jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>We can use OpenBSD and have a higher confidence that it's not backdoored.

Why? As a non-technical user, from my POV I'm simply trading my trust that NSA hasn't backdoored MS with trusting that your, or De Raadt's authority is meaningful. I can't review the source code I'm running (without a prohibitively large time investment), and as we saw with Heartbleed, the "many eyes" theory is flawed as well.

As an individual, non-technical user I have no reason to be anymore confident in OpenBSD than in Windows. At some point you have to rely on a chain of trust (or develop the silicon yourself) and I view the "NSA paid/forced MS" boogeyman just as likely as the "NSA paid/forced OpenSSL" to merge heartbleed. Am I to believe that the NSA gagged with thousand or so developers who work on windows, or just the 10 who manage OpenSSL?

The parent post has a very important point, and the history better aligns with what he/she said. The NSA didn't coerce Google into giving up user data - they simply took advantage of the fact that their inter-DC traffic was unencrypted and use their resources to attack that fact. It didn't take a secret court nor did it take a gag order. They experienced an attack that could have been done by anyone dedicated enough - government or blackhat - and its likely that keeping your software secure against such attacks is very effective at protecting user privacy.
Java and C# are even more verbose than PHP
but they can also do reflection just as well
as Ruby and PHP can.

Err, no, they cannot -- in Java/C# you cannot create or redefine functions / methods / entire classes at runtime.

To do that, you need to get into bytecode generation, and that's not a feature of the language anymore; not to mention problems with the fact that their respective VMs weren't designed to allow the regeneration of methods/classes at runtime, so you run into problems like the permanent-generation in the GC (i.e. classes aren't garbage collected, so if not careful you may end up with a huge memory leak).

"more verbose" doesn't really describe the shit you must do to make available the same tricks you can pull in Python/Ruby.

Comparing this to C + assembly generated at runtime would be stretching it, but just a little -- having the ability to generate assembly doesn't mean that C has meta-programming facilities ;)
Yes. Experience, even with crap, is useful.
Yeah, I've got 5 hackers who can vouch for me. Happy to connect you.

p.s. One of them might say I'm a bit of an asshole sometimes.
Having followed for a while the various debates about evolution (except Intelligent Design, I've got no time for that), I am continually amazed by how unscientific the people upholding the scientific status quo are.

I understand that they would circle the wagons to repel attacks by the 'ignorant savages' outside of their own group... but to see them behave the same way against 'one of their own' is quite remarkable. I wonder if it is just a knee-jerk reaction they have developed... that anyone who even questions their pet theory is attacked as not knowing what they are talking about. How can someone claim to be 'rational' and yet at the same time be making ad hominem attacks against one of the founders of a field and claiming that he doesn't know what he is talking about? The levels of self deception implicit in that are simply staggering.

I liked the quote in the article that a scientist who can't change his mind isn't much of a scientist at all.
It will be eventually, but not yet. They're growing quickly enough they just need more brute force, currently.
I'm pretty sure all the recent posts showing the RIAA how to determine what files exist on dropbox are going to do a much better job of that than his pitch will.
I had the impression that precise arguments for each hypothesis are completely not important, and it looks more like being about politics than science.

If we assume that groups of cooperators can out-compete groups of non-cooperators (called 'heresy') as complete and true, we challenge Dawkin's atheism.
Since when is $200 an outrageous amount of money for a seriously significant performance increase?
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." --Rothschild in 1744.
Speaking as a German who spend quite some time driving in other European countries with speed limits, the difference is massive.

Elsewhere most people tend to drive at more or less at the maximum speed allowed. This makes for a very relaxed, easy albeit boring experience.

In Germany the difference in speed between the cars are a lot bigger, even in areas with a speed limit. In combination with the Rechtsfahrgebot (a law that makes driving in the right-most lane mandatory, unless you are overtaking or there is no space) you are constantly overtaking trucks and other cars, while others do so to you as well. Overtaking itself requires accelaration often time going beyond the actual speed limit so as not to slow down others too much which can be dangerous.

Furthermore you have to constantly monitor traffic so as not to be trapped on the right lane, if a larger group of cars comes up from behind, which happens frequently.

I highly doubt that current autonomous cars are capable of that to a degree, where I wouldn't be annoyed and wanted to take over. Especially at night, when it's raining, snowing, there is fog or a combination of these.
Writing software and Selling software need different and distinct skills.
/trade was initially a blank page, but after allowing both gravatar.com and olark.com to run 3rd party javascript, it loaded up. It seems that blocking them again after loading the page once doesn't affect it.
Suggestions:

* provide a way for including both free and paid versions

* multiple links for paid version

My ebooks are free to read online [0] and PDF/EPUB versions can be purchased. I've submitted the free version for now for one of the books.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks
Interesting how opinion providers call Jan 6 a "violent insurrection" but the 6 months of riots with dozens killed, hundreds+ maimed, businesses burned, livelihoods destroyed, "mostly peaceful protests".
Thank you for your comment. There is indeed the possibility to specify the timezone, but the documentation is obviously not detailed enough on that. I'll clarify that.
Exactly, especially when vitamin D (the one your body generates from sunlight) appears to be a factor in severity of infections.

So much of the response doesn't make sense. Lockdown because China did it. Then keep on locking down despite it not appearing to make a big difference. I just heard that beds in the UK hospitals were reduced so allow for social distancing.
dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25698573
Or ordered by someone else so that they could call it an attempted coup.
3 years ago, my friend, an Indian fact-checker, showed me a screenshot of a WhatsApp screen, showing warning from WhatsApp that a message contains a dangerous link

This (the warning) is only possible if WhatsApp can read your messages

I'm guessing that they read your message on the app. So their claim (end-to-end encryption) is indeed true and correct.

But their app can and indeed has been reading your messages, for the past, at least, 3 years

Which I personally don't mind, when it's done fully automatically (no humans involved) and only for this kind of uses (to warn users of dangers)
Cook with more fat and/or more heat. Don't put anything into a cold pan.
Can anyone argue that the time spent upvoting a reddit story of injustice provides negative net value to the world?
You need to baseline with the cost of no COVID bailout: economic collapse, breadlines, etc.
Often the payouts are necessarily big enough, it entirely depends.

And just because you're an 'exec' at an 'ok startup' doesn't mean you're generally qualified at that level. It's very hard to jump to another, similar job in the field.
The HN commentary on this article is amusing to me. Every story about a big tech company on this forum is a lecture on our degenerate age of failed antitrust law, but when it comes to Apple we're treated to a litany of "so what?". Honestly, I don't mind Apple's acquisitions (though I do wish I was living in a world where I could buy an M1 the same way I can buy an i7), but I just felt compelled to drop this little nugget of off-topic meta-commentary. Carry on.
No this is not quite it.

These acquisitions are not 'big bangs' like VC investments where one will make the bank.

They are large and small investments across the board - some for know-how, some for talent, some for product, some for brand (ie Beats), some for code etc..

An acquisition is expensive beyond the price tag, especially in terms of opportunity cost if you bet on the buy and it fails.
1-2 pc every year or lifetime? Even a small difference in the yearly rate will add up to a huge difference over time.
I've read that description before, and it always makes me feel like there must be a lay-appreciable way to describe those two modes that would provide more insight.

There's a certain tension between the idea that something is composed of parts, yet it can't be separated. How is that fundamentally different from composite things which can be separated?

That's a rhetorical question; I just mean there ought to be a more satisfying way of describing the dichotomy.

Perhaps it can be described without math per se but in terms of visualizable fields?
I agree with your comment. None of it contradicts anything I wrote.
What pet projects in Covid relief funding are you talking about?
*Ear plugs, hopefully. :)
Looks like in C++, where the maintainers don't dare to say no to add simple syntax to win popularity contests, but hereby completely destroy the language. JavaScript also comes to my mind.

walrus, haha
>wealth is basically a function of the point in time of a person's switching to bitcoin more than anything else

This isn't any different from other periods of great change in the past. A good chunk of the wealthy in the world are made up of those early to the industrial revolution, computer revolution, and internet revolution. This is just another step.

Eventually people will stop being early to Bitcoin and things will just be "normal" again until the next big change comes along.
Generations of congressional data reflect how lobbying + firehosing campaign cash = federal power on demand.
My favorite Ronald Reagan quote:

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

If it moves, tax it.

If it keeps moving, regulate it.

And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

-Ronald Reagan
It is. But its wear is almost exclusively for Tesla's benefit, not the customers. That's what's galling to me. Capturing extensive logging data so Tesla can do product improvement is NOT something I should be hammered hundreds of dollars for service on because it impacts the ability of me to use my vehicle.
Welcome to the Internet. Here we welcome amateurs and it shows. Or not, like in this case.
They'll even write the bill for you! That's almost as good as money... which you'll need if you're going to sponsor the bill.
You're talking about something entirely different from what the parent comment is. What you're talking about is a long-term investment.
- people with AIDS who knowingly have unprotected sex often get convicted of manslaughte

- measles killed millions

- we already have "mandatory" vaccines -- you're theoretically required to have them to go to school. And yes, some have criticized the expansion of that list.

- but a much more common criticism of drug companies is that they're not researching vaccines and cures -- it's much more profitable to sell a pill that you take every day than it is to sell something that you take once a lifetime.
I think "if you want to see how British people thought about class fifty years ago" might be more accurate. There are still strong echoes, but the overall dynamics are different today.

Take Tony (a participant in Up) and look at his experiences in the 1980s and 1990s. That's probably a good example of some of the changes that took place.
I think there have been screenshots of group chats where politicians have said something embarassing. This is a case where the politician would have no problem saying “That's a fake”
I think the key here is that the anti-backdoor argument is based on fundamental problems.

Whatsapp will be inclined to bow to one and then many governments and create backdoors and also wants access to content as part of its business model. They will eventually lose a lot of data that was supposed to be e2e encrypted, people will be upset, and FB's focus will be explaining how its not responsible for the damages.
It truly is. In early medschool we had a group student session on the adaptive immune system where we had to brainstorm on antibody generation and nobody in the group even came up with an idea remotely close to how it actually works. Robust and amazing. Talk about brute-force searching.

Still, at this day my hope is that we'll be able to do the body's work even better at some point using computer designed antibodies (or similar) at least for therapies. There are some notable bottlenecks in the adaptive system where antigen fragments have to be broken down and shown to potential antibodies and this is a bit different between humans etc. The human antibody molecule is also very large and it's particular design doesn't fit some epitopes you'd want to hit (not an expert on it but I remember one of the HIV proteins having an area you'd want to train on but that can't accommodate the antibody variable fragments well).
I think you missed my point. If there was a call for violence like in your hypothetical scenario, then the tweet should be removed and legal action taken. It is not covered under any free speech protections.
For those who are unfamiliar, here's the Wikipedia link to the Up series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)
As long as it does not indicate an "imminent" threat
You are correct, I was to broad.
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I'm not in or from the US, but I've been following US politics since 2014 probably. Isn't a weak republican party a risk for the US? The country is a two party system, what will the Democrats become if they have no competition? It seem to me that republicans are having a hard time getting their party on track.
Are you kidding we’re talking about Trump here. Are you inferring Democrats support him?
I should be clear that I'm definitely not trying to invalidate your experiences, because I don't really have any that compare, not having visited Korea just yet.

I live in Germany, and the Koreans I meet here (we have a decently-sized local ethnicity, a multi-story culture center (http://www.kulturkorea.org/de/) and a significant Korean expat community (http://berlinreport.com/)) are more likely to be attuned to and interested in dealing with Westerners, I guess. And any Korean acquaintances I've made online (IRC, Hello Talk, etc.) are in connection with language learning activities, so they're probably similar.

The pronunication theory is based on my own experiences learning the language though (I e.g. found distinguishing and correctly producing some of the tense consonants vs. the basic versions quite tricky initially) and from Koreans admitting that it can be really hard to understand Westerners trying to pronounce their language.

I think the above sort of hints at something though: If you're a Westerner curious about Asia, it's probably a good idea to try and make contact with natives who similarly have an appetite for relating to those foreign to them. No doubt there are Koreans not interested in dealing with Westerners; there are people like that everywhere. Doesn't mean you can't find your tribe somewhere in a 50 million people population, though. It's not like you like everyone back home either, probably. Gotta expect the same anywhere you go.
Constraints are often linked to a lack of courage. People prefer to defend themselves more than what they do. They prefer to complain more than actually solve problems..
This is one of the original purposes for the Trusted Platform Module which Apple has never used and no longer even includes in their hardware.
"Atrocities like their handling of the Aum Shinrikyo cult"? Are you referring to the guy falsely blamed for the Matsumoto attack? The police are indeed likely to blame for leaking his name to the media, but he was never even formally charged, much less convicted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Kouno

The investigation of the Tokyo sarin attacks, on the other hand, seems to have been carried out pretty much by the book and I'm not aware of anybody outside the tinfoil hat brigade who contests that they got the right people.
The note about wages is true except in the case that your employee can make more elsewhere. Recognition is important to good employees, and failing to recognize their value is insulting.

I have worked at places where latter hires made more than former hires (same equity), this disgruntled the former hires and there was a loss of experienced people. Simply bumping people up to the company average could have retained their better employees.
Wow. Fascinating bit of context. Thanks for sharing it here; it's the kind of narrative that is incredibly hard to appreciate if you're not directly affected/involved.
By constraints i mean managers being told "you can leave if you like" to their faces when addressing things that were actively, massively and negatively affecting the company's bottom-line and well-being.
A little OT: Courtesy of the Reddit discussion of the OP, a reference to the discussion on Wikipedia about Nim, or rather, the discussion to delete its Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

At what point does a language become noteworthy enough for a site that contains full entries for side characters in non-canonical Star Wars novels?
The actual duolingo part in this video starts at about 12 minutes mark. Before that it's about reCAPTCHA and such.
Is it really? Or is it a combination of direct deal-sourcing and aggregator?

After all, they're working with aDealio, Gilt City, HomeRun, kgb deals, OpenTable, Plum District, PopSugar City, ReachLocal, Tippr, viagogo, and zozi, and those companies are either primarily or substantially in the same business as Groupon and Living Social.

Unless Facebook decides to hire thousands of additional sales employees, located in every major market, in order to support the deals channel (which is a possibility, I suppose), they're going to need to get their deals from somewhere else.
You can coat them - and should, otherwise dust gets lodged in and its a PITA.
My opinion:

"It's good these tech behemoths are being pushed-back. They have stifled competition for much long now just by having so many resources at their disposal and using those all together. You just can't compete with that kind of abundance.

These behemoths, when left even for a few months, would make way for other competitors to spring up, and at least have a marginal chance of winning. Without they leaving, this just seem to not happen"
HN is literally an aggregator - should dang and co pay websites for this privilege of linking to other websites? And lest anyone claim HN should be exempted because it’s “free”, this website is ad supported. They run job ads for YCombinator companies. There’s no shortage of revenue at YC, which they should share with publishers, according to your ideas.

Or do we recognise that freely linking to the rest of the web is how the internet become useful to the world?
Yep. Absolutely - trust them a lot more than I trust Google.

I love what 14.5 is doing to shake up the privacy invading practices of the large internet co's.
Assuming you own all the executables in the project:

I would have compiled the main functionality into a DLL which exports a single function, and then invoked that function for the individual executables. This approach avoids the additional process and I'd expect the executables to be a bit smaller as well.
>they've successfully demonstrated that they both have too much power and don't give a shit about their end users.

This is the fundamental problem with Google, period.
I can't wait until they realize all the money they spend lobbying resulted in a law that will remove the majority of their traffic and what's left of their ad revenue. Nobody is replacing Facebook in the Australian market, and no search company is going to open them up the financial risk of unknown third parties deciding prices for literally linking to their pay-walled news sites. Microsoft won't, but they'll happily take free market share for doing nothing.

This is a prime example of why the government should not get involved in b2b.
The incompetence of the government never ceases to amaze me.
On a slightly related note I really wish that Microsoft would have done with mobile what they did with edge. A Microsoft branded aosp with Microsoft services.
But how do you power the keyboard?
I'm saying that if it's about illegal content, why make these moves now when there's been illegal content on Parler before today, as well as illegal content that existed on other apps in the past.
Apologies, you must have seen my comment in the 90 seconds - 3 minutes between my post and my edit. I replied to another user to explain in, hopefully adequate enough detail, that I did not in any means attempt to equivocate yesterday's rioters to antifa, BLM protestors, or the participants of the George Floyd protests. My only intention was to maybe prevent a flamewar from erupting in these comments.
nothing was at stake, except the police officer who was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, also the lives of the people targeted by the pipe bombs.
I don't think many people will be disagreeing with you, but for now, and for those of us who don't have the skills to solve the problem, we are left to look for the best option that is available.

You've correctly identified all the problems and what should be done ... are you going to work on it?

If not, why not? Perhaps the answer to that will tell you why, as far as we know, nobody is working on it.

Sure as heckfire none of the big telecoms providers are going to bother.
Can anyone point me toward a light(er)weight boilerplate for a react/JSX app than create-react-app? I'm thinking just just package.json and webpack.config.json in a git repo that I can clone to start a new project. Something like this but for react: https://github.com/cferdinandi/build-tool-boilerplate.
> Active profiling is needed so that tobacco ads do not show up in your kids' newsfeed.

Tobacco ads should only be in publications targeted at tobacco consumers, i.e. "Smokers Digest" or whatever. Yes, that limits their exposure. That is a feature, not a bug.

On the "no ads, no service" remark I know of plenty of useful sites - this one being one of them - which get their funding from different sources. For some - me being one of them - this probably goes for the majority of sites they frequent, others might fare differently. The thing is, it is not just the fact that there are ads which turn people to ad blockers, it is the fact that there are those AdTech companies doing their best to syphon up their data so as to badger them with ads wherever they go. Had ads been like they were in magazines, i.e. anonymous and related to the subject matter, there would have been far less incentive to block them. That bird has flown a long time ago though, something for which AdTech is partly responsible next to the fact that ad servers have been used to spread malware and that the ads themselves went from simple banners to screen-dominating blinking screeching monstrosities.
No, the intolerance of the violent white suprematist seditionists.