claim astrology has validity too.
One you hit get, it is downloaded to a folder called "iTunesU" that is automatically created on your computer. You can search "Lecture 1" and your computer should find it.
My first thought was "does this have anything to do with the invention of street lights and the time people could now get to working?"
the name is pretty much always already taken
Skulls as emblems... yeah, they occur on uniforms throughout history. There's some discussion to be had about whether the good guys would have skulls on their uniforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImnpErdDzA
I'm a sophomore at Ohio State and context free grammars are actually a major topic in one of our early software courses. We also got to write a recursive decent parser for a very simple made up language as one of our projects. Really exciting curriculum over here.
Anything with a sequence-number in its title is, by definition, not worth wasting hard-earned money on.

And don't get me started on low-quality CGI effects which continually take you 'out of narrative'.
I tried NixOS and had a very different experience. It is still a very new project and I encountered some very strange behavior which might be bugs or the result of me not understanding fully what is going on. I think I understand the premise quite well, having learned Haskell to an intermediate level, but in the end things didn't really work as expected.

It would have required a significant time effort from me to understand what is going on and get everything set up the way I want. I was just not willing to put that in at the time. I've gone back to Ubuntu for now.

I am doing more and more Haskell development so I'll take another run at it or, at least, set up nixpkgs on Ubuntu but I will probably give the project some time to mature.
Think this is pretty absurd move by the hotels as well.

fwiw though, I believe a bunch of the higher end hotels can't implement free wifi, because they set up Wifi a while back and got locked in to contracts with the companies that set it up for them--which haven't expired yet.
I do this and the biggest reason is to avoid mis-typing and hitting a phishing site.
The problem here is that most OSs (read: Windows) do warn the user that the encryption has changed. Android won't even recognize it as the same network, you have to remove the old one and then reconnect. So I'm not really sure about the feasibility of this attack.
"You can also check if someone has searched for you. If you search for anyone, they can see that you did"

This is why it's not as bad as you think.
It wouldn't even required to purchase or transfer the IP at all, the governments should just fund the setup of the necessary production capabilities and lease them to BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna at basically zero costs.

Vaccine production is still far to low to vaccinated the whole world population any time soon and only then we can prevent the creation of new mutant strains.
My wages / wage offers are always listed as wage before tax. On top of that, the employer will pay an X amount for pension contributions and health insurance, but that doesn't show up on my wage slip because it's not coming out of my income.
I don't see the vulnerability you speak of. It sounds more like arrogance. Claiming to be a misunderstood genius is not presenting yourself as vulnerable, it's a shield to defend yourself against criticism or the lack of praise, to enable you to continue to see yourself as the genius that nobody else recognises in you.
We are talking roughly 10s of rows of data per user per day stretching back at most a few years. So no huge volumes. Mostly read.

I would like data to be persisted across user sessions. And refreshed either periodically, on user login, or on user action. Depending on source.
> and when you mask database design with a UI, you get the worst of both worlds

Visual tools don't inherently mask complexity. They can do, and many do, which is useful for some use cases. And they can also make things visible that CLI or text based tools generally don't. In that regard, they can support developers to complete higher complexity tasks.
The last part might not be true. Though i won't generalize, let's just say that i have been writing industry code for almost a decade, 90% C (because of domain) and at least a quick review tells me, porting this to a couple of major platforms could be very practical and useful IF IF, it does not sacrifice the performance.