skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I struggle with the loss of ambition's fulfillment. Maybe that will come after where I'm at now. But the ambitions of my teens, 20s, and 30s seem pretty dumb, in retrospect.

I definitely struggle with the fact that it takes time to do things, and time is shorter than it used to be, and so I should probably prioritize and focus. But I know that kind of psychological railroading is not all-around good for me, personally. I used to be so focused that it sucked the fun out. So I continue starting all kinds of branches that will still look new when I'm dead. I have zero problems with the energy I get from these little departures and enjoy watching the new branches form.
Just lightly. Seems difficult to detect for sure, but probabilistically some insights could be gained.
Jerry Weinberg’s Last Worry
I wonder if anyone could use this to improve on the Furby Organ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o
Then in deploying those countermeasures, they should know they're creating (sometimes significant) friction in the experience those legitimate users, who have legitimate reasons for using those tools, have of their site.

Well-intentioned or not, the UX sucks, and I generally bail and don't come back if I experience a second Captcha in a session. Find a better solution, or accept that you're driving away eyeballs/revenue.
Evolution of Airdrop: From Common Spam to the Merkle Tree
I love how well written, yet utterly inane this piece is!

The toaster disposal picture really got me chuckling... Just the fact that they felt the need to evidence it lying by the side of a trash can. And how observant neighbours probably would have eventually connected the black smoke with the defunct appliance.
I often wonder how many of the people who bring up the capabilities of screen readers are actually familiar with screen readers. (I'm admittedly not at all familiar with screen readers or their capabilities).
IBM Wallops Groupon with a Vintage Patent
That's an ideal use-case of trackerjacker. Another good one (that I'm meaning to write a better plugin for) is to alert on anomalous devices nearby. I have a draft of that plugin here: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/trackerjacker/blob/master/p.... It might also serve as a prototype for what you're trying to accomplish.
Ofo confirms Seattle departure date, promises refunds to riders
The article states:

>"VAX was a 32-bit Complex-Instruction-Set-Computer (CISC) ISA designed for DEC’s VMS operating system."

Is it unique that they designed the ISA for OS? Was this common back then? It seems the norm for some time now been to write an OS that targets an ISA and then possibly port it to other ISAs.

EDIT I guess its easy to forget that virtual memory was new and so you needed to design an architecture that had the concept of paging before you could have virtual memory support in your OS(VMS)
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"...without an ID your quality of life is going to be extremely low."

Yes, some Americans have an extremely low quality of life. Some literally live on the streets. That doesn't mean they should be ineligible to vote.
22 articles about UNIX in issue 57: https://archive.org/details/bstj-archives?and%5B%5D=unix+tim...
Those all applied in my case, and I simplified my original statement too much (I lost more than half because that's where I had saved funds that I had to use in the divorce to "offset" the other party's interest). My apologies.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that I don't know if everyone realizes that if you are the only one in the household saving away for the future, that those savings are not "yours" if the marriage ends, even if your ex-spouse was absolutely frivolous with money, they will get half of anything you saved, and speaking from experience, that feeling absolutely sucks and was one that I am still trying to recover from years later.
Ask HN: Signal on Android not receiving iPhone texts?
I am sharing this partly to resolve it, partly to warn others to not rely on Signal until this is fixed. I set Signal up on my Pixel 2 (Android 8.1 but updated to 9 last week) as my default texting app. Over the past month I've missed SMS texts from at least two work colleagues' iPhones (and goodness know how many others). They do receive my texts though.

Has anyone else experienced this bug? Am I doing something wrong in setting Signal up as my default texting app? How can I fix this? Are there other apps I ought to use instead? I haven't researched the stock Google messaging app but try to stay away from them as much as I can for privacy; is it pretty secure? In the interim I'm switching back to the stock Android texting app as default, and recommend others do the same. Delivered > encrypted.

I have messaged Signal via https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new and am waiting for a reply. A cursory search online shows no problems like this so far though.
And proxies, but not Cloudflare - I regularly have to complete captchas from Google when at work.
What's shocking is that buying from a farm is _more_ expensive than Whole Foods for you (or for anybody else for that matter). The price they charge wholesalers can be easily 1/10th of what you pay at a grocery store for a lot of common items, probably not beef, but vegetables for sure. To even consider the inconvenience of shopping at a farm, I'd have to see some serious cost advantages, of which there aren't any as far as I can tell.
I was hoping to find dornish sour reds in the list. I imagine they taste like a fruity red wine, but sour and tart, perhaps like a Berliner weiss.
I wrote a comment then deleted it because I hate me too comments, but I putting this back. It is all the things you said and I found it very touching. Last time I talked to my Dad a couple of weeks ago, he told me he's tired. I'm going to call him tonight to see how he's doing.

I can't imagine having the kind of talent to put words together as Mr. Hall has. Thanks, quickfox, for posting this.
That's what I'm concerned with; tarnishing a good reputation with a "scary" word.

Bandwidth is no problem for us, we have a faster connection than all the users. Users in Africa and Latin America would probably benefit most, but I'd need to research whether they'd be prepared to use Bittorrent before implementing this.
You shouldn't be applying force. The idea is to move it around like a joystick. Almost all force should be lateral.
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I worked for a while in college as a tester for video games. That cured me of interest in video games, and it never returned.
Cisco Patches Its Operating Systems Against New IKE Crypto Attack
Did you use the code for a supervised application? i.e., did you pass both an `X` and a `y` to the selector? If so, then getting less than 1 just means you can't get a perfect fit to `y` with your features. Please let me know if that's not it.

If interested, you can find some detailed examples in a tutorial below https://github.com/EFavDB/linselect_demos
I once bought Chilean grapes at a local "farmers" market. Since then I don't go to farmer's markets.
So then, thought experiments can be valuable aids to scientific understanding, but they can't establish the truth or falsehood of any empirical claim. The two statements, "I have faith that God exists," and "carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas" are not only not equivalent, they are not comparable.

But, even setting aside issues of validity, your premise is that there is a not-inconsiderable chance that global warming is not caused by humans, and this premise may be rejected. Error is inherent to measurement, but that does not mean that all statements are equally likely. You don't get to just say, "Assume that the error bars are convenient for my argument"; that's not how empiricism works. AGW is predicated on optics and thermodynamics, and saying that AGW is not true is equivalent to saying that there is a problem with our understanding of those topics. That's the sort of claim where you should really be very specific and have strong evidence, but really, if you're arguing with thermodynamics, you're going to have a bad time.

If you really want to offer a skeptical argument, it must be an empirical argument. In order to make a plausible empirical argument, you need to take into account all observations relating to that phenomenon. This can't be done without learning the science. There are empirical avenues which could lead to the invalidation of AGW (it was considered disproved for decades, after all), but thought experiments are not empirical.
>However until then I'd prefer that laws like Washington State's 'keep right except to pass' were strongly enforced.

I recently drove from Tuscon, AZ to Cleveland, OH. All 8 states I drove through have them, but somewhere around Misouri signs get smaller and less frequent, and they stop being strictly enforced. Ohio recently started pushing to enforce this law. It seems as exits get more frequent and less lanes are available, (road maintenance in 4 season territory costs a lot, so there are more 2 lane highway spans than 3-4) lots of drivers decide that the speed limit +x MPH is fast enough for everyone, FU if you're behind me. I'd guess it added +/- 8 hours to the trip.
The population can get sick and obese and not die because we are not in the wilderness apes and wolves don’t have that great of a time they die the moment they become even remotely unfit.

For most apes in captivity the life expectancy is nearly 50% greater than those in the wild even those who are in reservations, for some it’s duble or more.

You will not find gorillas older than 30-35 years in the wild those in captivity live up to 50-60.
What did you find disappointing about mead?

I absolutely love the stuff, so I'm curious about your take on it.
Don't forget Limonana, a fictional drink that became real. [1] It tastes exactly as its name, a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, implies: a mixture of lemon and mint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonana#History
The reason this looks more like fraud then accident is the forged email and the weird facebook request, both described down thread.

A FB request from a rando by itself isn't weird -- FB pretty much invites this to happen -- and a FB request from a brand new account would be both believable and, in the detail, suspicious (because of the name). But a random request from an account name from the forged mail but which was created a month before makes me wonder if somebody hired some sort of "reputation" service to defend the paper, which is, in my mind, just completely bonkers.
> Best thing you can do is buy certified organic, which would preclude a lot of nasty agricultural practices.

Instead they use higher quantities of different nasty, outdated chemicals that were grandfathered. Repeated studies show that eating organic does not change the amount of pesticides found in consumers' blood. Organic food is not healthier.
> By 2016, it was telling hiring prospects that it was profitable, but also that, “We will not be selling the company unless some insane whatsapp like thing happened. We’re building a forever biz, not a flip.” So either Vidpresso lowered its bar for an exit or Facebook made coming aboard worth its while.
Show HN: Simple command line task tracker
It's almost three years out, and I still feel hopeless about being able to salvage my life financially.
Pretty interesting! Have you heard of any critiques of your method? And if so, what was it and how are you addressing the concern?
anything lightweight that pastes only on demand via a shortcut? i don't feel good about syncing everything
Really?? Is that true only when there are multiple paths between A & B or is there something else involved?
My wife's situation may serve as a useful example. She started with her current university employer about 3.5 years ago. In that time, her balance there has grown from zero to about $90k. This is from 401a/403b contributions and employer-matching based on a $125-150k salary and substantial market gains. She even used one of the Vanguard retirement funds targeted at millenial investors.

We're actually gen x and have other retirement assets I'm ignoring here. But, this account illustrates real world performance that any number of tech workers could have reproduced in the same short time period. Not only that, but many are at an age where they could have been making contributions for 10-15 years now, rather than just 3-4...
Brochure on corporate sponsorship for a pro-fat group.[1]

CBS documentary.[2]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gikpfrH9MPPNZs_fD6ZT9i-cb4T...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/documentary-fed-up-with-rising-...
No one is truly metric. Even australia, the only country I know that does cm for screen sizes, still uses inches for car wheels just like everyone else.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/sweden-socialist...

One aspect to taxes in Sweden that is not well known is that while taxes are high on labor, they are relatively low for corporations (22 percent) and capital. Keeping taxes low keeps corporations and capital from going to other countries. The 1994 changes in government deregulated everything from taxi, air service, railroads, electricity, telecom and school choice.

The open-competition school choice model in Sweden would trigger U.S. teacher unions into a froth. Parents and pupils decide what school they want to attend and they are all paid for by taxes. Corporations, towns, charities, religions, most anyone and anything can start a school, but it’s up to parents and pupils if they want to attend. The more people that choose a particular school determines if that school will get more government funding.

The fiscal side of Sweden has become increasingly pro free market, ranking 15th globally while the US ranks 18th. These capitalist features have helped sustain Sweden’s standard of living, but dark clouds are on the horizon. The nation has an ageing workforce coupled with a slowing birthrate (1.67 per female, well below the 2.1 needed for a population to maintain its population). Decades without significant construction in cities has resulted in skyrocketing housing prices, while high wages leave many unskilled workers, both Swedish and foreign-born, on the fringes of the labor market.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry...

I don't think this is what you have in mind. If it is, it's not socialism. Looks like more market economy than in the US.
>> so all the other browsers became reskins of Safari.

really? didn't know that. and I've been using Chrome thinking it's better than Safari. Little did I know...
The plot has other problems also in the symbols choosen to print the values.

The gray cross into a square symbol looks particularly ugly. If the goal is to assure that nobody can understand the real structure of the data; is the perfect symbol. Many values printed in the red set are also hidden by the blue and green dots.
No plans on releasing the source at the moment, it's about a thousand lines of Go and not particularly interesting.

Roadmap: I'm going to add comment deletion, and maybe the ability to add one or two clickable links to a post. Still thinking about ways to make a notification system that isn't an attack on your attention. More dot styles and colors too.

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For a lot of consulting disciplines, and management consulting in particular, the only domain expertise you require is repeating back to the customer what they told you and finding a way to manipulate and/or present what they've told you such that it supports the conclusion they would like.

This sounds like sarcasm but I'm pretty sure every management consultant would admit that's what they do.

(technical consultants one hopes are actual domain experts, as you say, though I've often found it to be hit or miss even so).
It could be argued that once you use a password more than once its entropy decreases automatically.
... what on Earth did I just read?
Author here. I very much do understand that one line of "insertion" or "deletion" doesn't necessarily mean the entire line was rewritten. But as I wrote in the blog post, there are also many types of changes missing from the data:

1. I don't do a commit for every single line that I change. In fact, I may change a line 10 times, and commit only once.

2. This is actually even more pronounced for code. While doing a code-test cycle, I may change a few lines of code 50 times over, but only do one commit.

3. For my books, a lot of edit rounds and writing happened outside of Git (e.g., O'Reilly does copyediting in a PDF).

My guess is that these two factors roughly cancel out. It won't be exact, of course, and the actual ratio may be 8:1 or 12:1, but the order of magnitude is probably correct.
Don't they already do that? I can clearly remember subjects that mixed latin, cyrillic, greek and some more exotic scripts to do just that.
Unfortunately there seems to be high incentive and little downside to claim 'we will not sell easy'. You get the upside adoption by any customer concerned with longevity, and when you decide to fold for pennies you write a blog post about your incredible journey.

I get it. You get tired of a product, it doesn't do as well as you hope, but you still want to get acquihired and make sure your hardworking engineers don't end up on the street. Nonetheless, its frustrating when evaluating a startup's product and use 'longevity' as a factor.
Maybe a few seconds per page? Truly, it's really not that much of an accomplishment -- the comments are superb. I spent 10 years writing games in 6502 assembly, so it feels pretty natural to me.

Keep in mind that a lot of this kind of code follows a pattern : lots of EQU ("equates") statements that link a variable to an address like a port or a signal line.
Then you'll have the setup code that gets everything into a basic state where it's ready to run the next part

The big loop
Here's where the action's act. Just spin in a big loop, waking up every few hundred cycles or so to check and see if a button is pressed, or the IR chip is sending a byte, or the battery is dead, etc.
If you're already doing something, keep doing it until you're done.
If you're done, wait around for a while or go do something else.

At least, that's what I come expecting. So when I see code like this that basically fits that model, parsing it is simple.

And, like I said, there are great comments. Even a couple about the round-robin service routine that made me laugh.
The lag is quite noticeable for me - but it's quite similar to a bottom-5th-percentile internet connection. What was your uplink like when using Tor?
Science in North Korea: how easing the nuclear stand-off might bolster research
But what's the point of faking this? Wouldn't this be debunked very fast anyway if it was fake? So what's there to gain?
I honestly doubt I am that far off an outlier based on this being HN...

Edit: To be clear, I mean that I suspect that there are a number of high-earning individuals on this forum that have assets like property, retirement accounts, stock options, RSUs, bonuses, etc., and that many in my situation would be paying similar amounts.

Keep in mind that I am talking about divorces involving lawyers on each side. I have no doubt that others make out much better if they have a sane ex-spouse that just wants to move on with their life.
I just ordered a print copy of this. Going to have a ritual burning of the Furby source at upcoming 90's nostalgia party.
A list of ficticious foods that mentions Deep Space 9 but not Yamok sauce [1]? It was a major plot point in at least one episode.

I always imagined it to taste like some combination of Worcestershire sauce and tomatillo salsa.

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Yamok_sauce
Please see my response above, I wasn't clear in my original post, my apologies.
Both are important.

Britain didn't know to be on the extreme lookout for any signs of armed rebellion in the 13 Colonies; by the time they positively knew what was going on, their best hope was to try to take the militia's arms.

As such, the Founding Fathers didn't learn first-hand the value of privacy in quite the same way as they learned the value of arms-bearing.
Facebook Bans Kodi Device Sales
These assertions may be true if the business is sole-proprietor owner-operator, but, beyond that, the assymetry grows quite a bit, including what I posit is a huge step function when the executives are no longer majority owners (or even are just not involved in hiring/firing).

In the typical case, the incentives and power to do anything about them are misaligned. For example, a peer's time will be consumed in interviewing a replacement, but that peer never had any power to raise the salary of the incumbent.
Yes, as somebody who worked with Carl in my grad school days I appreciated that article. However, I think the book mostly focuses on the next generation of molecular evolutionists (Ford Doolittle, Bill Martin, etc.). I remember reading Nick Lane's "The Vital Question" a couple of years ago and I was annoyed that Woese got like one sentence and Lane made it seem like Martin had come up with his ideas in a vacuum. I'm glad that it looks like Quammen is at least going to put their ideas in the context of what Woese did.
Sending your kids to college increases the chances you’ll lose your house
As a startup I really like having a relationship with my bankers (pretty much always SVB -- tried a few others, without the love), including just as a depositor.

For my personal bank account though I agree -- just do the job at lowest cost. A cash management account works better for me even than a credit union.
like the ends justifies the means?
Apparently we are in the 1%. As in, only 1% of podcast listeners listen at 2x or greater.

I personally can’t stand 1x. It’s just too damn slow.
Reinforcement Learning: Basic Tic-Tac-Toe Implementation
One consequence of any such system is that the workers have to pay for all the tools.
Deleting prose and lines of code is still work. You have to read the text, think about it, figure out what would happen if you remove it, update all other places accordingly, and so on. The same goes for deleting code. To ignore that 160k lines were deleted as part of the writing process would be to ignore a massive amount of work.
Not sure if there's any specific advantages, but I still prefer to use bitcoin when I can - just feels good. It's nice to be able to buy stuff from amazon without an amazon account though, although that has more to do with purse.io than bitcoin.
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No. I am arguing that classifying this as a request is unsupported by the facts. A request requires intent, which is non-obvious without presupposing a link and which is more simply explained without categorizing his statement as a request.