jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Two problems with that approach at large scale shows:

1) These days the cabling is run inside a run of barricade bisecting the crowd, so it's in a secure area the entire time

2) Modern PA systems at shows of that size have almost exclusively moved to digital snakes / audio networks, not analog

To realistically pull that off you'd need production access to the event to tap into the audio network and re-route things. That said, given the number of people with appropriate access and the fact that InfoSec isn't a high priority, that actually seems pretty doable.

Once they realized what was going on though, a few breakers flipped would drop power to the amps or speakers (depending on whether using powered or passive arrays) and it would be over (which would happen pretty quickly since the power distro is very well organized and labeled since quick troubleshooting is often necessary).
I went googling for a survey of backup tools and ended up at.. Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621372
So far there's been a pull request and a few additional hacks merged in tonight! Thanks everybody!
Hey guys,

I've been hosting private betting with our tournament partners and I found out that players can actually make more money from betting than tournament prize pools. Any thoughts from gamers here? Would you place bets on yourself or your friends knowing that you can make tons of money from playing?
Section 230 is a federal law. Generally, it would be futile for a state court to challenge a federal law granting immunity.

However, the case discussed raises issues of state level liability for sex-trafficking, which is explicitly carved out from section 230 immunity.

What is concerning about this case is that one of the justices, elected by the efforts of the Texas GOP, has already said outside of court that they would strip Facebook of all section 230 immunity because of "censorship" of conservative viewpoints...and the lawyers that brought this case are long-standing GOP fundraisers involved with the Texas GOP.
Well, most of them includes heavy macros that is designed to be optimized by the compiler. So calling a macro from another language with different syntax does not sound easy.
Cool! This- a book that gradually morphs from one language to another as a way to learn a new language- is something I though about since I was a kid.

Pinocchio isn't a great choice though- its Italian is richer than that of most contemporary books, with words hardly in use today. And the progressive mixing of languages must be very careful to avoid awkward conflicts between the sentence construction in the two languages, and privilege the most common words (probably nouns and adjectives only, leaving other more structural parts for later).

Some sentences in the pages shown seem completely mangled and hardly understandable (though Italian is my first language). For example:

Senza saying yes or non, he che from the citta' e riprese fuori on della road che doveva to la him back to alla house of the lovely Fairy.
>> Git should work the way we think it does!

> Hold on, who is "we"?

I'm not the GP, but I agree that git should work the way "we" think it does, and I think a reasonable definition of "we" in the context of Git Users is probably SaaS/Startup/SMB software engineers.

Git is popular enough to have many thousands of different use cases, but I would speculate that the distribution of use cases probably follows the distribution of public Github/Gitlab repos pretty closely.

> Personally speaking, git works the way I think it does. Granted, I've written my own (simple) libgit2 frontend, ...snip...

> Am I blinded by the knowledge I gained from writing my little tool and learning about git internals?

Yes.

> I get that a tool you need to learn the internals of to use is probably a bad tool, but is asking git users to understand the contents of the OP blog post really too much?

Yes. Or rather, knowing git's internals is incredibly helpful if you've already decided to use git and now you're deciding what workflow to use to develop software, because you can match your mental model of how to use git to the way git naturally wants to represent your stored work.

However, if you come to git with an existing mental model of software development, and that existing mental model includes the idea of "branches" or "diffs" or "immutable history", then you're going to quickly and repeatedly run into stumbling blocks as your mental model doesn't match git's internal model. Git can do branches and diffs and immutable history, of course, but they're a leaky abstraction on top of the concepts git really cares about.

> Maybe I'm just a git fanboy...

Sure, nothing wrong with that!
Windows 10 doesn't completely turn off by default anymore. It closes all the applications and then hibernates the Windows system stuff so doesn't need to re-initialize everything on boot. There's a way to fully shut down but you'd have to look into that.
I'm surprised to hear this. Hibernation has worked perfectly since installation on all of my Linux computers for the last ~2 years.
> At one point, Robson says he was left upside down on a tarmac, literally sitting on his head for 24 hours because there wasn't enough room in the crate to turn around.

I'm surprised he survived this. I remember when David Blaine hung upside down in Central Park for 3 days – but every few hours he had to take a break: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1060038/Cheati...
I'm OK with presentational markup co-existing with logic but to be honest I prefer it the template way not the other way around where the markup is the guest at the JS file.

But throwing CSS declarations to the mix is just too much for me. Now I'll have to maintain markup/presentation/logic in the same place, that's a nightmare and ticking bomb IMHO.
Several of them write to a file or store state in one. That's impurity, even if done "nicely".

It just feels like saying "don't talk to the outside world that way, do it this way".
Sorry could you expand the acronym ESR? I’m unfamiliar and would like to look into it, thanks
Used QNX 15+ years ago. The supposed best value is micro-kernel. Kernel is very small, all the device drivers, file system, TCPIP stack are run in user space outside the kernel.

I have not used AmigaOS and no clue if it has the same micro kernel design.
Congratulations from the MIT App Inventor Team. We're glad we could play a small part in your success. Wishing you continued success and happiness.
My "millionaire" grandma in the middle of San Francisco would literally die from those options. She is fragile due to age. Her house is familiar to her. Familiarity reduces stress, confusion, and accidents. She is close to family.

She will die soon enough. You can wait.

Better yet, you can do what she did many decades ago. Get a house built on undesirable land, then be part of a community that makes the value go up. The home you now covet is only valuable because of people like her. Nothing stops you from doing likewise. Pick some crummy land out in Mississippi or West Virginia and create a community.
FYI the new website is down (http://new.reddit.com) but the old website is still up (http://old.reddit.com).

As others have stated, http://status.reddit.com will display uptime stats.
Fedwire is not ACH. Those are different systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedwire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACH_Network

Fedwire is a much faster, more modern system than ACH. You can only access it if you are a bank, though. ACH is available to anyone, but it's old and uses FTP.

There are also a faster modernized next-day and same-day versions of ACH available as of the last few years. I haven't checked out their protocols, though, to see if they still use FTP.
But one paper suggests almost half of the world’s Bitcoin mining capacity is situated in southwest China, where power is cheap, less taxed and supplied by coal-fired plants as well as hydroelectricity. The Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance estimates coal accounts for 38% of miner power.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-26/is-bit...
The most important thing to look for is the diameter of the aperture.
Your resolution is proportional to the diameter of the telescope (absent atmospheric conditions).
I would recommend a minimum of 6" in diameter. 8-12" is preferred.

With this in mind, the best telescope you can get for the price is a Dobsonian.
Dobsonians are extremely mechanically and optically simple.
This makes them long, and bulky.
It also makes them cheap.
It also makes them rather easy to point.
They have a lot of mass and inertia, and a large moment of inertia.
This makes them easy to move and point slowly and carefully.

Dobsonians are ideal beginner telescopes.
Easy to point, cheap, good resolution.

This is the model I have (8" aperture, $450): https://www.amazon.com/Orion-8945-SkyQuest-Dobsonian-Telesco...

They're also rather easy to construct, if you are of a DIY mind.
Here's a 90 minute youtube video on how to build one, with John Dobson himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw
Most Hindus here are professionals. The typical path to entry into the US is via an MS/MD/PhD in a US university, followed by an H1 visa working as a engineer/scientist/doctor, followed by a green card and then citizenship.

Family-based immigration is comparatively rare.

It remains to be seen (and could be a topic of further study) how well their descendants do. There is indeed a lot of pressure to do well in academics in Indian families (anyone who's watched the Spelling Bee competitions can see the disproportionate representation of kids of Indian descent), so it is possible that the subsequent generations will continue to do well; but it would still be worth studying.
Open source development isn't anarchy. Projects do have lead or primary developers, and it makes sense that there would be someone best equipped to answer questions about new ports or branches.
Perhaps the exception is the term "killer app," which is entirely mainstream and surely has been around for at least 20 years.
If the secret that they lost got out - wouldn't it harm the morale of US forces from the south?

and therefore treason
Canadian constitutional law has something called the 'living tree doctrine', which states that the constitution can grow and evolve over time, being reinterpreted in new contexts. To push the metaphor a bit further, I'd point out that a living tree is considerably more resilient than a dead tree, and is likely to adapt to conditions which might otherwise destroy it.

I don't think anyone can seriously claim that the commerce clause of the US constitution was intended to grant the vast powers which it has been used to uphold; but because the US constitution is -- theoretically -- not subject to growth and reinterpretation the way that the Canadian or British constitutions are, a legal fiction has been adopted instead.

If the commerce clause had been interpreted within the context of the Canadian or British constitutions, it would probably have been handled as "we're going to read one new power into this" on a number of occasions, rather than the "yes, this clause gives you the power to do everything" which seems to have occurred in the US.
Heh, not so fast, that's not first class access. Python has this problem as well, in order to have a uniform higher-order accessor to Objects, Lists, and Dicts, etc. you need to hack together some ugly functions. It's also why OpenStruct exists in Ruby. Same problems in JavaScript. Et al.
I think the effect is the result of fixating on the fact that there was a faster line, not that there are slower lines.
Too bad that we need to sign-in to checkout the complete text.

[Edit: I was planning to check the size of sample data i.e. number of women who participated in the research, but chucked the idea after the bothersome process.]
It seems that the point is that Wikileaks apparently broke no laws.
Why would you join the website when it has no members and its whole value proposition is that with a lot of members it would be very useful?

Blockchain is currently being bootstrapped, but it's been criticized for not already having been bootstrapped.
> if it was me I would be informing my boss that this is counter-productive

I suspect you’re fairly new to the workforce. Try that for a few years, see how little effect it has but how much energy it sucks away from you, and then resign to simply doing “what the bosses want” even if it means setting piles of cash on fire on a regular basis.
The price of everything is always between the value placed on it by the buyer and the cost to the seller. Not a revelation.

At the margin, they are all equal because trade continues until the gains from trade are exhausted.

In many countries and U.S. states, laws guarantee that the cost of an employee to an employer is almost twice as much as what the employee is paid. In those circumstances, the potential gains from bilateral trade are not exhausted and people engage in that trade outside of the dominion of the state.
I'm surprised there's no work being done on the UI on the roadmap, K-9 looks like an app from the "Ice Cream Sandwich" days of Android.

With that being said, K-9 is the best Android app I've seen for mail that isn't made by Google.

edit: it seems the work has already been done, thanks for the correction.
That has been done multiple times. It is easy: just record the sound and compare acoustic signatures. And yes, Stradivarius is different. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/21/scientists-f...
School definitely sucked for me but in retrospect it was primarily due to buses doing two routes and landing in the unfortunate position that I had to arrive in the school 60-90 minutes early every morning and wait around the school after 60 minutes most evenings.

Secondary school was just 5 years of being constantly exhausted. Blows my mind that whoever was planning it thought that was better than stumping up the cash for a second bus run (this was mid-00s in a country that was supposedly booming).

It's kind of impossible to gauge it beyond that. I guess the inflexibility of the structure ties in there though, like, if something about it is bad you don't necessarily have that much choice to change it and it will grind you down hugely.
i dont know about the social political education politics of sweden, but the generalized issue is the unanswered question:

what is education for?

the problem with involving a free market (issues like regulatory capture and misregulation notwithstanding) is that if the product isnt clear, the market output may not be desirable and could be quite malformed. as yogi berra said, if you dont know where youre going, you might not get there.

education serves at least 4 purposes:

-socialized child care

-socialized child feeding

-vocational training

-general education

point four is not well defined and point three is often never defined (who's whole education track is special built for a job they are guaranteed?)

given these parameters, what is the expected output of a free market optimization? as we'd say about bad calculations in the navy: garbage in, garbage out.
I find that Qt signals and slots works pretty well for managing complexity in GUIs. In this case you would connect a signal that is emitted when inventory table changes state to a slot that changes the appearance in the user avatar. This would probably be done in the pane/dialog that contains them both. They 2 components would remain nicely decoupled.

This approach isn't without it's own challenges of course. For example it is sometimes hard to keep track of what is going on in complex applications with cascades of signals and slots. Some people also hate the fact that signals and slots use auto generated code, but I have never really found that to be a problem in practise.
Please, please comment code. Junior devs like myself will thank you senior devs for throwing us a bone.
one of the best libraries out there to deal with the modern complexity of making interactive websites. thanks for your work.
So when can we get the specs for the microphone protocol? :-)
Awesome! What is the site doing $400k annually?
I don't think you're making the point you think you're making to anyone but idiots. At the very least the banks could be forced to pay any sum of money at all and their structures could be evaluated and attacked as needed. What recourse would the government have in a system that leaned primarily on cryptocurrency instead of banks?
I am not saying your situation is like this, but I know many people that say "I dont make enough money to save" but then if you look at their daily life they eat out often, stop a Starbucks routinely, have the latest iPhone, have subscriptions to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and a 100 Channel TV Line up, have massive credit card debit from buying things they did not need, etc etc etc

Again you may actually be in a bad spot financially and if you are I hope you get out of it soon, but I know many many many many people that simply can not budget properly, and even when they make more income their "needs" raise to consume that extra income about 2 seconds after they get the increase
I my similarly affected local area it's many factors that are prevented new housing that is needed / being taken out by investors around the globe buying chunks of the market for short term rentals and others who are slated to move here it seems.

All the builders are busy. Getting construction help around here is a crazy process these days (referring to the year BCP / before covid pandemonium) -

builders that have the ability to build are generally focused on building more expensive houses to get more money (not average homes that were built long ago).

the ones that have the money (from whatever sources) to build the minimum code skinny homes that do well for maximizing cost for arbnbs seem to be gobbling up any and all possible property that fits in the zoning places that these can squeeze into - limiting the market for others who want to build their own (who already live here)

The part of town I currently live in, the neighbor groups are NIMBY NIMBY - a recent meeting I sat in where a local developer was exploring putting in a dozen townhomes / condos into a larger development with single family homes - everyone there just wanting to complain about the effects of other development in the area.

The price of land is going up, and the cost to develop the land. Building affordable is not as easy as it was some time ago.

Some of council is telling citizens to downzone property en mass in order to prevent more affordable options from popping up in their neighborhoods. I heard our last council meeting they attempted a county-wide zone change.

It's become clear to me that some of these council folks really are 'our neighborhood character, the children!' type people.. however it seems that many of them are spouting similar types of scare mongering things while really just propping up the value of all the Marriot properties in the city (by trying to limit the airbnb and similar).

It's been an interesting show to watch. I don't think supply and demand is going to turn all these, now mostly empty, hotel properties back into affordable housing for the locals. They will just sit there and maybe be traded as distressed properties and be rebranded as some other brand new basic like the self storage places.

At least that's how I see it around here in a nutshell - there are many other interesting dynamics going on. Quite the complex play to watch actually, with characters from all over vying to push norms wherever they can get away with it - while the average families try to figure out where they can afford to live.

The things the surrounding counties are doing to prevent the people from here moving there is also another interesting set of things to watch with wonder.
But if life was a movie, then it must've escaped! Would make life as black and white as movies are, and not gray and nuanced and complicated and unsolvable as life actually is
> I haven't seen fresh beef or chicken and the grocery stores for two weeks now.

I don't know where you are located, but beef and fish was never an issue here. Chicken and pork sold out, but have been getting restocked every other day.

Can you explain what about COVID-19 is going to cause food scarcity in the US?
Agreed; I believe a scarf around your face will have some benefit. The CDC’s current guidance is about “respirators”, and maybe they’re not saying anything at all about plain masks or scarves, but studies posted here on HN in the last 2 days have shown some positive effectiveness for any kind of mask at all. I’ve heard first hand from a friend in Shenzhen China - where they are now back at work - that they are certain masks are effective, and the main vector is coughing and sneezing. If nothing else at all, wearing a mask can be a very helpful reminder to not touch your face.
As should cash (negative leverage?). It would be nice to visualize how much cash vs debt companies like Apple and Microsoft have. FAAMG have between $480B-$590B in cash on around $200B in debt.

It has it for Berkshire but not for companies who have more, Apple, Microsoft.
What is the feasibility of the postal service delivering non-perishable food to every residential mailbox? I just received a census form in the mail, why not dried beans?
I'd read the 'not clever enough to debug' bit before but not this description. Like the diagram on 'flow state' though it usually a combination of lack of time as well as proficiency that leads to frustration.
That misunderstands history. The earlier DEC machines (e.g. PDP-1/6/10/20 were all BE (as were Multics and mainframes of the time); the PDP-10 is why network ordering is BE.

And while I consider the PDP-6 to be the first RISC architecture, really that title goes to 1970s machines like the 801.
No, a loss of a single APC is a miraculously low number for just any armour on armour battle imaginable.

Even a WWII era armoured force would've been able to inflict higher losses than Iraqi army of the Gulf War period.
Welcome to blue collar life.
I have a relevant question. Do you have an e-mail address that I could send my question to?
My first long-term job involved collecting telemetry data from equipment and displaying it.

The display was technically challenging, but in the meaty way that developers often relish. The clock skew, however, was not.

For liability purposes it was sometimes necessary to know if Event A happens before Event B, which means you have to normalize all of the events across time zones and then correct for drift too.

That experience and a bunch of others (including statistics classes, and studying the Java Memory Model, which other languages have borrowed or stolen) have left me with a lingering doubt about how we record distributed activities.

I really kind of feel like we [all] need a new data model [like the one they mention here] where dependent events are recorded in that way. I don't know exactly what that would look like, but I think it would help a great deal in consensus situations where you have to resolve a conflict, or even just for displaying a sequence of events in proper order.

It feels like we keep trying to get the exact nanosecond when something happens, but the only thing I ever see humans use that information for is to reverse engineer a sequence of events that resulted in a peculiar state in the system.

[edit: tie-in to article]
> Trump changed his message after Wall Street and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson called out his political spin.

And he changed it again yesterday, when some other Fox commentators said that more people would die to a bad economy than would to the virus if people stay at home more than a couple of weeks if we keep up the measures being put in place to limit its spread. So now the message is that in 15 days they will consider greatly easing those measures.