jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For example, in 2008: https://lwn.net/Articles/301135/

And now: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/CAHk-=whA6zru0BaNm4u...

Or as a more personal example, I will not contribute directly to any open source projects under the FSF umbrella because I won’t deal with their obnoxious contributor agreement process. As far as I can tell, the world and the FSF gain nothing except maybe prestige from this process, but they definitely keep contributors away.
Same here. I use Edge on all my PCs and Macs. I had issues with the android version so I use Samsung browser on my phone. I just want to get rid of everything google in my life.
Yes. Wolfram Alpha tells you how it interpreted your query, so if you get back an answer of "42", you know how it got that answer. Google likes to be more opaque than that.

As Google gets more into answering questions rather than returning links, this will become more of a problem.
You may find this interesting (at least once it gets a little more developed again): https://github.com/wires/wtf type-checked JSON w/ custom sum and product types
OK, so slack stores a username, name and email address for each user. This is visible to everyone else in the same Slack team at minimum. You also need it for e.g. password resets, perhaps billing.

We can assume they aren't total idiots and there's a Internet facing application server that connects to a internal-only database server that has this data. Also, assume SQL injection is not the attack vector.

How would you apply encryption to protect the username, name and email from an attacker that has gained access to the application server? I've gained some shell on the server and have 24 hours minutes to extract data. I can see all the files on the server but maybe as non-root but just the user that runs the application. How can you, as a security sensitive application developer, stop me if I've gotten so far?
that was exactly my point, thanks.
I don't see the need for them regardless, as the their tech improves so will tech all areas. How much business travel is that require such service? Cannot many transactions be done via teleconferencing? Even product demos, physical interactivity requirements and such will be solved for remote customers long before hypersonic passenger planes.

Then comes down to the other point, who does most of the traveling anyway? Those with the money and the time to do so. Hence why I would scoff as much at the LA to SF bullet trains as at hypersonic passenger planes. Neither will be cheap enough for the average person to just hop on and the average person probably doesn't have all that free time not already assigned out to use them. Getting somewhere faster is meaningless when you don't have the time to be there.

As for the terrorism angle, until you remove the ability to pilot the vehicle on board it always a possibility, more hollywood than fact though
Long-term inactivity will probably be taken care of via ladder "seasons" -- when a new season starts, you lose your rank, and your rating will likely be in some provisional state.
I was thinking abour this earlier, and I think linux users feel "wealthier" in terms of software, and so are willing to pay more. Windows users have to scour the dark, virus-infected recesses of the internet to find free software. We just do apt-get.
Managable.

To expand on that: I really like the notion of tabs in text editors. I like having a quick and visual represantation of how many files I'm working on. It's also very easy to memorize where a certain file is spatially.

But then I'm a very visual person, if I can only see one file at once without knowing all the open files at a glance, I go absolutely nutters.
Privacy policy? Does this tool record the URLs it exports? Not that I'll trust what the policy says. This is the sort of tool that should ideally run on one's own machine.
Yeah, we had all of those thoughts. It's just a lot of work, and we also wanted to be writing software, not calling people about ads. We do advertise our mobile apps on the site now. We tried the following kinds of ads:

* AdSense

* a home-brewed system that recommended Amazon maps/books based on the map

* ads for our apps

* ads for custom topo maps of the area in view from MyTopo (These worked the best)

We really haven't been unhappy with our decision. There's a lot of money in the mobile space, and we have even mostly pivoted away from hiking. We have our hiking apps, but we also license our mapping platform to other companies and collect royalties. We power everything from flying and boating, to hiking and wine-country apps now.

My only regret is not pivoting from TrailBehind faster!
Heroku, because their comparatively monstrous exit fully validated the YC model.
i concur.

It's always been discouraging to to build an entire video game and be mildly popular. Then comes a guy to single handedly accomplish this. Certainly gives me a lot of hope.
He's also eating brown rice though. Brown rice is a lot more filling than white rice is, which means that you need to eat less to feel full.
$20 per person per day? That's massive, even for Australia. What are you eating?
I think there is also some concern that the Coles/Woolworths duopoly is driving prices up. I usually avoid big supermarkets, but I haven't noticed any significant difference in price when I have visited them.
What does the HN community think of the greplin concept? They have recently added a Chrome plugin and a greplin search replacement for standard email search.

Think it is a public beta and anyone can signup if not ping me and I'll send you an invite.

My main concerns with the service are:
+ Centralized risk - keys to very valuable kingdom
+ No two factor - but they tell me its coming
+ No word on whether they encrypt in storage - although it should only be an index to the information rather than the actual info
+ Standard SAAS / Cloud risks - internal abuse, legal turnover etc.

Any others? All of these could be mitigated to a reasonable degree. What do you think? Is there a future for this type of service (or big buyout for Google / Bing) or is it just too scary?
While I understand that real-time full-text indexing is a much more difficult problem to solve, I've got just under 1.5 billion tweets "indexed" in TweetStats. And I'm one person.

Granted, given the 30MM/day number they must be growing that index very quickly and they've likely hit that 1.5 mark pretty darn quickly.
I am looking forward to the rarest. Has anyone come across TombstonedTaskError ?
Hm, mine were all from one person (the admin)

Certainly annoying and spammy to send 10 over the course of 10 days before I was motivated enough to click unsubscribe.
The main question is: In what area/country are the parasites resistant against those toxins. e.g. in Bremen neither advantage nor frontline works against fleas.

And I'm missing ARDAP by Shell in this list.
Why are we paying almost a trillion dollar in taxes if the government can’t get its shit together and we have to rely on mega corporations.

When looking at Wuhan news, everyone is wearing a mask. How did they make that happen for millions of people. Singapore mailed 4 masks per household. South Korea nearly tested every citizen.

Sure China is an authoritarian government but we can’t deny it can do manufacturing and logistical wonders.

The corporate greed and govt incompetence clearly shows when COVID-19 hit us (usa). It will dip our economy way harder than it will hit China.

Could someone share if China is also doing massive stimulus and billions of dollar bailouts?
Ah, if I take your meaning of analytically correctly, I think you are basically arguing for symbolic reasoning.

I do still see the appeal of that. Seems solidly not a promising path, at this point. :(
They don't do much to protect you from getting infected.

They do a lot to prevent you from infecting other people.
Upfront rent is totally fine, Airbnb itself charges upfront. But 3 upfront rents? Ive never gotten a deposit or the extra rent back at the end. Airbnb isnt a real solution but i dont think landlords ever were either
> Of the 2mm+ people in prison, almost none of them should be there...

A rather significant percentage of the US Prison population are in fact, considered violent.

> https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html

To be fair -- still a massive social & economic problem.
Carplay on my subaru has navigation by dials all the time. The touch screen works, but the dials are always available. You just turn the right side dial (normally used for tuning when the radio is active) to move the focus on the screen, and press to select. It's how I nearly always interact with carplay.
This one's good as well:

"So you wanted to be a veterinarian"

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/dreamjobs/dreamjobs4.html
The real magic of Uber is that it allows drivers to convert the depreciation of their car into cash at a time and schedule of their own choosing. For the reasons discussed in the story, this may still technically be a net negative in the long term compared to driving a regular cab fulltime, but a) drivers find it far preferable to/cheaper than alternatives like payday loans, and b) many Uber drivers have multiple jobs and are not in a position to drive regular cab shifts.
The reduction of convolution to FFT is beautiful ;)
I can't tell if you're speaking for or against GIMP's unintuitive UX here.
Cryptocurrency exchange, first result on Google
I think if managed correctly the second option is more than achievable for a software development team. I agree it doesn't work for all industries / jobs (e.g. support staff etc), but for the majority of technical positions, I think the gain in productivity and saving in salary will more than make up for these inconveniences. I also think it will make the recruitment of developers easier as you'll be offering a benefit rarely seen.

And ye, a few people have mentioned the point about 28hrs - I'm going to rebrand it as "4 day week".
High or low is just a relative term. Current price is "fair" value.
The pandemic is speeding up change in the world. The transition to crypto currencies is happening faster than ever. Lots of people who are resistant to change are going to miss the boat and are going to be stuck holding the anchor that is the massive over leveraged debt in the fiat currency world.
The thing that's frustrating about webOS is that LG doesn't provide meaningful updates, and apparently app providers have no incentive to support TVs more than a year or two old.

So the most expensive, highest quality TV in my house can't use CBS All Access because the webOS version is slightly too old.

I've become convinced that you should either buy a TV with Roku built in or buy a TV and stick a Roku on it. It seems to be the only platform with the clout to get support for most streaming apps and that also updates its software regularly for a long time. I don't like the idea of a single, proprietary platform being the end-all, but every manufacturer-specific platform seems to be missing key streaming apps, and then there's Google where it's unlikely Google will support the device in a year.

Roku has built-in AirPlay support now too, which I believe makes it the only non-Apple device that you can "just" stream to from an iPhone.
Lol what? Can you explain this view more fully? If anything the x86 currently has the two foot spoiler on it.
Even in NLP/Ad-tech/CV spaces a lot of the time is spent in cpu/io bound tasks such as featurization and reading datasets off of disk and shuttling them to GPU. On my most recent model training jobs in TF w/16GB of working memory I sit at an average of ~40% GPU utilization.

Some of this overhead is language specific, and some is due to shitty code. Never the less I'd bet if I didn't need to shuttle memory to GPU or could do multiple things at a time I'd crush my perf number. ( noting of course that the 40% gpu util is roughly 10x better than a CPU )
> Debian stable is very old for a workstation.

For a programming workstation perhaps. Many people can do their work with the software provided with Debian Stable. If they're job isn't changing much, there's less to worry about over the life of install too.
MI5 were lifting crypto keys based on keypress acoustics in the 50s, I wouldn't be so certain. If you put the phone up an expensive enough tool you can at very least find side channels
This seems like a bug because it means system state results in unpredictable behavior. There should be a dedicated swap for hibernation, like the pre-allocated hiberfile used by Windows.
> Some professionally oppressed people contact a project, provide mostly secret evidence to members of the project's progressive faction.

> After the re-naming they are never heard of again.

Beyond all other corrections, the people complaining here are professional Coq users of both genders.
Sure, you usually don't want your mental model to be wrong on purpose.

But that's different from not having one.

And sometimes a slightly wrong model has other benefits that will cause you to make less mistakes, so it's still a good tool.
My favorite anecdote in this vein is that John Tyler, President from 1841-1845, has two living grandsons (although I think one may have passed on in the last year).

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/tylergrandsons.asp
Why do we assume we can detect extra terrestrials
This site's backend could be built with dozens of different languages.
Here's a timeline of the North Korean nuclear program:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/20/world/asia/nor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass...

After reading through these, I am comfortable in sweeping aside your argument. Time and time again, North Korea claimed it was pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. In every negotiation they stalled for more time, more money and more food, until one day when they tested their first bomb. Sure, that one fizzled out, but it wasn't that long until they tested another another, which worked, and that was followed by another. With each test they have grown in capability, and now they openly admit that their reactors are operating to build nuclear weapons.

North Korea is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's poorest, most isolated and backward countries. If they can get the bomb, Iran can do it too, and faster.
It's been a long, long time since there was an abundance of completely free arable land that no-one had laid claim to. You aren't talking about "the old days", you're talking about the prehistoric days when there were few humans.

Saying "farming isn't an option because you can't get land for free" is, IMO, a bit of silly argument. Arable land is (just like everything else) a scarce resource in a heavily populated world; it's not by someone's evil machinations that you can't freely have as much of it as you please. That's not slavery, that's competition for scarce resources.

If you did want to farm, it's (very roughly) $1k/acre in many places, and you only need a couple acres to feed yourself.
At work we were debating how this happened: Someone in marketing said hey the hot trend is add these social buttons to everywhere, security team: small change no detailed review or thinking of implications
Well it can't hurt.

Of course, you can't fully describe a person by just a number. It's theoretically possible that a highly reputed Stack Overflow user could be an awful programmer at work, but I'm sure that the intersection of "highly reputed SO users" and "people you'd regret to hire for a programmer position" is a very tiny set.

I think that number contains much more significant information for that kind of position than whatever you could extract from a CV or an interview.
There are several hosting services that offer 3+TB per month plans for 130$ / month. So if you stick with 1MB images you only need to recover ~1 cent per 200 downloads to break even. IMO, that seems doable.
I agree and I don't think they can be blamed. It's mostly the economy and the corruption. Easier to jump ship than to repair a sinking ship too damaged to be repaired.

I don't think the analogy is quite correct though. At least based only on the movie impressions of ghettos I've seen, I feel it's sort of an interesting ironic antonym of cultural personalities.

If many of the people in your ghetto had the same cultural identity as many of our poor people over here, you'd see a more unified poverty like the one I imagine exists in the Filipino groups in San Francisco. (I haven't been outside of my country except for HK and so I'm only guessing.)

In reverse, if we have more of a ghetto culture, it won't necessarily mean we will lift up ourselves better but certainly we'd be a lot more angrier and violent at the poverty level that in ways may further hurt our very unstable lifestyle but will be better breeding grounds for the type of entrepreneurs that mimic the US lifestyle.
To be fair I didnt check the author of the article, and I do agree that Mike has been a really good job promoting and helping local startups.

But I didnt make this comment on the article in isolation, there is a long list of techcrunch articles questioning spotify's viability ever since its inception, its being held to a much higher standard than it should be, and as as far as I can tell the only company really successfully getting any leverage against record labels I think they should be backed at every opportunity.
To someone living in the Netherlands, feminism seems to be turned on its head here. After much pressure to increase participation, lots of women simply argue for their right to raise kids. So, they usually prefer working part-time and using other time as 'social time'.

Now, if only us men demanded the same ;).
From a CV, yes. From an interview?

Maybe I'm just naïve.
Interesting. I am skeptical that US consumers would have the discipline to do this. Maybe another way to solve this problem would be adding a weigh station next to each SKU (or group of SKUs), and then the station logs the weight in the app as the customer puts the item in their bag?
I didn't see security mentioned in that essay. What I saw was using a unit test framework to manage regression tests. Regression tests date back to at least Brooks' "The Mythical Man Month", and aren't necessarily due to a unit which needs testing.
>> Many developers view software development (…) as a science or engineering activity(…) Writing software is neither: I view it as a craft or art, similar to the work required of teachers and writers. (…) So it’s not clear why we call software development software engineering. (…)

The real issue is that some feel the need to strictly classify everything in distinctive categories. I would content that writing software IS engineering even in the strictest sense. But as a artful craft? It sure is. It all depends on the application, intent, and approach.
There is no chance this is being faked. I've been playing with the astrophotography mode on a Pixel 4 XL in a remote country location with no cell phone connectivity. A single 4 minute exposure is able to record stars down to about magnitude 9.5. A single exposure can detect the Crab Nebula, or the two brightest satellite galaxies of the Andromeda Galaxy (M 32 and NGC 205). To fake such results without internet connectivity would mean that the camera software would have to have an internal catalog of about 250,000 stars, with accurate colors and coordinates. It would need the size and shape of nebulae, the contours and brightness of the Milky Way, etc. When I add multiple frames, I see fainter stars appear, as they should, so the internal catalog would really need millions of stars, most of which would not show up unless the user carefully aligned multiple individual image and summed them. This is not being faked.
Also, if your friends are also earning similar amounts, then the activities they take part in are probably going to be more costly too. Which usually means if you want to continue being in the circle, or at least an active member of it, you’ll need to engage in some of those activities, especially if you have kids, and then things get expensive.

Throw in a healthcare issue and there’s not much wiggle room.
This is not true. If you are in a room at night with all the lights off and the only source of light is your computer screen, you want as little amount of light coming out of that screen as possible to reduce that contrast ratio between the computer screen and the ambient darkness. The only exception is res light due to the way the eye works. White backgrounds, which consist of all the red green and blue pixels, add more strain onto the eyes due to giving off more light. Given equal backlight, white backgrounds give off more light than black.

In fact the single greatest thing that computer manufacturers could do to improve the lives of night-time workers and people who use their computers with the lights off would be to switch to OLED screens, where the black pixels do not use backlight. As someone who studies human vision, I took special note of the improvement when I switched to a phone that uses an OLED screen in dark mode. There, with white on black text, the white text is the only thing in the room giving off light and it’s a drastic improvement.

However if the colors do not matter (you can deal with monochrome text and images), then using a true “red mode” will produce the least eye strain. Check out F.Lux’s “darkroom” color effect. You’ll feel the difference instantly. You’ll be able to comfortably see what’s on the screen in the dark with the screen as the only light source, as well as be able to quickly scan around the room without your eyes needing to adjust! You can even turn up the brightness much higher than you can without it.
I've been very tempted to dump bacula and do that, especially since my main disk-based storage is an Oracle ZFS appliance.

But I also do backups to tape (LTO-8, in a Storagetek library), and I do like that Bacula handles that for me.
What if bad students get hit on the head thus decreasing their height?
In my experience the people who have said "I didn't have enough time" if they were given infinite time, wouldn't have done any better a job.
Such a directory would still face similar problems Google has to deal with on daily basis.Popular!= Good or reliable and etc.
I actually looked at learning dtrace recently, wondering if it could help me with a handful of isuses, but so far I've been unable to find information related to its capabilities, or up to date guides / books/ tutorials
At a high level they are:
1) The nature and shape of work will change dramatically
2) AI will start to make a real impact to the world in both positive and negative ways
3) Algorithmic choice will become an important thing
4) Traditional large organisations will die and the rise of the “Portfolio” company
5) Personalised health
6) 5G, LEO Satellites and the changing location of computing
7) Climate Change and why paper straws don’t matter
8) Governments, Globalisation, Nationalism, the shrinking middle, basic income and the rise of disruption
It might be because companies use cheap tools for collaboration and not go for something like telepresence that gives experience very close to a real one, including eye-contact - which is criticial in trust and bonding.

Also, to the best of my knowledge nobody applied telepresence directly as a bonding tools - it's mostly used for straight work, because(at least the cisco versions) are quite expensive.
I would think that looking at patterns on the CPU level is almost impossible. The overhead would be enormous.

For instance if you look for a magic number. Instead of putting two numbers on the stack, and perform an addition you now have to have a conditional jump before the addition.

Maybe I'm wrong, but at least I think it would be virtually impossible.
I agree. I also suspect we live near each other; you can contact me with this name using the Google stuff and maybe we can leave our smartphones on the table together sometime.
AFAIK the phone numbers were obtained via an account recovery exploit, not through scraping. The other fields were though.