jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree on living simply, everyday I'm trying to do this better.

I also try to use my memory as often as possible and I think it's pretty good (I'm learning mnemonic techniques which are really fun to implement in everyday life). Yes, mind itself is reaaaallly good system, but (at least for me) not all my insights, ideas, notes etc. about particular topic are available on demand, but only some part of them. And if I don't think about one thing very often it can be lost forever. Nevertheless, thank you for taking time to write about your system and giving different perspective.
THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF ATTACKS ON VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, TOR. What do we do now? No seriously, what do we do?

The full list of documents: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-documents-atta...

The accompanying lecture: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6258/

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So does it mean that Daala compression can be used to produce some new image format when it will be ready (similarly to how WebP was produced from VP8)?
> 2. Memorize as much as I can.

I agree that you should rely on your memory. However, when you die, all that information you have is gone to the world. That's why I started writing things down, for when I'm gone.

Take a look at Roy Underhill, if he hadn't started writing books and opened a school, all of the woodworking knowledge he has acquired would be gone forever (or until someone else dedicated a lifetime to finding it all over again).
Dick considered 'A Scanner Darkly' to be his best work.
The accompanying 31C3 lecture: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6258/

The accompanying Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s...

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I loved this story. Anything similar out there?
Last week, Amazon's VP of global public policy testified before the Senate Commerce Committee[0] about the FAA's delays in approving testing in the US that they've already begun in other countries. An FAA administrator testified in the same hearing. This comes more than a year after Amazon's initial announcement on December 1, 2013.[1]

This is the same VP, by the way, that testified before the same committee in January on net neutrality.[2]

Are you suggesting he's lying to Congress?

Last year, Amazon hired for their Prime Air team, among other high-profile individuals, a former NASA astronaut, a Keyhole co-founder, and a mess of aerospace vets and MIT grads.[3]

Argue all you want about its viability, but this is not "a press release" or "april fool's joke".

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/amazon-con...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-d...

[2] http://recode.net/2015/01/21/congress-still-bickering-over-n...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/despite-faa-setbacks-amazon...
I don’t understand your point. Trump and right wing media had organized the Jan 6th event. Nobody needed to do anything. Trump and his cronies are solely responsible for what happened
Modern steam turbine plants are not that old, and they require a lot more maintenance. Plus, Nigeria produces hardly any coal, so you'll have to either import coal (requires import terminal and rail plus reliance on foreign coal) or mine more coal (open coal mine infrastructure, rail). Solar just produces electricity and doesn't need a bunch of infrastructure.
No.

"Move slowly and preserve things." - @dang.

Use Dark Reader. Don't mess with HN interface, it shall remain the same.
My brain is programmed to automatically type `ne <enter>` into my address bar. I'm not trying to check out another website, I just want this one to not blind me when I'm trying to learn from the great community of HNers.
At some point you might be willing to consider you're the indoctrinated/brainwashed one.

After living in both a conservative state and a liberal coastal area for years, I've realized that every radically different culture probably looks like brainwashing to other radically different cultures. What we might be seeing is what happens when those cultures compete for the same space.

Much like living organisms, both cultures/memeplexes produce their versions of antibodies and immunities.

Both living memeplexes have developed a sense of "self" vs "defective self"/"harmful other" vs "harmless other", just like an immune system. Both "believe" themselves to be the "true" organism, and that the other is defective. Both have diverged enough that mutual symbiosis is no longer working. Both claim the same space as their own.

Both have failed to process the metaphorical signaling molecules of the other. Driven by their respective fitness functions, both are evolving and diverging.

Ultimately, the two organisms will have to relearn how to communicate and merge back into a symbiotic whole, establish a clear boundary between the two, or failing those, each will continue to seek to destroy the other until perhaps nothing is left of either.
You think there weren't? Many white supremacists support Trump. That doesn't mean all Trump supporters are white supremacists. But that isn't what you asked.

At least 1 streamed it.[1] The guy with the Camp Auschwitz shirt probably is. And did you miss the Confederate flags?

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/white-supremacists-among-tho...
The Mercedes sponsorship was deal was completed by the previous management team at BB.

It was probably the best "marketing deal" that BB made at a reported $12M year for 3 years[1].

1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6695dde-6ef4-11e2-b6da-00144feab4...
To be fair, Vitalik didn't mention many research projects outside of Ethereum. I don't think he was intentionally ignoring Cardano, he just didn't need to reference them to make his points.
Such a Brave New World it brings us.
This is really nice. Quite similar to the shader pipelines I've seen at AAA. Would you consider adding PSSL output?
Are you joking? TikTok is absolutely awful at moderating content for (and generated by) children.
Thanks. I'm so used to uBlock Origin just working that I didn't even think of it.
What would you recommend to pass the level where you can use SQL to get the data you need and move on to a more advanced level? Any particular book/course?
> I would probably agree with the verdict if the defendant wasn't in a child pornography case and hadn't stated (FTA) "we both know what's on it, why would I [reveal my password]".

Which is the problem, they only try to push the boundaries on "indefensible" cases (because nobody cares about a pedophile) but then use their newly minted powers on everyone else.
People have been saying this about UC Davis and North Carlolina as well. Agriculture has no center of gravity in part because agriculture has such a wide value chain and because operations are geographically distributed around the world. This also makes it difficult to bring capital to the sector because you don't have a concentrated community.
I'm starting to dislike this kind of essay. It's thought provoking and interesting, but in the end you can bring it down a a few claims completely based on anecdotal evidence. There's no data/analysis to support anything, which is made worse by not clearly stating the main thesis; it ends as just a bit of "fear mongering".

Let me pick on the claim that we'll suffer indefinitely from the same design flaws: cars still kill people, so we'll never learn, right? Wrong, if you look at the data car mortality has declined pretty steadily since the 1930's [1]. Not only it lacks evidence but the claim that some mistakes can't be learned as a general rule is also absurd: given generic statistical approach about our errors and our ability to gather data, we don't have to fear that some mistakes will somehow be "unlearnable". We may have cognitive biases, but thankfully we're smart enough to make tools free from such biases.

There are many more points that could be dismantled like that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712260
Those numbers aren't terribly useful since so many cases are mild or even asymptomatic. Most organizations are estimating 2-3% mortality, and are quick to point out that this is probably an overestimation due to the lack of testing in asymptomatic individuals.

Basically we are counting every case severe enough to cause death, but only some of the cases that aren't very severe, and that latter group is already a much bigger piece of the pie even among confirmed cases.
Again, I am very surprised that people would down-vote this. The post articulates the core idea behind Arrow-Debreu securities, and taking the question seriously could yield some very interesting discussion about prices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_prices
I don't think so; it seems like most of Facebook's decision-making in terms of expansion is arbitrary and whim-based. He admitted to that being the reason he bought Oculus.
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>> Banks are fine, it is the corporations which need to re-issue bonds that are going to hit a wall.

"Need" to re-issue bonds? Did anyone force them to buy into a model that has a huge linchpin failure?
I have always liked Tom Scott videos. I think this is the first long-form one that he's done. Very nice!
This is fascinating. Dasher looks incredible. I was wondering where this thing was going to go (if anywhere) after this initial "use case". I will definitely look into this.

Thanks!
Same problem on Brave.

Agreed, should just show an ad on the left, and a happy hour special on the right.
> maybe Switzerland

I am aware you're probably saying this because you're German and the Swiss are German speaking (among other languages)-

However I recently visited my friends in Zurich (they are French) and they indicated to me a level of Xenophobia I had not expected from such an advanced country.

Obviously a few bad apples spoil the bunch in this regard but some of the tales they told were not only shocking (such as selective enforcement of the law in favour of Swiss) but also horrifying (such as people openly insulting them in retail stores).

Obviously I was just visiting and did not experience anything such as this, but I take them seriously.

This was also corroborated with an IRC friend of mine who happens to be Swiss.

Obviously I'm not trying to inform your opinion, but I would be remissed if I didn't mention it given that it's specifically listed as a relocation option.
I am very skeptical of your claims. Turkish archery and bison hunting were very much about speed and being able to shoot from a mobile target at relatively close enemies.
I know Ghostscript was released under that model, maybe it still is.
Congratulations, guys! I've been following this since node tools since Hanselman's post
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingNodejsToolsForVisua...
I'm sure it varies by department/university, but the police at my not-very-big urban university had it's own force comprised of sworn county police officers. That empowered them to give speeding tickets on the public streets through campus, and they were able to have very good response times to campus emergencies. I never had negative contact with them, but that's anecdotal.

The medical campus had emergency buttons on blue poles, and if you pressed one, you'd get like 4 or 5 emergency responses. Campus police, city police, and 2 or 3 of the hospitals had security or police on site.
The actions of university police are very dependent on how they are set up. There are two categories:

1) Those that are glorified private security firms

2) Those that are actual police with authority to arrest and investigate.

If you go to a school with type (1), they are much more likely to violate these rights as they have no real investigative authority outside the university judicial system. You can sometimes have issues with (2) if they know they will just be referring your case to the internal university judicial system, but they are often more professional in getting any evidence cleanly.
The Vimium extension for Chrome is a decent way to get used to the 'hjkl' movement key bindings. I also love being able to yank/put URLs as well as navigate through tabs using VIM-esque key bindings.
> every car I got in India had a seatbelt

That sounds so weird to me... What do you mean cars don't have seat belts?!
Good point! Man, I am too old when I think of those cables I think of fat copper core slugs.
Hotels and motels are actually not supposed to charge different rates for different people, only based on room type. Why? Racism. In the past they would refuse to rent a room to people of color, and then later say OK but at a huge price increase.

For this reason jurisdictions have min and max room rate hotel laws for a reason. Check the max price on back of the room door when you check in. Show that to the manager, if they refuse to honor it, well the lawsuit will be welcome.

The airline thing is interesting because they sometimes show different prices depending on the browser you use on what device.

That sounds like a major lawsuit waiting to happen.
This probably depends on what you’re working with, but I never really need to do bulk operations. And moving the cursor a 1000 lines I can do in a second through the magic of two finger swiping and inertial scrolling. Though most of the time i need to go to a particular function, not row, so I’ll just do a quick search.
That's not what one could call complying. He had to follow them like a dog for a long while just to get his rightful data.
More C => more Good. Balance has been restored.
Excited! Let's see how it performs.
I frequently get into a messy rebase then I hit the zipline eject button:

eject=!git reset --hard && git checkout master && git rebase --abort

Although I prefer multiple commands to be a bash or as below a fish alias:

function giteject
git reset --hard
and git checkout master
and git rebase --abort
end
Thanks for the suggestion. That's an opened issue [1] and the highest priority for the project.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/gtdo/issues/11
I've since downgraded, but for the day where I was using the new version I had to switch to something more clunky:

SetTitleMatchMode 2
IfWinExist,Spotify Premium
{
WinActivate
sleep, 100
send, {space}
}
SetTitleMatchMode 1

And alt-tab may also help, but it sometimes brings up the wrong window.
http://projects.apache.org/indexes/language.html for anyone curious to the actual language split.
I like the design but don't really get the concept other than providing feedback and others do this already, and cheaper. Idea.informer.com is completely free and uservoice.com is cheaper. Need to get either explain features better or just simplify pricing altogether.
Very few of us will ever know what it's like to be hired as a mid-level programmer and lawyer, physician, or dentist.

But my impression is that programming interviews are roughly analogous to quizzing a mid-career physician on end of chapter exercises from a second year college organic chemistry textbook.

Of course, it could be that towers of hanoi is more relevant to the day to day practice of programming than ochem is to radiology. Or it could be that the process of becoming a physician is sufficiently regulated that you just don't need to worry about whether people have the required background, so physicians only have to pass their exit exams once, whereas programmers have to pass a randomly chosen subset of it every time they interview.
I suspect that most families living in a half million dollar McMansions actually do pay far more in tax than the typical apartment dweller. In my area, the flow of capital is definitely the opposite of what you describe: without question, the individuals living in the suburbs heavily subsidize the lives of those living in the more urban areas and apartments, at least those who live in a tax district that has a combination of the two.

More typically, the tax districts for the areas with McMansions are entirely separate from those with a high concentration of apartments and urban housing. In this situation, the residents in a particular area bear the tax burden for the services that they consume. My particular metropolitan area is divided into several "cities" (I put it in quotes because they really all run together) that serve to ensure that each area's residents bear the cost of their services. Even in this situation, due to taxes levied by the state government, the flow of capital still tends to go from the suburbs to the urban areas.

In fact, I suspect that most house dwellers would be hugely in favor of further segregating the tax system so that funds paid by a group of individuals are used for services desired by that same group. In my area this would, however, result in the defunding of most public transportation (which is largely financed by people who do not use it), urban schools, the community college (which is funded by the whole county, but mostly used by lower income residents), etc. As an example, the public bus system recently appropriated lanes on many busy streets that were paid for by gas taxes. Since those with longer commutes pay more in gas tax, it stands to reason that these lanes were originally paid for by suburban commuters, and are now being used by the apartment dwellers and urban residents who are the primary clientele of the bus system (use fees make up only a small part of the funding for public transit in my area).

I am not stating that the existence of any of these things is bad, but simply that your belief that apartment dwellers are subsidizing the lives of McMansion residents is entirely incorrect.
It's also that for many HPC science things; the programming effort isn't anywhere near the main effort. The science behind the code takes years and the code execution can take hours, days, or months. The people writing the code are scientists, not programmers, and aren't all that interested in the languages they use being 'nice'.
"Believe it or not, there are some very smart people working in government. They actually don't need us in Silicon Valley to tell them how to do stuff."

I know -- very condescending, isn't it? Gee, it's a good thing these really smart folks are showing up. What would we have done without them? A broken system must obviously be full of incompetent people.

I wish these guys the best, but this is 90% bullshit and 10% reality.

Just to cite one, small (?) problem: in commercial IT, if you don't like the work somebody is producing? You fire them. In government IT, no such thing exists. Managers spend years shuffling around poor-performing employees in a desperate attempt just to keep the lights on.

I could go on, but it would all just wash over folks. This is a movement, dammit! We all feel so very excited! This time is different!

So I will help do whatever I can -- blog, comment, debug, whatever. But I will not become suddenly blind to the realities of the system that we are attempting to change. That doesn't do anybody any good. That ain't cynicism, that's reality. Hope is not a strategy, and you can't fix a system you can't honestly describe. (or understand how it got that way)
If there's one thing I love while reading, it's animation! Really makes it easy to focus on the text!
Any kind of stress will trigger an increase in immune system activity and cell regeneration. Fasting is one way to do it, working out until you're exhausted is another. A balance between the two is probably best for training your body to be strong.
It can be tricky to balance between going broke and accidentally showing ads that some users dislike when you're using a large network like AdSense.

As someone with a browsing profile that isn't targeted by those kind of ads, I've found out second-hand that I've been running ads like that a few times. Trying to prune specific ads is an endless game of whack-a-mole that I've never been able to win, and disabling an entire category of ads just to prevent 1% of them from running is very tough on the bottom line.