jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is what you say about something that looks like "good news" above:

> Serious question: How do we know any of this reporting is true?

> There's no data sources provided, no way to check follow up health (i'e. what if these people all dropped dead a week later), no way to prove the data isn't a complete fabrication, etc. Also, they make sure to use dynamic terms so we can't be sure these numbers have any valuable meaning at all (e.g. were Covid tests with drastically different cycle counts used?). Not to mention all of this reporting is praising a single vaccine producer in a billion dollar industry.

> I just read "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff and this whole thing is the epitome of a manipulatable situation.

Combine the two and you no longer look "hey lets make sure people aren't lying to us," you just look like you have your own agenda.

So if you can lie with statistics, you can certainly lie even more with claimed anecdotes...

(The point of a vaccine is to trigger and train the immune system. The immune system revving up can cause symptoms of its own. If you get the fever of the immune system responding, without the lung damage cause you don't have the original actual virus, that's a huge win!)
That's not quite 100% true - there were various sites that disseminated video to and from consumers. I ran one of them, Machinima.com, which was founded in 2000.

However, they were few, far between, and didn't work nearly as well as YouTube. I'll admit to making a massive mistake disregarding Flash video back in those days in favour of downloadable content!

YouTube really has been a remarkable thing - one of the few .coms that can genuninely claim to have significantly changed the world.
I think it's still wrong by that definition. I think it is just saying fib(1) is the first number, not fib(0). fib(2) should never be 2.

EDIT: Actually, I think you're right: it's just an index thing (do we start at 1 or 0) - I was confusing the index of 2 with the value of 2.
Ok, since I'm partly responsible for the article I'll share my take and explain why we ran the story.

1. Yesterday we reported on the site rapgodfathers.com which was seized and pointed to the same landing page (+ analytics).

This was confirmed by the owner (plus another source) and a search warrant from a US district Court. See http://torrentfreak.com/music-linking-site-raided-by-dept-of...

2. Today reports came in on more sites. We've known the owner of torrent-finder for a few years and spoke with him about what happened.

He confirmed that ICANN was involved and that Godaddy knew nothing about the actions. He also told us some more information that we were told not to post in public. Combined with yesterday's raid the story added up.

3. About the analytics... My guess would be that the hosting company put that there, but it may also be the authorities.

4. Dozens of sites are involved in this, all with different owners.

A hoax seems to be impossible. But then again, we're just simple bloggers, and thought we had enough info to back the story. If anyone disagrees, please say so.
I did in my music/generative art app, where I compiled math expressions into native code using TCC as a backend. Actually, it was _so_ much easier than dynasm and other JIT libraries, and so little code, and yet, it was a great performance boost already.
I am not convinced although I will admit this is the first iPad I am considering buying in a long time.

Unless an iPad can compile code at speeds equivalent of C / C++ I cannot see it happening. I could see some programming on the new iPad though. Would be nice if Apple opened it up for trivial scripting though.
For data, we're monitoring ~1000 time series per plant, at about 2 points/minute. Julia's speed is not necessary there, but it is critical for historical simulations of algorithms.
"the American system still retains a bit of the magic we were once taught to expect"

Serious question for users from US: What "magic" are ye taught to expect? And where / when are ye taught to expect it?
We often don't learn from the greats of computer science (all sorts of APL goodness from the 70s is being rediscovered for data science today).

As far as modern Prolog. I know commercial systems still exist, but I assume most work has switched to SWI-Prolog?
Honestly it's hard to imagine. Laptops are an incredibly important form factor.

I actually suspect the move to/inclusion of ARM in the macOS lines of product is part of the motivation behind dumping support for 32-bit apps in Catalina. By preemtively removing support for a large amount of legacy software, which will likely never be recompiled for ARM, they avoid the situation where their new machines appear much less capable than the old ones.
Is there a way to have some more fine-grained control about how Rosetta and Folding use resources? For example, I want them not to run in sleep mode, and certainly not when the laptop's lid is closed. Or, better perhaps, to throttle above certain temperatures.
I am personally 100% on board with halting the economy to fight COVID-19, but your are factually incorrect. The influenza is often called "a cold" and it does cause pneumonia. I have gotten pneumonia most likely from it and so have several people I know.
His answer is not that Apple is moving "everybody" to the iPad. Just some.

It won't split the Mac lineup into ARM and x86, it will split it into iPad and Mac.
Nobody is or would be shutting down everything until there is a vaccine. At the current rate, everyone in the world will be infected in two months. If we succeed in slowing things down, it might peak lower but slower. But I don't see how this can last a year plus.

And anyway, we aren't or wouldn't be shutting down everything, just "nonessential" things. By the way, cannabis and alcohol are "essential".
I would just like to say welcome to HN.

what happened to you is exactly what no one here should do.
"With just €10 you can chat for free and without limits anywhere in the world for a year. And you can do it for always for just €10 a year. WhatSim has neither fixed costs nor monthly payments and it never expires."

How can €10/year be free? Also, no monthly payments -- but there are still yearly payments.
Unvetted ad networks considered harmful.
The chart claims that economists have a 43% chance of being replaced by automation.

If they're wrong, then they'll be replaced by algorithms that are better at predicting economic trends than they are.

If they're right, then...
If it's choice between doing work for Google and solving those meaningless random ones that that contribute to nothing I'll help Google anyday.
> this sounds like the science equivalent of how search engines lead to the creation of content farms. citation scores are to spam science as pagerank is to wikihow?

Or a science equivalent to what money and market competition does with all human ventures. You need more and faster than your competitors to progress, else you'll fall into obscurity. "First to publish" is isomorphic to "first to market". If you treat research as a videogame, citations fit perfectly as an in-game currency.

That is to say, it's an example of a general problem of optimizing short-term metrics, which are a decent proxy of the actual goal up to a point.

Science could definitely use a spam filter. Journals unfortunately do a poor way of being one; they're thoroughly gamed, the same way Google is via SEO.
WA resident here, I am quite happy with the response here relative to many other places.

UW has been running 2-3k tests per day for much longer than the NY testing apparatus has been spun up, we've actually run more tests per capita than NY (though I expect things to look more normal soon), with additional capacity coming online soon. Those tests have maintained a ~7% positivity rate, which is good news.

We were some of the first to report community transmission thanks to the hard work of our research community.

In addition, the business community in the Seattle area worked to push people to WFH long before other places, keeping hundreds of thousands of people from being potential vectors for spreading COVID-19.

Frankly I don't think now is the time to be making remarks like this. WA is not perfect, but it does not boil down to tax rate.
Figure 2 in the CDC write-up indicates they account for a much larger fraction of the hospital admissions, though a much lower fraction of them require ICU admission, and a much lower fraction of them die [1]. This aligns with Korea [2]. The funnel is much, much less forgiving to the aged.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105088/south-korea-coro...
I don't think I've used a TI calculator (they're not in NZ much), but with the sole exception of my HP 48G every make and model of calculator I've used in the past 30+ years has used a crappy membrane keypad.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not the same article I read.
Coincidentally, I quit java for almost the same reason.
Thank you. I accidentally hit my free article limit.
> Honest question. ... Teleportation?

Your suggestion gives your question the appearance of a not-so-honest question.

> What do you suggest then?

The answer would depend on your convictions. It could be one or a combination of, for example,

- Tight national and international regulations (with teeth) to ensure animal safety and well-being, comparable to the transport of humans,

- Local-only growth,

- Alternative protein start-ups,

- Etc.

> but its cruelty against animals so lets kill them instead!

I could not find any instances where the OP suggested this.

edit: Found someone else who mentioned that, which doesn't make sense to me either - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21637661

On the other hand,

> but its cruelty against animals

Then you would want to stop it in one way or another, no? What would be your suggestions?
option says>"I did not join Theranos after looking at their board."

I had to look up Theranos to understand this. I somehow feel dirty.
It is public because you can walk or ride a bike there. The pay to park in a convenience fee.
"No, but we could add flying behavior to it, and it would definitely be easier than throwing away the home and the chip fab that we spent so long on"
Ok, I think you answered my question, basically I was missing the public key. So you send an encrypted picture of a cat to the encryption trained model and it returns an answer which is encrypted using the public key. (as a super simple example)
They have used and contributed to RubySpec in the past, but many (like me) were turned off by the maintainers' attitudes toward contributors and lack of respect. For example, see the zenspider link elsewhere in this thread.

Nobody questions RubySpec as a project. But there are many nontechnical reasons why it was never adopted wholeheartedly by ruby-core.
It is open source on another website that is ... blocked. Funny. For the curious: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin

Replication would be cool feature.
$3 million seed? I've never heard of that before...
Ok, this seems a bit better than the spacesuit and bananas metaphor, but we'll have to wait for the future posts to see whether it is really better. He does veer into spacesuit bananaisms (e.g. the ghosts and the hand grenades) but maybe he will explain those metaphors better in the future.

P.S. Spacesuit bananaism is a new term I just coined to refer to people that use thoroughly baffling metaphors to explain already confusing Haskell concepts thus managing to make Haskell even more confusing and ending up with gibberish even the most seasoned Haskell pros cannot grasp. It comes from some guy's attempt to explain monads with a metaphor involving spacesuits and bananas.
Here in Finland you can get an Android phone without a contract for about 130€. That means it is suddenly competitive with the Nokia feature phones.

Last weekend I spent some time traveling by train. Saw more of those cheap ZTE Androids than Symbian or iOS smartphones. Of course the question is whether those people are able (having credit card) or willing to buy an app.
What leaked IMs?
Incredible. I thought you were going to link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awK0NrgHUbk
People have been floating the idea of 'micro-transactions' since the first days of the commercial world-wide-web. People just don't want to do it. There's a reason why average users made the choice to use the wider internet, instead of things like Minitel.
Fair enough.

Pushing down discussions because they don't make the frontpage varied enough still just doesn't seem right to me. I understand that space is limited and nobody ever checks beyond page 1 but still - making threads harder to find doesn't seem to serve the interests of anyone who might actually be interested in those discussions.
This article is worth a retweet
I've never considered the parallel between what you describe - I think it's valid and eloquent.

I find the application of technology to the social context fascinating and at the same time worrisome, given the impact it has on our psyche. Part of me wants to chalk it up to "resisting change", but I feel like altering the social fabric by increasing efficiencies in our social lives isn't going to help psychological illnesses like depression.
Sometimes being the jack of two trades in more powerful. Combining skills at the interface of finance and computer science, for example, usually spawns interesting insights that translate into profitable companies.
As an AI researcher, I think obstacles like "not having your robot fall over all the damn time" are a little more immediate than robots having a nuanced understanding of ethics. I can understand why this stuff is fun to think about and debate, but it's just not relevant at all to where AI is going to be for the next 50 (or 100, or probably 200) years.
What happens when you have no network connection?

About 50% of my administrative tasks (documentation and architecture) are entirely offline tasks?

My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy.
What?

The words "Go"(to go, not the language), "Date"(having a date), and "fucking" in the same place.

Those words have different meanings, and in fact those meanings are the normal meaning for most of the people in the street.
I don't know if it is like in Go, but there is a defer suggestion: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2589.pdf
Why would you prepare and manage your money better when you can always just get another loan at a great rate? It makes no sense to save when borrowing is more profitable.
I believe so, yes.

Do you see anything wrong?
The only problem is the weird name. It should just be random().

If there’s a not-so-good-but-faster version, call it fastRandom() or cheapRandom() or randomish() or something like that.
Totally, it would be curated by people who’ve read the results and though it had its place on the board. We could call it "ReadIT".
Never said I didn’t believe her, I do. I just didn’t know the extent of it as it goes well beyond harassment.
> gotten through industrial espionage

Espionage? Hardly. The manuals for most Apple II computers included full schematics.
The way I tend to think about it is that there are different axes of "complexity" in a language/ecosystem. Looking only at the language itself then yes Scala is quite complicated with a lot of language features (implicit, higher-minded types, macros, ...) that are uncommon in other popular languages. But another axis to consider is "how many abstractions do I need to understand in order to grok a large codebase?" And that I think is where Scala shines. There are different ecosystems but if you look at something likes cats/cats-effect then there are a core set of type classes on which everything else is built and if you understand those core abstractions then understanding any codebase which uses them is very easy. And those abstractions are extremely flexible to the point where they can be applied to an astonishing variety of problems.

Contrast that with something like Java which, while quite simple syntactically, has a huge and varied super-structure of incongruent abstractions on top of it. Every time I dive into a largish codebase of "enterprise Java" it feels like the engineers has a running bet on who could use the most GoF patterns in any given module.
As Nate says, the top 100 changes a lot from week to week. We actually have 3 apps that are routinely in the top 100 these days (Pinterest, Dubsmash & Target) and a few more that can make it depending on releases/advertising (Digg, Zappos, Groupon, Wahoo, Bodybuilding.com,…), and growing pretty fast in that segment considering we only came out about a year ago.

Anyway, I think we had 3 apps in the top 100 the week this analysis was made; unfortunately the author cut off the list at SDKs that had 4 or more apps. Next time ;)
The big problem here is you've no fall-back for when the place you're trying to pay, or their merchant services provider, has a communications/network outage or malware attack or has assets frozen - some of which affect multiple large retailers.

There have been many instances over the years, even just in the U.K., where small and large stores have been unable to accept digital/network-required payments and ended up with massive queues or customers abandoning shopping carts full of items due to not having cash.

"Spar cyber attack hits more than 300 convenience stores" (2021-12) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-59554433

"Manx Telecom broadband outage affects 4,000" (2020-08) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-53920785

"Wirecard: 'It’s really bad. I’m left with nothing'" (2020-06) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53222181

"Debit card glitch means thousands charged twice" (2018-09) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45400234

"Visa (Europe) says service returning to normal" (2018-06) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44335804

"Asda card machine fault leads to queues at checkouts" (2016-10) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37815973

"RBS says it has resolved debit card computer glitch" (2016-10) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37658559

"Lloyds Banking Group says card problems sorted" (2014-01) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-25907000

"Card payments system crash disrupts shoppers" (2010-10) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11458962

Also, interesting and somewhat unexpected contactless from long distance!

"Contactless 'charging errors' at Marks and Spencer" (2013-05) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-22545804
This sounds much worse, though, as they are clearly still working on it, but only things that make good sounding announcements.
When I was on Twitter I found the ads so distracting that I used the web version on my phone with Firefox and ublock origin. This did the job, just about if you can cope with the web client clumsiness and lag.
Bit of a revealing question, that one.
Thanks Peter! It's been terrific having you on and getting your feedback.
I've always thought there's one important thing that's always omitted from this list: it's the only thing of it's kind. Yes it's true that we have other metals that kind of have these characteristics, like silver, but there's always some key difference. Eg., there's a lot more silver, so you need a lot more of it than gold for a given value, and it can get pretty bulky. There's simply nothing else quite like gold. There seems to be just the right amount of it.

So naturally I applied that reasoning to Bitcoin and concluded that it must be worth nothing in the long run - not because it doesn't tick all the usual boxes for a suitable currency, but because there's no limit to the number potential competitors, all of which tick the same boxes just as effectively.

But so far I've been wrong. Really wrong! And I don't know why.
I think the private sector (for the most part) does a good job on delivering new housing, and are largely limited by local rules such as zoning and set-asides.

The only real criticism of them IMO is that they're cyclical with the economy. They tend to build during good times, but the most cost-effective time to build housing is during bad times (now) because construction costs are also low.
Binance?
Contextually, I interpret "generation" as a period of time, something like 20-40 years.
Maybe, but my experience with consumer grade network gear's software has left a lot to be desired. I'll never bother with Netgear/Linksys crap again.
Something I don't understand about US unions

I often see mandatory dues being brought up as arguments against unions in the US. I've never heard of that practice here, so I looked and it is in fact illegal here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#Council_of_Europe based on the freedom of association (which also covers freedom of _not_ associating).

There's also no requirement for employers to negotiate or recognise unions. Usually if sufficient members of the company are in a union the employer will negotiate pay terms with them - they don't have a requirement too, though of course the union can strike to bring them to the negotiating table. Some employers might make a single negotiation with the union and use that as the basis for their pay grades or other terms, though again, there's no requirement for them to do so.

What I don't understand is why US unions don't embrace that - if they don't adopt the "mandatory membership" part, surely the opposition to their existence has less to argue for. You don't need a big vote, members just join, and if there's enough of them they can bring employers to the negotiating table. Yes, you can get freeloaders, but that seems preferable to having no union for the employees that need it most.

I'm in tech, so there's not much call for the unionisation of tech in my country. But that's because it's a seller's market, an individual tech worker often has more leeway to insist on improvements to their pay or conditions than a factory worker and both sides know it. it's why e.g. you get management apologising for 9:30am meetings if a visiting exec is in town and they want to impress but arrive at 9:10am to the factory or mcdonalds and expect an unpleasant meeting with your supervisor. (Also if you were lucky, you knew that you were rosted for 9am the week before)

Most people from my school days, and even my father are in jobs like this. If I was too, I would totally be in a union. Part of me wonders if in tech we really should be too to have the infrastructure in place if a time comes when the market for tech work is dramatically different. Certainly given the state of unions and low wage employment conditions in my country, if I hadn't been lucky to have something I was interested in and had aptitude for pay so well, I would join a union if I had to work on it.

I know people like to harp on about examples like the US auto industry or UK mining industry where strong insistence of worker's rights was arguably a contributor to the industry in those countries going under, but it's not clear to me that industries like call centers or retail where that didn't happen have had much better outcomes for employees. Better outcomes for the businesses operating them, sure, employees, ehh...
And the patent will be likely be licensed for a shitload of uses... this is hardly a patent where creating a monopoly makes sense.
The warning sign of 1999 was Marketing majors becoming web developers. Are we there again?
Yeah, good call. I came here via that message.
I'm sure Twitter will add a clause to prevent such behavior in their API terms.
I have my whole life to fall in love, and perhaps I can't fall in love right now cause my life is too calculated.
Well, the Arc de Triomphe is not exactly a /good/ example.

Your point is valid, but I (and others more qualified) argued this ends up being safer. People's mental model changes when they get to a roundabout, they sort of switch on their brain a bit more. I have in my head, but can't find a reference, that roundabouts are actually surprisingly safe.
Or, I could just get some self control.
I wouldn't think this proposal is, either, with all those stoplights.