jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I rate everything Taibbi writes and says very highly, his substack is very of the moment, informed and perceptive.

Regarding Facebook indefinitely suspending Trump, #bigTech can modulate exposure of politicians and aspects of their personalities and platform positions highly effectively - suppressing and amplifying for unknown 'fairness doctrines' of their own making.

An example is Gabbard's response to Clinton on Twitter, whose 'likes' are modulated down to circa 250k regularly. You can 'like' it dozens of times but each time you return your 'like' has usually been removed.

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289626409406464

The bigger point regardless of whether you approve of Gabbard or Clinton - #bigTech is able to amplify or sideline anyone as the Trump blackballing illustrates. This is alarmingly like the anti communist witch hunts and blackballing in the 1950's
> That's likely a national statistic. Remember, these are police in DC, a very liberal area.

Still cops. I personally know two DC area cops who are quite red. Remember, police organizations have been pushing the idea that anyone who protests police brutality is anti-cop and the right wing have more or less 100% stood by them or encouraged them.
It's not a public utility and being widely used does not make it one. Lots of people eat at McDonald's and get coffee from Starbucks, that does not make McDonald's or Starbucks a public utility.
Yes it's a waste studying high energy physics or astronomy instead of inventing MRI or lasers.

And Wall st would be much better if it just hired accountants instead of all those people who had spent 10years learning all that useless math.
Wow. Uninformed headline and speculation.

I'm pretty sure they're rejecting usage of an unofficial regex API. Nothing to get too excited about and I'm definitely sure they're not rejecting pcre, etc.
> So there is no real comparison to make between bananas and any dose of gamma+beta radiation

Why is that? Let's say you receive a millirem by standing close to a nuclear power plant core. Then you eat a banana, which spends one day in your body before the potassium is excreted, giving your body one millirem of radiation in the process. What's the difference?

I'll agree for iodine ingestion however. They could consider the radiation emitted over a human lifetime to be fairer.
err, so by initially assuming that something under the influence of a potential has a mass M, and calculating the Hamiltonian comes up with a proportionality constant of sqrt(M) means that the potential energy of the system is proportional to the sqrt of the mass of the bound object, all things being equal, not that the equivalence principle is broken.

okay typos above aside i just read their paper. it's good work.

they solved a few well known, relatively simple quantum mechanics problems, in college (from the griffiths intro to quantum mechanics book) these problems are usually solved by talking about an electron in an electric potential.

these fine scientists solved a simple quantum mechanics problem not using an electric potential, but using a gravitational potential. the solution ends up resulting in two dimensionless constants that define the particulars of the solution that are measurable. in solving the equation of a they kept separate the inertial mass and the gravitational mass, and the two measurable constants are expressed in such a way in the setup that they are considering such that by measuring these two constants the inertial mass and gravitational mass may both be solved for (two equations, two unknowns).

they are proposing that this is a way of investigating experimentally the distinction if any between these two quantities.

also the appendix was really complicated and it was very hard to follow
My understanding of the issue is that RegexKitLite uses APIs from the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library shipped with the OS. As that library has not been blessed for public consumption, it's apparently being deemed usage of a private API, and rejected.

From the RegexKitLite site:

"Prior to iPhone OS 3.2, there was never any official support from Apple for linking to the libicucore.dylib library. It was unclear if linking to the library would violate the iPhone OS SDK Agreement prohibition against using undocumented API's, but a large number of iPhone applications choose to use RegexKitLite, and the author is not aware of a single rejection because of it. Starting with iPhone OS 3.2, Apple now officially allows iPhone OS applications to link with the ICU library. The ICU library contains a lot of functionality for dealing with internationalization and localization, but Apple only officially permits the use of the ICU Regular Expression functionality."

That muddles the issue a bit, though. If the ICU regex stuff has been blessed for public consumption, what's the violated private API? Is it only apps for pre-3.2 platforms that are being rejected? Is RegexKitLite using unblessed parts of that library?
I guess that you didn't eat your own dog food ;-)
This is the kind of pointless, irrelevant, tired rhetoric that belongs on reddit. I really expected better of HN than to upvote this kind of comment.
What about that sentence makes you call it vicious?
Yes you do, you have to trust the chip makers, the BIOS maker, the network interface card maker, your ISP, your router etc etc

Any one of those could be screwing with you.
The depressing part is that many of the people who ended up multi-millionaires also had a ton of fun coding & running the business. It's not an either/or: you can have fun coding and get rich doing it. It's just that the getting rich part requires a lot of luck in addition to the coding.

Most people, when given the choice between "fun" and "fun and money", will take the fun and money. After all, I know very few people who will turn down a chance at free money.
Is the difference between O(1) and O(n) where n=number of cores really that big?
The beer-drinking robot is an example of an "Elevator Pitch". You definitely want an elevator pitch, also a tagline. The two while conceptually related are different.

Elevator pitch comes from the notion that you've just stepped onto an elevator along with some obviously wealthy person. Just to be polite she says "So what do you do?"

You have until she steps off at her floor to obtain financing for your company.

A tagline is typically used in written marketing materials - direct mail in my case, back in the day. Working Software's marketing director Mark Galvin and I were discussing taglines for QuickLetter 2.0. Mark is a brilliant marketing professional, rather shy, quiet and thoughtful, leading to my surprise when he emailed me:

"QuickLetter, only $49.95. C'mon - you'd spend more than that on dinner for two and a bottle of wine."

I'm working on some of my own projects right now. My complete inability to come up with appealing taglines and elevator pitches is definitely holding me back.

For reasons of Search Engine Optimization, it is advisable to compose an appealing tagline, then to place that tagline as the very first paragraph after your page's H1 element, also as the meta description element in the page's head element. Most of my own pages do that, with the result that I get a lot more search engine referrals. I discuss this in your detail at:

http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/search-engine-optimiz...
The article assumes we want to pay taxes and that a significant portion of our tax dollars are spent wisely thus making taxation an advantage of the dollar.

Convincing Americans to switch to a currency other than the dollar is roughly as futile as convincing the Internet to switch to a protocol other than TCP/IP, and for the same reasons.

Meh, you don't have to convince Americans, just convince other people. Other countries are already working around the US dollar. Wasn't there a recent deal announced between Russia, China, Brazil and India for them to accept their own currencies as an alternative to US dollars for debts, loans, etc.?
there are plenty of apps that don't go back to their start point on hitting the home button and re-entering the app.
It's attractive to propose "let's build a new kind of city" or if you prefer, a new sort of living style, but this is one of the classic boil-the-ocean sort of problems that any ground-up engineering solution faces. How do we migrate people from a solution they know, like, inhabit, and own today to one that they don't know, will likely have to be educated to like, don't currently inhabit, and don't currently own? It's a tall order.
I think you see this for the same reason you see people endlessly debating/discussing version control systems, GTD, IDEs, OSes, keyboards, mice, browsers, etc. etc. etc. They're all just tools, and yet we (myself included) spend far too much time talking about them, and not nearly enough time using them. True, some of the discussion is merited and is rooted in useful thought about real differences between tools, but much of it is over analyzing.

I think much of this could actually be rooted in fear, which drives procrastination in lots of people - more than most of us realize, I think. Merlin Mann's gave a great talk on fear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0hSeQ5s_k

The key is to understand that fear isn't going to go away completely, and to still keep doing, even though you're scared.

Enough talk. I'm going to go build something now.
Any chance to build this with libpng14? I think compiling fails for me because I do have that modern version installed and not libpng12.
Yes, First i threads - because most recent.
If you're gonna complain about machines 'taking' humans' jobs, you're 300 years late to that party.
one ofter another, questions become kind of known.
Anyone working on semtech?
I was at the NYC one this weekend. Bridg.me stood out as one of the best of the weekend, for sure. I was surprised that Playmob won, though they seem like they have a solid business model. Disappointed at coviewer.tv, to be honest.

Anyhoo, winners here:

http://nyc.startupweekend.org/2011/04/17/winners/
>Also, quick questions -- what other platform has a nearly 100% market penetration rate and how does that compare to the iPhone's Cocoa?

I don't know, why don't you ask an iOS developer?

>AND, with the iPhone's Cocoa you're not even allowed to distribute or update your app, without going through iTunes, both of which have been problems far worse than whatever any regular web stack has caused me.

My straw man development team claims to have no problems with deployment.

iOS? Cross-platform compatibility? It looks like you posted this in response to someone else's comment.
According to this article, the all-zeroes code was on the Permissive Action Links, which are the locks on the bombs themselves:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.org...
I get that, but it still distracts from the actual conversations or people. I don't need stuff constantly moving. I guess the difference is that if its an in-person situation, then stuff moving around me is normal, but on screen it localizes everything to a small area: the screen. I also find animated stuff annoying in Discord channels and such, something I don't use for work, only for fun.

I dunno. I haven't tried it. For me, when I'm in a social situation (virtual or in person), I'm there for the people and want to focus on them, not some animated emoji. I can do those on my own.
Ever heard that Taiwan is doing a stellar job holding off coronavirus? No, because China presses WHO into not mentioning Taiwan. We could learn a lot from Taiwan. China doesn't just boycott Taiwan, it makes others act as if the country doesn't exist.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan
Companies like Amazon have standardized procedures for interviews. At the company I work for, the person interviewing isn't going to be the same person who hires you, so they need more data that just the interviewer's notes. Also, deviating from the standard procedure opens up the effect of unconscious bias.
> ... they [Chinese citizens] are 1.3bn people who want freedom.

Is there evidence that a significant portion of the population really do want more freedom? While I would hope so it's possible the majority there prefer the status quo. (Of course lack of evidence doesn't prove it.)
> and how could gift cards ever be cheaper than face value (surely someone somewhere would be working at a loss)?

Gift cards are always cheaper than face value. The basic economics tells you they can't be more expensive than that, since they are similar to money, but worse. They can easily be cheaper; $300 at Starbucks is not as good as $200 wherever you want.

Your incredulity is pretty shocking; if you want to see gift cards sold cheaper than face value, all you need to do is walk into a Costco.
Sleep well, Eliminate stress from life, get a decent job that allows you to explore things you want to do on side, spend time with family and lead a happy life. Note that this is a very ambitious route to follow, most people never understand this or get to live like this. But if you are super ambitious and have a domain that you are interested in, go create a product, become an entrepreneur. There is nothing as rewarding. Please don't stress and burn yourself out for a job.
Heh, there may be something to that "curse".
Yikes, the authors summary of Knox v US sure glosses over a lot of context about the case.
The dev of Flameshot burned out a bit, BUT the development was picked up by new maintainers, one of which is NameCheap dev. Project was moved under new organization and the "power" was diversified in multiple parties.

It was a whole process, you can read about it here https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/789
Always wanted to hear that and see if it really is superior to CD audio.
And yet… Did you know about this (serious) proposal to make CPython 5x faster?

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

Needed funding though.
No, even if the paper's results can be accepted without qualifications. (I think they need huge qualifications.)

This effect might at best delay climate effects and we are going to see more extreme climate effects after that period due to the inaction allowed by this pause.
As far as I'm aware, this has never happened before

No worries. We can fix that.

I first heard the argument you made used to explain why the market would continue to go up indefinitely in the late 90’s.

But that’s only because I was old enough to pay attention then. I don’t doubt in the least that it was used in the 80’s as well.
I wouldn't count on it. The article presents two minimums in the 21st century, separated by a short revert to normal. It seems that's all we get - the next series of solar minima is gonna be in the 24th century. So we have 33 years to recover CO2 and fix some other environmental messes: there are plenty that can ruin human civilization by themselves.
I remember the talk where two different users measured different performance due to the username length..
2020 made it pretty clear that the media can gaslight the people into anything. We'll be watering the crops with Brawndo any minute now...
>Why is everything a large group of people do collectively called a 'mob' these days?

These days? It's always been thus.

The Roman Poet Juvenal who said:

"It is all too easy to fall from power – like Sejanus. The mob follows Fortuna and cares for nothing but bread and circuses." (Circuses can also be games, or in modern times TV, Games, Netflix, Reddit, etc...).

You ever see Gladiator?

Lucilla: "The gods have spared you. Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome."

Maximus: "The gods have spared me? I am at their mercy, with the power only to amuse a mob!"

Lucilla: "That is power. The mob is Rome. And while Commodus controls them he controls everything."

We have a literal cult controlling at least 40% of the minds of the USA (QAnon). A literal mob almost led a successful insurrection. (If they were more organized, they would've had a higher body count).

A literal mob, possibly manipulated by finance majors orchestrated a pump-and-dump under the guise of "stick it to the man", just disrupted wallstreet in a pretty spectacular way. Sure, they did stick it to the man, for a bit - but I'm sure a lot of people also lost their ass on this.

In a mob there's a bunch of people who basically just are following a fluid current in history, most are unaware as to why and the best answer is probably: "I wasn't doing anything else, so why not?", or "So and so told me, and I trust them" and often that trust is mis-placed, like believing a highschool dropout's opinion on climate change instead of the consensus by 90%+ of the leading scientists across the globe.
One of the (only) advantages of App Engine over Heroku is that they auto-scaled. Will you guys be doing that?
Remember the X Files... "I want to believe". Her only "crime" was she was a greenhorn, and needed belonging and purpose.

I feel truly sad for her, because while my cynical older self knows the ending what was in the cards, is it so WRONG to be hopeful, a little naive and earnest? Where were the people who were supposed to protect that?

At least when you join the military and you become part of that family, everyone noncom at least believes in it. Even if the greater structure can toss you out, your brothers/sisters will attempt to come to your aid. No such luck in corporate america.
> It sounds like the "secret sauce" for this collaboration includes a set of numerical libraries.

Indeed. There are really only a limited set of (physics) choices when making these libraries. As long as the discretization you pick goes to QCD in the continuum limit, you can make whatever choices you want. Some choices lead to faster convergence, or easier numerics, or better symmetry, or whatever---at that point it's a cost/benefit analysis. But if your discretization ('lattice action') goes is in the QCD universality class ('has the right continuum limit') you're guaranteed to get the right answer as long as you can extrapolate to the continuum.

> It's a bit sad that there's so little glory in writing better numerical libraries.

Agreed, but physics departments (by and large) award tenure for doing physics, not for doing computer science. It's hard to get departments to say "yes, your expertise in optimizing GPU code is enough to get you on the tenure track".

> It's a common problem across the sciences. [...] I can believe they'd be reluctant to share.

The larger community does center around common codes. The biggest players are

USQCD http://usqcd-software.github.io/
quda http://lattice.github.io/quda/
grid https://github.com/paboyle/Grid/

but there are others, and there are private codes (like BMW's) too.

As part of the SciDAC program and now exascale initiative the DOE does fund a few software-focused national lab jobs. But not many.
Perhaps I should have mentioned I am (was) a theoretical physicist and have worked a little on dark energy. But perhaps you meant the comment to others in general.
> For instance, the most annoying are games which default to WASD based on the letter typed and not the physical keys

Is it even possible to do anything else? I can’t imagine keyboards report their physical layout..
Excellent! Thank You!
I think it’s a serious stretch to try to connect risk-taking and voting. Kids and young adults do stupid stuff because they don’t have a good grasp of their own mortality and because they want the validation of their peers. Their internal risk/reward function isn’t calibrated quite right because they overvalue the reward of attention and/or undervalue the risk of injury or death which results in thrill/attention-seeking behavior. Since the voting booth is both boring and private I think it’s entirely outside the scope of the kids-take-stupid-risks conversation.
Some skeptics remain skeptics up until the point that they've been proven blatantly and obviously wrong and people stop accepting their arguments, so for some "skeptics" at least it's more of a stubborn mindset backed by confirmation bias or other issues disconnected from the actual subject matter, rather than sound reasoning.
You've missed the point.
In a company where everybody performs equally, the ratings would still have to be distributed between the following rankings, regardless of actual performance.
Amazing
Good
Average
Poor

Judging by comments, it appears to be the #1 choice for HR departments. Which is just plain depressing, but more depressingly, not surprising.
Nodejitsu pulling an Oracle.
What did ArchLinux do differently that it won't require me to install the necessary GtkSharp libraries?
http://www.celiaccentral.org/research-news/

My wife has celiac disease, which is basically a gluten allergy. Her grandfather had sprue, which was renamed to celiac more commonly[1].

As much as I hate anecdotal evidence, I personally do feel significantly better on a day to day basis when I eliminate the most hefty forms of gluten (bread, for instance). Could have absolutely nothing to do with it, but it seems to hold even when I eat gluten free substitutes. Again, an anecdote, but look into celiac for more solid research on the subject.

[1]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000233.htm
Currently rely on statuspage.io and it’s critical for me. I’m struggling to parse if there’s any unique offerings compared to statuspage.io. Is there anything I’m missing?

I’m especially focused on the UI for the posting of a status page update. As our business offers multiple services and some can go down while others stay up. It can be cumbersome to deal with multiple data centers and services.
When I lived in Berlin, there were 5 apartments in my building on AirBnB, owned by a single landlord. Within 2 minutes of my place there were 3 hotels and 2 serviced apartments complexes. Maybe some cities lack hotel rooms, but in most cases it's just taking advantage of tourists trying to save a couple bucks.
Siri wasn't voice-activated until a couple (few?) years ago.

Google Now never was, to my knowledge, though I could be wrong.
If you can understand the equations and engineering needed to build a cruise missile the GPS equations will not daunt you. Getting the final approach to have a useful Circular Error Probable at anything low enough for an assassination would be more of a technical challenge than the coarse guidance. Unless you had someone shining a designator you’d need real-time machine vision. To say nothing of designing an airframe that can perform precision manoeuvres at speed without breaking up.
Note that 64% of new listings is very different than 64% of all properties. e.g, last I looked 1.5% of SF properties were on AirBnB (down from 3% before the recent regulations), though unclear what fraction were available for rent full-time. So at least in SF I don't think removing AirBnB would really change supply in a meaningful way.
I'm working on a site where creative people can find others to collaborate and work together on creative projects. For creative I mean visual artists, musicians, developers, moviemakers, writers, designers, etc, etc... Example of projects I foresee: game developers searching for artists, moviemakers searching musicians for a film score, writers looking for designers, etc, etc: https://collabomate.org - Right now the site is very simple but my plan is to take the quarantine as an opportunity to add more collaboration features.
I think the problem is bigger. We can't do now what SK is doing. They are tracing cases and aggressively quarantining everyone who tests positive. Obviously you cannot do that if you cannot test enough people to get a complete enough picture of the invected population. We also probably now have too many infected to make that strategy workable at this point, even if we had the tests, tracing probably would be the new bottleneck.

This great write-up suggests to shut everything down to get cases back to a manageable level and then move to the SK and Singaporean model: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...

Strongly recommend the read.
Is this sarcasm? This is exactly what is happening.