jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why? Because I don't want to talk about arts, communication, general science, or politics with a bunch of pseudonymous, arbitrarily-selected laymen online. Putting that here covers up technical news and discussions that I am interested in reading (discussions frequently conducted by actual experts in technical fields, and which, unlike general news, I can't find at a dozen other websites.)
> you have to perform more clicks. you have to really disagree with something to want to go flag it.

I think that's actually good except for the case where you're flagging spam (it's annoying to have to click twice to flag an obvious spam article when it could have been one click). To have the barrier a bit higher for a thing that will have a large effect is good imo.
Pen/paper - extremely simple user interface, never crashes, and no monthly fee.
Wrong tax cut: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html.
If they started using a text classifier instead of their brains to decide who to interview, they would be a) stupid and b) quickly out of money.

a) and b) seem both overpoweringly unlikely, so I think more likely is that they'll just look at the results to see if there's anything interesting about them. (Wouldn't you like to see the results, just to see them? I would, and I have no intention of applying to YC anytime soon.)

Initially I didn't understand why one would think they would be so stupid, and then I remembered what almost every other entity that receives applications is like.
1. Never work on your personal project on your employer's time. They're paying for that time, and probably the resources you're using during that time as well, so they have a legitimate claim on anything you do at work.

2. Never sign an employment contract that gives any rights to stuff you do away from work to your employer, or that gives your employer any right to control what you may do out of hours as long as it doesn't affect your ability to do your job properly when you're at work.

In short, you should completely firewall any side project from work. If your contract doesn't allow for this and your employer won't give you a clear, specific exception, then you have to decide whether to keep the employer or the side project, but you can't do both.
The problem I have with speed and red light cameras is that generally they are owned and operated by private corporations and they give the government a cut of fines collected. So in other words it isn't like the government investing in the equipment to keep people safe it is the government allowing a private corporation to to have it's way with people.

They for example sent me a speed camera ticket once where my car wasn't even the once captured as the speeder but my license plate was the only one visible since a jersey barrier was blocking the plate of the real culprit so they went ahead and sent it to me anyways even though it was blatantly obvious the ticket was improper. I had to go to court to and the ticket was immediately thrown out but not before I wasted 4 hours on a work day.
You know: my heart agrees with this, but over and over I see 'managed' systems exhibiting substantially longer startup times, unexpected and sometimes-long freezes, and often visibly lower performance.

Similarly, virtual memory backed by paging to a swapfile is the beautiful, "right" solution to me intuitively for a memory architecture that is made of several storage classes of highly different access times; yet, I have to admit that hourglasses/beachballs aren't a part of most "mobile" systems but often are — frustratingly — part of the desktop OS experience.

In actual practice, there's very little unchecked pointer arithmetic in a Cocoa [Touch] app — you don't access the elements of an NSDictionary via direct (to you) pointer arithmetic but through well-tested methods that fail similarly to how to out-of-bounds collection access fails in managed systems.

Anyway, it's unfortunate that such things are essentially non-comparable in a scientific way to my knowledge; but my experience of ObjC apps is not that they tend to be more crashy or likely to corrupt my data than the Java/C# apps that I also use day-to-day.
Actually, I know it from ML. I was more smiling at it existing in Python, than Python having 'invented' it.
I loved listening to the pirate stations in NY in the late 70s and early 80s. WFAT, WFSR, WLAU, etc.

But there are more options today for "broadcasting" over the Internet than there were then.

While I wouldn't want to see any "pirate" face jail time or huge fines for a first or second offence, it still can be disruptive to the legally licensed radio stations that were granted use of those frequencies. Like it or not, the airwaves are a limited resource, and need to be managed and provisioned.
> If the dev is running on the latest version, it never crosses his mind to do otherwise.

New and/or updated frameworks/APIs [1] make the developer's job easier. Why wouldn't you want to take advantage of them?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/...
Why not? Microsoft did. Lots of once-innovative companies lose their edge, stop attracting top talent, and just become body shops shuffling to the graveyard.
Convincing evidence for claims regarding software engineering should be based on:

1. A large number of programmers. Statistical significance, also real development is done in teams.

2. A long time - conclusions valid for short snippets do not necessarily translate to large projects where people in a team have to cooperate.

3. Controlled environment - passively getting statistics from existing companies won't cut it.

So you need to pay a programmer's salary to a large number of people for a longish time which is expensive. Perhaps this could be worked around by having deals with existing companies to let you control some factors in their existing processes. Maybe not perfect but still better than anecdata.
I wonder what the impact on global productivity was.
Well, that just nuked my blog, and also my company's hubot.

Ah well, guess I'll need to properly support that hubot now.
Given the amount of ad bourne malvertising that is floating around, a content based blacklist of javascript would be a good thing.
Infinite Earth.
I had a similar thought with regard to verifying employment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204401

Maybe we're on to something.
It's a tactic called Flak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Wouldn't it be great if you could just annotate that article and include the link?
It seems you can now that hypothes.is has launched[1].

[1] http://hypothes.is/
>You can install Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition,

If you prefer to use the compiler and build system at the command line and you're only interested in managed development (i.e., C#), you can download the Microsoft Build tools package[1], which contains the compilers and MSBuild for headless development.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4493...

>> Are these tools usable without requiring GUI involvement - i.e. remotely?

Yes, I do most of my building on the command line. Editing, of course, is in VS, but I've also had fine success with Vim.
Obligatory Bacon.js and RxJS are not FRP but merely RP statement.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https%3A%2F%2...

RC4 and 3DES, top of the line secure Cloud storage service indeed.

I browse with old insecure ciphers disabled, and I seem to remember having no problem reading backblaze blog before, either they downgraded their security (Occulus rifts website used to downgrade to rc4 whenever you wanted to pay them any money, but that was before FB buyout), or I disabled rc4 later than I thought.
> How much does it cost to produce these very specific signs vs combining modular and reusable generic signs?

Probably less than the cost of a single parking ticket.

As for your corner cases, there are some signs depicted with text at the bottom which can cover those scenarios. Not perfect, but I think it's a step up from what people have to deal with today.
Not really. Perfectly polite non-offensive discussions of GamerGate and related topics were removed. Also completely polite dissent in comments from under multiple articles (on guardian and verge for example). KotakuInAction was only reddit thread allowed to stay - and was not allowed to mention gamergate initially.

Deletion comment of widely popular reviewer who screen-capped it and then tweeted to his followers was head scratching moment. Same happened to british journalist who was harassed in relation to the controversy. She commented under guardian article and her comment was deleted. She was kinda angry afterwards.
Aren't there 75 million people that are very upset about it?

(I mostly think it's hilarious that he's slowly rounded up from 74 million)
Well, 1978, although I am not saying I agree with the equivalence.
Saying the Trump Campaign only filed five suit begs to split hairs. Many of the suits haven't technically included Trump personally, or his campaign entity, as a party. However, they seek precisely the same results, and recycle many of claims in suits he has filed in his own name.

Example: The Texas motion to the Supreme Court to bring a case against Pennsylvania and other battleground states did not include Trump or his campaign as a plaintiff. Trump did, however, seek permission to join the lawsuit. That was doubly odd, considering the reason the states thought they could go directly to the top court was its "original jurisdiction" for suits between states.

Either way, does the defeat of the states' petition to the Supreme Court count toward the number of suits lost?

I believe the source for "more than fifty lawsuits" is Marc Elias, an admittedly left-leaning lawyer who's been keeping track. You might prefer to cast off his conclusion based on who he bats for. But you could also search for him and find his list.
"The problem is there's evidence should you choose to see it, constitutional unlawfulness & just cause on an unprecedented scale"

Maybe you would want to provide examples of these then?

"The way to kill the fraud narrative is by debating those raising the charge"

I am actually not quite sure that debating the issue will kill the narrative but that's just my opinion.

"actually hearing the cases in court instead of tossing them on procedural grounds"

Frankly I have no comments here. What real evidence of fraud is there?

"Trumps moral compass seems far better than the shifty and obstructionist Georgia Secretary of State"

I never commented on the Georgia Secretary of State's conduct and frankly, that's not under review. If the President had just asked for the review of votes, that would be fine. Instead, we received the exact number of votes that he needed, statements to the tunes of: 'Fellas, what are we gonna do here? I only need 11,000 votes' and to do 'the review with people who want to find solutions but not with those who do not want solutions' or something to that effect. Claiming that someone stuffed ballot boxes does not constitute evidence.

Furthermore, this does not change my comments about the pardons either but that's not really the point under discussion.
>Sure, but you could have a single account called "bills."

Ah, I specifically don't because:

1) Capital One gives you 25 savings accounts, but only 3 checking accounts, and

2) There's a federal limit of 6 withdrawals per month from savings accounts, and

3) I already use my 3 allotted checking accounts for unpredictable day-to-day purchases (an account for my spending budget, an account for my wife's spending budget, and a shared account for family/house expenses like groceries/gas).

I sometimes bundle together some things like subscriptions so 2-3 expenses can pull from the same account sometimes, but there are the occasional problems where a service or product will charge more than once per month (unexpectedly) and I don't want to risk exceeding 6 withdrawals/month and getting an account shut down. Seems easier to just separate everything out so you don't have to think/worry about it.

And separate accounts remind me of what the funds in each are for (and seeing each one filled is reassuring to know that there was enough money to transfer into each envelope without any issues -- if you see a 0 in an account early in the month, you have time to figure out how to pay for that thing, instead of getting surprised when it comes due and a shared account can't cover it). That seems useful enough -- seems like no downsides and nothing but improvements over having a single account that mixes everything.

I'd probably do things the same way even if CO offered 25 checking accounts, although it might make sense to consolidate a few of the smaller recurring expenses into slightly fewer, more high-level accounts to make things easier at-a-glance.
> He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side.

I agree, and I'm not saying that Twitter acted in the wrong here. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming. That's a pretty significant lever to have over POTUS. That's the point I'm trying to make here.
Tell that to Ma Bell.
Southwest has a big presence in ATL and FLL. Delta also beefed up its Florida routes. The rest of the country (Likely mostly the Midwest) traveling through ATL to take advantage of Florida's lax COVID restrictions.
Im not sure the "under 25" demographic was ever a hot market for purchasing print newspapers, at any time.
This is not an accurate description of anything.

- Traffic analysis only works for a global adversary

- Feds would need to control a very sizeable chunk of the network to deanonymize your HS, and you can use your own nodes (also see Vanguard)

- "phishing attacks that grab your IP through any number of browser technologies" obviously do not apply to servers

- If Firefox would end, Tor would obviously have no choice but to re-write it all for Chromium.
We could at least be experimenting, maybe implement a $100/month UBI in one state, see how it affects their productivity/health/budget, consider trying other numbers in other locations.
Try using elinks or similar console-based browser. All issues of obfuscating font just fall away.
> Google created a culture and set of values and recruited based on that.

Company culture changes. Companies change. The fact that you were told one thing or a company had a particular reputation when you joined doesn’t mean that thing will always hold true.

Union busting and discrimination are illegal. Terminating someone’s at-will employment because they are acting against the company’s interest isn’t.

From what I have read thus far, this situation sounds a lot more like the latter than the former despite some of the people involved claiming it’s the former.

Perhaps more facts will come out to support that position, but in the meantime I am with the grandparent post. These people want to have their cake (i.e. some of the largest total compensation packages in the industry) and eat it too (force policy by protesting management choices expecting no consequences).
The rise of fake news, disinformation and the subsequent flaring of ignorance and hate are directly related to the currency of the web - ad imps.

This is not new but has been exaggerated by the scale and the lack of any human oversight that Google and other ad exchanges offer. Pair in the ability to cookie match based on "intent" and thousands of other psycho-graphic and historical data points, and you have a definitive problem.

For the longest time the issue was with the publishers themselves not being vetted. As bot filters and traffic reviews became better, they switched from sites themselves, to ads distributed.

But the real issue is that media (not just digital) has ZERO incentive to change their practices. Attention is the currency of media and since controversy and sensationalism draw more eyeballs, they are used by actors across the spectrum to enhance their audience size and their revenue. Google and FB use this to their advantage by providing no market basis for their price.

IMHO Facebook's problem is not the ads, its the fact that content distribution is sold as ads and 99/100 people cannot tell the difference between a friend sharing something and that something having been a paid boost or placement.

The funny thing is that almost all of our current social issues are directly tied to advertising pushing the wrong message to the wrong people and the wrong time. Its the only reason we have Trump, or Kardashian for that matter and is the reason words no longer have any actual meaning. Dont believe me? Just look at words like Unlimited, guaranteed, free, etc for examples of this perversion.

When we allowed the use of words without any legal blowback, we started down the slippery slope that ended with Trump. A man who is neither virtuous nor experienced at anything but playing the media sensationalism card better than anyone...
Playing music on HAM frequencies is against the terms of pretty much every license, and commercial radio receivers that everyone has in their house and car won’t pick up transmissions on HAM frequencies. Assuming a disproportionate amount of pirate radio stations operate in low-income areas, access to equipment is a high barrier to entry for listeners.
Internet radio is one solution, but who wants to listen to the radio from their phone when their apartment already has an FM receiver?
So you are saying he failed to do his due diligence?
The dial spins but the locking mechanism is rusted so you can't tell when you've hit the correct combo.
You influence "others" by putting your kids in a good school.

It's one of the main drivers of varying housing costs in the US.
> I'm looking at screens upwards of 16 hours a day

I wonder why white backgrounds hurt your eyes...
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant that before IG, the subs I frequent on reddit or other people would not link to articles about celebs. Now thanks to instagram, they do. Like this post did.
You might be better served with gnu parallel -

#create the directory structure first
find . -type f -name '*.flac' |ionice -c3 parallel -j1 'mkdir -p $transcodes{//}' &&
#now the encodes
find . -type f -name '*.flac' |ionice -c3 parallel -j4 "ffmpeg -n -v 0 -i {} -c:a libopus -b:a 128k $transcodes{.}.opus"

Note the {.} which would actually only grab the basename.
So basically it fucks with your connective tissue?
> I'm positive that no "script kiddie" can exploit any silicon using current attacks, not just the M1. *

Oh, do tell how spectre is solved. I would love to know, defending against it is a real problem I currently have. If you allow untrusted code to execute on your machine (e.g. JavaScript) then you're vulnerable to it. There are no practical attacks in the wild that I'm aware of, and it's tricky to do, but it's not impossible and the only defense really is to make it harder and more time consuming. This is the approach that I and others have taken.
Technical skills were greatly undervalued anytime past a couple of decades ago so it makes sense, at the time they were building their career there where no highly paid people who weren't manager types.
Wikipedia reports four shootings.

And this killing sure looks like it was part of CHOP:
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/murder-charges-filed-a...
The epidemiology I saw near the beginning of the pandemic was fairly clear that even when R0 drops substantially below 1, the virus will be endemic to human existence.

Sure, it's certainly up for debate (and the future) whether or not the rate will drop low enough that most humans escape exposure. That will depend on more than just R0 - we still don't know if the vaccines (any of them) prevent transference, and the emergence of new variants with higher R0 values but identical infection mechanisms (which most people would agree is the same virus) may also complicate this quite a bit.

So sure, maybe I should have dialed it back to "it's entirely possible that the entire human race will be exposed to SARS-COV-2, though if we are lucky that probably won't happen".

I don't think that changes my fundamental point that the crisis for a pandemic like this is not in personal health - "Am I going to die?" - but in the public health - "can my society's health care systems still function?"
More than that...I think personalized media recommendations are a significant contributing factor here. I think the prevalence of this approach to curation is a big part of why we see so many echo chambers. The tech industry needs to take a good hard look at itself and the kind of patterns its business incentivizes. Of course, ultimately one could make the argument that it's just human nature. It's not the tech companies, they're just trying to make a profit. That's when it might make sense for governments to step in with regulations--to push things n a positive direction where the free market can't. It seems to me that we're still figuring out as a species how to handle this information deluge we've started to experience in the last 20-30 years. Like any powerful tool, it can be used for good as well as for harm.
> The spread of propaganda to undermine the democratic process is chilling.

It's unpopular to say this, but both sides see it this way.
Zuckerberg is a Utopian. Like all Utopians he sees any disagreement as the other party being too stupid to see what's good for them, so they only rational answer is to force them to do "what's best".
I did decline. But I have seen many of my parents' generation getting increasingly radical (I am not American, BTW. I am talking about India). They don't have the tools to understand what is going on. Their entire life was training to "read between the lines" of newspaper articles and journals. They are used to subtle lies and distortions, and they can catch that. Blatant outright virulent rhetoric - with the tone "this is some truth that must be told" - is ok in 1 or 2 videos. But the recommendation engine enmeshes them in that mire.

My mother is a PhD. I asked her whether she will accept a paper without sound academic bibliography. She said no. Then why would she believe in extremist videos with shady citations and outright lies? But she does. I think it is because of the recommendation engines which keep feeding similar videos. Just like Goebbels' maxim of repeating a lie often enough and loudly enough to make it the truth.

We can keep saying that our algorithms are fine. But if what we see today has never been seen in history, I think it is high time that we re-evaluate our current beliefs about the impact and the correctness of our work.
How many protests violated the curfew in Portland and Seattle over the summer? Were people allowed to organize those on FB?
Agreed. I think we need to put as much blame on the carriers providing these capabilities to anyone, let alone the police. That the police are publicly funded and are buying this data with my money is also a huge issue to me, but if I had to pick one thing to change, I’d make selling this data illegal. That way, no one could have it.
> You don’t have an inalienable right to keep the area around your home exactly how you want it either.

I agree. I was responding, in context, to the idea that people should be able to live wherever they want affordably.
> we will use all lawful tools at our disposal

Interpreted precisely, this sentence doesn't rule out the possibility that they use unlawful tools too.
The point of C and Zig is that you can solve any kind of problems with them. In particular there is much more to memory reclamation than garbage collectors or Rust's borrow checker. Some of the reclamation schemes offer wait-freedom, or efficiently support linearizable operations.
Maybe someone with a lot more skill than me might decide to contribute to heads or fork it?

https://github.com/headslive
I'm using Supabase, Sveltekit, Tailwind, SendGrid, and Netlify.

SvelteKit has been a lot of fun but definitely has a few rough edges. Supabase has been awesome, but as you can probably see, from the comments elsewhere, has some kinks around magic link based authentication.