skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we would have had a much better chance of seeing Snowden make a difference had he "happened" during a republican presidency. Many sports team style democrats I knew who were flipping out about surveillance during the last Bush administration quickly switched over to "having nothing to hide" and calling Snowden a traitor because "their team" was in office at the time.

People rarely seem to have any actual principles they're willing to stand by when tribalism comes into play.
It's also about stopping the glorification of these heinous acts - you can bet there are people who would find this edifying to watch.
It's kind of a Russian election situation. Anonymous accounts posting lots of BS to try and control the conversation.
And it's falling short of that even! The issue isn't what the optimal state is, it's the delta between here and there.
I can think of a few reasons.

Because it’s upsetting to see innocent people get slaughtered.

Because it will be used to radicalize more terrorists.

Because nobody is obligated to host it on their platform.

Because leaving it up won’t stop crimes either.

You can make good counter-arguments to all of those. This isn’t a math problem with 1 answer.
... and of course, linear is both a blessing and a curse. Lets you predict/project and buy reserved capacity nicely - yet you never truly get to enjoy the efficiencies from scale.
Dystopian af
It's not a German thing, it's a late state capitalism thing.
It should be neutral, and/or jnclude the pro-GG view, not just the anti-GG view. A few concrete points: (1) there was extreme harassment from both sides; (2) targeted harassment against some women doesn’t mean “mysoginy” (just like targeted harassment against Hitler doesn’t mean “misandry”); (3) the overarching theme isn’t “right-wing reaction against progressivism”, but a reaction against feminist politically-correct politics that started to affect the gaming world (that was previously happily genderless, offensive and agenda-free).
For years tumblr neglected to address the issue of teenagers that haven't been trafficked or otherwise gone missing, posting pictures of themselves that did not exist in any database. That is the issue they addressed by banning all pornography, removing any ambiguity over whether any particular never-seen-before image was permitted or banned. NCMEC is out of scope here. They do not have magical powers that allow them to distinguish between an 18 year old or a 17 year old uploading pictures of themselves.

You may not like it, I can tell you're very upset at tumblr banning pornography, but this is the reality. Throw around as many of your qualifications as you like, it changes nothing.
Just be glad you're not a furry!

(He says, remembering all the times he's had fun hanging out with furries... those guys know how to party!)
It says what it was in the article
Oh ok. He's got my vote.
> Also why Romans have British accents?!?

Most of the Romans depicted are aristocratic. The intersection of present-day aristocracy and native English speakers happens to be British. When the script goes beyond aristocracy into the wide spectrum of Roman classes, British dialects offer a much richer toolkit to signal the differences than any other form of English.

On top of that, the upper class British accents predominantly used feel quite old-timey to an American audience, adding to the general flair. Also, if you imagine an percent-day English speaker who is educated in ancient Latin you would likely imagine a high-class Briton as well. This also makes that accent feel more consistent with the setting even though the reasoning does not actually make sense.

That being said, when/if the current deluge of Marvel/DC adaptions is finally over, someone will likely make a sandal movie where all the gold-encrusted Romans talk like rappers. Just for kicks.
Woah, the name of his band when he was younger is reported as "Foss". Given his membership in the Cult of the Dead Cow, I wonder if it's actually FOSS...
Other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400691
This one looks like a genuine java program.

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/29584

```
Cat cat = new Cat();
Cat cat = new 2nd Cat ");"
```
Yes, but they're so much less willing to put people's safety at risk, so really, they're way behind.
> Big-O is just a formal word for how much time you’re going to take, a way to figure out if you’re likely to take more time than available

This is a common misunderstanding about big-O. It's not about how much time you're gonna take but it's actually a measure of how complexity affects time growth as the data grows.

"Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. "

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

I generally don't like wikipedia, but they got this one right.
Had to look up hot swapping, to be honest I dont think the experience will be as good as it would be for dynamic languages like Dart / Javascript.
> the maximum amount that any person or PAC can donate to a candidate is $5000.

This is not true for super PACs. Their only restriction is that they can't coordinate directly with a candidate. This is problematic because it is incredibly simple to coordinate directly but hide your tracks, and it's also incredibly simple to coordinate indirectly.
Don't Over-Optimize Fundraising
> I recall when Star Wars came out, a lot of my friends bought the soundtrack. It served as sort of a gateway to classical music.

Same for my generation w/r/t the soundtrack to 2001
The flag workflow is the closest I've seen on any platform to Tumblr's submissions, for sure.

The concern about people not wanting to use reddit is definitely a big part of this. Reddit has a very different culture than Tumblr, and I agree that it's likely I'd fragment my readers and lose most of them. As much as I love my blog, I don't think the effort of trying to make the switch to reddit is worth the harm and disruption it would cause.
I've considered trying a project like this in the past. You've given me a little inspiration to go do it! Great read!
It's probably a lot like having a diary you wrote when you were a dumb kid in high school being picked apart by the media and senate as a measure of your ability to do a job as 50+ yr old.
My last post was "So long and thanks for all the fish"
>I have never heard anybody say publicly “reading this too hard for me”.

For the non-math subjects, some people do say "I'm bad at spelling", or "I'm bad at grammar". At a higher level of language skills, some people say "I'm bad at writing speeches or wordsmithing an email/Powerpoint to explain things".

Personally, I've always been weak at grammar. Intellectually, I know the difference between "whom" and "who" but I inevitably forget the extra "m" in the appropriate spots. It's not a matter of insufficient practice either. I've been practicing English for decades since I was in diapers! On the other hand, I never forget the minus sign for the derivative of "cosine(x)" being "-sin(x)".
Why would he? I'm sure he downloaded it so he didn't have to pay for it, like all of the cracked games he was getting. Sounds like he was phreaking and stealing from long distance companies, too. I wonder what war dialer he was using.

> At the time, people connected to bulletin boards by dialing in to the phone lines through a modem. Heavy use of long-distance modem calls could add up to hundreds of dollars a month. Savvy teens learned techniques for getting around the charges, such as using other people’s phone-company credit card numbers and five-digit calling codes to place free calls.
Your math isnt wrong but the load isnt simply averaged out over the entire day. There will be peak capacity times way way higher than the lowest times. I would guess orders of magnitude larger. You have to build for peak capacity. If their target response time is 100ms or something then that adds in lots of complexity.
That's not the most credible explanation.

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_s...
Antitrust law in the US bans monopoly "tying": using a monopoly you have in one market to try to control a separate market.

I believe Spotify is claiming Apple is doing this with Apple Music vs Spotify and I didn't see this issue addressed by Apple's message.

I am not sure I agree with Spotify's claim, and US antitrust is in a parlous state, but this approach may get traction in the EU. However Apple's market share is far far from monopolistic.
I'd rather analysis includes looking in the opposite direction to understand the pros and cons of each business model: what would Microsoft ecosystem look safety and security wise on PCs if they took 30% to have additional resources to review applications for malicious behaviour, and so on?

Fundamentality Apple decided on the 30% model for arguably good reasons.

People are free to purchase other non-Apple laptops and products that use other operating systems. If it was a case where patents or other only allowed for one option, then yes, that's the case for rules to break that monopoly.

And yes, I understand network effects and sunk costs of consumers, however if the value continues to be there for consumers then they will continue to use the ecosystem. If a company selling a premium Calendar app doesn't think 30% cut is fair then they don't have to build an iOS app, and then likely some other company who thinks it is fair will very likely fill in that gap - if not, then the marketplace wouldn't work.

And it's true there's a lot of work to be done if you want to compete with Apple wholly with lesser or no revenue share you need to create the same or better ecosystem as them - perhaps the main differentiation being a lower or no fee for your version of the App Store.

Finally you could argue Apple have enough profit from elsewhere to cover the benefit the App Store provides, however they're not setup as a co-operative to distribute costs and/or make as little profit as possible - though that certainly is an interesting option for a competitive business model, whether there's an appetite from consumers to pay into such a scheme or a path there is another question.
I won't speak to censorship, but I will speak to the distribution incentives in social media algorithms.

If these attacks got less free distribution, they might be less likely to occur. Part of the incentive around horrific attacks like this is to get free marketing (aka, earned media) for a cause (as the killer makes clear in his manifesto).

And to add some data, here's my analysis of Islamic terrorism vs. homicide coverage in the NY Times (as you can imagine, the scarier or more horrific the attack, the more distribution it gets in the press):

https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html

And comparison of every death type by coverage:

https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html
Downvoted eh? Nice.
His band was called 'Foss'? Amazing.

EDIT: Found elsewhere where he claimed it was called that because it's Icelandic for 'waterfall'. But now I'm thinking that was a cover story.
It has 3 rows of seats and seats 7 people.
>Apart from Lightning, which was created when no better alternative existed

Gotcha, then why does new iPhone not have USB-C while new MacBooks only have USB-C?
> Can an artist draw 1000 paintings like a farmer can (automatically) milk 1000 cows per day?

Record artist can sell millions. Visual artist can sell copies of his works. Writer writes a book once and just copies.

It's seems that art scales and automates better than farmers.
He also rides a bike.
That's not bottling. You just don't pay attention to it and then you forget about what you were angry and forget you even were angry.

You need to acknowledge to yourself that you are angry but only for the purpose of making a decission not to act on it and possibly postpone actions that you being angry might influence adversely.

Talking it through will only increase likelyhood that the memory of being angry will stick with you.

Bottling up your feelings is the other thing I describe where you keep your anger instead of letting it dissolve.
The role of media is to get clicks and monetise them into ads. The collapse of a society into violence is, in the short term, great for this, as increasingly worried people hit refresh more often. It's "you'll provide the pictures, I'll provide the war" all over again.

Not to mention the sections of the traditional or social media that have been experimenting with how much they can anger people against vulnerable groups without quite printing death threats in the paper. Or just, you know, casually advocating the end of rule of law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_of_the_People_(headlin...

There are a lot of people in the West who, while they would refrain from pulling the trigger themselves, would happily either advocate that someone else do so, or watch someone die, simply because they're Muslim. The example that comes to mind is Katie Hopkins calling for refugees to be machinegunned.
> Says who?

The US Naval Research Lab that developed onion routing, patented it, implemented it in the form of Tor, and released it under a free license, which is how the outside-of-government (though founded by some of the same people who had developed the tech and implementation at the USNRL) Tor project was able to build on it.
Yeah... those are exactly the kinds of places I don't expect AT&T to roll out fiber to. As long as the equipment keeps working, they'll probably continue to offer the service to existing customers. But they're not likely to fix line quality issues if they don't affect voice service; and they're not likely to stop voice service if you have a strong state regulator.
Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme.

Probably best not to telegraph such intentions.
"Psychedelic Warlord"

Well, at least he didn't turn out to be Satoshi. That would be one of the few ways to top this.
> And who's to determine what the purpose was?

The same way prosecutors argue about motives and intent. Not exactly breaking new legal ground here.

> The creator of a new technology has no way to force a particular use for their creation.

This law addresses internet-based services specifically.

> That's silly.

There is a discussion about this law to be had, but it doesn't include your transparent strawmen.
Interestingly the Anarchists Cookbook may be unlawful[0] due to the way anti-terrorism laws are written.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/josh-walker-anarchist-co...
Are tips required to stop using a service?

Call and text people you actually want to keep in touch with. Pretty easy.
Then mention this in the interview. I ask an algorithms question that would likely be hated on HN but when candidates tell me the practical difference (API cleanliness, maintainability, performance, extensibility) between approaches that ultimately don't impact asymptotic runtime I love it.
Petrol costs in Europe are way higher than in US so the cost benefits of pure electric is a no brainer.
It is worthwhile to ask what the role of media, social media or traditional, is when extreme individuals on the fringes are empowered to cause us all to destruct each other.

We have created conditions of perverse incentives in our media. We reward extremists. We reward unfounded accusations. We reward people saying wacko things. "If it bleeds, it leads."

We need to stop allowing the extremes to "wag the dog."

EDIT: This doesn't mean we should censor people. Rather, it means we need to become a little cynical and self aware of the mechanism of outrage virality itself.

Specifically, we need to stop mindlessly rewarding mass murderers with attention. We need to stop mindlessly rewarding people who act extreme for attention, period.
I mean just look at what happened to some professional athletes. They get tweets dug up from when they were like 14.
I spent 2-3 weeks going through all DP problems on leetcode after work. I got that Tetris-effect where I was starting to hallucinate/dream DP problems and solutions as I would fall asleep at night.

I did this specifically for interviewing. As I've said before, these kind of interviews screen for unusual geniuses or people with the motivation to spend many hours studying, which are two types of acceptable hires.
He's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?
The employees aren't the ones being represented by lobbyists. It's the shareholders.
If people use "censoring a violent act" to commit a violent act, they were going to do it anyways.
> Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme

Sounds like a commitment to do so in the primary and general election both, which is quite legal.
It's obvious you can't address the substance of my comment when you can only reply with that.

Only unclear to me? That's obviously untrue, because I can see your earlier replies to me are grayed out from downvotes by others (note especially the "My comment was crystal clear" one), and I know that my comments have been upvoted by several people who clearly think the same about your comment as I do.
Foss was not in the lexicon in 1989.
Idk, but I will say that there is definitely stuff going on beyond the ride. I.e. for every n people who open the app only a small number will book a ride. Billing services, driver location tracking, analytics stuff, etc are all going to balloon the amount of computing that the service uses.
There is an inherent conflict of interests when traditional outlets try to make every crisis into a referendum about social media.
Not to disagree with you, I think writing off a certain demographic is a terrible idea specially if you are running an inclusive platform like his, but what he said was clearly taken out of context.
Or just someone being an anarchist. ;)
‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis
And internet banking?
>And always thought that people with more knowledge than me would find a lot of flaws.

Firstly, anyone who nitpicks on a totally handbuilt computer has almost certainly not built their own, so their criticisms can be taken with a pinch of salt (that is to say while they may be valid, can probably be ignored... they're bust criticizing other people's work while you are actually getting on with building something)
secondly if they HAVE designed/built their own computer (not just built up an arduino into a thing) then they are probably more likely to help you ("Hey, have you tried.... to get around..." etc.) than try and fault you. so the only reason to hide your project is to protect it from someone "stealing" it. but I don't think that is a concern, nor is anyone planning on releasing a new design of 8-bit computer/console that's not compatible with anything that's come before.
what I'm trying to say in a long-winded way, is that this is an amazing project, and keep at it as it obviously brings you a lot of joy.
my electronics projects are all currently stalled and finding the motivation to carry them forward it hard right now, so I applaud you!
From: https://help.waffle.io/waffle-shutdown/waffle-shutdown-tldr

> Waffle is closing due to market direction and the acquisition by Broadcom. (link to blog)

https://blog.waffle.io/farewell-from-waffle-️-794da4a72851

Travis and now Waffle ...
Here's an interesting question: How far should we require students to get in math for a high school diploma?

School districts in the US answer this in a couple different ways. Many define the number of credits you need to earn, and many define the level you need to reach. But that's compounded by all the issues in math education that occur before high school. How do you hold everyone to the same bar if some are coming in with elementary skills and some are coming in already beyond high school? Many systems don't serve either group well, and the effects can be devastating to people in both groups. How many of us on HN had high-level math skills and had to endure years of boring required math classes?

I had an interesting exchange with another math teacher once. My school requires everyone to move forward from where they're at, and to reach a skill level appropriate to your post-high school goals. Many students end up just becoming well-grounded in Algebra 1, which is great. Another school in my district requires students to get through Algebra 2. We were discussing this discrepancy at a district meeting, and I was being looked down upon for "only" bringing some students to Algebra 1 level skills. I looked this teacher in the eye and asked, "How does a D- in your Algebra 2 class compare to a B- in my Algebra 1 class?" (They have to reach B level work to earn credit, which is why we are okay with them staying in Algebra 1 work if they need to.)

His response? "Well, at least they've seen Algebra 2 level work before they leave high school." The arrogance and uselessness of that statement echoed through the room that day. I would love to see this conversation play out more around the country.
My initial thought is this is quite provocative in the realm of federal political campaigns. I can imagine some interesting one liners during his future campaign, especially from the opposition, that will likely rile us all up.

I enjoyed the story, and if any of it is legitimate and honest insight into O'Rourke's inclinations then I'm interested to see more of his policy proposals.

Furthermore, I think the article's point about O'Rourke's technical literacy giving him an edge in obtaining support from the tech sector is interesting, and if at all valid, potentially a huge factor. Not that this really needs elaboration on HN.

In regards to the CDC, I haven't heard of any members ever being convicted of a crime? I'm not confident enough to say it hasn't happened, but if so I'll take any good light to bring to the hacker culture that we can get these days.
I love the opening line.
This is for outside point-to-point, not for receiving indoors. Serves the same purpose as last-mile fiber, not wifi. The 5G lands service at the location and you use wifi inside to access it. Just like you would with fiber/cable/dsl.
Yeah no kidding. All of my friends and I grew up on Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem. None us grew up to be the least bit violent.
Retro doesn't mean "old." It is a style.
TLDR: "[...]it’s not the airplane so much as whether or not the manual properly describes what’s going on."
> There will be many models launched before 2022.

And there have been many models launched before today. None are even close to model S levels of production volume, performance, range and battery durability.

If your reference is the Porsche Taycan, it is the equivalent to the Tesla Roadster: a low volume proof of concept. It is already more than ten years late (the Roadster launched in '08). If your reference is anything based on VW's MEB (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda), add two years to publicized launch dates, as the MEB went back to the drawing board, deemed under-specced for what the market expects from EVs. This means production plants have not yet started to get designed, much less built, and are waiting on platform redesign and approval.
I have been saying I was holding out for the Model Y for years, but I just can't get past the cost of the software upgrades on these..
Every post on there ends up looking like this HN thread.
Some would say it is highly toxic, so make sure to set an aggressive screen-time limit. It is not healthy to read so much depressing content.
National powers want to filter the contents circulating on the net, but the application of the rules is subject to the limitations of enforcement capabilities. And I'm not only thinking to espionage, terrorism, money laundering and child porn, but to article 13 and copyright violations too.

The government would like to push for overly broad regulations, but they realise that the application of such creates incentives to adopt and democratise radical technologies.

Platform operators who do not want to comply with the regulations can move them beyond national / European borders, or use darknets and decentralization to resist the capacity of police forces.

Response: "Let's ban the darknet"