jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah it was "design by (military) committee" turned to 11

I'm surprised it got off the drawing boards
> The first thing that springs to mind is the fact that the covid-19 vaccine was imagined, developed and started to be synthesized over the course of a single weekend.

Piggy-backing off the efforts of mRNA vaccines for the past decade or two, and existing efforts for personalized cancer immuno-oncology vaccines.

There ain't no chance you figure out the lipid nanoparticle magic in a weekend.

(Indeed, it's not really figured out: what we have is inadequate for mRNA drugs, which are the holy grail... but the shortcomings were realized to be useful for vaccines ~a decade ago).
With prop 13, the burden of paying for infrastructure and services provided to you and your neighbors falls to new generation of owners who pay 5 times in property taxes than their neighbors. This is unfair and is absurdly regressive.

Most other states regularly reassess the property of your home for taxation purposes and many have mechanisms to reduce tax liability of people living in their homes(vs renting them out) or seniors.

In california however due to prop 13, both the state and the city are forced to find different ways to pay for their costs, such as raising sales tax(which went up significantly since passing of prop 13 in 1978) or passing local bond measures to pay for schools, sewage etc.

The only people who win are those who won a lottery of being able to afford a home in CA 10/20/30 years ago.
Funny that you mention this. You are actually the reason I know QNX. I spent a decent amount of time some years ago pouring over code code you wrote for the Overbot. Thanks for donating that to UCSC :)
So The F-35 costs too much.

In other industries, you would look for ways to cost-down the product. We often keep the same basic structure or components, but figure out less expensive ways to accomplish the same goals. Often, the revised product can be more durable and reliable too.

It is a shame that the incentives in weapons system development / purchase don't seem to help with this at all. It seems all the incentive is to make the product more and more expensive, and requiring more service.
Source?

It’s certainly not my experience with lamotrigine.
Seems like a good effort. I couldn’t easily find an example of the text encoding looking at your readme though.
You should be paying content publishers. They are the ones who lose advertising revenue, not Mozilla.
Can it be that the neural structure itself is the memory? The weak/strong relationships maybe form the memories themselves, reconsructing a vivid image like seeds for procedural algorithms.
invisible ink and paper
So you left Twitter 5+ years ago expecting them to soon fail, and you feel vindicated by the very-much-still-existing Twitter of today purging some accounts?
This would be too much :)
You mean not making demos sucks, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0pms_mQuY
I have never worked or applied for FANG. But, I have worked with several ex-FANGers. So, my only advice is: Just don't be that person that wears your Google (or whatever) jacket for the next 5 years. It sends strange signals to your coworkers.
Signing the ballot defeats the purpose of anonymous voting.

What State has you personally sign your ballot?
This sounds like a compelling way to get non-emacs users to start hacking clojure!

Then, sorry if it sounds nit-picky, but hacking some clojure with a split-screen and REPL is not just like emacs. Cider [1] has like a million features that elevate it above just a repl + code. Then there's clojure refactor mode [2] which lets you rename files and keep the namespaces in sync, unwind threaded forms, and 30+ other things.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1] is a fascinating take on immortality (for everyone in this case) as a curse.

[1] http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/
Is there any reason browsers couldn’t start supporting this for websites? Seems like it would be significantly simpler than today's Host header-based proxying.
That was the one :)

On Phil's lab I watched "KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly" which is even more in depth and longer...but it missed some tricks which Contextual Electronics had (such as drawing one wire through components in a voltage divider to link all of them).

I recommend watching both...and probably more.
The Postgres community mailing list for development work -- pgsql-hackers.
Today we work with engineering teams who have direct data interoperability and verifiability requirements, such as giving their users the ability to transfer their status on one platform to a partner's platform. Airlines and credit card companies already work together in this way, but these partnerships are currently expensive to setup and coordinate.

We found that the non-JavaScript tooling in the ecosystem was still nascent and wanted to do something about it friendlier to enterprise environments and security teams. We are using DIDKit as a base for adding this functionality to consumer-facing products, and hope others will find it convenient for this as well, so I look forward to giving updates on direct consumer use cases soon.

As per adoption by large tech/enterprises, we believe that as companies consolidate their data into warehouses, they will want (or need) to start sharing with partners, governments, and users in an auditable way. Some have compared Verifiable Credentials to the shipping container for verified data, and I don't think it's too off the mark.

We think these standards could also prove to be very straightforward ways to comply with data interoperability requirements imposed by laws like GDPR and CCPA. There will probably be more requirements in this direction if the US and EU decide to further regulate large tech companies.
The section on the quickfix list should include cbuffer, which puts the contents of the current buffer in the quickfix list.
Remember: some apps check for what apps are installed on the device, and if they see this installed they can deduce you're poisoning the well.

Also if you want to research obfuscation and how it thwarts surveillance, check these:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/11/obfuscation_a...

https://www.science20.com/news_articles/obfuscation_how_to_h...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/24/obfuscati...

https://adnauseam.io/

https://bengrosser.com/projects/go-rando/
The EU says it applies but, AFAICT there’s no legal mechanism by which it applies.

Here’s a lawyer’s take on this: https://tinyletter.com/mbutterick/letters/you-re-not-the-bos...
Apologies, I thought it was a youtube video of a talk.
See also this thread on the topic of proctoring soft and its current flaws:

- https://twitter.com/MathProfPeter/status/1364072937402363905
"Recently Apple added a feature to iOS that allows you only to allow selected photos to be accessible by an app."

What we really need to see from Apple is a permissions index in the app store that allows me to inspect, and consider, the permissions that an app will request before installing that app.

I shouldn't have to install the app (or do laborious research online) to discover what permissions it will attempt to utilize and which of them are required to function.

It would be trivially easy to list that in the app store, for each app.
I have an old iPhone with an empty address book for testing dodgy apps that require contacts access, I use that for sending Clubhouse invites. OTOH, Clubhouse seem work fine on my primary phone, where I haven't given it contacts access.
What on earth is going on with this website?

I can’t even read it; every time I zoom in it resized itself to make the text smaller.

Can someone paste the full text or link to a plain text version of the announcement?
If you are an iOS user, then Apple is necessarily in your trust model. Google, not so much.

Google’s implementation of k-anonymity in Safe Browsing does not account for their own ability to correlate multiple queries and narrow down which specific website corresponds with the hash.
Linux is cool until you need to set an icon for a desktop shortcut.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3452746/how-can-i-specif...
One might call it un-bustling, one imagines less clothes not more, but perhaps a bustle being underwear is more de rigeur
I want to know more about Lynn.
Consumer surplus is not the only human good and infact discounts good done for humans who do not have money.

This not liking vanity thing is interesting but if you tie it to economics then anything that helps people that doesn't make money --things like free software and participating in charities-- could be considered 'vanity' too despite the good they can do.

I got similarly worked up over 'virtue signaling' and people only doing good things for personal prestige when I was an angsty teen but later realised it was better to believe that some people want to do good things sometimes because reasons.
> The Nobel committee has many sins to answer for.

According to Magdolna Hargittai, it's not clear that this is one of them. She wrote that there were actually three experimental groups that verified parity violation, with unclear priority, and none of them were eligible for the Nobel in 1957 because all published after the deadline for that year.

And so we arrive at the question at the heart of this story: was it a fair decision not to award Wu a share of the prize? After all, there was an “empty slot” – according to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation a maximum of three people can share a prize in a given category. The NBS experiment was the first to verify parity violation on 27 December and Wu had suggested and was actively involved with the experiment. But Friedman and Telegdi, who also started their experiments in the late summer of 1956 and were already doing measurements in October, may have had some preliminary results by December too. However, what really counts is publications, and in that the NBS group and the Garwin–Lederman–Weinrich group were side by side, with Garwin and Lederman actually finishing their report days before the NBS group did. Whichever way success is measured, it would have been hard to pick one particular experimentalist for the prize.

As it turns out, this discussion is superfluous for legalistic reasons. As Bárány pointed out, “The awarded work must have been published before the year of the prize, in this case before 1 January 1957.” Since all three experimental studies were published in early 1957, none of the experimentalists could have been considered for the prize that year. The Nobel Committee could have decided to wait another year to award the prize for parity violation, but with the three experiments and the large number of physicists involved, the decision would always have been a hard one. Also, the committee needed strong candidates in 1957 and it is by no means certain that they had any as strong as Lee and Yang to put forward.

https://physicsworld.com/a/credit-where-credits-due/
There are certainly Europeans that engage in long commutes. In the UK, many people who work in London commute from outside, sometimes multiple hours each way, but you're right, public transport is widely used, those aforementioned London commuters tend to rely on trains. Perhaps London is a special case because it's so expensive to live there, but in general it's easy to get around the country on trains.
I'm trying with FF4 and Chrome 11 with a GeForce 9600 GT and it still gives me the error message.
Consider how much powerful macros can be if you don't have to deal with out of order definitions.
That's an interesting concept. What if there was a Netflix for independent content producers (bloggers, video shows, podcasts, etc.)? I could see this model work in the tech scene, where there are early adopters and tons of content.
Massively awesome.

I need to start showing up at my local library meetings.

edit:

For the purpose of working to bring e-books to our local library system.
I kept expecting a bright background image to load, or a dynamic popup to appear. Even fully loaded, the page looks incomplete.
If you have a 3G device the cell towers already know this and the data is already tracked. So what is new here?
I think victim mentality just one of the many faults listed in the article others being negativity, over-sensitivity and fatalism.
nope, easier - I have the following aliased as 'ddu':

lynx -dump -auth=user:mypass "http://members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=myhost.dyndns.org

I have 'ddd' set it to a random IP, so that I can determine when it is active and not have to deal with random proxy scans etc.

If you aren't UNIXy you can use one of the dozens of update clients:

http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/

dyndns is just one provider. you could host it yourself. There are dozens of routers and clients that support DDNS protocol, no need to reinvent things.
“I still had access to their network so I left a copy of the report on his PC’s desktop,” Mitnick said. “It was more secure to do it that way than email it. He thought that was a nice touch.”

And that, folks, is what we call class.
To add - the preprocessor is a pretty dated thing that merely uses text substitution, so you have no easy way to debug the code that the preprocessor passes to the compiler. Defines such as function-like macros throw away type safety and can have extremely unexpected behavior. For example, you might think this code will do what you want.

#define SQ(x) x*x

cout << SQ(2) // prints 4 since 2*2 = 4

cout << SQ(1+3) // prints 7 since 1+3*1+3 = 7

Macros are pretty much entirely unnecessary and should be avoided. Compilers inline nowadays, so you don’t really gain anything from using a macro when you could have just made a function that gives you type safety and intuitive behavior. If you are trying to define constants, use const, enum, or enum classes. If you are trying to define multiple versions of the same function, use polymorphism or templates. If you are trying to wrap around arbitrary code, use lambdas.
Agreed, these are great assets for learning. Personally, I use zsh combined with HyperJS and starship.rs. Its been a very enjoyable experience.
But all you have to do is charge a yearly fee... Apple keeps talking about moving to services revenue but can't even tackle the low hanging fruit. Heck, bundle it with iCloud and make it something ridiculous like $20/month and you'll get the best of both worlds.
Exactly, hence my comment. Assume you’re never going to get promoted internally, because it’s generally not possible. I’ve been in the industry for 20 years and never got close. It is just very uncommon. You want to start out at the low end of your job’s salary band, giving you lots of runway to get raises. Once you get to the top of the band, just find another job, rinse and repeat. You dont want to be “underleveled” at the top of the band.
‘Happens’ is understating it. ‘[’ is ASCII 0x5B and ‘{’ is ASCII 0x7B, and the Teletype 37 was entirely electromechanical. For those unfamiliar, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
Am I missing something or is this potentially causing me to get charged for nearby people's traffic on my connection in your described future end state?
The MIT license predates the GPL.

Real freedom has been there the whole time.
I don't think ECL uses GCC as a JIT; most common lisps use an incremental AOT compiler, which is different. ECL also has an interpreter, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't use GCC.
Less smart Americans often have little respect for their smarter compatriots or their smarter compatriot's opinions. That isn't new. Ever hear the term egghead? Modern propaganda about climate and infectious disease have exacerbated the problem.
That's interesting! Youtube moved to Amazon's algorithm to solve this problem by introducing freshness in its recommendation - http://searchengineland.com/google-uses-amazons-algorithm-fo...
Doesn't that effectively become a "Two Generals' Problem" sort of thing? I mean, I guess links are reliable enough, but at what point do you decide when link severance is long enough to wipe the phone? What occurs if iCloud is down for that long?
Yes, I’m not in any way judging or criticizing your decision to share your parenting habits, specially after being prompted. What I dislike sometimes is others trying to control at all times how parents should grow a kid. This will ultimately be passed over to kids, which may then propagate this behavior. Life, I guess.
Sounds like you’ve inherited a VueStorefront project.
> - why is drag handle area impossibly small? When I need to manually resize a window (or column) I need to have the mouse pointer on the specific pixel of the window border, or else I wouldn't get the resize pointer

You need to change the window decoration

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kwin/kcontrol/kwindecoration/...

"Tip

For accessibility purposes, some window decorations support extra wide borders. If this is available, you can also choose a Window border size here. The large borders are easier to see for low vision users, and easier to grab for people with limited mobility or difficulty using a mouse."
"Applications that have small amounts of code will likely not experience a significant improvement from enabling ReadyToRun, as the .NET runtime libraries have already been precompiled with ReadyToRun."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ready...
You can short it on any crypto exchange that allows margin trading, such as Kraken.
Deserves Kevin Mitnick's medal. We likely should think hard about creating good opportunities to rebellious learning of computers at schools.
I'm reviving an old abandoned project/product of mine which I failed to sell initially. This is pretty much how I justified rewriting it from scratch. It makes very little business sense, because I already had a finished product which I could try to sell right then and there, however, I just wanted to learn some proper software development. The project was a front-end app built in jQuery (I started it in 2015) and had terrible code quality in general.
If I rebuild it, and fail to sell it, at least I will have some base knowledge on how to build a front-end app properly which I could re-use in a future product.
I can't suggest that it will repeat the previous decline, but the reboot was dark and gritty with consequences. The latest season was light and meaningless, there's not been any real build up in the story.

To me the biggest loss was Russel T Davies [1] and Steven Moffat [2], then bringing on Chris Chibnall to be the show runner [3]. I also don't think it helps that the BBC are on some kind of a morality crusade at the cost of good content in some cases.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Moffat

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chibnall
This analogy provides the argument for packet aggregation and maybe for for centralized packet scheduling (as on cell networks), but I don't see how it works for anything related to transmit power.
>If your expected response time is of the order of 5 minutes, then you are not "on-call", you are working 12 hour days

I'm a new dev at a fairly young startup. We have recently started an oncall process and we have similar response times for oncall though our workload isn't nearly as heavy since our scale is low. What's the standard in oncall response times/expectations?
the soldier trilogy is also great ...
Missing its wide applications in modern electronics, but ok.
Yeah this has increasingly become my view [1].

It seems to me that Bitcoin has only really solved one problem: to allow transactions that governments don't allow and there's really two classes of that:

1. Illegal stuff

2. Capital controls and other government impediments on the movement of money.

What I didn't realize until Bitcoin was nearing $1000 was just how much (2) contributed to driving its value, specifically all the affluent Chinese (who are subject to capital controls) who used Bitcoin mining to move wealth beyond the reach of the Chinese government. I really wish I'd figured that out earlier but hindsight is 20/20.

At this point it's hard to view anything other than speculation as driving Bitcoin prices.

We're still figuring out what cryptocurrencies are. I don't think it's likely to be as a currency anytime soon. Traditional currencies just have better properties (stability in value, reversible transactions and the banking system are more of a feature than a bug). If it's an asset, it's hard yet to say what drives the price so this is little more than gambling.

That really just leaves it as a temporary medium for exchange and for Bitcoin at least, we're spending an awful lot of energy to maintain that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26213693
Ah, so basically if someone starts selling my art and I can get enough social media traction then maybe I can get them in trouble? Awesome, sounds like a great time for someone who's spent all their time getting good at art instead of getting good at publicity.

And half the NFT art markets require you to not post stuff you've tokenized elsewhere, so much for hacking up a multi-tokenizer that claims my work on every market as a way to avoid thievery. Unless there is a cross-market standard for claiming An Art.
I agree with you completely on that last point. I miss having an academic setting precisely because of that reason. I really feel like something was lost when salons and such closed, even though I realize it was mainly an educated leisure class that could frequent them.

If you'd be willing to try to generate small discussion groups about books, I'm definitely interested. Might be worth putting out a call here on HN, though who knows how many will stick with it. It helps for me that my interests are all over the place. But sadly, most people just aren't academically bent in that sense.
Yes there is. It's pretty obvious that intrinsic value here means something that is very reliably valued by humans.

Nobody thinks intrinsic value for gold means that the universe likes wearing shiny gold jewelry and that places a floor under its value.
The main thing I don't love about backwards seats in both planes and trains is it feels much more intimate/invasive with the (presumable) stranger on the other side. Even if in reality they are further away than they'd be if they were facing forward in a normal configuration, having to stare at them for the whole ride is weird. I remember one time in high school I went on a trip with a bunch of classmates and the plane had those seats (just one set if I remember correctly, but I am old...). It was great fun when you knew everyone.
While true, VGA only did that at 320x200, HAM6 was 360x576 with sprites, and iirc split screen with other modes was already possible.

It is not directly comparable, not being pixel addressable, but was incredibly useful for anything that wasn’t fast moving and had some time to optimize the displayed image.

It also took a while for anything actually use 256 color VGA for more than mostly static pictures.

I wrote a side scroller in 1993 for the PC. I had to resort to a weird mode whose name escapes me now, where you could only address every 4th pixel without a bank switch - without this. Scrolling was too slow and there was no double buffering on VGA. It became the norm around 1994-1995 but without it, screen updates were severely limited by CPU speed.
i can usually block those scripts and still have a functioning page
The types of design decisions I run into everyday at Fivetran that Mysql made makes me cringe. Friends don't let friends use Mysql :P
That almost sounds like windows that isn't spyware
So it's a blogging app, right?
Oh Lord, that was much easier, thank you. If Musk gets Twitter, this is what threading should look like. Or, like, just remove the 280 limit?
it doesn't need to have a correct second reading but it does need a partial misreading at least.