jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure.
But, let's also stop feeding the Apple App Store beast.
15-30% cut for little-to-no value added.
Complete monopolization.
Can't side-load apps without paying an yearly-fee.
Having functioning and accurate reverse-DNS is required for mail servers, as lots of mailservers reject mail from servers without correct reverse DNS. There's likely other protocols where having functioning reverse DNS is a necessity or strongly advantageous as well.
Well, that's electoral politics for ya. Without organized labor power to stand up to capital, things are close to a one-way ratchet.
I know it's as "old as the hills", and so on, but this was the first time I was feeling it too. But I think it's because one satiric comment just got a lot of attention [1], then other people started to do a bit of satire as well. Which is why it feels Reddit like. Looking at the other comments and top child comments, I don't see it either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261247
I'd like to add https://pirsch.io/ as an alternative. The main differentiation from Plausible and Fathom is, that it can be used from your backend, so that adblockers can't block the script and you still get GDPR compliant statistics for your websites.
Slightly OT: I don't like defer much, it's just another way to do automated RAII style cleanups. It has slightly different tradeoffs than RAII (it's more of an "in-line" way of coding things) but in the end it's another high-level feature that obfuscates the actual control flow.

To be clear, I don't think that chains of cleanup-labels with corresponding gotos are better. As a long-time OOP basher, I find myself using more and more explicit state structures with "object" semantics: There's a destructor that cleans the state up from every possible configuration except "uninitialized". As far as possible, objects should already be considered initialized when cleared to 0. (This idiom is called ZII, or zero-is-initialization).

A problem with defer is that if one has to split what the function does in multiple functions, defer breaks, and one needs a completely different solution (explicit state structure). Not to praise it too much but with RAII you don't pay that cost.

In other words, as so many language features, defer offers to save early typing work early, at the expense of later friction, or even of requiring a re-write, when the times comes to solidify the code structure.

Disclaimer: I've never actually typed the word defer in any programming language. :-)
As someone who benefited personally from Encircle, I’m glad to see them get support. And, maybe more important, recognition on a large stage so that more people can be aware of the work they do.
It does when payday rolls around ;)
not to mention the page is completely broken (no content) with JavaScript disabled.

The article still brings up good advice, for whatever it's worth.
Of course, Comcast's own OTT services are exempt from the data cap. What a coincidence :)
There is a $20 fee to cancel. Campsites are first come, first serve, reserved on a rickety DNR server or over a phone. Predictably, on February 8, when it first opened, said server was hugged to death:

https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/02/cant-reserve-your-favorit...

If you want the good sites, you have to reserve early. The system works great for old rich retired folks who have nothing better to do than call and find open campsites, and for whom the $20 fee for a no-show in their $200,000 RV doesn't matter at all, so I think it's unlikely to change to a lottery system or similarly more fair alternative any time soon.

If you're not willing to deal with the system, more rustic sites are often available. No electric (use solar or a quiet inverter generator), no water (but often close enough to a full-service campground you can fill your fresh tank, drive in, and drive out to empty your grey and black tanks before making the long drive home), but generally less crowded.
I can't think of a more meaningless sentence nowadays than "we take your privacy seriously".
Congrats, Dalia! I hope we'll continue to see posts from you in the future, documenting your progress.
Secret service is personal protection not law enforcement or military.

BG has plenty of resources and is essentially virtue signalling a lifestyle of carbon neutrality while his actual life is one that would be extremely unsustainable if many other people did the same.
Proponents of single family zoning in berekely in 1916 were explicitly racist. It was a way for them to exclude black people from town, and at the time housing segregation by race was both legal and common. This is quite well known.
> the technology is broken beyond fixability.

Saito fixes it (https://saito.io/arcade). There is no 51% attack and no scalability trilemma. So you have a network that pays for itself and generates a quantifiable cost-of-attack in all situations.

This doesn't answer your final question -- what the use cases are for a public network that cannot exclude users -- but isn't claiming there is no difference between that and permissioned networks the same as saying that Linux will never catch on because it is competing with Windows?

Openness is the bazaar.
I grew up reading Calvin and Hobbes every day with a bowl of cereal. I have at some point or another had all of the strips.

I'm sitting outside a vet right now, awaiting my sick cat so I can have one last night with him. This strip was exactly what I needed right now. Thank you so very much.
O Rational, rational,

wherefore art thou rational?

Deny thy prior and refuse thy game

Or if trials not, warranty void of

And I’ll no longer make a captious bet.
> capitalism systematically creates poverty by depriving income to the ~50% of the population that are not full time workers

What income are they depriving them from? If they aren’t working, how could anyone deprive them of an income that doesn’t exist?
Can you extract actual money from your equity or is it locked in until some future event happens? Private stock can be internally valued highly but the hard part is extracting the value. Before going public so many events can legally occur to reduce the value of your shares.

Don't count your chickens before they have hatched.
I suspected that was in the mix and wanted to leave space for you to say so. I’ve been on this track too. This is why my approach is to extract as much value out of my privilege as I can and funnel as much of that as I can to my people who don’t share that privilege.
These attempts haven't failed because they are intrinsically worse, but because they were systematically threatened and sabotaged by the greed-driven players.
I'd volunteer. I'm 41 and about to be up for my turn as an educator. I feel OK about the mitigations in my classroom and my overall level of risk, and a bit guilty about getting my dose earlier than most; a 50-50 chance of delaying my second dose doesn't appreciably make the risk picture worse.

If my second dose was delayed, odds are I'd end up with better long term immunity, too, even though my risk in the intermediate period would be higher.

> It would be horribly unethical to give people a placebo who didn't volunteer.

No shit. That's why I said "enroll" -- this includes getting consent. I suspect finding 20k people to volunteer out of the ~10M dosed per week wouldn't be that hard.
Three hours well spent. Never a dull moment in the browser business. From downward—funargs and twinkies to browser wars and bitcoin.
Don't understand why this is down voted, it's being one paycheck away from poverty that keep 70% of Americans from telling off their bosses
A good source of information would be really old German ladies that lived there at the time. Not too many men from that era survive but there are still quite a few old ladies and their collective memories must hold some very valuable stories. They're in their 80's and 90's now so it's still possible to get this first hand. But it won't be possible for very long.

Berlin was in ruins, the city divided up into 4 sectors, east and west increasingly more insulated from the each other.
Some of the use cases are already covered by Step Functions.
I would be very wary of reading too much into the tone of a translation, especially when the language has been dead for so long.
Bingo! And it's not just in tech/IT, but in other related fields as well. The real answer is that the Fed has been a bit overly skittish when it comes to balancing economic growth vs. inflation, despite real inflation remaining at very low rates over the past decade.

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/7/18166951/skills-gap-modestino-s...
I'm using chrome-aws-lambda on Lambda and it works like a dream. Luckily for my use case I don't need images, fonts, etc.

There's also GCF for those on Google Cloud. I have used Browserless' trial and felt like the 2+ GB instances were kind of expensive because they require reservation unlike Lambda where you get 400,000 GB-seconds and 1M request per month for free.
Switzerland used to be quite poor until not long ago. It was a mostly subsistence farming country, and throughout the 1800s, it was a nation that people emigrated from.
Actually Google is where it is now because they were the first to build a search engine that did not trust the webmaster and therefore succeeding where competitors were sucombing to the first scirmishes in the eternal SEO war.
> "What is remarkable about today’s oligarchy is not its ruthlessness but its pettiness and purposelessness."

yup. the 0.1% is really good at hoarding capital, but to what end? none, apparently.

a startlingly coherent summary and critique of the many socioeconomic ills that we tend to discuss opportunistically here.

we non-0.1-percenters need to hone in on undoing the systemic changes since the 70's that has led to this gross and aimless inequity.
Thanks a lot for this positive reply! I am thrilled to read that this might be counted a regression and actually fixed. I really hope that can happen.

Regarding 'L', Lynx sometimes "hides" links if the anchor is around a div. Maybe it is just that simple. IIRC, <a href=...><div>...</div></a> will trigger a similar behaviour.

Regarding your Chrome suggestion, that really doesnt help me much since I spend 99% of my workday on a plain virtual console. The context switch of moving to another computer that runs Windows for simple searches is really not practical.

Again, thanks for spotting this and acting on it!
Focusing on making it medical related won't increase your chances by much if at all, only to narrow your opportunities. If you can code, it shouldn't matter. Speaking from experience and from people I know personally, your lack of a degree isn't the main deterrent from getting a job programming in most cases
More like a mutual agreement to request services from each other when they are required.

E.g. to ask you if you want a particular contract (when it needs to be fulfilled regardless). Not to 'come up' with a contract because your 'bro' is out of work.
The problem isn't gaining meanings; it's losing them. If unique becomes a synonym for unusual, then we no longer have a word that means unique.

I think these battles are worth fighting. As does Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w
Your analysis doesn't seem to affect the most important part of the quotation, which is that free thought is impossible when some opinions too dangerous to express.
The paper (arxiv:2103.04689) linked by eutropia above has some empirical evidence on the ML side, showing that performance of predictive coding is not so far off backprop. And there is no shortage of suggestions for how neural circuits might work around the strict requirements of backprop-like algorithms.

cs702's original comment above is excessively hyperbolic: the compositional structure of Bayesian inversion is well known and is known to coincide structurally with the backward/forward structure of automatic differentiation. And there have been many papers before this one showing how predictive coding approximates backprop in other cases, so it is no surprise that it can do so on graphs, too. I agree with the ICLR reviewers that this paper is borderline and not in itself a major contribution. But that does not mean that this whole endeavour, of trying to find explicit mathematical connections between biological and artificial learning, is ill motivated.
Is "everyone does it" a good argument?. Clear to all? Not according to @bambax. Also, libel law? Why are you bringing up libel law. Manipulation of comments and fake reviews isn't libel.
No, I don't. I'm specifically referring to 1950-1980.
You cannot (a) measure talent and (b) not have it related to income.

One way to get rich is to be smart. As a result, rich people are likely to have genes that cause higher IQ, which they pass on to their children. (There is evidence for this.) They also have more books around the house, and spend more on teaching their children. And in other ways they are likely to provide an enriched environment. As a result, their children will on average be smarter than other people's children by the age of 18.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about inequality. For example, we should try and provide enriched environments for poor children. We should also try to design tests that capture "innate talent" rather than "expensive education".

But if you try to create a measure of talent that is not related to income, you will fail, and if you try hard enough, you will effectively cease to measure talent.
>David Boies

That David Boies? I guess law firms will represent whoever will pay, but it seems somewhat funny that he also represented The SCO Group in their litigation against IBM...
Also phones with good cameras and more than 4gb of RAM?
Burger buns, fry boxes, burger wraps, bags, receipts, etc. are all vectors.

Consider that fast food workers are generally living on the margin and will be more tempted to work when sick, in general.
Indeed:
https://therecount.com/watch/trump-coronavirus-calendar/2645...
I'm afraid this is another wealth grab similar to 2008 but x10 bigger. What was an international health emergency turned into another large scale robbery of the common folks.
> How does injecting money solve a problem that’s not caused by lack of money?

Not an expert on this but decreased money velocity (the thing we witness right now) can be seen from the outside in fact as "lack of money".
That's because South Korea rolled out massive testing early, so they caught it before more extreme measures were necessary. On top of that, Koreans did a good job of voluntarily complying with social distancing measures.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-south-ko...

And from the article:

> Everyone who is infected in South Korea goes into isolation in government shelters, and phones and credit card data are used to trace their prior movements and find their contacts. Where they walked before they fell ill is broadcast to the cellphones of everyone who was nearby.

> Anyone even potentially exposed is quarantined at home; a GPS app tells the police if that person goes outside. The fine for doing so is $8,000.
While you are reasonable to be sceptical over the official reports, I have no insight into the true number, I am sure there is still some lingering virus floating around in China. That said, you are grossly underestimating the cultural response to this: here is some flavour of how people acted different in China.

Chinese New Year (equivalent to Christmas / New Year if you are a westerner) was effectively cancelled by the government, and I know that my in-laws at least adhered to this and all their neighbours did as well.

The government were happy to physically dig up roads to contain Wuhan, and people outside Hubei would snitch on people fleeing Hubei so they would be sent back.

My mother in-law has been in isolation since the end of January, solely venturing out to buy supplies. She wears a mask when she leaves, and she immediately showers + disinfects her clothes when she gets home.

This may surprise you, but she is not really in the minority. People in Asia are fairly risk-averse when it comes to contagion, coupled with the history of SARS, the community-level response to COVID-19 has been starkly different.

Separately, a friend living in Shanghai said (during February) that the only people out on streets were expats/foreigners.
You're way off base. We're not going to "accept" the risk of dying tomorrow any more than we do today. This isn't about old people dying. It's about 40-80% getting infected, 17-20% needing hospitalization and there not being enough beds. Simple as that.
If the fed plays politics, the politicians will play politics back, but harder.
Some people want to watch the world sneeze
I like the book, but in the other hand I don't like some parts of it. It seems that they circle around DDD and repeating the same concepts. You can find many more DDD related books than this one.

I was expecting something more of security related content and mitigation tactics.
Poking through Wikipedia's entry on Colossus led me to http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/487682 , which has this quote: "My laptop digested ciphertext at a speed of 1.2 million characters per second – 240 times faster than Colossus. If you scale the CPU frequency by that factor, you get an equivalent clock of 5.8 MHz for Colossus. That is a remarkable speed for a computer built in 1944."

It should be pointed out that a linear scaling is inappropriate, though, because Colossus was not Turing complete, which makes direct comparisons very tricky. The very oldest things we today call "computers" tended to do a lot of stuff in very, very specialized hardware, and converting that into a modern-day, very general-purpose "clock cycle" is not trivial. It might be better to understand this as a glorified GPU-like processor. Only even less powerful, as it was even more special-purpose than a modern GPU.

(Or at least it will be better, if you understand the intrinsic limitations of GPU-like processing. If you're a Cell fanboy who bought the Sony's PS3 gibberish about performance hook line and sinker and still haven't worked out why Cell-based computers haven't destroyed Intel without invoking some sort of paranoid theory, that might not be as helpful a way of understanding things as I'd like.)
Without knocking any other business model, there is a lot to be said for sole proprietor plus freelancers/suppliers/etc. I can only do what I do because of about a dozen other folks who pitch in from time to time -- but if needs change and their business and my business need to go our separate ways, it feels like merely not calling someone back, rather than like a divorce.
The sports report is aimed at sports fans whereas mainstream science reporting is simplified and aimed at everyone.
Readability[0] handles it ok.

[0] http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Wage slavery does not imply free choice.

Here's an article about people who had their arms hacked off with axes when they tried to leave their bonded labour.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27486450
Worth visiting ArtRank.com which subverts much of the emerging art speculation
Right, which is why I didn't do that (unlike the entire point of the URL in the OP, which does that).

I just said that those groups of people don't have hundreds or thousands of machines to manage if they can maintain a custom naming scheme. I didn't say everyone has to do that. All my personal servers are few-lettered women's names. Laura, Amy, Mary, Sara, Christy, etc. To each, their own.

So please don't troll for karma. Especially on Christmas. Especially on HN.

Or maybe I misunderstood your point as being some snippy remark, in which case, sorry.
Couldn't agree more, the likealittle flirting "site" is another from the same breed, although I think they might pre-date the movie.

Wouldn't it be fantastic/ironic/funny if the eventual downfall of FB came because the movie lit so many entrepreneurial fires....
Ah the cynic in me. This sounds like a new generation of bubble memory (1970) with the physics and hype scaled for the times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
I agree with lovskogen. There's a number of designers / UI guys mixed in here on HN. Feel free to email me or make a Ask HN's Designers post.
Yeah, no worries, I didn't mean to be condescending. That all sounds totally reasonable... I just forget there are people that don't live on the command-line sometimes.
As a compliment to my sibling's Rails comment, they're still shipping Ruby 1.8 as well, which hasn't been the main version of Ruby since January of 2009.
> "Ruby is a language that moves very, very quickly."

and later

> "This makes sense from a system administration perspective, but it's a huge pain when you're trying to do Ruby development"

It's a developer's world.

Having been a Rails programmer working on some internals projects in the company that I used to work, I like both Ruby and Rails.

But now I'm' working as an operations guy (ie, a sysadmin) in a new company, we came short of adopting redmine and maybe opening the road for more ruby and rails software to be used, we already use puppet and so every sysadmin now knows ruby, so it would be good to include some more ruby to internal use, but it was just a pain in the ass to maintain the rails-based infrastructure, in both Debian and CentOS, the distributions that we use. Fedora and Arch is not used in the servers, so it cannot be used.

This is old, and just touches one aspect of the problems (shared hosting, which I do not deal with), but it does have some good rants, specially the point 2 of "How it could be better": http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/07/how-ruby-on-rails-could...
" 'I can freeload on the works of others for some investment in comprehension and customization', which is how I felt the author framed his situation at times. "

That was a huge, unnecessary leap from your part. I did not read it like that. To me, it was more like "we were going to leverage the existing projects and add to that and give back (as they said they will do), but we could not because the underlying projects are not mature so right now it is more work to fix than to start from scratch."

I don't know if what they did is advisable or not. All I am saying yours is an unnecessarily aggressive conclusion attacking someone who just spent a lot of time warning the community about a lot of the issues under discussion.
How many times do we need to post this?
I "like" the affiliate links to amazon on the bottom. It is the startup way - monetize everything.
I like Scala because of the amount of Libraries, Concurrency Primitives available.

Algebird is one of my favorite projects of all time.
No need to doubt. There are already some very encouraging stuff going on:

Malawi app 'teaches UK pupils 18 months of maths in six weeks' : http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29063614
I'd prefer La Cucaracha