skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are reasons to be skeptical of this quote.

As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before:

>...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in 1996 about the drug war. He didn't include the quote in that book, but instead published it in 2012 and again in 2016, after Ehrlichman had died (in 1999).

If the quote was said by Ehrlichman, it doesn't actually describe the drug polices of the Nixon administration. While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs", the actual substance of his policies seem to be different than what people think it was:

>...I have been fortunate over the years to discuss the distorted memory of Nixon's drug policies with almost all of his key advisors as well as with historians. Their consensus is that because he was dramatically expanding the U.S. treatment system (by 350% in just 18 months!) and cutting criminal penalties, he had to reassure his right wing that he hadn’t gone soft. So he laid on some of the toughest anti-drug rhetoric in history, including making a White House speech declaring a “war on drugs” and calling drugs “public enemy number one”. It worked so well as cover that many people remember that “tough” press event and forget that what Nixon did at it was introduce not a general or a cop or a preacher to be his drug policy chief but…a medical doctor (Jerry Jaffe, a sweet, bookish man who had longish hair and sideburns and often wore the Mickey Mouse tie his kids had given him).

http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-policy/who-started-the...
> I don't blame Torvalds for not wanting to use a debugger. He doesn't like them and doesn't want to support them. That's his choice. But I find it odd to just categorically dismiss them.

I rather suspect that Torvalds' beef with using debuggers is that so many engineers get lazy and begin to use them as a substitute for thinking things through.
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Btw, I don't think it only works with a small number of transmitters. In the UK they has been taxing TV watching, and managed to have a huge fleet of specially equipped vans cruising streets, identifying where are TV sets (and it's harder task then scanning for transmissions), and checking addresses against national registry. Nowadays, I suppose methods are different due to internet broadcasting, but it seems they are still capable of taking pennies for it quite successfully. FWIW, state officials love massive budget disbursements, creation, and expanding of departments, and they can use modern technologies for large-scale operations too.
"When you remove fake volume, the real BTC volume is quite healthy given its mkt cap. Gold’s market cap is ~$7T with a spot volume of ~$37B implying a 0.53% daily turnover. Bitcoin’s $70B market cap would imply a 0.39% daily turnover, very much in-line with that of gold"

So people are using it as a store of value, rather than a medium of exchange? This would count against it being used just to buy drugs etc wouldn't it?
disclaimer: Used hangouts and zoom extensively, for several years now.

Unless Google rewrites or majorly reworks hangouts, it's not going to touch zoom. You do need to be worried about msft building something though, almost anything is better than hangouts right now.
How does this explain for example, the following two points I will assert:

1. Software Engineering has become more social over time. The idea of the loner software developer has sort of vanished as open offices become the norm and the collaborative nature of software engineering grows.

2. Women majors in computer science has dropped like a rock over the past few decades [1]

These two points seem to refute your explanations, considering software development at one time had a signiciant amount of developers that were women. If women were somehow biologically uninclined to be software engineers, the statistics don't seem to follow this train of thought.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
Thanks for looking through it!
Do you have any evidence that the same thing can't happen to a nuclear reactor? (Actually there are quite a few for the opposite as far as I know)
For anyone who is very particular about their color schemes: I'd recommend checking out the base16 project [1]. It's a collection of well-maintained color schemes (including solarized) for basically every text editor and terminal emulator. It makes switching between different schemes very easy, and includes tools for keeping your editor colors in sync with your terminal.

[1]: http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
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Thanks! I also always felt like I was being ripped off by other companies too. The cost severely outweighed the value I received. With Zoom, I pay a lot for Zoom rooms but they are magical. Normal user accounts are affordable and they work. All in, I feel like I pay for the value I’m receiving and it feels like an equitable deal.

Ps. I swear this isn’t a Zoom ad. It’s like the cops - if I say it this has to be true?! That’s how this works, right?
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"chemical imbalance theory". I'm aware of people saying it's not accepted as science, but I'm sure what is the current accepted science.
The last couple of Minis have all had Retina Displays, with the same resolution as the larger iPads.
I can add a global header and a global subheader, but I want to add asubheader to each city. For example the date of arrival/departure to each city, like the t-shirts of a tour of a rock band.

The permalink is a tricky feature. I guess it's easier to implement a static version, that the other person can continue editing and then share another permalink. (Like the long links in Google maps.) I don't know if users will understand this model.

It would be more useful to be able to have a shared address, where everybody can edit and the changes are propagated to all the editors. But for this you probably will have more problems: Who can delete the link? who can make it read-only? How to allow only some people to edit? …

EDIT: The button "create poster" is just next to "login". I first thought I must register before traying. Perhaps you should separate them. Try searching for patio11 and big, orange, pancake buttons. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/12/01/inaugural-kalzumeus-pod... https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/05/12/conversion-optimization...
By that token, Google publishing AI papers publicly erodes US military advantage given that China can use them to accelerate their home grown projects.

Companies are opening offices in China as a recruitment drive I bet. The whole industry is trying to buy up every last data scientist. It happens that China graduates more engineers and scientists than practically anyone else and so if you want to set up an R&D lab to snap up new recruits, setting them up near Beijing or tsinghua university isn’t a bad idea, just like foreign companies opening corporate R&D labs near Stanford or MIT.
It's vanishingly unlikely that you will ever notice any RAM-related issues on the Mini. Certainly not during web browsing.
I’m not convinced at all they are good for “normal” people yet. Google’s support is great, especially as securing your email often helps secure password reset links etc, but browser support is sorely lacking even now - you are more or less forced to use Chrome. It’s turned off by default in Firefox and doesn’t work at all in Safari. It does work by default in Edge for the 50 or so users who didn’t just use it to install a third party browser. Mobile browsers are even worse, despite the NFC support on the newer yubikeys.

The technology appears fine, it’s the culture/industry norms that aren’t catching up. Until you can reliably and easily use it most places in most browsers it’s always going to be a niche solution for security geeks.

I do think they have great potential in the workplace though, especially the nfc ones - the same yubikey could be used for both physical door access controls as well as online services like email etc.

I experimented with requiring the yubikey to unlock my MacBook, but the risks are enormous, even with a spare yubikey. Lose the yubikeys and getting your personal data off a FileVault encrypted volume is going to be great fun I imagine...
I would say is more relevant now, the time to build and complexities of SPAs has make many companies switch more to multipage SSR react with additional react JS for the browser, for SSR, SSR react is superior (because of components) to stuff like pugs IMO.
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Jessica made a really good point, that female founders without any coding knowledge can't even assess whether a coder is any good before hiring him or her. Getting the fundamentals in an intense summer course will not only enable someone to develop a prototype on their own, but also assess who is a good potential hire and who is just good at bullshitting.
I think this is just management cynically reframing some popular “social justice” rhetoric in a way that allows them to paint their opposition as a “progressive” position to take. But maybe that’s a cynical reading of their language too...
pump and dump can take place in small cap equities as well. it will never be impossible - the thing thats needed is the regulation / surveillance to do enforcement on those who perpetrate it
I tend to agree, but unfortunately none of the WebRTC based video conferencing solutions seem to work without hiccups for >5 participants
I'm always surprised this isn't default. Imagine "rf" deleted everything if you didn't specify a file.
Payment channels solve this. It’s basically on-chain trading without custodial account, the exchange simply does order matching.
Yes (and yes!) ;)
I think Cisco has done some pretty cool stuff on the networking and hardware side of things.

I write software for IOS-XR, an in-house, service provider-oriented OS. More specifically, my team works on the ASR9K series of routers.
My issue is most people won't find it in bad taste to make this tongue in cheek article. If someone made an article "Remove Mexicans from a photo" most people would realise it's harmful. Baldness is mostly genetic and I think it's horrible to pick on people for it, especially when it can be a huge issue for them.
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A program like this has vastly less attack surface than a full SSH protocol implementation. In particular, it doesn't support the part of the SSH protocol that allows executing commands on a remote host. So the only way this will be less secure than OpenSSH is if there's some memory unsafety or a leak of some kind.
Any tarpit has the potential to piss someone off. I'd run it on a sacrificial server with no obvious way to tie back to who is running it.
> Are any products still using it?

Of course they are. Lots.

The New York Times. The Intercept. AirBnB. Just off the top of my head.
It's as safe as it can get. None of the versions he showed in the post actually read any data from the attacker. It only accepts the connection, then writes random data to it every 10 seconds forever.
Young programmers too.

I guess it's like how people trashed COBOL and Fortran when I was getting into development. Then later in life, I come to find out that Fortran is ubiquitous in engineering and is actually amazing for what it does.
It does make sense if you look at how change addresses work with Bitcoin. Best-practice is to generate a new address for the 'change' from each transaction.

Suppose an exchange has a hot wallet with 10btc. Each time a user requests a withdrawal, say 0.01 BTC, the exchange generates a txn that sends 0.01 to the user, and the remaining 9.99 btc to a newly generated hot wallet address. On the blockchain, we can't tell if that was a transaction for 9.99 btc or 0.01 btc and most of these 'analysis' services are considering both to be volume.

This amplifies apparent volume even if no one is doing anything questionable.

To use the AAPL example, this type of blockchain volume analysis is like adding each trader's private brokerage account value to the total AAPL trade volume each time they buy/sell a share.
He's talking about web apps.
We wrote our own in Go.
bcaulfield: Are you a nVidia employee? You've been spamming 'groundbraking' news about nVidia for days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bcaulfield
Notice any pattern in the writing style and sentence structure?
Any idea that has 'since the beginning of time' in it gets an instant eye roll.
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Hello Kenarsa,
I saw your comments in one of the posts about Picovoice but since I was not able to comment there for some reason I am creating a new topic here.
Looking at the compact offline Voice Assistant that Rhino is, I started to give it a try on RPi-3. The C code available on the github seems to work fine and able to parse the intents through the audio file available in the audio_samples folder. I tried recording few audio files in my voice in the same 16000 Hz Little Endian format but I had no luck in parsing any of those except one. May I know what would be the issue? They are recorded with little/no noise in the background. The Rhino was able to analyze just one file out of those 3-4 voice clips!!
Enabled flagged/dead in your options. I think it's pretty valuable to see the way moderators are shaping the conversation.
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Senior employees who are motivated only by personal profit, with absolutely no feeling for their fellow humans are right to fight the unionization effort.
Awesome! Love reading hacks like these.
Obligatory plug for Phoenix LiveView: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

edit: This actually has examples https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...
> I leave it open to skype so that conversations don't break my typing flow.

Even though I use it, I'm seriously considering uninstalling Skype on my iPad, since the idle battery drain of Skype is more than everything else on my iPad combined.
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Number 3, please. A world in which there's other ways to give back then selling out your privacy, thereby having great choice and privacy simultaneously. I know, I'm naive.
> Even though ibuprofen is considered a basic medicine, it's still a medicine. Ibuprofen is not totally risk free and therefore needs to be sold by "professionals".

This is absurd on its face. Even when I buy ibuprofen here, they still just sell it to me the normal way. They're not quizzing me about how much I'm taking or whatever. It's less convenient and more expensive for zero benefit.
I agree with you that we force the mining and oil companies to pay for the externalities of their process. What I disagree with is then adding on an additional cost just to pad the pockets of the University.

I would be totally cool if the EPA said, "This works great, all extractive industries creating 'produced water' must use this process to clean up that water to safe water standards."

But what Purdue wants is to have these companies to both have to do this, and have to pay Purdue a 'tax' on the process just because one of their graduate students and a professor there thought it up. That 'rent seeking' model takes good ideas an kills them. Digital cash which could have taken off in the 90s was completely killed by patent holders unwilling to license patents for less than extortionate rates. The RSA algorithm, similarly held hostage.

Purdue would get much more goodwill if they did not patent the process, and it would be easier for the EPA to mandate it because doing so would not disproportionately benefit a third party economically.
> There's no travel guide for how to find that one great off-the-beaten-path spot that you'll remember for the rest of your life while still making it back to your job on Monday.

That's pretty much what the Rick Steves books specialize in.
I just am saying that basing any assumptions on the data from CoinMarketCap is to make those assumptions meaningless, because the data at CoinMarketCap is false. Apologies if I'm misreading your comment.
You’re just afraid of the truth

You got me, although I can tell you’re not serious, or you’d have used all caps.
I don't think their value is in having a "moat", per se. It's just that despite the plethora of options most still suck for whatever reason and based on experience they seem to provide a better experience than google, cisco, blue jeans, etc.
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Exactly, whether you use a monad or not is an implementation detail. The high level idea is that you decouple the code that does IO from the code that's responsible for the business logic.
"inherent interests"?? Anecdotally...my two biggest passions are photography (artistic/visual creativity in general) and software development. Neither of these were innate. My grandma and my dad were the ones that exposed me to creativity and computers throughout my entire childhood, and then a boyfriend who sparked my interested in code.

If money and the like were of no concern I might consider pursuing photography over coding. However, just because I love that a little more, doesn't necessarily mean I'm not interested in code.

There are absolutely people who will pursue things they have little to no interest in, but there are also people who will pick one over another because one is just a little bit better for whatever reason. How about we don't discount that people can have multiple passions?
As I understand it, it's primarily used for money laundering after the fact, rather than sales.
This comment is outrageous, egregious, preposterous!
Binance standing strong. I'm glad to see what I already believed. The company leadership is solid, and, CZ, continues to build a robust, secure exchange. Removes coins that are crap, always keeps up to date with posts, maintenance updates, new listings, etc.. and hardly ever crashes under extreme loads. (remember 2017?).

CZ, keep up the great work!
Yeah, no. 2 GB of RAM is plenty for browsing the web; this isn’t Android where everything less than some absurd number of gigabytes (4? 6?) is useless.
I've looked at some of it. But its been a long time.
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Where did you do your medical training?
almost all of the SSH protocol isn't exposed until you authenticate, and in the vast majority of setups that means you get a shell to execute commands with anyways, so while still important, the key problems are with pre-auth security.
Jitsi Meet is not perfect, but better about this. It doesn't make a P2P mesh (where I have the same experience, parts will always fail), but instead WebRTC connections to central servers that distribute the streams, so each participant has only one upstream. They have a public testing instance on https://meet.jit.si/, but running your own is better.
"Isn't programming a skill that can be learned alone in a fairly straightforward manner?"

Isn't this true for content covered by the vast majority of all secondary and college courses?
Same here. The lack of Firefox with extensions is by far and away the single biggest pain point I have with web browsing on iOS, 2GB of RAM doesn't even register.
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> No. How about a string that returns a Unicode character length?

That doesn't mean anything. Do you mean a code unit, a codepoint, a grapheme cluster, if the latter is it legacy, extended or tailored, how do you handle the locale dependency, … All of them can be useful in some context, all of them are length. And if anything, the truly useful one is the first one (because it tells you how much room you need to store something).

> That's not 'ignoring complexity' and it's pragmatic.

It's true that it's not ignoring complexity, because you're ignorant of it to start with. Which isn't really different.

> That would help in English as it's really hard today just to deal emojis.

It… really isn't.
we use matomo, an open source clone of ga (previously called piwik). if you don‘t want a big disclaimer to be eu/gdpr compliant you can turn off cookie dropping in the preferences. you will still be able to track sessions and conversions, but unique user counts will be off. https://matomo.org/what-is-on-premise/
I should have said strengths and interest. Both important for creators to create. The second one builds the first one.
One of the first mainstream, non-gaming applications for VR has got to be meetings.
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Aligned-M...

"The address of a block returned by malloc or realloc in GNU systems is always a multiple of eight (or sixteen on 64-bit systems)."

I was about to say, "what if they're on a 32-bit system and so were only allocated one 8-byte block?" but then realized that since they'd requested 9 bytes, they'd be given two 8-byte blocks, or one 16-byte block on a 64-bit system. Is that right?
This one is TruTone and laminated display though. Definitely an improvement.
Being able to walk in to a room and dial a room at a different site and then have individuals connecting for screen share has been such a quality of life improvement.
US unions are no different than any place else.

There has always been a fierce anti-labor streak in US politics. Even the first red scare in 1920's (before the cold-war!) associated all unions and pro labor moments and even speech as communist.

There is a feverish anti-union attitude even among people who have never even met anyone in one. If you ask, you will even find intense dislike of every foreign union without even knowing it's name or where its country is.
For Glibc on Linux, I believe this is 32 bytes. I think musl does 16 bytes, as does libSystem on macOS.
It's not a distributed payment system, its a centralized one (owned and controlled in every way by JP.)

There's no reason to add the problems of distributed data to your payment systems unless you HAVE to.
Earning a PhD is though, and can be very hard, depending on your advisor. But even if you've managed to finish it, you face a relentless fight for permanent positions, which according to the statistics, you're going to loose.

Once you've dropped out of academia, the prestige of the PhD will matter for nothing. What could maybe matter, are some skills/contacts which you hopefully acquired during your PhD studies. But whether this justifies doing a PhD is IMO questionable. A topic in statistical machine learning sounds good. But then again, I did my PhD in pure math, and would not have a problem getting a quant position.

If you don't manage to finish your PhD, which is quite possible, you certainly don't have any prestige, and you will in addition face the pain of failure, which can be huge in that context.

In short, don't underestimate the task of doing a PhD, and don't overestimate the impact of having one.
A blockchain is not a particularly good solution for auditability though. A simple signed transaction log does the job just as well with much less complexity and overhead. Neither approach solves the privacy issue.
As a heavy introvert, I'm happy not to live in such a situation. I say "hi" to my neighbors, chat a bit sometimes, and other than that we live entirely independent lives. And that's what I like. Even living with close friends can be exhausting to me.
The Rest of the Industrialized World Has High-Speed Rail; Why Can’t the U.S.?