jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It was more complicated than that: the Polish government in exile knew at least as early as 1940 and by at least 1942 those had been corroborated by allies and there were official reports presented to allied governments, the UN, and covered in major newspapers:

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

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/02/13/852...

The catch, of course, is that governments don’t act with a single voice: during war time intelligence agencies would be loathe to confirm anything if it revealed information about their sources, and there were enough anti-semites and Nazi sympathizers that all but the most conclusive evidence might be downplayed or lead to consequences (reportedly, concern losing support in Hungary was a factor in not leading with what was happening to the Jews).
You could run a "Who's on first" and set the password to "I plead the fifth"?
I think you have it backwards. Tons of "content" on StackOverflow is copy/pasted from another source, often some experts personal blog or a niche site, without sourcing to the original.
Cancellation is the hardest thing that an executive can do. Even when its the right choice, it takes courage and temerity to do so.
The difference is that you got to go home every day. Take a look at the full leaked document for details, the BBC quotes make it sound like a smaller deal than it really is.
How is it fine for the most part when it’s been shown that thousands of employees working at the mobile network have the ability to forward your number thereby rendering the 2nd factor useless?

More importantly, there simply isn’t a reason why TOTP, a superior actually secure 2nd factor that doesn’t rely on a third party, can’t be offered, unless you want to force the user to cough up their phone number so you can track them.
It probably suggests Chromebooks are on their way out.
Doesn't this also explain why traditional media, politics, religion, academia, etc are all toxic? Is it that social media is toxic or that the toxic world has now adopted social media? Moral grandstanding has been around for millennia before social media.
You have to choose your battles. China is literally building concentration camps. Comparing Xi to Hitler is not exaggeration.

Virtue signaling absolutely works with China. "Losing face" is a big part of their culture and if important business partners start dropping off like flies and calling out their atrocities, they will take notice. Just look at how much of a fuss that NBA manager's tweet made.

>What about Saudi arabia? Should silicon valley and traditional media give up the billions in Saudi investment?

Yes.
Can you explain how opposition to China's human rights violations are comparable to McCarthyism?
The damage will be irreversible by the time these events are seen.

It gets called apocalyptic because we're heading to a future where they become inevitable, not that they exist today.

You need to get out of the car before the car crashes into a giant ball of flame. But saying that it hasn't exploded yet isn't an argument that there won't be flames.
Am, is, are, was, were.

I am posting on HN. My post is nested under another one. There were a few others prior to mine.
Off-topic: but I wonder why Wikipedia redirects en.wikipedia.org to en.m.wikipedia.org on mobile, but it doesn't redirect en.m.wikipedia.org to en.wikipedia.org on non-mobile.
Yeah, California is exactly the same as a state that throws hundreds of thousands to millions of people in concentration camps, prohibits freedom of speech and religion, murders and steals the organs of political prisoners, and actively monitors everything you do.
Me and my wife still do print a select number of photos. Whenever we travel we purposely take a couple of shots from her Lumix (a non DSLR but with replaceable lens) for the purpose of printing and putting it up on our "travel" wall. Not sure how it would look like if we used our phones to take those shots.
Yes Monster Cable is a very shady company, and even though they are a good source of entertainment of just how stupid some of their attacks are, this one could actually be legit.

But being such a shady company, I hope this fails and goes nowhere. Poetic justice.
Having taken this "test" a good number of years ago, and I remember I often did not have a proper straight answer to give. On many questions, I would want to say something like:

* You're mis-representing the choices.

* Well, you say that, but I'm not sure what it would actually mean.

* Depends on the circumstances.

* I'm not sure.

* I might choose one option and then regret it, and maybe switch to another.

* Those things don't contradict.

* I would have done something different early on which would preclude this scenario altogether.

* This question looks like an earlier one. I choose X there, but that doesn't sit well with me. Maybe I'll choose Y here for good measure.

* None of the above.
FWIW, I clicked the link in this thread (twice). First time was a 404, second time it worked.
This is a lot more crowded since the last time I checked! You know I’ve been reading too much Kim Stanley Robinson when I immediately start worrying about contaminating these various celestial bodies’ surfaces...
What this would reveal to me is that I know that I have no interest in working for a company that thinks this is a reasonable interview question.
Yes, but the landlord does this repairs pre-tax and all the repairs are deductible.
>Everyone's News Feed is unique, which means you're more likely to see content you want to watch, groups you want to join, creators you want to follow, and products and services you want to buy.

This is so bullshit. It means that I'm more likely to see content Facebook wants me to see, that maximizes some of their metrics. There's nothing for me there.
Anecdotally I’ve taken an ‘official’ MBTI a few times over a couple decades, and always came out with the same results. I don’t think it’s magic or anything, but I also don’t think it hurts to reflect on how you interact with the world and those around you, and how those around you interact with you in return, and then try to identify some themes in those interactions to think about. I wouldn’t go making any grandiose proclamations from it, but as a conduit to some potentially beneficial reflection I see no harm in it either.
Exporting message history, easily selecting multiple messages to forward, allowing for group chat history to be maintained and transferred between devices, synchronizing video rotation in video calls, scheduled messages. Some of these features might be harder to implement than others, but I am constantly reminded of their absence whenever I use signal. I used to only use telegram, and it just works that much better as long as you don't care about privacy. It'd be easier for me to continue using Signal if it was more grandmother friendly. Even my partner is having issues with this, and they are usually capable of using tech.
Of course I agree with the main point that keystrokes is not the same as fast to type, 2dd would indeed take me longer than 2[].

For me, though, shift is annoying. The duckduckgo bangs I find a pain and I don't use them (shift+1 is fairly uncomfortable a keystroke compared to one of the symbols available without shift) but a lot of people advertise it as a handy feature. Timing the shift key correctly is something I get wrong more often than other keystrokes, perhaps because it's operated by the pinky (though letters like "p" in operate and "a" in and are also pinky-operated and those work fine for me, idk). For me g-shift-i it's really 3 keys, not 2.5. I'd even go so far as to say that 0i is more like 1.5 than 2, since they're so nicely next to each other. By moving my right ring finger to the 0, my index finger almost automatically falls on the i. Conversely, the g and then shift makes me have to stretch my hand slightly (I find that less comfortable than shifting its position), or if I were to use the right shift, then that would be quite a big movement and stretching back to reach the i (though I rarely use the right shift: my natural hand position (to not have my wrists at an angle without needing to use a split/angled keyboard) has my right pinky in the position of the p rather than the semicolon).
For why I used bc, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293876 .

For masks, see https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/masks-and-carbon-dioxide/ and https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/in-science-all-factors-matte... . In essence, those who claim that masks work might be right, but they also ignore other factors that, if considered, might show that masks are worse for us overall.
If the Oculus team wanted to acquire Wit.ai, they could've acquired Wit themselves (as they recently did with Nimble). Keep in mind Oculus is an independently operating subsidiary within Facebook.
> Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual.

People often advocate hate speech laws while being under the illusion that they are the ones who get to define what is hate speech and what is not.
Somehow, shortening supply chains is seen as a bad thing.
The trend in electronics prices is to decline over time, so you get the same result by not reducing prices as much as the ongoing reductions in cost.

Check how much a piece of consumer electronics costs in China vs. the US. They could charge the same amount.
I like the way this article is written.
Who modded that down? He has a good point. This is a bad idea. In particular, "Python's static type-checking would be optional - programs can still be run even if the static checker has complaints." is a really bad idea. It means the type annotations can't be used for optimizations. Or we'll have code that only runs with optimization turned off, or on some compilers.
I sometimes think that a lot of the war machine is partly about governments seeking to identify the people within their country who are most capable of organized violence, and then making sure they spend as much time abroad as possible, preferably somewhere very dangerous.
I haven't written anything up yet. To summarize, I use the standard acoustic model (hub4wsj_sc_8k) with a combination of keyword activation and a fixed grammar (in jsgf format). It's normally listening for a wakeup keyword, and when it find one, switches into grammar mode until it hears a complete utterance, or times out, then switches back to keyword mode. It works pretty well, though tuning the keyword sensitivity is annoying.

The pocketsphinx-specific code is actually quite simple:

https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dom/src/default/listen/listen.c

You can see the keyword and jsgf files in that directory, for reference. The pronunciation dictionary is generated from one of the standard dictionaries, selecting just the works present in the grammar.

Note: If you look in the whole directory, there's a mix of decent code and ugly hacks in there, and I didn't make any attempt at making it customizable. It's just for me. Btw, it all runs on a raspberry pi.
Such as, people are taught not to use global variables, but maybe they weren't taught the reasons why not. The reasons (some of) would be polluting the global namespace, having unexpected things defined in unexpected places, and so on. At some point, it could save the programmer oodles of time to just use global variables. It could be a project with limited scope where polluting and things won't be an issue. The reason for superstitions at all are stopping people from doing something when they can't understand the reasons yet. It's hard to explain to a child all of the reasons why they should be a good person, and much easier to tell them Santa will give them presents, until they can understand why being good is inherently its own reward.
SWI-Prolog implements a variant of the ZIP, not the WAM.
I'd say - go to https://news.ycombinator.com every 4 hours and find your way
Some examples: Combinatorial optimization problems, timetabling tasks, reasoning engines, rule-based systems for the medical industry, recommender systems etc.
In dropbox video, 13:30 Jessica Livingston in on mute.
You would have made a valid point if git wasn't fully distributed.

But it is. And every dev has full copy of the repository. This is only a temp DDoS situation ? And you can host your code repository elsewhere. You can even use multiple remotes simultaneously. Not that it's convenient (that's why we use Github), but hell, you just create some ssh-accounts for your colleges and host the repository on your laptop ?

Sorry, who was laughing and why ?
>A few Internet buddies of mine did affiliate marketing, which has similar cashflow dynamics to this. If you need to charge $100k in a day, and you can demonstrate capability to pay $100k in a day, Amex will happily accommodate your business.

Possibly, but I don't think that consists of calling Amex and telling the phone rep to log into your Stripe account to check out your mind blowing pending balance. Anyway all I was saying is that this was a weekend project of a YC company that had already (presumably) burnt through a good portion of their cash on their initial idea. You are right though, if you're a YC company, there are people you can call to deal with cash flow issues.
At least once per week, I have an hour or two where my idea seems hopelessly stupid. You just have to power through it.

Like doing heavy squats. You don't have to like doing them, you just have to do them. A fun game is to think of as many excuses as you can to not do the next set. The next set is one rep for each excuse on your list. Unless you don't have any excuses, in which case you do the set (there's no excuse not to, right?)

Observe/acknowledge the emotion and get back to work.
There is a fair amount of evidence that gun owners are less safe than non gun owners, and societies with higher levels of gun ownership tend to be less safe overall. But, changing gun laws don't alter the prevalence of gun ownership vary quickly so it's hard to such analysis with idential populations.
> As far as clothing goes, you can't argue Lady GaGa doesn't think outside of the box.

Her outfits draw heavily on the prior art of performers like Grace Jones, David Bowie and Madonna. There's a very extensive history of music performers wearing crazy outfits. Some further examples are Elton John, Jayne County, Kiss, Gwar, Divine.
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There's always conflict of interest.
Oh cool! I always thought of a branch as a conditional jump - I guess I was wrong. It appears that even unconditional branches are still branches!

"A branch is an instruction in a computer program that may, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to begin execution of a different instruction sequence. Branch (or branching, branched) may also refer to the act of beginning execution of a different instruction sequence due to executing a branch instruction. A branch instruction can be either an unconditional branch, which always results in branching, or a conditional branch, which may or may not cause branching depending on some condition."
Apparently somebody thinks they're a "white knight" I just got an email from "The Team at Hint" (teamhint at hint dot io). The text is:

Hi there,

Hint wanted to let you know that your email address and password that you used to signup for Gawker (or one of its sites) were hacked. Forbes' coverage is here

In situations like this, time is of the essence, which is why we were surprised & shocked to find that Gawker Media hadn't taken the initiative to notify you of this privacy breach immediately. We HIGHLY recommend you change all of your online passwords as a precaution.

-The Team at Hint

(This is a one time email)

I'm not sure how ethical this is.
Right now, you can definitely make money using GPUs to 'mine' bitcoins. Computers without GPUs aren't sensible, though.
It depends on what your goal is. Is it to make money? Go with your default and get an MVP out by the 10th Jan. Seriously. You can always rewrite it once you have paying customers and know it's not a complete waste of your time.

If it is to learn, I am trying out Ember JS atm and it seems pretty good.
What prevents them from learning both ways? When learning math, I learned the normal way, where you do borrowing. Very useful for larger calculations, and quick when you understand the principals.

On the other hand, when we discussed money in grade school, we learned the "count up to nearest denomination increments. Was a bit harder to grasp since you have to think in coin denominations, but it's served me well since then at a few retail jobs.

Overall, though, the normal form of borrowing math has been more useful in my career than the denomination method. If you can't do normal borrowing math, advanced mathematics is going to be rough on you.
"Being sad" means exactly that, and does not imply having disdain, disrespect or not accepting someone.

I'm just saying that whatever problems these persons have with their lives, I cannot see how this service can be of help in any way.

If anything, the problem is with society and social pressure: by conforming to it, and not fight it, you'll end up exacerbating the cause of the problem.
Going by that logic, to "effectively" ban the book while not "technically" banning it, the govt just needs to pursue the top few channels to stop carrying it. Book will be effectively unavailable and everyone's conscience will be clean.

Hey, that sounds familiar. Say, for example, that some organization releases a bunch of more or less secret stuff, and you want to prevent them from getting donations to continue releasing stuff, you could just lean a bit on VISA and Mastercard…
I'm just waiting for the "First they came for Hitler... Then they came for the Nazis..."

(Anyone familiar with the origins of the phrase should see the irony immediately)

Frankly I think it's kind of ridiculous to propose you can't ever give one grimy, muddy, bloodstained inch without being overrun. Niemöller was right, but it doesn't universally apply to EVERY case...
If you wonder, here is a google translate of what is the french "Autorité de la Concurrence":

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The Competition Authority is an independent administrative authority, specializing in the control of anticompetitive practices, the expertise of the functioning of markets and the control of concentrations. Serving the consumer, it aims to ensure free competition and assist the functioning of competitive markets to European and international levels.

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Though it does not thrill me to say so, you make a valid point.

It is worth noting though that cultural mores don't work well with shades of grey- they are best suited to black-and-whites. (i.e. do/don't instead of do this way/don't do that way)
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007015 - nytimes.com - 1 comment
Storyline 1.0 was great, but only let you grab photos from your iOS device. V2.0 lets you create and narrate slideshows with images from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and Arcivr. Posting has changed as well. Instead of posting an mp4, Storyline now hosts a unique URL for every slideshow so you can post to Twitter, etc. Mp4s are still saved to Dropbox, Arcivr or your device. Android version coming in late spring. I'd love to hear what you think.
I certainly grant your point (although it's obvious) that the web is not relevant to Tazo's current sales. Because they're not using it...at least not effectively.

The far more useful question, and the one I thought was in play, was: is the web relevant to the possible sales they could glean if they used the net effectively?

As for why I don't do it myself? Dammit, Jim, I'm an opera singer, not a tea entrepreneur!
My SVN build of DD-WRT has a "No DNS Rebind" setting defaulting to true. Not sure if this prevents the attack - couldn't find easy steps to reproduce in order to verify.
Something like about.me for businesses would be great. Maybe a second editable page with REALLY easy to lists. That way businesses can easily list services or menu items.
I think they'll do something great. What ends up becoming the big vision/winner for the company is usually an extrapolation out from something that wouldn't be repeatable+scaleable in its first form. It's kind of like normalization of business processes instead of databases.
It might be only 10% in the US, but it's significantly more than that in other countries.

In the UK, getting an iPhone 4 on a £25/mo 2 year contract from any of the 5 major carriers costs you £200-300, and gets you 100 minutes max and 500mb of data (some networks are more generous with the data).

In the end I got an HTC Desire HD, still £280 up-front, but £10 less a month (£240 less), 300 minutes, 'unlimited internet' (3GB). It was 70% of the TCO.

Even on the higher end (£40+), iPhone contracts offer significantly less of everything per month than Android or Blackberry phones they give you for free.

I don't know who's setting the prices, Apple or the carriers, but as Android keeps getting better I expect something interesting to happen over the next year or so.

However I expect nothing interesting to happen in the tablet sector when you can get a clearly-superior iPad for £30 more than Samsung's offering.
It's both, and believe me, they need manipulation. The herd mentality really takes over, no matter who you are. I worked the attractions in Adventureland & Liberty Square for 4 years - you wouldn't believe how much work it is to convince people that yes, both queues are open.
> thrust of my pre-counterargument which is that from the perspective of the entire society, all necessary work is roughly equally valuable regardless of whether it can be done by 1 or 999 people out of 1000 (or million).

Your assertion that all necessary work is roughly equally valuable is wrong. And then you compound the error by ignoring supply. (It's unclear whether you're ignoring demand as well.)

> Personally I do not think that wealth[1] is really a factor for geniuses

That's irrelevant because few people are geniuses, so it doesn't much matter what motivates them.

I get it that you think that you're not motivated by money and think that other people shouldn't be, but the brain-power going into high-wealth fields suggests that money does have some motivating power.
I know I'm supposed to be insightful in my comments on HN, but this is... I just can't.

Pretend I put the facepalm ASCII-art here.