jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A lot of wars these days are asymmetric. It's very rare to have fully equipped armies+navies+airforce on both sides. Usually people do the math upfront and one side concludes it probably is better to not get destroyed completely.

In most wars in recent history you have one side with lots of relatively high tech weaponry going against guerrilla forces fighting with relatively unsophisticated stuff but hiding among civilians, thus making the use of all that high tech weaponry a bit controversial. E.g. Syria is a good example of that.

WW II was probably the last conflict where all sides basically removed the gloves and fought with everything they had where everything on both sides included some very scary options. I live in what got rebuilt after WW II destroyed Berlin. There wasn't much left here. Other cities got it worse.

Tanks still have a role because in most conflicts, the other side would lack the means to defend against them. But they'd be relatively useless against someone with rockets & an airforce. But they are awesome for dominating a chaotic battlefield without that. Basically, in the Gulf wars, the US took out the iraqi airforce in no time and after that basically tanks rolled in pretty much without opposition. I don't think any US tanks were lost at all. Much of the conventional troops ended up surrendering.
I didn’t say most people, I said “abound”. Even 5% of people ignoring “asking nicely” could deal critical damage containment efforts, and I suspect the number is more than 5%.
My take was that one needs to be "at least aware" of all mentioned documents, which, while not as bad, still isn't ideal.
From what I can see there is a flagging epidemic on HN. I have seen valid statistics about flu (from the CDC or equivalent, I am not a US citizen) being flagged, on the ground of being conspiracy inspired. But knowing the actual numbers is not conspiracy. I too had my "ahah" moment when learning about the flu statistics.

Some subjects simply cannot be discussed: there is a Paul Graham's blog post about it. That is a bit sad that the moment, however urgent, dictates what can talked on a pretty harmless forum.
Thanks for expanding on it. But just to be clear, statutory damages are "up to" $150,000 in the U.S. I don't think a court would award that much in this case. Do you know of comparable cases that got the maximum?
I agree with you totally, but maybe the wording or formatting was what people saw first. What works sometimes is not just calling "bullshit" on a shoddy post but going the extra mile that the shoddy post didn't.
Why doesn't someone make a good scanner like the Snapscan that also has a cheapo laser-printer attached for when you need to print out something like an airline boarding pass or a cheatsheet etc?
I don't collect a ton of business cards, and when I do, I usually just type it into my address book, or increasingly, friend them on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
You've clearly never been to Germany in your life.
We can make some guesses. See e.g. http://philosophyforprogrammers.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-fee...
I use BackBlaze. I have 3 accounts with them, one of which is linked to a Mac Mini that I use as a general storage machine. My set up at home is:

3 x Laptops
1 x media centre (Mac mini)
1 x family machine (Mac mini) attached to 2 x 1Tb software-raid drives.

Everyone backs up to the Mac Mini, and this is backed up to the 2 drives. This machine also backs up to Backblaze.

I too had an experience where I thought I'd lost all my photos of my kids (5 years worth) when a HD died. Luckily I had an earlier backup and I lost around 3 months worth in the end
Except, this isn't a once in a lifetime occurrence. As of today it's twice in a lifetime. That's indicates to me they didn't just hit that perfect chain of events, it tells me they have problems in their architecture or implementation that need to be addressed and tested before the next crisis occurs.

I worked in a datacenter as well. The whole point is that you test those scenarios when it's not an emergency so you can be confident everything will operate smoothly.
Out of curiosity, I am wondering why someone would choose Linode over AWS?
And what are you going to do with the money?

You'll spend some, invest some, etc. You'll also have kids, so even if you save it all, it'll get divided amongst more and more people.

Or you'll give it all away to charity.

Just look historically - are they any wealthy families that kept all the money in the family and never spent it?

I don't think there are any that even lasted 3 generations before it was spent or diluted among many children.
The richest man in Rome once said that you can't consider yourself truly rich unless you can afford your own private army. ;) Even more interesting is the fact that Crassus acquired his wealth by (1) declaring rich people enemies of the state and seizing their assets and (2) purchasing houses that were burning down and then putting out the fire with his own men. Unless you're an anarcho-capitalist, you'll certainly recognize that a representative government is necessary to put a stop to such behaviors.
You might want to educate yourself on Europe's monarchy history, the British monarchy - it's a quite interesting topic and definitely not some kind of... fad. Elizabeth II still holds the throne while American presidents come and go.
> and stay inside

Huh? Why would you stay inside when you live in such a beautiful place? I live in the Yukon - it's -37C today and it's absolutely beautiful outside. I rode to work today, and just did a 1 hour round trip walk to the library to drop off some books. I'll go for a ~2 hour snow shoe tonight in the dark with my headlamp. I saw the Northern Lights last night, so I'll take my camera tonight.

Winter is actually the most beautiful season - the snow is so clean and bright, and the sun shines off all the ice crystals so beautifully. It was cold this day - http://theroadchoseme.com/mendenhall-glacier-juneau-alaska
R seems pretty amazing. Any suggestions on how to go about learning it?
I imagine that would depend on how almost-successful your startup was. At the same time, that may make it substantially easier to get into a separate small company/mature startup (mature to the point that they're hiring).
would like to share this which I found on twitter recently:

The Law of printf debugging: debugging messages inserted to track down unwanted behavior asymptotically approach "o_O"

-- @a_cowley

So thanks alixander for a considerable step in the right direction.
I really wish these blogs would stop replacing " with “ and ' with ’.

I know it looks nicer, but it totally breaks the ability to paste into a shell :(
Congrats on the launch! The variety of projects and quality look good. I'd concur with others about linking to the live projects and telling more about yourselves. Also, I'd switch your logo to the left and main nav to the right so it's the first thing people see. Lastly, the dead space to the left of the justified project nav messes with the symmetry of the page.

Marketing: reach out to larger design/dev firms. They often have overflow work and always need reliable contractors (repeat business and word of mouth are crucial). Nathan should go to Refresh Austin if he doesn't already (every
2nd Tues at Buffalo Billiards). Contact me, I own a web shop and would be happy to help however I can.

Good luck!
Free graduate-level graph theory book that I found when I was interested in graph theory: http://diestel-graph-theory.com/basic.html
I use XEmacs.

Many (~10) years ago I went back and forth between both and found that I really preferred XEmacs more. A lot of it went to the thought that JWZ and others put into being a proper X11 application; and the fact that it wasn't X11-only: you could have full colors in a terminal (and dark/light color theming) and they listed a packaged Win32 build on their site.

Other thoughts - XEmacs at the time seemed better prepped for picking up and running with out of the box. I think the situation's probably a little reversed now; I see some nice stuff in GNU Emacs out of the box and some extensions are either GNU-only or with XEmacs as an afterthought. That said, everything I use works fine in XEmacs, and I can always hack anything I need.

That brings me to my next favorite: extending the editor. GNU Emacs has inherited (apparently from RMS) a dislike for abstract data structures. Everything's a list of chars, which are just integers. You can implement other things on top, but your tools are limited and at the interface with Emacs itself it's about as low-level and manual as Unix syscalls it seems. Fontifying is also handled more cleverly in XEmacs. Some of this may have changed since I last looked into it in detail.

Finally, as a Common Lisp developer, XEmacs Lisp leans more in that direction than GNU Emacs Lisp, which seems like a crufty amalgam of MacLisp and Scheme, plus the aforemention disdain for data structures. I'd probably be happier with an entire Common Lisp editor but XEmacs does so much.

An anecdote: recently a friend had to use Emacs for school to work with Mozart (http://www.mozart-oz.org/). I actually suggested he use GNU Emacs because while I favor XEmacs I know GNU Emacs is a little more actively developed and widely used. He had a few things he wanted help customizing and I was shocked how arcane some of them were to customize in GNU Emacs (read, Lisp coding, and not clean Lisp coding either), while in XEmacs they were simple checkboxes in the "Options" menu. I forget the specific examples but I can post if I remember.

I do wish XEmacs were more actively developed -- maybe that's a hint for me to jump in and start helping out -- and I especially wish the 21.5 series would hurry up and get made into a stable release version so the good new features in there would be widely available. However I still find XEmacs to be a great editor and more useful for _my_ needs than GNU Emacs.
right: ->

wrong: 1=2
I have a bunch of similar data on craigslist I should write up someday.
Quora's technology innovations and product polish are breathtaking.
How is that a "not at all"?
A religious basis doesn't make a moral philosophy any more reasonable (you can't argue real divine inspiration without proof). I am not sure if you even intended to imply that, of course.

A "scientific" moral philosophy is still rooted in some fundamental non-objective rule, of course, but that's not necessarily a bad thing nor does it affect its plausibility.

One fundamental is that humans are separated from other animals[1] not just by self-awareness but also awareness of others — and the resulting effect of empathy. With this information, it can be argued that this ability bestows an obligation to care for others. A consistent moral philosophy can be built from that and other observations.

[1] This could apply to equal or lesser degree to some other species but we have no way of verifying it currently.
I can't wait for Dell to get into the smartphone business.
> My twins are 6 months.

For what it's worth, that means that you're actually at an easier phase than you will be when the kids get older. Infants are time-consuming in many ways, but they also sleep a lot and have few external needs of their own.

When your kids stopping napping and start acquiring their own friends and activities, the time commitment goes up a lot, especially when they are still too young to do much for themselves.

Elementary age sort of plateaus: the amount of activities goes up, but they can take care of more of their own maintainance too. I don't know what middle school is like yet, but my hunch is that the time commitment starts going down when they become old enough to go to activities on their own.
Javascript executed from site's own scripts does not give more or less rights to access first party cookies than Javascript executed from an externally loaded URL. Any Javascript executed on a page as the same access to all those.
And for people who want "Hugo but written in Rust" or "Hugo but written in Javascript" — then, there's Zola (Rust): https://github.com/getzola/zola, and 11ty (Javascript): https://github.com/11ty/eleventy. (Or at least that's how I think about these two.)
> especially the book Feeling Good by David Burns.

This book changed my life for the better, as well as The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi. Both of them combined got me out of a deep multi-yearlong depression and allowed me to get married, get a better job, be more productive, more active and much much happier.

I still have relapses every 6 months or so but I go back to the books and re-read my margin notes and highlights and it always helps.

I didn't know Dr. Burns had a clinic in mountain view. Interesting!
Hah I haven’t for a couple years but last time I did I was amazed and dismayed at having the sensation that my mind knows what to do, but my fingers just aren’t quick enough. I’d guess if you were a musician or athlete who hadn’t played in awhile it’d feel similar. I end up shutting it off because my brain isn’t entertained by the slow songs and my hands can’t physically keep up with the fast ones that I loved so much, and it’d probably take me a few weeks to get any good again and I’m not willing to put in that kind of time with a family.

It also gave me a lesson in hierarchies of competence. Even though I was maybe one of the 20 best people ranked in Stepmania Online, there were people who despite the amount of time I’d put in were significantly better at the game. (The name Nima comes to mind, I think he was a concert pianist whose skills translated into perfect accuracy on Stepmania). Despite being really good, I felt like I’d never be the best.

It was also around that time that I met Day9, the pro Starcraft now relatively famous Twitch streamer at a LAN party and he introduced me to Beatmania, which was like Stepmania only more keys. He was so good at it (and arrogant, hah but isn’t any sixteen year old that can be?) that I sort of gave up on Stepmania because it felt like peanuts in comparison.
After looking at posted backpacks, I wonder what you all are carrying in these huge bags.

I just use an Osprey daypack. It takes a MacBook, iPad, a notebook, bottle of water, a bag of nuts, and a small towel. I just can’t imagine carrying anything bigger.
Is it wrong that I want one?
Anyone can write at Medium. You can open an account there yourself.
> Sound familiar?

Yes, and equally stupid, which was my point in the first place. Why did you post?
How many times do we see the opposite question getting asked?

Postgres is robust, feature-filled, and scalable. You dont have to want all three to extract value from it.
We built a new house, and I had a blanket ban on Samsung products.
Unfortunately, the only fridge that looked nice was a Samsung so we reluctantly went with it.

Strangely, it's actually a really good fridge and it's one of the only items in our house that DOESN'T connect to the internet.

The LG we already had would occasionally freeze vegetables, the Fisher & Paykel had an internal light which stopped working... and the Samsung seems to be a simple fridge that works well (so far).
On the other hand, without web apps I'm pretty sure I couldn't daily drive linux since most companies don't care enough to build apps for linux and even if they did I'd rather not have to install an app for every tool/service I use.

I think this article is all wrong. Using the web as an app platform means that people can use any OS that runs a modern web browser. It is also possible to package web apps as offline capable apps (either via service-workers or just files opened with file:// like classic HTA's).
But p2p streaming has been around since the mid 2000's ??
(Pre-Microsoft Skype, Miro, Joost, Tribler...)

And for some recent examples : what about Popcorn Time ? Or PeerTube ?

EDIT : Oh, I guess that most of those are technically not "streaming", but "watching while downloading" like YouTube or FTP+VLC ?
Would you be interested in moving to and working in a town where everyone earned the same salary?
> I just have my user agent do it with https://darkreader.org/

And for $4.99 Safari user. 30% paid to Apple and 70% for developer to recoup their $99/year cost.
FYI nix-env operations are atomic and can be rolled back instantly, including upgrades.

$ nix-env --rollback

> The suggestion in the github issue was to instead use an unofficial third party package for basic package management.

Specifically the suggestion is referring to home-manager, which is community supported (being in nix-community) and is the recommended way to install packages rather than imperatively doing it with nix-env.
Take into account that they are measuring how much food emits when it rots, but not how much food captures when it grows. The net effect might be smaller.

Another thing that might be happening is that they take into account the emissions of its transportation via intercontinental ships, trucks, etc.
Even worse, let's apply the non network neutrality argument: the washer won't work without certain "licensed" detergents sold as for the safety of the washer (some claim about harm of the device from the wrong detergent).

Consumers need to outright reject these attempts by manufacturers. Is there risk that some appliances already put some sort of timer chip and stop working after some time? Kind of the HP inkjet business model?

We need some open source washer companies, I would pay a premium for an open source washing machine.
What interface do you use (USB/eSATA, etc)?

And you mention gaming setup, assuming windows, is this as portable as you make it sound? No weird hardware-dependent issues?
In theory, there is nothing an autocratic government can't do to you.

But leaders pay a political price for instituting draconian enforcement measures, while their country pays an economic price, which makes them less likely. It's one thing to send armed agents to storm the homes of executives of a large private bank to shake down the bank. It's another to do it against end-users at a scale where it becomes effective.

You may be right about the most secure form of property. Many don't have access to jurisdictions that can offer people in their income class that kind of security of property. For them, I think in some situations cryptocurrency can be a very secure form of property comparatively speaking. Cryptocurrency can be thought of as a poor man's offshore bank account, literally speaking.
What a coincidence! I bought some of Corea's records 20 years ago but hadn't listened to them in a long time. But on the day of his death my 2-yo son pulled out one of them, and we listened to it. A recording of a concert he gave in 1978 together with Herbie Hancock [1]. They are playing like gods, absolutely breathtaking. Good starting point if you haven't made contact with Corea's work yet.

[1] https://www.discogs.com/Herbie-Hancock-Chick-Corea-Herbie-Ha...
No, it's just Apple. The rest of the world doesn't do this nonsense.
Why is Haskell like this?

I don't have that feeling when using other FP languages like Lisp or OCaml.
it's no secret that News corp is cosy with political sides that support their interests... and News is so influential, that it's become symbiotic.
> if constexpr is incredibly stupid

Would you care to elaborate what's wrong with it? When I used it I always felt it was quite straightforward.
Kubernetes does more than that, and has features like PVCs + Statefulsets are basically intended for, designed for exactly this use case

There is significant impedance mismatch between this and the other K8s assumption that pods are ephemeral and can be relocated or restarted any time.
"Impractical Python Projects" - https://nostarch.com/impracticalpythonprojects

A little more abstract and basic but still fun.

"Automate the Boring Stuff" https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Pretty dense with info imo, and very practical.
Honestly the safety is a far bigger drawcard to me than the performance. C(++)'s UB just scares me these days because it's often so subtle.
I dont know who downvoted you, but as an Opera user that uses Firefox to check Gmail, I'm waiting for the same thing myself!
Right. Which is my point (Thanks for the downmods guys).

Most people are going to want to go to a website, and have it work. A native app doesn't cut it.
You're ascribing all sorts of moral judgments to this world but don't make a case for why any of these things are bad, if they manage to make people feel (truly) content and happy. What's wrong with reality TV, Lady Gaga and advertisements if that's what people like? Do you honestly thing people would be better off if they didn't have those things and only had a Chopin record to put on at night? Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong but the pseudo-intellectual snobbery, not backed up with anything but an general contempt for anything that is mainstream, irks me. I guess in the same way the Brave New World did.

(that said, calling the society of Brave New World to be similar to ours is hyperbole, and I'd pretty sure that it's not why I feel the way I do about the book. Don't forget that the 1930's had their own 'shitty music and vulgarity', in the form of jazz and skirts that showed ankles. It's so easy to make an extremely generalized case for why Brave New World resembles any society; hell I figure that some grumpy inhabitants of Pompei would make the same argument about their city 2000 years ago.).
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks :)

http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...

Also a little lisp:
http://nostarch.com/lisp.htm
title should be clear this build is a nightly build, not retail
I'm sure there's a HN/gamer overlap. Even if there weren't it doesn't mean there won't be some useful ideas here.
Artificial neural networks do work well as a model of behavior of biological neural nets, up to a point. They are definitely a piece of the puzzle, a module to duplicate a certain type of information that is represented in biological brains. When they became suddenly famous in the 80s and 90s, the mistake was to assume we could build everything, including an artificial mind, if we just had a large enough neural net. That was essentially the IBM approach: just throw enough resources at it and it will become intelligent. Turns out, more is needed for building actual intelligence.

I firmly believe that neural nets and other techniques are still essential components needed for implementing artificial minds. We now know that processing power and storage space are alone are not enough, a brain needs actual software that tells it what to do with information and how to organize itself. That's essentially how I became very skeptical of the kind of brute force AI research that is being conducted today. For instance, modeling a synapse chemically down to the atomic level is nice for basic research, but it's definitely not the way to implement AI. For this, we need larger abstractions that are functionally equivalent and translate well into efficient computer code, and we need to figure out how to make these pieces of code interact with each other in a meaningful way. My wild guess would be that today we're not even constrained by computing power or storage needs, we just lack the correct design.