jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's safe to say that the new Hollywood remake will be quite successful, but never influential.
Most non-techies actually don't need version control. At least not version control that works the same way source code version control works. Writers and digital artists already have infinite layers of undo in their authoring software which is generally good enough.
The author states, as regards the interpretation of the
Dunning-Kruger diagrams, that

[i]n two of the four cases, there’s an obvious positive correlation between
perceived skill and actual skill, which is the opposite of the pop-sci
conception of Dunning-Kruger.

In my corner of the universe, you don't get to cherry-pick which pieces
of data (ie "what instances of two sets of random variables") you bestow
the golden twig of correlation upon. If I'm not entirely mistaken,
correlation is very much a global feature, not a measure of proximity of
two points on a chart.

So, yes, Dunning-Kruger (as evinced from the diagrams sported here) indeed seems to make a weaker claim: that there's no
correlation between “perceived ability” and “actual ability”. As such,
this claim is as far from the "pop-sci conception" of Dunning-Kruger as
it is from the author's.
I had seen some benchmarks several years ago around the time when the significant GC optimizations had been made, and I could've sworn they were on the order of single-digit microseconds; however, I can't find any of those benchmarks today and indeed any benchmarks are hard to come by except for some pathological cases with enormous heaps. Maybe that single-digit
µs values was a misremembering on my part. Even if it's sub-millisecond that's plenty for a high 60Hz video game.
Which part of the history had to do with open borders creating Texas? Was it the Spanish explorers in the 1500s? The French? Was it Mexico's independence war? Texas independence war? Texas joining the Union? They don't call it the Six Flags over Texas for nothing http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/6flags.htm
> Do your text editing with your copy of a free text editor such as GNU Emacs or a free word processor. Do your photo editing with your copy of free software such as GIMP. What if there is no free program available? A proprietary program or SaaSS would take away your freedom, so you shouldn't use those. You can contribute your time or your money to development of a free replacement.

There are many kinds of freedom.

If I'm spending hours or days trying to get some inadequate free program to accomplish some task I need, or trying to work around the lack of a free program in that area at all, when there is a proprietary program that will quickly accomplish my task, NOT using the proprietary program takes away freedom. It enslaves me to spending hours on that task when I could be doing something I would enjoy more.

If it is a task that will be ongoing as opposed to a one shot, and so I might have some concern about getting locked into something, freedom maximizing would probably involve a mixed approach: use the proprietary tool, and toss in some monetary support toward some free software project working in that area.
How do you even start writing something like that?
Does anybody know if this responsive image thing also works in Firefox and are there any polyfills for IE? Would look strange if images only look crisp and detailed in Chrome.
The people that lived through the American Revolution would strongly disagree with you that the current situation is worse.
If they were really that concerned V.P. Pence would have support of the Cabinet and could invoke the 25 Amendment.

It’s quite possible what you relayed is true. However, coming from The Daily Beast you need to take things reported with a grain of salt.
>I hope there are enough people in between

There are -- the football is merely used to inform the relevant parties that the president has made the order, and, except for the submariners, those soldiers are probably aware of the events of the past 48h.
But in this case it was clearly a slam against anyone who didn't vote a particular way. It wasn't just some sloppy use of language to mean "many".
Yes, absolutely. Section 230 doesn't really take a position on that.

The problem is, if Twitter is a private square; are there any public squares (online); and if we have no public squares, what good are our rights in the public square.

On the other hand, if Twitter is a public square, that places a burden on a private company that they don't necessarily want. Although if you look at quotes from 2013, they were saying things like "We're the free speech wing of the free speech party." [1] I don't think we can necessarily hold a company to the words of a seven year old interview of a former CEO; but it's certainly no longer holding free speech as important above moderation of reprehensible speech.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/03/21/17...
Yes the S3 library is fat
While I think Trump is completely in the wrong;

He did not tell people to commit their crimes.

It is important to maintain a strict standard here. There are many people who speak of the dangers of fascism, but they are not responsible when antifa riot. There are many who speak of racism, but they (even organization leaders) are not responsible for when BLM protests turn into riots.

What’s happening now is disturbing. Not only Trump but dozens of other accounts have been purged.

Even the Parler app has been removed from the Android store. If it hasn’t been removed from Apple store I am guessing it will be.

The end result is a continued world-view split not only in ideas but in platforms; software and soon hardware?
To my understanding fb would just need a number of your likes or shares to guess your gender, ethnicity, age, education level.

You giving away your data this way, would that count as providing the information to control the information stream?

And follow-up: This reminds me of the story of that data mining store chain which with high accuracy predicted pregnancy. A dad to a teenage daughter was very pissed when the chain started, in his perception, a personalized mail in coupon campaign to his teenage daughter "to become pregnant". When she actually already was. (The dad later apologized.) Nonetheless, the chain then concealed their knowledge, their targeted baby stuff and organic everything coupons, between just enough noise of tires, tools and men's sth sth, that it was no longer obvious to the innocent eye.

Would that tactics be sufficient to white wash from section 230c obligations?
Trump called for this gathering to happen, and when it got way out of control, and then became an invasion of the capitol, he did absolutely nothing effective to stop it. He watched the whole thing unfold on live TV, with innumerable ways to communicate with that crowd, and he did nothing except tell them “be less violent, and I love you”.

So if you are still a “Trump supporter” at this point, I really don’t see how you can also say you “condemn what happened in the capitol”. Because Trump didn’t.
Whatsapp wasn’t always all those things on this first release.

It was the first Universal messaging app across multiple platforms. It worked on a lot of obscure mobile OS’ and devices that didn’t have something like BBM. The ability to connect was novel.

Today’s world is different, it might not be easy to build the next WhatsApp, but technologies are being adopted quicker than WhatsApp was.

If people can learn WhatsApp, and the first app they used a lot was WhatsApp, they will learn other things.
Don't forget to create your own bank, because banks have begun engaging in deplatforming for political reasons as well.
While they hold different offices, AOC is undeniably a favorite of the left and has 12 million twitter followers. Her being a junior congresswoman does not disqualify her from inciting riots. One does not need to be in government at all to incite a riot. The news article I linked was not slanderous afaik and casts AOC's pro-rioting views in a positive light.
It is difficult for me to compare the impact of the BLM riots to Wednesday, but I view both as preventable tragedies caused by politicians. I won't attempt to quantify the tragedy or weigh them against each other.
If you only want to view Trump as culpable, I wish you all the best but I think you would be wrong.
Sorry, but this is also not great advice. Source: lost both my parents to brain tumors.

> Whether you have experience of grief has no bearing at all on whether you can understand someone else's immediate experience of it.

That is absolutely untrue. There's a line in a Buddhist text that captures the experience well for me: "When two thieves meet they need no introduction: They recognize each other without question." People who had known loss, especially that of a parent, were often a balm to my soul because they could be present in the experience of loss with me.

Which I'm sure sounds vague to many HN readers, so imagine that you and a friend go to visit an art museum. You spend a couple of minutes contemplating the same painting, which you both find moving. As you turn to walk away, you exchange a look and know you don't need to say anything, because you both recognize you had the same experience.

> You aren't the main character in this movie. You're not even an extra. There is no movie and, in this circumstance, you do not matter.

You have something there, but you take it too far. Consider the Ring Theory of Grief: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-xpm-2013-apr-07-la-...

As the article explains, people definitely cause problems by making the moment about them, so you're right about that. But where you're wrong is that the only alternative is to vanish. Often, that is also somebody making it about themself but in a quieter way. Their anxiety and failure to process death leads them to hide away. I took people behaving the way you describe as ones I couldn't trust to be present with me. The correct choice is to be sensitive to circumstances and the inner-ring person's needs and act accordingly. Which does not have a simple heuristic, but sometimes that's the best you can do.

> If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Having heard that a fair bit, I mostly took it as a sign of people either not sincerely offering or not really thinking about the situation. Which was fine; not everybody understands grief yet. The best replies to this for me were people who also made specific offers based on what they thought I needed and what they were able to give.
I always love to make sure their site is still bare bones. Love the raw HTML look.
"We’ve effectively hired them to deal with managing the hard parts of our scaleability infrastructure and they are working for a fraction of what it would cost to do this ourselves."

This, in my mind, is the most insightful line in this post. When cloud hosts like Heroku and GAE are discussed on HN often there is cost comparison between using them and doing the sysadmin yourself on Amazon, or on your own hardware. But what doesn't figure in is that with Heroku and GAE (I suppose more with GAE) is that you aren't just getting out of doing your own sysadmin work, you are also getting out of doing a lot of scaling work yourself. This is expensive, difficult work. Of course it is the type of work that many of us here salivate over, but that's another issue... ;)
Maybe ... "If you’re writing code in the Java programming language you can use Eclipse and a pretty nice toolchain that makes the barrier to entry remarkably low."

or maybe (as a commentator on the blog mentions) ...

"But game developers revel in pain.

And that’s what Android is."
some people are a lot more susceptible to this than others. if it's at the point where it's a significant issue for you, then you should treat it as you would any other kind of chemical dependency: learn ways to control it, or stay away from environments that trigger it.
I would have to put a person like that on a pedal stool.
Flamebait article? Hello? This piece actually takes time to look at the system configs, dollars and cents. This article is quite the antithesis of flamebait. Please read before judging.
By definition it is not.
Together with Andres Segovia, he's the reason why Spanish (and classic) guitar is not considered merely a pop instrument nowadays.

It may seem strange nowadays because we are living in the musical aftermath of geniuses like these, but guitar wasn't taken seriously until the 20th century. It wasn't in the league of the piano, but rather in the league of the harmonica and the bongos.
Spoof your MAC address, use airplane mode, there's other ways I'm sure.

Agreed, this seems invasive and I dislike it.
Amazon has been extremely disappointing in it's lack of efforts to remove fraud like this book or the millions of fake reviews. I will no longer be buying from Amazon.
There appear to be a substantial group of people who are soc convinced that certain leaders can do no wrong, so any outlet that calls those leaders on anything is inherently exposed as socialist propaganda.
Nice sarcasm you got there. Just to unsarcastify this: it would be really bad for hiring managers to be clueless. They'd be hiring for all the buzzwords with the wrong expectations, have meaningless job postings.. Wait a minute...

I was thinking about children being able to get thrilled and become interested and get in the field.
Sure, no masters is better...though I'm not aware of anyone in that position. Manufacturers have customers, billionaires the IRS. Everyone's accountable to someone on something. Hermits?

Working 3 jobs and losing one is not the same thing as working one job and losing one. Losing revenue will always hurt. The point is to prevent it from being fatal.

And still, you don't really have an argument here. All of this is in comparison to the current system which is worse on both these points than a hypothetical 100% gig economy.
I'm wondering about those users who are under govt clamped internet shutdown since months and were not able to login since months e.g. Kashmir (Indian Administered) where internet shutdown is continuing since Aug 5 2019?
The easiest security investment is to switch your shop from Windows, cutting like 98% of threats out there cold.
Pffp. You're "in stealth", another million please.
From what I can tell, the issue is that GCC9 stores the result of a pointer dereference in a register to reuse on each loop operation but the loop operation needs to dereference the pointer each time to work correctly.
> That's ... true.

Partial citations can be very misleading...
I did a bit of haskell, but not that much.
From what I could see, it was more about stack of monads and compositions...
Can you elaborate a bit?
> Is this because inspecting core files also sucks, since it's a snapshot of a point in time

Yes. Something is wrong, but you can't tell how you got into that state.
"Yo are not seeing the fact that it is only you who are responsible for what’s happening inside you ."

This kind of pop-psych babble is naive and abusive.
Are there other solutions that capture multiple windows at once? I’m only familiar with typical screensharing where the use case is either full screen or a single window.

The way I understand you, coscreen captures each window shown individually.

Doesn’t that also mean that overlapping windows are captured in full? I can’t try it out atm so perhaps if you could leave a comment on cpu usage for encoding as well as bandwidth (upload) compared to a typical Screen Sharing solution with a single screen that would be great.

I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a MacBook with cores > 4 for precisely that idea: capturing every single window, streaming them out to a separate machine for analysis of what’s happening in them and possibly making them accessible for collaboration as well, all without losing too much performance

I believe somewhere in this area is a lot of productivity waiting to be unlocked with better tools, not just for typical remote use cases but for any kind of office work
npmjs still contains the package: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rimrafall https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimrafall

'0 downloads in the last month'

There is no 'report package' button. The support link goes to a 'we are hiring' contact form. Report bad packages as security issues? https://www.npmjs.com/security

Package signing. Review process. Scanning tools for dangerous packages. As a user, don't trust anything and isolate containers and jails. Ban bad actors. Charge for a curated package index.

Lots of other plugin stores do better than npm.
Not to take away from your point, but Max supports 4 displays.
I wonder what's the story for including "international spy"?
Your teenage program wasn’t called pkexec perchance?

/me runs
If you think there's a way to have a democracy without an informed electorate, then it makes sense that you'd be less concerned with censorship. I don't see how that could work, though. I'm not impressed with Biden, and significantly less so with Trump; but I'm also unaware of any system that works better. I didn't grow up in the USA, and I'd prefer a parliamentary system to the USA's republic; but that's a minor question compared to democratic vs. nondemocratic systems, and we're depending--however fragilely--on an informed electorate either way.

> Edit: the issue of the BSL level of the laboratories in question seems to have already been addressed:

I'm not sure what you think is addressed there? In that interview, Dr. Shi confirms that they were working with bat coronaviruses at BSL-2. Various papers published by her group before the pandemic also confirm this. They also had a BSL-4 lab for animal experiments, but experiments on the viruses in cultured cells were continuing at BSL-2. That's what Lipkin thought was "screwed up" (i.e., presented an unacceptable risk, regardless of whether it actually caused this pandemic).

As far as we know, all of Dr. Shi's work was performed in compliance with her institution's safety standards. The question is whether those safety standards were adequate, though--her standards were already a step below Ralph Baric's, and long before this pandemic academics like David Relman thought Baric's experiments were at or beyond the edge of acceptable risk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-nR6-4kQQ&t=2466s

Baric and the WIV later submitted a proposal to perform exactly the same kind of research as in Relman's hypothetical, not with SARS-1 and MERS but with novel bat viruses collected by the WIV:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

> “We will introduce appropriate human-specific cleavage sites and evaluate growth potential in [a type of mammalian cell commonly used in microbiology] and HAE cultures,” referring to cells found in the lining of the human airway, the proposal states.

That proposal was rejected by the American government for safety reasons, but there's no way to know what work continued in the WIV with other funders.
Let's try something using some text from a scratchpad of notes I keep in VSCODE.

find and replace:
; to ""
> to >"
< to "<

>"

to

>

"< to <
get rid of the " at the start of the document and at the end too
then use format document with > XML

- unit separator

- record separator

- group separator

- file separator
Devolves…
M1 computers work with >1 external displays almost flawlessly with DisplayLink-capable dock-station/adapter. Dock stations are shit though. I use dell d6000 and do not recommend it. It's hot and USB ports on it stopped working. Charging and display outputs still work. And it's expensive.
You don't have to invent a device to file a patent for it. They describe the device, the patent is for the device, the novelty is the construction of the device.

I honestly doubt that they could sue you for infringing on this.
I only draw 65k per year salary but made an extra 80k in investing last year. I usually average draw about 30k let year from 1 year and a day stake. I can do that year after year. I work when I want and am beholden to no one.
It's not the solution that's patented, but it's the implementation in a single CPU cycle in hardware.
Good point, I should have been clearer. By "they moved the games to Los Angeles," I meant the USOC moved the next US Olympics to LA from Boston. This was also around the time that Stan Kroenke was working to move the Rams to LA, and in doing so build an enormous new stadium which was an attractive facet for a host city.
I actually just started drinking coffee this year or so.

I never drank coffee because I hated the taste and always prioritized a good night’s sleep and regular exercise so just never felt I needed the boost.

With a job change pre-COVID, and then the switch to exclusive work from home in 2020, I’ve found my motivation levels are a bit down and it’s quite easy to lose focus. I exercise less and am a bit more restless when I sleep. I’m less energetic overall.

I have a very small cup of coffee, which is half milk. So never more than 4oz total, usually less than that, and not more than one a day. I try to only have it when I find I can’t get myself to focus. It’s such a small amount that I’m hoping the effect is more due to placebo than caffeine, but it does give me that bit of extra energy and helps me focus.

Ultimately, I see caffeine as a crutch, and that I really need to regroup and exercise a bit more, which should help me sleep soundly at night and help restore my focus and energy levels.
I always assumed most movies were ripped using exploits at various points in the playback software stack? At some point the unencrypted bitstream needs to be available to decode, if you hacked the player or GPU driver code to dump it at that point, it would be possible to re-assemble it into an unencrypted video file, right? You would use a computer without any of the DRM features the article is about of course.
DRM is a placebo against technology.
True, and i see that prices are quite reasonable, $150/seat at low volume.
The Librem 15 project is trying to talk intel into letting them disable the management engine. It's the last non-free part of the system.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
I think you have not adequately asked yourself the question: "why does my database change so much?" and "why does this matter?", because in reality - for such projects as this tool is targeted, which I would mostly estimate is for quick prototyping needs, this is immensely useful.

Here, I see it looking a bit like this:

$ make db
$ make onboard_data
$ make generate_rest
$ make client_bindings
$ make clients
$ make tests && make release

I see nothing wrong with a properly managed project perpetuating this set of commands through multiple versions..
1. Buy/spinup a cheap vps (aws or digitalocean)

2. Install tinyproxy (apt-get install tinyproxy)

3. Configure it to bind to the vps public ip, set a high port, limit access to your home/work ip address or range(s)

4. Set your browser proxy to vps.ip.add.res:12345

The above is simple and effective, only downside anyone else on your ip or range you specified can use that proxy too (if they find out the ip:port and if they done steps 3 and 4 above).
You can switch off the vps when not using it (saving you money)
If i'm sticking to primarily Java; is there a benefit to using Bazel as opposed to Maven / Gradle / Sbt ?
I think many open-source efforts are heading in the wrong direction. Let Apple make sure our software runs on their hardware, and let FOSS make sure that Apple software runs on FOSS platforms. Not the other way around.
>If a beligerant and much more
powerful country came across the
Atlantic and invaded Mexico and
Canada, I know I would want some
nukes as a deterrant.

Where is your belligerant nation? Not Israel surely. Iran was fine with israel before some terrorist inciters hijacked the country.