jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to be harsh on your concept, but if one takes it a little further: "If the citizens can't be mustered to volunteer their taxes. . ."

One of the ideas behind government is that certain situations are prisoner's dilemmas and that a central authority can make sure that the situation comes out equally for all. Rather than having people volunteer taxes, we write laws forcing people to pay them so that some person doesn't get to skip taxes yet get the benefit of the taxes being volunteered by others. Likewise, Israel is compelling their citizens to do military service. Heck, if you're an American male, you were compelled to register for the draft from 18-26 years of age and notify them if you moved residences - under the premise that such registration would make a future draft more equitable.

I'm somewhat just playing devil's advocate here since I tend to think that putting one's life in jeopardy is different from being compelled toward other ends. Would you object as strongly if you were compelled to serve the military, but could choose a non-life-endangering position? Say, IT support? What if the United States compelled people to do Americorps for a year or two after graduation? Does that qualify as slavery?

I guess I'm curious whether your objection is a more libertarian "any time the government compels its citizens, it's a form of slavery" or a life-ethic "when the government forces its citizens against their will to put their life in jeopardy, it's wrong."
A number of reasons: Everyone else is using windows, you're familiar with windows, all your software runs on windows, and installing Ubuntu requires a lot of downloading when a version of Windows is a cheap disk from a local store.
Works fine in Firefox 4 (behind an HTTP proxy too).
>"There simply isn't enough time for somatic mutation to cause the sort of devastating fallout that you see in DIPG or infant leukemias."

This depends on the error + division rates (along with number of cells) in that tissue at that age though. From my research there not really such data available on any of those terms. Also, the errors need not be somatic mutation. For example, chromosomal missegregation may be much more common and potent since it can mess up the expression of many genes at once:

"Nevertheless, the rate of chromosome missegregation in untreated RPE-1 and HCT116 cells is 0.025% per chromosome"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18283116

I'm just saying there are a number of other assumptions being made here, and if we get rid of the standard ones the Armitage-Doll model is capable of fitting the data surprisingly well.
It worked on my Android device when I rotated the screen to landscape mode, though not with optimal UI anymore. The bottom character row is invisible in portrait mode on my device. Great fun though!
Fun fact: the author can ask for a particular animal, but it’s not guaranteed. When we were working on our Ember.ha book we–naturallly–asked if we could get a hamster on the cover. They weren’t sure they’d be able to influence the art chosen, but in the end they can as close as they could–a dormouse: https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=Ember&x-sort=an...
NFTs are just links to a resource that's not even hosted on the blockchain; I'm not sure that distinction carries much weight.
Nah, but for those who were too young to remember 98 the crypto bubble in 2017 had a very similar feel. The stock market is 2019 may be overvalued but it’s nothing like that.
Netflix actually is profitable.
Has math education actually improved with the introduction of calculators? Easy and equitable solution would be to remove them from classes and tests.
If you’re into this kind of thing, check out The Fall Of Civilizations podcast — it’s great and also has an episode on this topic.

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/03/26/episode-4-...
In most states no. It’s a feature not a bug. Property rights are considered sacred. Plenty of people don’t want the government telling them what to do on their property. It’s bad in this situation but good for owners in plenty of others.

Fort Walton county is one of 2 counties in Florida where the property owners own the beach to the high tide line. You’re allowed to walk on the beach around the water line but not setup on the beach. The Sheriff and county decided they want to change it and is now suing all the beach owners in Fort Walton (my wife’s family being one of them).

The Florida governor signed an emergency Bill that they couldn’t just take the land all of the sudden they had to go through the courts. The Sheriff’s office came out and said they would stop issuing or enforcing trespassing on the beach and lesson beach patrols.

The home owners legally own the beach. The county officials want to take it from them without paying anything and change the uniqueness of the county that drew home owners in the first place.

I can see both sides but the county government and Sheriff can’t just decide one day they want to take property. No vote or anything just we want to take it.

My family owns a condo in the next county over. It’s a lot more noisy and I can see why home owners were draw to Fort Walton in the first place.
Basically perpetuating the same abuse against others that had been done to them and their forebears.

Limiting the power of individuals to completely dictate land use seems like it's better for the populous as a whole.
It's amazing how much he's willing to ruin his reputation over this.
Things like these auto sort themselves out - if the meeting is ""Weekly HR thing that HR spams everyone with but nobody attends and doesn't matter anyway", then nobody that has actual work to do attends, and they don't accept the meeting into their calendars. Its not like somebody would count attendance on those.

Critical stuff shouldn't get a reaction like "gee, he has something in his calendar, well we just skip this 10 mil deal because disturbing him is a no-no and he would be mean to us". Critical stuff is critical, take people out of their meetings, life is about priorities.

But I understand the appeal to control freaks out there, everything is plain and visible (or not, depends how you set it up)
Its almost like... Coders live lives of privilege even before they learn to code.

Imagine trusting the "Market" to make wise decisions.
Here's a great youtube video which documents a case of methanol poisoning and how it was treated (it goes into a good amount of interesting details): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQUrg0Yhu4
I'm cautiously optimistic about these style of interpretability works. They seem to tell us something without actually telling us. The ones in the past did not inspire to build better models. Translating a neural net into a decision tree makes interpretation no more useful tbh. Who knows! Do what you like. Good luck for everyone in finding these useful.
That's incorrect. Karl Marx often used Kommunismus and Sozialismus interchangeably. Neither mean that "the government directly owns and manages business."

http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me23/me23_000.htm

http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1848/mani...
Just don't switch to No-Carb Rockstar. One of these cans has 250mg of caffeine and I'm up to 2 per day. That's half a gram, which makes me feel like a true drug addict. I feel like Jessie from Saved By the Bell singing "I'm So Excited" all hopped up on caffeine pills.
I believe you should be more considerate. I'm offended you want to get rid of the Christmas Spirit.

If you don't like something that's obviously temporary, get over it.
Really? You are speculating about 42'' phones being produced in bulk?
It is simple, but not having had experience with source control is usually an indicator that the developer in question probably isn't very good.

And yes, I did basically just say that I'm probably not a very good developer. :)
Thanks for pointing that out. I read on Twitter that HN homepage was in Christmas colours, but apart from an abnormally dark top bar, I hadn't noticed what exactly had changed, owing to colour-blindness.
The corporations control both fiscal (tax revenue) and political (jobs) levers of the legislature. The politicians in the US (or most democratic countries for that matter) cannot simply say no to the money from large multinationals. Especially in the US where any interference with the business e.g. nationalisation is considered communist taboo topic.
Everything else was/is indeed destined to move to its digital form sooner or later no matter how much the physical good producer regrets it; but you cannot take it away from physical books. Ebooks are handy. They are portable, safe from wear and tear, cheap and what not. But what about those moments when you really need to take your eyes away off the screen but still want to be productive or have some quality time reading.
This might be just a personal POV, but over the time looking at screen becomes so usual that you need an extra physical thing to get that kick. In my case it's physical books.
Just reading some more about the device in question. The downloads section of their website has some interesting information.

http://www.cellebrite.com/ufed-support-center/downloads.html

The "Apple iPhone Passcode Bypass instructions" document explains that they can bypass your iphone User Lock, but they need access to a plist file from the iTunes installation on the machine which the phone syncs to, which is often unlikely to be available at a routine traffic stop.
I am a little surprised that #1 spot on HN fetched you 5000 odd page views. For some reason, I always thought it to be much more.
I like the idea. I just never get to do it. :)
Still technically builds from source :

brew install node

==> Downloading http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.6.tar.gz

######################################################################## 100.0%

==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.4.6

==> make install
> Maybe it's because I've never felt the need to use generics and in all these articles the examples they give are functions of a few lines that would be quicker to write 2-3 times for different types than remembering generic syntax.

Uhmm, what? That seems entirely ignorant for ignoring an expressive concept and rather "do it the hard way". And, "remembering the generic syntax" is no different from remembering any other features' syntax, and I don't imagine you have issues remembering those, do you?
Are the workers powerless in this? I am not debating the premise, but it's a fair question. Wages are generally driven by market conditions (except in Union jobs, but that's another discussion..) so I wonder if the similar competition for wages ought not include hours worked. A 40 hour job paying 50k would be preferable to a 60 hour job paying 60k, yet most job seekers simply look at the salary and not the cost. It would seem that wage competition should naturally extend to hours competition. I see this in some startups.. They might offer you $125k yet imply an 80 hour week is expected. So that salary is dramatically lower than a 100k position at 40 hours. Yet that differential is rarely discussed. I think a mandatory, government imposed rule ultimately distorts the market. What if someone is willing to work extra hours as a part of their salary? I'm not sure the government 'protecting' us can actually be quantified so clearly. If an average position pays $55k and requires 55 hours, then with new overtime rules, there's nothing preventing that salary to become $40k. My point is that business will always optimize -- a business will never pay more than the value of the input. What would likely happen is either increased hiring of no benefits part timers or an increase in the product price which would then drive inflation. There's some serious unintended consequences that the original author seems to gloss over. I am not sure who this guy is but unless he's paying his workers overtime, then I don't much care what he has to say. If he's a "wealthy" entrepreneur who doesn't like the rules, he's free to pay his workers more. He's also making the suggestion that "corporate" profits have grown-- which corporations? All of them? The majority of businesses are small businesses -- what effect would these rules have on them?

I am not dismissing the premise, just suggesting that there is far more complexity and shades of gray involved.
I think it means that he doesn't just print submarine articles that PR firms handed him. He actually digs through data, has sources, and engages in practices formally associated with journalism.
My bad, I thought my position was clear.

To paraphrase Nick Fury: When Stallman says freedom, I kind of think he means the other thing. Taking away one choice of video format is not freedom. Telling people to upload photos of him only to specific websites is not freedom. Telling people who own a specific device not to take pictures of him at all is not freedom. Choosing a free software license that forces others to release changes they make is not freedom. Forcing "freedom" onto people is not freedom.
Eth 2.0 will be fully PoS (released fully in the next year or two, but staking is possible now).

Cardano, Cosmos, Polkadot are a few protocols that are PoS but are still very early in their development.

> "we're what, over a decade in to the history of cryptocurrency"

I would argue that's not long at all. The internet was technically invented in the 1960s (ARPANET) and TCP/IP went global in the early 1980s. Took a while for things to get to where we are now.
Bitcoin is probably the most important social/technological innovation since the internet (which uses how much energy?). Most people realize that moving humanity forward requires energy. There's loud neo-luddite contingent that missed the boat on crypto (it's actually not too late), but I wouldn't take angry anti-crypto HN comments as public sentiment. The public is in desperate need of a finance system not tied to the existing oppressive establishment.
> Sometimes I think of Python as the Nash Equilibrium of programming languages

FYI: What you're describing is not a Nash equilibrium, but a Pareto optimal point [1]. They are similar in that you couldn't do any better, but Nash equilibria is in terms of whether this would cause other players to change their strategies, while Pareto optimality is only about trading off different features/dimensions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
I already only do 10 hours of work per week in this pandemic WFH. No one seems to notice. I’m L6 at google.

Why not double down and get two “full time” jobs.
I’ve heard from my friend in BoA that he works less than 1 hour per day.

TC: 800k
Every site on the early internet that dealt with user-submitted content practiced censorship. Even USENET allowed censorship. There were no "fuck censorship" days on the early internet, even the edgiest of edgelord sites drew a line somewhere.
I wish I could believe that but still... in retrospect, it seems you are correct.
...which is which? Since the global financial system clearly uses much, much less energy per person, I'm guessing that you're also calling it the "better system?"

Or are you pretending that if BitCoin were used by every person on Earth that it would still be using the exact same energy?
Is the seal important if the vial is going to be fully used up ~now? Presumably the needle has to be clean regardless of whether the seal exists at all (e.g., it could be dirty inside the bore and the seal state would be irrelevant), so the seal's purpose is to prevent contamination from the environment when there is no needle present. That kind of contamination takes time to happen and more time to incubate, and if the open lifespan of the vial is only a few hours is that important? Seems like that minor uncertainty is a good trade for swifter execution.
Interesting stuff. Curious to see what kind of solvents you're looking at, and whether you will need to think about mitigating aerosol or nitramine emissions.
It was largely BS to justify the pivot to Windows phone. Jolla demonstrated that the problems with Meego could be solved with far fewer resources than Nokia put into their pointless Windows phone migration.
Holy shit, how did that happen?

Edit: it seems the compilation time was 2 days in that article, I wonder what the rest was.
You'll have no luck with this crowd. Surprising amount of literal traitors out here.
Here's an honest answer

* spread of misinformation on the platform/genocide in Myanmar/election integrity - this to me is the scariest thing about FB, but also something the company is dealing with and working on and trying to get right. It's not an easy problem to solve either.

* Targeted ads - This really doesn't bother me. Tracking user interests/behavior and using it to serve ads they are way more likely to engage with, is creepy true, but also quite innovative and effective and the reason the company makes billions of dollars. It's hard for me to get worked up about showing users more effective ads. There are some interesting nuances around whether this should be opt in or opt out and giving users control over how their data is used. Some of this will be determined by laws which seems better to me then having it fall on individual companies. FB does give users control btw.

* Too much/not enough censorship - this topic is a complete shit show and no one agrees anyway on how much is or isn't enough. FB's stance is basically to remove hate speech and calls to violence and allowing anything else. I'm fine with that.

* buying out competitors like IG and What's App - it's normal for companies to do this and for the government to step in when it's too much

* Other misc. shady things - there's other things that come up from time to time. I agree that some of it is shady, but imo is standard for what you find in American capitalism: ruthless competition and cutting corners to get ahead as opposed to evil maliciousness towards users and subverting the law.

* Leetcode style interview questions - I have no problem with this whatsoever. The goal is not to ask difficult questions that trick candidates. It's to ask medium difficulty questions and hire people who can quickly and effectively solve them. Not everyone who fails the interview is bad, but the people who pass should be decent.

* Users getting addicted to FB and IG/it makes them unhappy - I don't have a strong opinion about this topic. I don't really use the products since they don't appeal to me. They do appeal to (a growing) many and I think it's a bit presumptuous to point to those people and say "but really it makes you unhappy." I'm open to studies and scholarship that say otherwise.

I'm not sure if I covered everything the OP had in mind, since they were not specific. Probably there are some other objectionable things I missed.
Yes, now it's used to weed out the Asians.
Author here. It's still a work in progress, but I hope to be able to move in next week! Our company has gone totally remote and I need a new place to work because our house is small and we're now expecting triplets O_O

I'm not a professional builder, I'm a professional programmer... but I'll try to answer any questions if y'all have any!
"German newsweekly Der Spiegel cited anonymous sources involved with the EU's vaccine procurement effort as saying that Macron (apparently even personally) told the EU not to buy the 500 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine that could have been in the November 11, 2020 purchase agreement. At that point, Pfizer/BNT had reported amazing Phase 3 results and were clearly ahead of everyone else, and other governments had already secured huge amounts of that vaccine several months earlier. But Macron didn't want an American-German joint project to save Europe from COVID, so he vetoed anything that would have resulted in Pfizer/BNT selling more doses to the EU than French Sanofi, which at that point had already fallen far behind."
These two factors are definitely a huge part of the problem in the US. Our driver education system is a joke, and our driver testing is even worse. Combined with police department cutbacks all over the US, meaning that proper enforcement of the existing lazy laws is low.

Many or most people in the US also mistakenly believe that these giant vehicles are safer than smaller ones, since again, they are totally uneducated about the realities of vehicle safety.

The state of driving in the US is truly horrendous.
If you only care about animation, why not just use a constraint solver like a physics engine? Time step is set st run-time, constraints are quite natural (springs to pull something in). Constraint programming provides the declarative data binding feel of FRP behaviors (someone on my committee pointed that out). What you don't get with constraint systems are event streams, but that isn't so useful for UI programming anyways.

We had this discussion a while back:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2913
I suspect you are overestimating the extend of "medieval towns". Even places, like here in Edinburgh, that do have a core of medieval buildings have surrounding areas built in later centuries that generally have much wider streets out to the suburbs that were probably mostly built in the last century and have "modern" roads.
This is one of those in-depth series which the BBC no longer seems to make. Burke pretty much dispels the notion of the lone genius inventor and shows how many technologies and ideas are linked as a historical process - sometimes in surprising ways.
-Managed to : quit my day job, start a startup fulltime, release a product. scored few customers. Market has long established players but we have a unique differentiating approach.

-Not yet managed to : ramen profitability. Product is on the market for about a month, new version based on a lot of feedback is coming in early january.

-Goals for 2011: beyond ramen profitability, work, research (I tend to focus on algorithmic products), release a new web app and to get traction.
Possibly will need to do a bit of contracting in between which will slow things down a little.
I play random and very much enjoy it, use C, Python, C++, (and now) Lisp for depending on the job, sometimes write the maths and/or algorithm(s) down beforehand, sometimes write test, sometimes unit tests, and achieve what's interesting. I would've stopped playing SC2 if it wasnt' for random. ;-)
I don't think widespread use of "wireless" charging is likely at all. Better batteries are the obvious solution.
I'm doing my PhD and do almost everything in C (I don't need to code a lot for my thesis, but for a paper I got in complex dynamics I did a few fractal renderers that needed to be fast, or at least as fast as I could get them to be). Sadly we can't choose the language as we have 3 courses on programming which are supposed to be C based. If I was to choose, I would pick Lisp... but this is only a dream ;)
Videos are one of most important tool of SEO
A smartphone contract costs what, $2k? Those aren't the people who would be forced out of the city by higher parking costs.
I feel tools like trac are better for programming related projects. Some people think its too complicated. Maybe there is a better tool out there.
So, basically, these people decided "hey, college, dunno if it's right for me, probably isn't, at least now, since I have no clue what I want to do with my life. However, I shall totally spend as much as possible to get a degree."

There are reasons that the community college system is being built up in several (many? I know CA at least is doing it) states.
I just hope these make believe test pages don't fool the end users :(

While these tests are certainly biased, they do show that MSIE is at least progressing now (as opposed to standing completely still for years and years) with regards to standards compliance and HTML5.

And really... Would you want end users on MSIE6/7/8 or MSIE 9? For the group of users with no technical interest, sadly that is usually the choice you have.