jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Whilst completely ignoring common second-order effects that have been shown time and time again to be true.

The point made is 100% valid: men are more likely to work in the office than women, and if there's a systemic bias toward office-workers, that's very definitely a systemic bias against women. Not as the first order problem, but the second order problem.

Equity vs equality - equality has it that women should therefore work from the office. Equity questions why you're not actively seeking to address a bias that disproportionately affects a demographic.
"The Dark Ages" is not a synonym for The Middle Ages. It refers to the period of 5th-10th century, when Europe experienced its biggest cultural stagnation.

It's not to say that the rest of The Middle Ages was particularly innovative, but The Dark Ages were the The Middle Ages of The Middle Ages.
You are correct, that is what I meant.
For KVM, we've implement SVirt. We don't trust the main userspace (qemu-kvm) process, and assume that it has been subverted by the guest. We contain it using SELinux rules.

http://selinuxproject.org/page/SVirt

This is now a standard feature in Fedora (since Fedora 11):

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SVirt_Mandatory_Acces...
A better term is "growth phase". This growth phase, like the late '90s, creates new jobs, new technology, and new industries. All of those things are important for a healthy economy. Eventually, some of these new companies will get bought out or go out of business. So what? Everybody is better economically because the founders and investors at least made the effort.

A big factor in the dot-com bubble was a belief in the so-called "new economy", where people, because of the Y2K scare or whatever else, believed that companies didn't need good financials ( http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/neweconomy.asp ). I don't think anybody has any illusion during this growth phase that solid financials aren't important.
A simple way to fix the mathematics, so that poorer people aren't effectively in a a 70% marginal tax rate, is to give the low income handouts to everyone, regardless of income. Universal Basic Income is in this vein.

I'd also fix other things. Instead of having "non-refundable tax credits" that operate at the lowest bracket, people should just be able to write reasonable expenses right off their income.
Do ocean currents follow these same lines?
> Eshell's weakness compared to shell is that it can't do pipes.

I thought eshell had both pipes and output redirection but lacked input redirection.
"ridiculously in love" with a programming language?

Ok, I'll describe my condition when I experienced that. I was coding in C under MS-DOS and PIC assembler at the time. C++ was starting to become a thing, and I was just starting to sniff at Linux. I needed a change of venue in several major ways.

About this time, I started picking up a little python and perl. Interpretive languages had just opened up to me, and I was IN LOVE. The things I could do without writing a framework to support it impressed me a lot.

I was so very naive that new-to-me language features were a huge deal.

Hope that helps.
I think you've misinterpreted what Bitcoin's "job" is. Although the initial impetus was definitely to set up a new type of currency (something I'd agree it fails at) it has long since moved to behaving as a store of value, or a commodity. At this it excels.

The tradeoff GP is referring to is efficiency for security. If you have a distributed, "trustless" network you unfortunately have to trade your efficiency for more security.
Do you feel the same way about seatbelts? If people choose to be safer by wearing masks, judging them is pretty extreme. This kind of attitude is what made the early days of the pandemic a mess.
Since the 80s or so the market has made STEM subordinate to profit and power. Like so many other things, its value is now gauged by how much money it makes and how much influence it has. Thus you get machine learning in the service of targeted ad revenue and public health data forced into upholding political narratives. Meanwhile real breakthrough research like mRNA vaccines can often succumb to forces that have nothing to do with the actual value of the work.
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/02/12/brutal-science-...
> Whatever the actions of a school board in Virginia, it's at best indirectly connected with how the NYT defines "white supremacy."

It’s the same definition being used by both: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/white-supremacy.html. It’s probably only a minority of people with graduate degrees who use the terminology this way, but this group is highly represented both among people who read and write for the NYT and on school boards in wealthy, highly educated suburbs like the one I’m talking about.

It’s directly relevant to the discussion up thread. The post I was responding to pointed out that this expansive definition of “white supremacy” makes it hard to have these discussions. It’s impossible to follow the discussion above without Googling Nick Land to figure out which kind of “white supremacy” people are talking about. I don’t take the poster up-thread above to be arguing Nick Land isn’t a “white supremacist” in the narrow sense of the word. He’s just observing that the confusing created by the terminology (confusing that is, as far as I can tell, a deliberate consequence of the word choice) makes these sorts of discussions difficult.
Any law in the end requires a violent threat. This suggestion implies that someone who does not publish their source code should, after som ignored formal letters, get armed men sent to their office to kidnap whoever is responsible.

All nice sounding laws, such as gov funded welfare, gov funded hospitals, gov funded schools, and the endless regulations, implicitly carry a threat of violence, and when judging the ethics of a carrying a law out, that violent threat must be included. Government is firstly about guns.
I think it's pretty clear that when it says at one point "the Warsaw uprising" it means "the uprising in Warsaw this article has been talking about then entire thing", not "the Warsaw Uprising". Bit sloppy, maybe? Indicative of lack of knowledge, don't think so.
And Blokada can block only 450000 entries or there about, otherwise it crashes.

Btw, personalDNSfilter can filter millions of entries without problems.
You can probably safely assume anyone wearing a mask in 5 years is doing so because they are sick but still need to be in public for essential everyday tasks.
> Imagine driving a car would require you to have intimate knowledge of combustion engines, mechanics and the electronic systems

So, for this analogy to be fair, we'd need to have computers which you can't operate unless you know how to use transistors to build logic gates, how to build your CPU out of those, how this CPU executes instructions and so on. Of course, that's "vs just keyboard and mouse".

Of course there's room for improvement, but current computers are not orders of magnitude harder to use than cars. I'd say that they never were, but right now they're not for sure: 3 years old kid won't drive a car, but he can have some meaningful and fun time with a tablet.

Learning programming is secondary issue in my opinion. A "new literacy" is something else: it's ability to stop and think about how the pieces fall together, how they work, how you can make them do what you want. Programming is certainly a way of learning this ability, but it's also full of pointless ritual and irrelevant things and operates on completely wrong - for the normal user - level of abstraction. I don't know what is the most efficient way of teaching this to people, but I strongly believe that we need to teach them this. If we have no better way, then let it even be via programming, it's still better than nothing.
Even with a good SSD and processor, LibreOffice takes a lot of time for the first fire. Then, as long as it's in the memory, you can fire it relatively instantly but, it's not "3 seconds flat".
Well the thing is there is no such thing as a single "real world percentage". If you want to know what the percentage is for you, you should benchmark it yourself.
Yeah, those who are conservative with their health should get a timer that switches the heat off soon after bed time. If the timer is automatic, it's a good incentive to get into bed on time. :)
Tim Ferriss is correct that it takes 4 hours to get a body like his. However, to be accurate, he should have said 4 hours per DAY.

2 hours weights + 2 hours cardio will get you in shape like him. Not drinking milk and expecting to lose 10 lbs = fail.

the guy is a sales/marketing genius.
Complexity is easy. Just wait long enough.

It's consciousness that's harder to contemplate.
Yeah, they’re good AFAIK. I’ve seen a few former clients move their websites to Squarespace and be happy with it.
Helium seems like a potentially good web3/crypto implementation. I think it’s using LORa as the underlying tech.
During interview, we are not modelling the whole process -- no one would tell a senior engineer just a single sentence "please implement mult command" -- there will be a longer preceding story: maybe the latency has to be very low, or it is a request from a stubborn customer, or you are profiling optimization... So for the reasons of time, we assume that the previous steps have been done, and it was decided that the mult command is the way to go.

If I were interviewer and a candidate would mention CAS command, I'd compliment them for their memcached knowledge, and tell that the it is not a viable solution. And this would not affect my evaluation of this stage one way or another.
Kotlin can do this as well, with Jetpack Compose as the multiplatform UI SDK

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-dsl-reference.html...
In the case, the farmer was growing wheat for his own personal use. The justification was that by growing his own, he was opting out of the market, and therefore his actions fell under the commerce clause.

In the case of cannabis, these are literal businesses engaging in the act of buying and selling. Illinois and probably other states differentiate the amount that can be sold to a customer depending on whether or not they are residents or from a different state.

The notion of national market versus not is a red herring; markets are concepts, not tangible things, and the concept exists independent of the government itself. Making something illegal doesn't stop the sale of it, otherwise there would be no point in the DEA existing.

As for the supreme court, one can hope.
Matter got delayed but so far is the closest thing we’re getting to an open protocol
> But typically these games are not solitaire; you're playing with other people. And using a non-free program together with other people? That's particularly bad. Because it means that those people are pressuring each other to keep running that non-free program.

I wonder what Stallman would say about anticheat software. Even people who don't care in the slightest about free software think anticheat is detestable.

But without it, there's a client-side arms race against the server code which is a different kind of metagame than most players would want.
A lot of shady stuff happens in Virginia law enforcement. It's a huge racket and sadly the taxpayers fund their shenanigans.
UBER it! But make sure the locksmiths are trust worthy.
Also, stuff like Google Cloud Run and App Engine is pretty damn easy to use. I hate DevOps and neither of those products give me headaches. Same with spinning up Postgres on GCP, it's a few clicks.

https://cloud.google.com/run
Code snippets generated in:

Shell,
Javascript,
Node,
C,
Java,
PHP,
Objective-C,
Swift,
Python,
Ruby,
C#,
Go,
OCaml.
Similar? I don't know about France, but in Germany it's free, in Holland you even get money from the government to study.
anybody up for charting this data?
From one side, it is exactly what Facebook should be better at than any other company; targeting specific people by interest and location, and networking that via the social graph. If my wall post provided free advertising for a company when I purchase a deal, there is a higher chance for my friends to consider the deal.

On the other hand, Facebook has done a remarkable job not trying to become the Google of the internet. For instance they seem to have left Zynga alone to make games; where as Google has tried to buy (DoubleClick) or copy (Buzz) every product which came along in a niche that they hadn't reached into yet.
For the record, I am the OP, but this isn't my blog. I previously linked to the databases on HN, and just saw now that the owner of this blog did some analysis on it.

But I do agree that there seemed to be some faulty entries. This was the case for all of the previous years I looked at.
What does it mean that individualized customer service does not scale? It does for paypal, amazon and pretty much any other large co dealing with payments.

Perhaps one day google will wake up and realize that they in fact have products other than search and that they may require a new attitude towards customer service. By all means optimize so the fewest people need to call you up - but don't leave people feeling helpless when your silly online help doesn't cut it.
"RAID helps smooth out flaky performance"

Really? My experience with EBS has been more to the opposite... especially with write performance.

If you got to write data, you got to write data. Flakey performance becomes more likely as more volumes are added.

Previously I think AWS engineers recommended we use RAID0 with EBS... ugh. Don't care cloud or not, RAID0 on production DB servers sounds downright suicidal.
"I always wonder what's keeping ESPN, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, HBO, AMC, FX etc from just setting up websites. I realize most of these companies rely heavily on advertising, but why not just charge like $5/month and buy your shows a la carte."

The distributors (cable and satellite cos) and media companies both have self interest in preserving the a la carte model (many people mistakenly assume it's just in the distributor's interest). Let's take a look at the examples you mentioned: ESPN (Disney), Comedy Central (Viacom), Cartoon Network (Turner/Time Warner), HBO (Time Warner), AMC (Cablevision), FX (Fox) are all owned either by distributors or by media conglomerates that own multiple channels and have an interest in pushing 'packaged content' so that when ESPN is placed in the standard package for DirecTV, DirecTV can also be forced to take ESPN2, ESPN3, Disney Kids, etc. into the same tier and pay an incremental per sub fee for each add'l channel. That's a big part of what's keeping media cos. from going a la carte; they've decided that jamming additional channels into lower tiered satellite packages makes them more money than offering individual over-the-top subscription access.
For anyone in the SF area and interested in this kind of discussion, there is an event this Wed and early May:

How our free iOS app went viral and generated $50k in 6 months

http://judgemeapp.eventbrite.com/

One point they will be discussing:
- How did we generate publicity and buzz upon launch

(note: I'm not affiliated with the event at all, just attending)
Sorry, but you're (mostly) incorrect. The field for all modern MRI machines is provided by a superconducting magnet, this magnet is "on" all the time, by virtue of the superconducting ring current. The additional fields applied during analysis are inconsequential.

Where you are right is that the fields decay quite quickly (exponentially, in fact) as you move away from the magnet. For the metal chair in the picture to be "sucked in" to the field, I would assume that someone would have had to basically insert it into the bore.
I am genuinely curious: What does S&P claim their credit rating reflects?

It is obvious that the US government will always be able to pay both interest and principal on treasury bonds, because they are the ones who run the monetary system: they are sovereign. There is no way that they could ever become unable to fulfil their contractual obligations. To believe that the US government may become unable to pay out US$ is as absurd as believing that Blizzard may become unable to pay out World of Warcraft in-game gold.

So again, what is it that S&P claims to be measuring?

There is a chance that the US government defaults voluntarily for political reasons, whatever those may be - is it that possibility that S&P claims has now increased? Or something else that I am missing?

The reporting reads as if the US government is subject to the inability to pay like some private borrower, or like non-sovereign countries like Greece. But that is not the case. So what gives?

Edit: This confirms my suspicions and also the sentiment voiced by the sibling comment: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/04/18/is-anyone-li...
I'm also surprised to see BB support. Does anyone know if I can install it without the AppWorld installed?

Edit: Doesn't appear so. Also, their webpage didn't seem very mobile friendly.
I've been using Wowza-based EC2 instances for periods of high traffic.

It is $5/month, plus the other Amazon charges.

http://www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.php
While I don't doubt some teacher at some school somewhere on america may have done something ill conceived, do you have a source? A quick Google found some common core work on estimation which was multiple choice, clearly geared towards understanding magnitude.

Teachers don't sit around all day thinking up ways to trick students and anger their parents.
Does telling a rape survivor that she has to have her breasts groped in order to fly seem reasonable?
"Could it be that once you reach a certain level of size in any organization bureaucracy and complexity turns up?"

I would tend to agree with that, although I've seen startups run by bad managers install a pointlessly complex hierarchy for no reason other than that companies have hierarchies.

"The reason why Amazon might have "terrible engineering" while the sleekest app startup doesn't is because Amazon is really, really big."

No. Their abysmal engineering is by far the worst I've ever seen... well, not by far, what I ran into at Disney gave Amazon a run for its idiocy. The reason for the terrible engineering is that amazon is a Gen-Y shop. The company is notorious for abusing employees, and very clearly shows preferential treatment to interns rather than seniors. They have a lot of trouble hiring experienced engineers, and since everything they do is an emergency, they put however they can on the job... in other words, most of Amazon's mission critical software was designed and implemented by people who either just graduated from college, or hadn't yet (interns).

And then they hire seniors to "fix" it... the culture is such that they think "smart" is the ticket, and don't value the wisdom and knowledge that come with experience.

Now count the number of successful companies to the number that aren't. And take into account the number of unsuccessful projects compared to the number of successful ones, even at successful companies. What I suspect that you'll find is that in most companies, even successful ones, the primary reason that projects "succeed" is that the management changes its definition of "success" in order to avoid taking blame for mis-managing a project to its demise.
EPIC's case is the farthest along; the government is trying to delay, but the first hearing may be in December. Plaintiffs include Bruce Schneier and Chip Pitts (Stanford Law professor and former head of Amnesty International USA).

ACLU's part of the "Privacy Coalition" along with EPIC, BORDC, EFF, and a lot of other groups ... they coordinate pretty well on issues like this to avoid duplicated effort.
I hope he does become an attorney.
You can "printf debug" Haskell code pretty well using 'trace' (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/...) which was designed for the purpose.

The lack of gdb support for Haskell is very irritating, but it seems you won't get that with Scotch at the moment either.
An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy
that anyone activating a security alarm
has two options. One is to opt out and
not fly, and the other option is to subject
themselves to an enhanced pat down.

Extra checking on someone who actually sets off the alarm doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
> ensure the integrity of the program through revision

Yes, that is what I am thinking: each step is like sending the signal through a noisy channel (that also does some transforming -- it is not an exact analogy). But testing doesn't seem to be carefully designed to address the particular kinds of 'noise'/mistakes that humans make.
This really highlights the unreliability of eyewitness testimony (well, and corruption in the DA's office and police department, but that's another story).

Perhaps one upside to the coming ubiquity of cameras is an increased availability in actual evidence for crimes.
Context:

I am preparing some presentation for an Ignite event and I asked my future audience which topic they would like me to cover.

I decided to blog about the topics that I won't be presenting at the Ignite event.
My father makes too much. :(
I agree with you, but I don't think most of those things are really vital for a great text editor. For the most part, it's just a giant window with your text in it, maybe a sidebar or two. Most of the magic happens under the hood. That's why I think this is a good idea.

Dunno about cross-platform app development, but Cocoa on OSX is pretty nice. QT isn't bad either, from what I've tried.
I know it's a stretch, but technically, you are opting in by downloading and running the program, and therefor accepting some sort of privacy policy or ToS.
Texas is doing better than California on this issue:
http://www.petersesq.com/2014/02/cell-phone-searches-ca-vs-t...
The audit looks actually legit, but still they are located in a 14 eyes jurisdiction, not really the best for privacy
The top end model S weighs about 2300kg, so it's not really much of a difference.
Too high contrast. You always go #333 over #FFF.
> And I know it to be true, just as you do, and every other person here on HN knows it to be true. I lived through it. That "attitude" is one of the major things holding back Linux on the desktop. Sad, but true.

Maybe you should stop assuming your anecdotal experience is representative of the entire community.
This doesn’t surprise me at all.

Obviously not a direct correlation, but I’ve been surprised at how critical my internal vocalization of words is to my ability to solve a word puzzle game I’ve been playing recently.

In short, my ability to find a word that matches a pattern of blank letters is almost
entirely dependent on my ability to pronounce those that might fit. If the word that matches has a pronunciation that doesn’t quite fit the usual patterns, I’ll have a very hard time recognizing it.
Notice how one of the first marketing points of this new monstrosity is "passenger safety". Because the safety of the passengers in a vehicle the size of a truck with the performance of a sports car is really important. Given the poor standard of driver training it's going to be suicide to drive smaller car soon, let alone be on a bicycle or walking.
I always, always forgot what column aliases I can use where. Thanks for the reminder.
> Reservation is only $100 whereas the Model Y is $2500.

This doesn't surprise me. The Cybertruck is going to be a harder sell than the Model Y, so they want to keep the barrier to entry much lower.
I think one good test of the counting-friendliness of a language is reciting the digits of pi (the limitation is obvious: only single digits are considered).

Among the few languages I know, I can easily recite the first twenty digits after the decimal point in Mandarin within three seconds. In English it’s just painful, at least for me.
Here's my vote for planting more trees and especially letting older forests grow and thrive.
Oh man, yes. I'd blocked all my scaring memories of btrfs biting me in the ass.