jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> People publish stuff somewhere and others can use it.

Definitely. My question was "Why do they do it?". Nothing forces you to publish it. So there must be a reason why you do that. I assume it is because you want other people to use your software, for whatever reason.

So if you want people to use your software surely you want your software to be of high quality, which includes that people can know it is of high quality, which is where validation might help.

Whether you should pay for validation is a different question, I'm not saying you should.
Can these be retrieved and used or are they deep enough (hopefully) that retrieval is impractical?

Horrible either way. Not just pollution, not just the nasty purpose in the first place... but the waste. Just imagine the good that could have taken place with the resources used to create and dispose of the weapons in the first place.

As far as I can see, humanity has two choices. Either leave off the tribal feuds and find a better way, or else go back to using bows and spears to solve conflicts.
VLC does not look like using Qt, at least on macOS.
I just posted the related issues to my companies working-remote channel to raise awareness, because lots of us AND our clients suddenly began using Zoom. We are in Europe, so the laws are quite different.

So far, the response as been zero (it's been an hour) but let's see. Maybe I can make some coworkers and clients be more wary of Zoom.
What is the link to github or other repo?
This reminds me of read receipts in chat apps. Hate them with a passion. I usually just leave the chat itself unopened and read the notifications until I'm ready to actually reply.
It’s hard to get excited about 2.2mm.

I’m not saying it isn’t a problem, I’m just saying it’s not a scale humans are likely to panic about.

If it were 2.2m in one month you can bet your left shoe we’d panic.
The risk from taking on multiple short-term tenants with no real background checks is surely much greater. Especially given that the tenants have no real incentive to behave well or keep the property in good condition.
yeah, I include timestamp not only in easy human readable format, but also in epoch timestamp, so it's easier to calculate time diffs between entries.
Julius Genachowski wants to pimp bandwidth to the highest bidder. It's a scary and slippery slope.

"We must take action to protect consumers against price hikes and closed access to the Internet and our proposed framework is designed to do just that: to guard against these risks while recognizing the legitimate needs and interests of broadband providers," - Spin Maestro and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Really? To protect us from what hikes? What closed Internet? Please drop dead.

If this goes through, Europe will soon follow and then the rest, whether they like it or not. If they don't participate, they'll lose out because US will prioritize all incoming global traffic anyway. Video streams from China-based startups will load the slowest in the U.S.

Networking companies will rush to build large scale traffic prioritization solutions and in the process strive to achieve maximum regulatory compliance with local/federal laws so they can peddle their product better, faster.

ISPs will invest in the infrastructure for packet monitoring and filtering because it will directly improve their bottom line. They only will drive up the demand for "network neutrality" solutions. And once they have the infrastructure and tool chain in place, we'll see a lot more censorship and eavesdropping.

The consumers will be fooled into thinking that this will help their YouTube videos load faster.
Nearly all current Adobe products require activation. The only one I'm familiar with that doesn't is Acrobat.
With the exception of video formats (you mention quicktime) that puts the metadata at the end, how about real-time preview as the file is still uploading? Even a series of static thumbnails every 10 seconds would be an interesting new feature.
MG Seigler: the trollmaster at work. Add this man to your "banned from my internet" list.

More bare assertions than anything else you will read today.

Best comment from Bamd:

The article makes a lot more sense coming from MG if you know that his original title was "Google is Dead."

Then he realized that quarterly results will be out before too long, which might make the article look a little silly, remembered some things from watching Inception again last night, and bam, here we are.
You guys are going to make Trulia look damn awesome
Which is why I'd say if you're writing javascript, use { brackets properly, and ; properly.

I agree, it's a common style, but a horrible one IMHO.
And also because the required frame rate is so low, you could 'stream' this with HTTP Refresh.
It's a security theater not only because someone broke it, but also because you can always just look at which IPs talk to which IPs. Even Tor has issues with preventing traffic analysis, except with Signal you can observe (or trust) a single party (instead of the guard and exit nodes) to get the data.

It's more of a trust thing than something you can technically solve while still having features like real-time calling. Hence Facebook being objectionable despite having encryption.
So not being in a position of social influence and having no friends that propagate dangerous ideas...is a reason to skewer people that do?

I find that idea pretty gross, to be honest with you.

Also, who says what ideas are dangerous? This is a ridiculously pro status-quo stance to take.
Switching between tools has a cost, so the tool needs to be not just better than another, but better after accounting for switch cost.
Have higher standards and fund less science?

If you have a million dollars to spend, you'll be careful and pay attention; if you have a billion, you'll be looking at crude aggregate metrics.
I used to have the same mindset until I deactivated my account. I'm not sure about businesses in your area but the ones around here love to use Facebook to post updates on business hours, menus, or use it as their only web presence.
The GDPR does ban this however it's not being enforced, as proven by the prevalence of Facebook's malicious SDK in any mainstream app.
Is there an iOS app available?
Again. You don't have to pick a side. Every one of these companies is doing things you should be concerned about.
It is very interesting because Suryavarman is a very common Tamil name, Surya means Sun. All his ancestors names are also typical Tamil names and are very similar to names of Chola kings at that time.
Critical thinking isn't what most people think it is.
Noob here. Is FB really the powerhouse it is thought to be in terms of active users? In the iPhone app store there are 712K reviews, while TikTok has 8M and Instagram has 20M. I know that these are ratings, but you would think there would be some (rough) proportionality with their usage.
The axioms were found much much later than a lot of the work had already been done. When Euclid wrote down his list of axioms do you think he was laying the ground for work yet to be done? No, the axioms were the synthesis he came up with by observing the work that had been done before by others.
I think we should let people not care without us aggressively trying to change their lifestyle. Are we so superior that we can decide what they should think? Or are they too dumb/uniformed to make their own choices? That's just as condescending. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are perfectly aware of all this and still choose not to care about privacy.
That sounds like 4chan as well.
Philisophically, you can't say either way. For example, consider the case where the kernel scheduler uses random numbers from a hardware random number generator which uses quantum uncertainty. Since physics doesn't know whether or not quantum mechanics is deterministic, we can't say whether or not this system is deterministic.
i attribute that description to 4chan...reddit is kinda meh by comparison
Judging from the audio, his tone doesn't seem to be mean or arrogant.
This is how I feel every time there is an announcement like this.
Heya, I hear what you're saying.

Personally I don't limit his alternative vision to just Mars.

For me his alternative vision for humanity is making life multi-planetary - and ultimately exploring the stars - and so in that context, Mars is just the beginning.

If we want to colonize space, we have to begin somewhere, right?

I know it's cliché, but the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - and Mars is just that first step.
Doing interesting stuff on a world of GPUs and million dollar art budgets is very hard.
I read this and thought TextMate 2 was out for some reason :)
This was such a cool little article. I even commented on it!

Something interesting you might not have realized before (I didn't!) --- virtually every American craft whiskey you can think of is owned by some huge company! To wit:

* Basil Hayden - Fortune Brands

* Knob Creek - Fortune Brands

* Eagle Rare - Sazerac

* Buffalo Trace - Sazerac

* Blantons - Sazerac

* Pappy Van Winkle - Sazerac

* Elijah Craig - Heaven Hill (Christian Bros)

* Black Maple - Heaven Hill

So one reason why it's apparently hard to be an indie whiskey distiller is that the major brands have owned up a lot of very high-quality craft distillers already; as the article points out, unlike with beer (where Coors really does suck), widely-available well-known brand whiskey does tend to be very good.

I think he overreaches with his argument by taking on all of distillery. Whiskey is particularly hard to do well. It's aged for many years before being brought to market, which makes it particularly capital-intensive to enter the market, but not as costly to sustain a proven brand. It's also a spirit with very well-defined parameters; unlike with gin, where a distinctive and interesting new take would be welcome, whiskey is more like wine: the market knows what it wants from quality product.

It clearly must be easy to outdo vodka distillers. Dave Arnold at the French Culinary managed to make extremely high-quality flavored vodka out of pure food-grade alcohol --- an industrial supply! --- for a couple bucks a gallon. So there's an easy counterexample.

Gin seems like another easy-to-enter market, and one where you can bring innovation to market without relying on novelty products. Just use different/better aromats.

I appreciate that Jim Beam is a quality product even though it's at the low end of the quality spectrum, but I don't think he did his argument any favors by saying that it was better than any indie craft whiskey he'd ever had, even if it's true.
They have ruined everything! Suddenly "I'll get a date when DNF comes out" lost all its meaning.
I'm a (non-practicing) Jew and I appreciate it when people acknowledge I might be celebrating a different holiday than Christmas.
My father, a clinical psychiatrist, tells me that he has read in the British Medical Journal (the publication linked in the OP) of a study that had drug names as its variable. They gave many patients the same drug, but gave it to them under a variety of differently constructed names. He says that this study found that names beginning with X and Z produced a greater efficacy than any other letter. Unfortunately he can't remember anything else about it, I am working on finding out more.

I know this is a lame excuse for not citing sources but still, its very interesting, and personally I trust my father :)
I wonder if a nuclear-armed Japan is part of China's plan.
Agreed - I believe there are some ways to time the market. For example, if you want to make a 5-10 year investment, then doing so in the S&P500 when it is significantly down will yield better returns (on average) than doing it at a random time:
http://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/does-timing-the-mark...
I wish I could up-vote this more than once. Making everything officially open in no way will make everything actually open.
What do you mean by "dynamic Lisp"?
...I told him that the sum of an infinite number of terms of the series:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + · · · = −1/12 under my theory. If I tell you this you will
at once point out to me the lunatic asylum as my goal. I dilate on this
simply to convince you that you will not be able to follow my methods of
proof if I indicate the lines on which I proceed in a single letter....

-- Ramanujan
Or if you buy a small piece of many mortgages... Oh wait
I am still reeling from having just learned that in Wernher Von Braun's book 'The Mars Project', it is proposed that the leader of the Martian government when it is formed shall be known as the 'Elon'.

https://i.imgur.com/65YR89H.png
It already is, just search for "AGDQ" on YouTube and sort by date.
Hands-on training and on-going professional support are vital to the success of any business.
Yeah, I'm just surprised that the only one available requires GAE. Kind of a buzzkill for anyone who has data that can't be going around the Internet all willy-nilly.
Actually, you'd have to dig a bit to find a way to purchase from this link. It's the entire book online for free.
I won't comment on copyright infringement or anything of that nature.

However, I thought I might point out the irony of all of this. A "decent" definition of Hacker is "a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism" (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hacker).

The irony comes when hackers get mad at other hackers hacking their hack.

I think this is called a cluster hack.
i am not looking forward to having ads delivered by binary blobs. say farewell to the age of client-side scripting.
For the migration to be complete, there would need to be a coordination between the btc network and an eth contract to move the issuing of the remainder of the supply over to the contract. And an agreement of how the new units would be allocated; it seems doubtful that this could ever take place.
This environment sounds like a case of no accountability and negligence. If a intern can make this type of decision without review and accountability, what other decisions are being made under the same environment of no review and accountability within the company?
As far as in know, murray claims that the hereditary nature is [primarily] due to genetics, which is certainly more controversial than observing that it is hereditary.
There's a difference between a bail and being declared not guilty. Anyway he was supposedly defending himself, while Ligon was robbing and assaulting people, so the cases are different.
I think the disconnect here is that if your schtick is doing deep, ostensibly neutral investigations into controversial topics, a lot of people actually don’t find your true position obvious.
I used to think it was far fetched too, however applying Occams Razor and taking a read of this incredibly well researched article swayed me https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca... it would be worth your time.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, even though you probably talk about my (bad) english
The past 14 or so months?
The WHO needs to be credible and trustworthy as an impartial source of truth otherwise it is not required.

Unfortunately this particular topic is heavily politically-loaded and CCP’s track record of handling the virus leads the common person to believe the WHO won’t receive the full information.

In this case the WHO’s hands seem tied. How are they supposed to fix that? (Genuine question, I would like the WHO to be able to fulfill its role well and serve the global public good)
The WHO seemed to be doing everything it could to prevent people from talking the virus seriously at the beginning.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says...
The thing is that we often don't even know it. Einstein did not solve a pressing problem with his theories of relativity.
I would also hazard a guess that the average 'unrepentant killer' is someone who killed their abuser.
Which is fine as well as that result could be taken to the Supreme Court. I do feel that life long requirements are just ridiculous, I can see wearing one during a probationary period provided that requirement is also on other probationers. However if your trying to only select one type of probationer then I have to ask, why are they out?
Great idea until someone realizes that if this can be used to track rhinos, it can also be used to track humans.
Common nitpicking, here for fun: both sentence kind of repeat one another, as they mean nearly the same thing. They could be expressed as one more symmetrical sentence, something like: "the set of efficient solutions and the set of elegant solutions are disjoint" (they have no common element).
Preventative care is not subject to deductibles (i.e. free for people with insurance) after ACA, such as annual wellness exams, vaccinations, etc.

People just don’t want to do it, or if they do, they don’t want to give up their sugar/carbs/alcohol/sat fats/sedentary lifestyle habits. Which is probably the cause for the majority of chronic healthcare spending.
I often find it hard to believe that a single person can make much of a difference in such intricate problem domains as chip design but in his case the evidence is overwhelming. Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship. I think in the CPU space it will be all ARM and RISC ten years from now and since Intel never really managed to become a dominant player in any other (relevant) field, they are pretty much done for.
What was your prediction based on?
The problem is that, if it did end up as a leak from a lab, then all current virus labs would come under much more scrutiny from the authorities as well as from the public in general.

So there is a good reason for labs to not publicly declare that this entire problem was caused by a research lab.
Second paragraph my eyes landed on when opening the link: "Create secure optimized connections with a few lines of code. Between servers or services running on any cloud or machine."

Sounds like an VPN to be used on servers for connection between services. Feels like a pretty easy to understand explanation of what it is.

Actually pretty neat to have tunnel configurations in code, not that you can't have that without syntropy, but it's a neat little feature.
More like "there is so much less value in spending money for painkillers for you today when it could be spent for a cure for everybody forever". If a dentist never pulled out a tooth and just charged for morphine now and again you'd be pissed instead of being relieved that they made you feel well just for one day. Not only do you still suffer (but with timeouts), you also payed more long term.

If everyone just takes turns pushing a boulder up a mountain eventually you'll put in more effort than if everyone pushes at once, and have almost none of the results. Sometimes being even 99% there is not enough.
Wow, what an incomprehensible site..! Not much information, probably only a paragraph or two, spread over a dozen pages.

A perfect example of how design can triumph over reason.
This was one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. The sheer mind puzzle exploration of "well..if we had a CPU the size of the sun, here's why it still wouldn't work". Guy seems unbelievably brilliant.
thanks , this is relevant to Rosch's prototype theory I've been reading on recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory,

and also Gärdenfors' conceptual spaces, which is more modern and has some neurophysiological basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_space

OP, sorry for hijacking the thread
Thank you so much! I've been using Vim for 5 years and I always thought :s was one of the major pain points.
A flat tax with an tax free income threshold would actually be great.

For example:

- Exclude the first $50,000

- Tax the rest at 25%

- Eliminate deductions (this will never happen). This includes the standard deduction.

- Make efforts to also stop companies to shift profits to low or no tax jurisdictions.

- Get rid of double taxation on dividends.

And we'd all be a lot better off.
If you look at dependency ratios since the 1950s they really haven't changed a massive amount (the elderly and children both need to be cared for) and the change has been linear and largely compensated for by economic growth.

What is crushing us is economic inequality - that change is geometric and has been the real driver of anemic fertility. Who wants to start a family under mountains of debt on a gig job wage?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the media we consume is largely owned by people who would prefer we believed we were getting crushed under a self created demographic time bomb rather than their greed.

It's a death spiral, and a real problem.
Because it's a slippery slope. What other information sources do students need to disclose? Is it fair for a student with access to another student that already took the class to ask him questions? Should that be disclosed to the professor or taken into account during grading?
That's a good thing :-)

More seriously, I would expect RyanAir charges a hefty fee to third parties who want access to their API, just like they change much higher fees to passengers who use a credit card than other airlines.

EDIT: Atually RyanAir is there (London -> Knock)
It's not flatly wrong.

I might not have lived in and researched China for 28 years, but I'm not exactly a stranger to the place and have spent the better part of a decade in China and the greater China area and have been circumventing the great firewall for almost 15 years.

Unless your China research has been limited to something like the tea cultivating habits of the Bulang minority, you should be able to list off the top of your head a half dozen better targets than the current attack, which is two relatively small projects, largely unknown to the Chinese people, and hosted on another website (GitHub) that is once again largely unknown to majority of Chinese Internet users.

I still stand by my statement that the Chinese government doesn't really care what the rest of the world reads/watches so long as they can control what their local citizens have access too.

If the Chinese government wanted those projects gone they would just block those project pages. Their current infrastructure is more than sufficient to do that both from a technical perspective in blocking just those projects rather than the entire GitHub domain, and from a man power perspective (tens of thousands of people employed to monitor the web for 'objectionable' content).

If the government was really interested in knocking material they find objectionable off the internet through a DDoS then thanks to the GFW they already have a big list of sites and content they don't like and they could take the total GitHub DDoS traffic and proportion it among the top however many sites they don't like and bring them down far more easily than bringing down GitHub, and with far less people caring about it.

P.S. If you want me to take you seriously as an expert on China, you probably shouldn't put google-translated Chinese messages on your twitter feed.
If the attack crosses certain lines, it could be considered to be an act of war[1]. Considering many government agencies use GitHub[2], where are these lines drawn?

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/06/05/the-white...

[2] https://government.github.com/