jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>The government should take something from this and not allow for too much consolidation.

What's wrong with consolidation on its own? Th is is the corporate version of "every billionaire is a policy failure". It is, on its own, a purely aesthetic preference. I'm sure people from ex-Soviet countries wouldn't find it jarring at all.
Indeed, real-time data mining is very interesting, however real-time data manipulation is far more sinister. Imagine for a moment if the middle eastern governments could "detect" when an Arab Spring is happening and they had systems that would autonomously respond by (for example) spreading propaganda and censoring popular pages.

The anti-virus comparison is a misnomer as it stands to reason that such systems would be more akin to intrusion detection systems (IDSs) or intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) that are actively monitoring and isolating certain system resources and services.
Your example shows that even within IT there are segments of people. There are people who are algorithm/book smart. They can code fizzbuzz, b-trees, etc... all day long on the white board. But those same people may not be able to ship something. There are other people who don't even care what a b-tree is until they come across some problem they are researching on SO because their shipped app is broken.

Each of those people are important to have depending on the companies situation and that's why no one interview process works for all programming positions.
When I present myself to people I use one form of my name. Some people I know use nicks. Others use part of my formal name. Due to me being a foreigner, essentially everybody I know uses a slightly different way to name me or pronounce the same name. However, there is consistency. Each person will use the same form for naming me.

This happens with Nim code too. Each programmer will have their convention, and will use it consistently. If you have a team, you establish a convention for the project: you need that anyway because people creating new stuff need a consistent way of naming things and you don't want to later rename everything after a heated discussion. So if you can't keep people on your team from using a project convention, you have a bigger problem than slightly different identifiers in a programming language.

Also, once you start using the different free naming conventions in Nim you grow inmune to them looking ugly. Just like when you know only one programming language everything else looks alien, but when you learn something else you expand your horizon and it stops looking so alien, and it stops being "harder to read". I jump from one convention to another without problem for each project as needed, and doesn't even bother me at all.

tl;dr it's not a big deal, don't let that stop you from learning a very nice language, you could regret it later
Very nice. We do something similar, but with a production quality raytracer (V-Ray) in the browser:

https://clara.io/view/756670ed-61b9-4df8-82a7-74172814a8a2/r...

Well, technically on a remote server that streams in.
There are something like half a million election workers. They're just regular people. It wouldn't be hard to find 1000 of them who are willing to lie or can't distinguish fantasy from reality.

I'd imagine more than 1000 of them believe the earth is flat and/or was created 10,000 years ago.
Beej's guide got me through my networking class in college. As a result I actually understand networking. Thank you Beej!
In other words, it won't be stopped.
The biggest missing factor in sim drifting versus real drifting, which I suspect is part of the issue in rally too, is not being able to detect that moment just before countersteer is required, as you can't feel when the rear of the car starts coming around. It means you have to preempt from experience when it happens rather than actually feeling it. With practice people get good at it, but sim drifters will often end up over rotating in a real car at first. They tend to hold onto the wheel too long while letting the rear of the car come around.

For what it's worth, my real car pivots pretty much where my seat is positioned, it feels surreal sometimes, ironically like I am in a video game.
But those are the only types of war now!
Here is a nice picture with all the mutations and how they (most likely) relate to each other: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

See also:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/mutations-can-reveal...
I do not believe the US nor any of its states have made it a goal to stop the virus. Please give me links if this is wrong. Everything I have seen from government sources talks about "flatten the curve" or "slow the spread" or similar. The end result of any flatten the curve effort is 40-80% of the population is infected until the combination of herd immunity and social distancing stops the spread.

Please can anyone link to a government source saying that stopping the virus is a goal? I would love to be wrong.
We might have been ok if the people at the bottom were able to pay rent, no one cared about how unaffordable housing was getting except them and now we’re all in trouble.
I found it here: https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1241555048540372992

But now that I look more closely, I can't find source data. Let me know if you find any more details.
The company doesn't do anything by itself. It's all driven by people, and people who work in a company changes. Effectively any company participating in the for-profit culture of capitalism favors short-term shareholder benefits over long-term societal ones, because that's simply how the system works and prefers.
I have to disagree with you. The SLA is just a legal agreement that really serves to limit AWS's liability. Here's what the main EC2 page says:

"Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same Region. By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location."

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

That's the spec that everyone was building to, but that isn't what is happening. Of course you're right, multiple AZs can fail at the same time, but I read the above as saying that they should fail independently/coincidentally (until the entire Region fails).
I think that Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, which was argued before the Supreme Court on April 18, may change how this plays out in the end.

"Since 1983, the courts have followed a clear, firm rule: In order to overcome the statutory presumption that a patent is valid, a litigant must provide clear and convincing evidence that a patent is invalid. That's a high hurdle to overcome. ... Many observers expect the Supreme Court will reject the current bright-line rule and, at least under some circumstances, make it easier for parties to attack the validity of patents." - http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/court_may_make_it...

Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453895 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464698
You're right in that blogs like to claim this a lot, but sadly the reality doesn't quite match the image. Around my area I can get about 100 different drinks from vending machines, but apart from that I can only think of machines that sell condoms / dating club membership cards and one that sells diet candy bars.
One thing he failed to mention was greater access to abortions for lower class women.
Reminds me of this ancient web magic trick.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/page67.inde...
It doesn't mean unaccredited investors can't buy/sell it. Once listed anybody can. Every ETF has Authorized Participants
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/authorizedparticipant.as...
In White Christmas, the most disturbing and bizarre thing about the end is that it's not the criminal, but a copied consciousness that did nothing wrong because it didn't exist when the crime occurred, the one created for the interrogation, who suffers in the "1000 years per minute" auto-hell. The actual criminal just spends Christmas in jail.

I'll disagree with you on this one point. The copy didn't exist at the time the crime was committed - crimes don't 'occur,' by definition someone carries them out - but it was a copy of the criminal's guilty consciousness as opposed to some dormant passenger.

So if you kill me for no good reason, and then you stumble into a booth and get cloned, both you and your clone are guilty, notwithstanding the nonexistence of your clone at the time of my death. By definition, the clone's identity originates with you, as opposed to being someone that looks exactly like you but has no idea who he is or where he came from, or even the ability to walk and talk. To see why, imagine again that you've murdered me and are running away with a guilty conscience. Instead of stumbling into a cloning booth, you stumble into a dark Y-shaped corridor (with an instant cloning machine in the middle - a Y decombinator?) and you and your clone emerge from different exits, unaware of each others' existence. Both of you would still be on the run and worrying about being fingered for the crime.

Mind you I agree that the proposed outcome is considerably more unjust, but sadly it reflects all too well our hamfisted social approach to punishment.
It's definitely a point I look at when applying to startups. If they aren't well funded then it leaves doubt that I may not have a job in a year after taking a position there.
I tend to skip over startups who don't appear to have a good runway because there are so many companies hiring already who do post that information.
It's probably the same material they use to make park slides. If the sun's out, they are usually too hot for the kids to slide on...
I generally agree with this, but:

> Have figures and their captions float to appropriate locations at the top or bottom of pages.

Big floats are a nightmare both in LaTeX and Word. The floats usually accumulate and LaTeX can't find a good place to put them. And it's more difficult to put a float in a specific location, so you have the placement options like h, h!, H, and in a desperation you can try HHH!!!.
Could you elaborate on what kind of boilerplate Laravel helps you avoid compared to Django? My understanding is that Laravel is modeled after Rails.
Can you send out a tweet from the Cryptbin or your personal Twitter account stating that you haven't received any communication? Retweets should help raise awareness on this.

Thanks!
I think the point is around things like "What temperature do you fry at?", "How hot should the steam bath be?", etc. The details make all the difference.
curse you. i just came out of a 6+ hour wikipedia binge
How is this change going to be implemented in Linux repositories?

I installed the old busted PLT/DrScheme via repo, will it get automatically updated to the new hotness Racket, or will I need to keep an eye out for a new package?
Changing regulations create opportunities as well as destroy them. My startup, Bloom Health (http://gobloomhealth.com/) is getting a big boost from the latest changes. We make it easy for small/mid size companies to provide health insurance to their employees with an predictable costs for the employer, and more choice for the employee. The mandate that all employers need to provide coverage for their employees is a huge market opportunity.
Just so it's clear what I'm trying to say: when you're trying to decide whether to do x or to do y, you should always chose the one that maximizes the odds your company will succeed (whether that means exiting or becoming profitable...) So for example if you're thinking of bringing on another cofounder, quite frankly worrying about dilution is absurd - about 10x more important is whether this person is the right fit, and whether they will increase the chance that your company ends up on the right side of the 1/10 success ratio for startups.

Let me put it another way: startup success is largely a black swan event, so what you should be worrying about over and above everything else is your exposure to that highly improbably event, rather than the particular kind of black swan event you're hoping to get.
http://www.hunch.com
Perhaps for the same reason I run NoScript ( 1/2 :-) ?

OPTs obviously devolve to the key distribution problem.

The environment of client side Javascript is obviously to me a superset of the key distribution problem. After all, you start out by distributing your code to the (insert your favorite derogatives here) client.

Simson Garfinkel likes to refer to the whole https game as something like transferring a valuable from a cardboard box in an alley via an armored car to a park bench. I'd end with the end of a Matt Groening Love is Hell quote: "At night, the ice weasels come."
I tried 10 and got 9 right. I wouldn't claim to "actually know the fields of study", though I am a mathematician so there were a few where I was able to say "no, wait, that wouldn't make any sense" with reasonable confidence. I did see some mostly-syntactic giveaways other than too-short titles (in fact, I think the shorter titles were mostly the genuine ones for me), such as titles that begin "From ..." but don't have any corresponding "to"; titles with unrealistically long chains of "structure" -- "representations of X over Y-modules over Z over W over T" or whatever; overuse of "Towards ...".

They have a context-free grammar, which is translated by a Perl script into OCaml code which "is also fast, allow­ing the snarXiv to gen­er­ate papers even more swiftly than your favorite python script, or Ed Wit­ten in the 80’s."
I always take the aisle because (i) you have the freedom to walk about, go to the restroom, etc. anytime you like and (ii) you can steal some space by jutting your knees slightly to the aisle.
What is the state of the tech world when the CEO of the highest valued tech company today, talks about advertising at a developer conference ?
And yet, the Nexus One is the one that has visibility issues outdoors.
Anyone else notice this in the FaceTime video?

http://grab.by/4NSi

Looks like the squared edges serve a purpose!
They just might have killed the Flip device with the HD video. Now I do not need to carry a device to do HD video.
> How should you handle currency?

Cents, or fractions thereof, fit into an integer, unless you have to do currency conversion.

If you have to do that, you hire a programmer who has studied numerical analysis. It's a fun course, but very hard. I remember studying with a textbook the professor himself wrote and not being able to find much information online. This has changed quite a bit in the past decade or so. Nowadays, you can find useful stuff like this online:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Real_Analysis
http://floating-point-gui.de/
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Well, if I know the typical populace, which includes people who have conditions, or know loved ones with conditions, which make arrhythmia life-threatening, they would not regard such effects lightly.

But, sure, the GQ author may be guilty of using a mis-leading characterization of the induction of irregular heart patterns as the full "stopping" of heart patterns. ("Hey it's true it 'stopped' for a little," plausibly says the misleader.) Kind of like industry just may be guilty of mis-leading us in the opposite direction.

Oh, and thanks for not trying to make me substantiate the Joe Bageant quote. He's more of a dead, angry, neo-communist Hunter Thompson who values rhetorical effect above all, and will play loose with facts. I just like his rhetoric.

But back to the bottom line:
"The data as a whole clearly indicate that the heart responds to EM energy, particularly if it is pulsed and the pulses impinge at the right time in the cardiac cycle... [but] are not sufficient to draw conclusions about mediators.... [but, again,] the neural system is responsive to the energy."

Anyway, in my long experience, people let their preferred conclusions guide them persistently (if sub-consciously) to interpret perceptions, observations, and "facts" accordingly. The conclusive ends justify the means of getting there. When people want to persistently deny something, they can, easily. With that in mind, I just say "I exhort you draw your own conclusions -- you probably were going to do just that anyway."

Profitable as this conversation has been, I think I'll exit stage-left now.
That makes me curious -
Does anyone know if there's a way to contain the damage done to our oceans into a certain region? Being able to designate a part of the ocean as an ecological deadzone by somehow directing all our dumping/carbon capture into there would leave the rest of the ocean less affected. All the trash in the ocean gets moved by the current into specific regions of the ocean, so I wonder if we can do that with the rest of our impact.
Python cannot be used for accessible mobile apps AFAIK.
I have a question, I am also a total noob on this but you maybe able to teach us (I mean it, not being sarcastic, actually I like your reply a lot).

In Scala, for example, when using functional programming, even IO is represented with an object (take ZIO for example, or Cats effect), does this IO still breaks isolation and modularity?

I have seen code that looks extremely modular, reconfigurable, and isolated (exactly like you mentioned) but even IO (lazy/async) didn't make it bad, but again it is encapsulated and not actually directly dealing with IO and it only materializes at absolute end of the computation.
> It's in the interest of FAANG to maintain this idea of needing k8s, this massive CI pipeline, certain processes, etc. etc. Because it slows down competition. It halts startups. It slows progress. They want to throw as much overhead as possible at smaller companies.

I'm not sure I agree that this is the underlying motivation. To get promoted at a FAANG you need to be demonstrating technical prowess. What says technical prowess like rewriting the app in a new framework that you open source to great acclaim? The business gets a feed of new talent, technical kudos from the community and maybe even a genuine benefit tht had some marginal gain at the scale that a FAANG operates at.

As an example, I don't think Amazon is recommending SOA to sabotage other companies. I think they're recommending the way of work required at Amazon scale.

> The thing people need to realize is that FAANG are entrenched. They are as risk-adverse as can be. They will happily write unit tests and maintain 100% test coverage and do all of this crap because they are more scared of losing market share than innovation.

I found the rate of feature delivery and innovation at Amazon to be way higher than the companies I've worked with since. 100% test coverage wasn't incentivized at all. Increasing revenue was.
Unless you are looking for ground clearance.
The focus on power and oppression, and viewing everything (in this case, including actual knowledge, hence "ways of knowing", standpoint theory, etc.) thru that lens. That is why, for example, Asian-Americans are sometimes (often?) grouped with whites when considering diversity - they are not "oppressed".

Semi-related, the best way to troll a Silicon Valley SJW - tell them the truth; that my team at a TechCo is >67% "people of color", and that if I was hiring for my dream funded startup the first 3 people I would contact would all be "brown people". Alas, it turns out they are the "wrong" kind of "brown people"!
I do get your point, but I don't agree it supports the thesis that there's a "regression" happening.

Broadly, I could see two situations in which people only get a phone and have no computer: either "poor" countries, where they can't afford a computer and will get a phone that's better than nothing, and very affluent ones where they'll just get a phone or tablet and not care. Although I'm not sure that this second category has no computer.

While I do sympathize with this, and I think that it would more likely than not allow people to discover this curiosity by, as you say, being fascinated with how flexible phones would be, my point is somewhat different: this isn't "going back". Phones never were open. And I'm pretty sure that the people who can't afford a computer now couldn't afford one in the 90s.

As such, for me, this is more of a lost opportunity to progress rather than a regression.
appreciate, thanks and please share your feedback with us if you give the tool a try - that's the most valuable thing we can get from you folks!
Thanks but I think a port is virtually impossible as this was designed in SwiftUI and depends extensively on Apple APIs. GNOME Boxes is a good UI on Linux.
Already addressed in the video - another YouTuber put ten oversized versions in a series and barely got a single LED to light up.
A highly scaleable free Twitter clone for the entire world run by the US government could be built in a year or two on AWS. If you don't need to build the giant ad network, it's much simpler.
It was very weak, and in my opinion, is likely to have catastrophic consequences. They have - purposely, it seems - drawn battle lines for a further divided country. This will be seen by conservatives as a wholesale rejection of all conservative speech on the platform. They are going to abandon Twitter in favor of a clone that will welcome Trump. We will then have a conservative Twitter, and the existing liberal Twitter.

Without the important balance between left and right, it’s going to be a free for all on both sides, with each amping each other up to retreat further and further into extreme parts of their respective sides. Twitter just inserted a nuclear bomb into the already delicate fault lines between left and right.
There is a difference between disappointed and storming a goverment building to stop the offical event required to make it offical. That difference is a lot of anger. Honestly, I don't think America has seen this before. Not even with the war of independence, that was kind of difference since it was about not getting a vote and not that the vote didn't matter.
It is bad for a number of reasons.

Mostly because the us at this moment needs healing, not further escalation of conflict.
It is the very definition of censorship.

And one man's "harmful communication" is another woman's useful communication.

Since your comment is egregiously wrong and, in my opinion, harmful, I'm going to delete it so that it doesn't mislead people about the harms of censorship.

See where I'm going with this?

I say my opinion, you present your side, and we can debate, or move on, but we have both had our say (albeit, at varying shades of grey on HackerNews ;)

The notion of "harmful tweets" is a very 2020s phenomenon but the concept goes back thousands of years. There's a reason our Bill of Rights is strongly inspired by Voltaire, Descartes, and other (then) modern thinkers.

"I disagree with what you say, but I will give my life for your right to say it."

It feels as though we've backslid from that ideal.
Good point - We'll go for a FDR style internment camps instead.
When social platforms demonstrate they have more power than the President of the United States, something is seriously out of whack.
I put myself in the camp of 'free speech is good, with the singular exception of intolerance.'

But it's pretty complicated. Defining intolerance, eliminating bots, etc. Not an easy task.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard!” - Donald J. Trump (January 6, 2021)

Anti-Kavanaugh protestors did the exact same thing 2 years ago. Maxine Watters, AOC, Ayyana Presley all did the same. Madonna literally said she would blow up the White House.

Double standards + cognitive dissonance.
to be fair, that could in part be the Baader-Meinhoff effect [1], where you'll only remember the ones that were scarily accurate (though I do agree with you).

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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