jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how repealing section 230 helps Trump. If anything it would hurt more than ever. It means all the death threats, fraud, and abuse get stuck on media companies. If it weren't for section 230 eternal september would have dissapeared by now.
Sure, I think it's totally fine to be appalled by deplatforming. I do think people should have a voice, I also think it's the right of platform owners to decide what terms of service they set and what discourse they consider ok. The point is not to say deplatforming should be ok in all and any cases, the point is to highlight the hypocrisy, or perhaps abandonment of so-called core/staunchly held beliefs, that emerges once those beliefs are suddenly at odds with maintaining power.

edit: to put it another way, it unveils that one of the identifying principles of the ideology is not a principle but a convention, upheld so long as its convenient.
What exactly do you think is inconsistent? Parler allows its users to openly plan violence. This past Wednesday has proven those plans weren't empty.
Ann Arbor (and U of M, etc.) is in Washtenaw County, not Oakland.
We need something like that...

I think he's saying there should ideally be more demand, not that supply should be forced.

narrow circle of like-minded friends

There really are informed consumers out there who evaluate products based on all available information, and the people who trust them may take the lazy route and imitate. That can look like wankery if you dismiss informed consumption outright.
OK, in short, I don't understand your position. It seems indistinguishable from someone who doesn't understand anything about the infinities, and then you assert that you have a degree in math.

OK. Let me quote you:

Where I part ways with mathematicians is the intuition
we should ascribe to Cantor's argument. They say that
"almost all" real numbers are irrational.

As you know, that claim does not arise from Cantor's argument at all, it comes from measure theory. Cantor's argument about the uncountability of the reals (or of the set of subsets of a countable set, or the fact that the power set is always strictly bigger) says nothing about "almost all."

If you want to talk about "almost all" then you have to go to measure theory.

Having said that, certainly if you color all the rationals red, and all the irrationals blue, then there are more blue than reds, and the amount by which it's more is a lot.

What Cantor's argument says is that "at least one" is
irrational.

No. Cantor's argument says that for every countable set of reals, at least one is missing. Cantor's argument actually says nothing about rationals or irrationals.

I know the arguments about measure and probability and
such,

OK - I'll take that as a true statement.

... there is also the fact that for every two real
numbers, there is an infinity of rational numbers
in between!

So? What do you think is the problem with that? Why does this cause you difficulty? In particular, it's only a small infinity. Between any two rationals there is a bigger infinity of irrationals.

Your problem seems to be that you are trying to visulaise this in terms of finite collections and finding inconsistencies/contradictions. It's like being confused that the set of even numbers is the same size as the set of integers, when it should be "half the size." It's pretty much the same type of confusion, but at the next level up.

So that makes me (personally, not mathematically)
not like the "almost all" intuition, instead of an
intuition of there always being at least one more,
in a particularly slippery way.

This doesn't make any sense to me - it communicates no knowledge or understanding of your position. You will need to expand it substantially before I can try to help you adjust your intuition to be more in tune with mainstream mathematics.
Eh yeah, thanks for correcting me.
What a shame that we condemn brilliant minds to two decades of meaningless grinding before we allow them to unleash their creativity.
Signed up for the waitlist. Just a quick question when you say construct sector specific indexes - are these indexes available for others to invest ? So for instance let's say i create an index and show my skin in the game by investing in that index with returns - can others potentially follow suit and invest in that index or even a portfolio ? This is something that I have been ruminating on for a while.
I think it was Ken Mcleod did a sci-fi novel where the only software to survive an infocalypse was the firmware in the Kalashnikov rifles of the day
Can you elaborate on healthcare. What don't you like about it?
A few years back I tried an iPhone app (123D Catch from Autodesk) that allowed creating 3D models just by manually moving the phone around an object. No turntable or stand needed.

It worked surprisingly well, but was unfortunately discontinued. Since it was cloud based the app no longer works :(

I wonder if there are any similar apps available now?
I'm always like "WHAT!? How is this possible? Why didn't the bus/train/airline just declare bankruptcy, ending the jobs of 20,000 people at once, and do an IPO without unionized workers a year later!?"

If the bus company did what you suggest a lot of European people would boycott the new one.
The point you're making is orthogonal to the one I was making: the force ~ voltage analogy breaks down at KCL/KVL (as well as ungrounded inductors), while the force ~ current analogy breaks down only for ungrounded capacitors.

"Ungrounded capacitors" refers to capacitors which do not have at least one terminal connected to the reference voltage (ground). These break the force ~ current analogy because with that analogy, capacitors, which are two-terminal devices, are analogous to flywheels, which are one-terminal devices. The velocity (voltage) of the second terminal is effectively zero.

Your reading of my post is close to correct. The force ~ voltage analogy is incorrect however you look at it because KCL and KVL don't hold. The "old" force ~ current analogy does hold except for the case of ungrounded capacitors, which the replacement of flywheels with inerters remedies.
An interesting thing to say since America's legal tradition is adapted directly from the UK's. Suing people is actually a good thing, when you consider that the alternative (before suing was an option) is a physical altercation of some kind or at least a physical threat (ie Since you did this to me I'm going to kill/steal-from/otherwise-injure-you).
Optimizing workflow does make money.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain

The final message of the article is "When the mocking gets the loudest, double down on your investments.", but that only applies if you think your investments are the right ones.
http://vimcasts.org/ has some excellent howto videos on Vim.
People are allowed to bundle SSL implementations in their apps without being subject to export restrictions. I don't think it matters whether you call Apple's API to issue an HTTPS request on your behalf or whether you ship the library yourself, the latter of which is definitely legal because big-time software such as Firefox or Apache would have been sued out of existence a long time ago if it wasn't. Now, Apple (and possibly the government) might decide to see it differently, but this is the letter and spirit of the international agreement governing crypto export.
I've never had the opportunity to do much with D3 myself, but one of the things that strikes me as really neat about D3 is that the data visualization is aesthetically pleasing (use of colors, transparency, stroke weight, etc.). I love to just sit and look at D3 documents because I often find them to be very soothing and enjoyable as visual elements, independent of the data being presented.

Conversely, I very rarely see any demonstrations of non-Web plotting/visualization tools (MATLAB, matplotlib, gnuplot, etc.) that look nearly as nice.

What's the reason for this? Does D3 look that nice out of the box, or are D3 users/demonstrators just more interested in flipping the appropriate bits and writing the code and doing the work to make sure that their data looks nice? I ask because I'm about to start playing with a personal project that isn't web based and that needs plotting. I'm seriously contemplating embedding a WebKit panel and using D3 to render the graphics, but I haven't had the chance to really invest a lot of time in studying plotting options. D3 has definitely given the best first impression though.
In addition to whats listed, legal judgments, back child support, wage garnishment.

This is why expensive check cashing exists, its cheaper to pay 5% than having all 100% of it seized by a collection agency without your knowledge, leading to a raft of bounced checks and related check bouncing fees.

You pretty much get one shot with the economic system, and if you're ever kicked out, that's it, all done, forever, other than heartwarming anecdotes and the like.
Completely disagree. While some of the questions had me look to the internet, most I was able to answer. I think that the more time you spend in the DOM, the more you run into these things and they become part of your knowledge set. Working on the same application day in, day out may not enforce this kind of knowledge, while having to create, work on and maintain a variety of applications will enforce knowledge retention. I'd argue that it's the difference between someone who works on a single product and a contractor who has to work on something new every hour/day/week.
I would rather have my phone be the one thing I carry around.
Robots can do "a bit of science" just as well, if not better. With a comparable budget, you'd see some pretty incredible robots on Mars. Meanwhile we're pissing away dollars shoving meatbags into tincans in LEO and pretending its progress.

Even during the madness of spending that was the Apollo program the time spent actually doing "a bit of science" was extremely limited. The cost per minute doing science with people is a whole different league than robots.
The banking reforms that took effect in 2010 have made it more difficult for banks to screw people with overdraft fees.

As an anecdote, less than two weeks before those protections went into effect, I overdraw my account. It was my fault, I lost track of my account balance and overdrew my account. I legitimately owed one overdraft fee. My bank, re-ordered the transactions for that day so that instead of merely overdrawing my account for one transaction, I overdrew it for five. I got a printout of my account activity and compared it to my purchases and figured out what they did. I called in and complained, they agreed to waive two of the five overdraft fees. I still ended up paying $90 for what should have been a $30 overdraft. I stopped doing business with that bank immediately. I have since switched to a credit union and have never looked back.

Community banks and credit unions are useful for the poor to get a foothold on financial stability.

I have a friend who, while not truly poor, is financially irresponsible and he has come to plan on paying overdraft fees every payday because he can't control himself for one month and not overdraw his account. I'm sure that his bank loved him, he was paying at least $60 per month in overdraft fees. He was actually upset that banks wouldn't default to offering him the "service" of allowing his overdrafts.
If you owe tax debt the IRS can seize your bank account. So can a few other parties, most notably state tax authorities and child support enforcement agencies.
One thing I see missing from these discussions is the notion of diminishing returns. In the end money is an abstraction over the productive capabilities of our economy. If I were to spend twice as much money on food I could get twice as much. But if the world doubled it's expenditures on food I doubt food production would go up by more than 30% or so. If you read charity evaluations at Givewell they always ask "How efficiently are they spending their money" but they also ask "Could they efficiently spend more money if it was given to them."

Another is that it seems odd how selectively we apply this argument. I often hear about the need to stop space exploration until everybody is fed but I don't think I've ever heard someone say we should stop making movies until we end hunger.
But that is the same question. Not everyone is trying to maximize their wealth all the time.

Do you ask "why did Linus write Linux when there were other operating systems available at the time and no one was paying him for it?" or similarly the Atheos.cx guy? Gnome when there was KDE? Gimp when there was Photoshop? Facebook when there was MySpace?
I use the multiprocessing module in python all the time for quick parallelism <https://medium.com/@thechriskiehl/parallelism-in-one-line-40... Let's you easily map to multiple cores. I use it a lot for image processing tasks. Quickly crawl through directories to find all the files, then spin up all the cores on my machine to crunch through them. Wish there was an easy way to enlist multiple machines.
Man, I would LOVE to see George R.R. Martin's plot outline
For those curious to see some numbers, this WP article [1] (2003) does a decent job -- among this, a projected ~25% population decline by 2050.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22...
Yes, The Federal Reserve has lent to banks since 2008 at a ~.15 interest rate. Banks then turn around and lend to you or business at a hire rate.

The reason that you are not getting interest on your bank account is because the banks don't want your money when they can get it from the federal reserves at cheap rates.

The federal reserves in 08 wanted consumers and business to spend money instead of keeping it in savings to spur the economy. (Let's not forget ~70% of GDP is consumer spending) Some will argue it has worked, others will argue it hasn't worked.

Snapchat is an example of an unintended consequences of very low interest rates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
$ gcc -O2 -std=c99 -lm -o c c.c
$ time ./c
./c 2.49s user 0.07s system 99% cpu 2.567 total
$ nim -d:release c nim
$ time ./nim
./nim 2.47s user 0.07s system 99% cpu 2.538 total

Yes, --opt:speed is slower indeed:

$ nim --opt:speed c nim
$ time ./nim
./nim 3.02s user 0.07s system 99% cpu 3.095 total
There are several papers on why GHC uses a typed intermediate representation-- System Fc-- safety being the main reason.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

An untyped representation is "just code", and that way lies madness. Bugs at least.
When I grew up the telephone company was still a state-run monopoly. To get telephone service connected you had to pay a nominal fee, independent of whether there was trenching and laying of cable involved, or if they just had to connect at the patch panel.

Today's unregulated quasi-monopolies are some progress. Can we get the government monopoly back? The thing is - it worked extremely well!
If anyone from Slack is reading this, the encryption should be an option, even if it means disabling or substantially slowing the search feature.
Why do I have to install Google Authenticator some sort of other app for 2factor here? Why can't you send me a text like everyone else does?

EDIT: Slack responded that they do not support SMS yet.
>>>It doesn’t have to be noble, it doesn’t have to be for the greater good, just do something!

I'd argue that to be inspired to pursue acts of greatness, people need to, in the words of Patrice O'Neal, "Believe in their own righteousness". I'd say that in the Western world today, that is HEAVILY frowned upon, and self-deprecating guilt over economic success is lauded as a virtue. We're in an awkward time, where we haven't reached conditions of post-scarcity, but still have instances of overwhelming material abundance. We are only a few generations removed (if at all), from times when humanity would slaughter each other by the millions to secure resources. It's in our DNA and in our culture, in deep-seated ways. So humans still have an acquisitive nature but have no muse to provide them with direction.

>>>Build a palace to rival the Queen’s! Build an enormous statue of yourself! Hire a thousand concubines on a desert island!

Yeah, that's how you end up with the commoners at your gate with pitchforks when the revolution comes. And on that last one.....arguably Epstein pursued that course of action and nobody says "Well at least he was doing something interesting" about that guy...
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If this change helps the group operate more in the open, and the group operating more in the open ends up benefiting China, I guess I don’t understand why I should have a problem with that. I’m sure lots of open source development has been beneficial to China (among many others of course).
Possibly, but there are other kinds of compromises such as allowing arbitrary order only within a class, the C++ way. Or another one: the first (quick) pass treats all function and reference type definitions as forward declarations and skips the details. This way the compiler might be able to do more permissive compilation though not 100% accurate like Swift currently does.
RISC-V originated from 5 year project called Parallel Computing Laboratory (Par Lab) at UC Berkeley. Par Lab received no direct federal funding. It was funded mainly by Intel and Microsoft and State of California.
That's because "the smartest guys in the room" that are supposed China experts have and to this day maintain that China is going to liberalize[1]. Which has been utterly disastrous policymaking. It's only been recently that public policymaking has actually reflected reality which has caused the swing in opinion.

[1]:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/making-china-a-us-en...
Don't mince words. In the extremely early days of YOUR startup, YOU didn't FEEL like you had much optionality. That is in no way universal. You very much do have optionality. You can quantify how much it costs to hire someone part time or full-time. You can quantify the risks of burning yourself out, or your manager can. Your firm had the optionality, you just chose to go in a very specific direction.

What I'm saying is that your firm survived in spite of, not because of this frankly amateurish decision.
The foil in this article were tabloids and paparazzi. I imagine you were not the one rifling through People magazine before Instagram, much in the same way you don’t follow these people now. Yet, these tabloids had cultural cachet among many, and no longer hold the same spot. Why is that? The answer appears to be Instagram, an app. Quite interesting, indeed.
Agreed, that's why I ask. Industrial and administrative unions do usually seek legibility in payscales. What would the h unions demand?

I'm trying to see past the nonspecific of "unions" to a specific union movement and what it could want (other than the union itself).
Well, Haskell does force you to go and update your types about your effects, and fix the use sites to do proper lifting.

I don't feel this costs much, though, so even in quick&dirty mode, I feel that Haskell is quite productive enough.
Same here. Diffs published from the Journal Officiel aren't so easy to parse.
I am afraid it could be manually generated, which is a dead end.
All German federal laws and regulations are here: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze

I do especially like the GitHub avatar: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1994383 ;)
Or you emulate an older OS (DosBox etc.) or use a VM.
I am on MacOSX and interested but spoiled by debian.

How do I come by the dependencies mentioned: libpcre, sqlite, ncurses, readline,zlib, bz2?
brew install doesn't know the formula if I brew install libpcre.
Sorry for being a noob.
Thanks for your reply. I would imagine there is some sort of gradual scale from no tuition to full tuition. My goodness, I thought it was a reasonable question, but it earned me a -4 in Hacker News!
JSFM is a JavaScript framework (https://github.com/anoopchaurasia/jsfm) that enables a developer to write codes in Java style architecture - the way key features in Java behave, such as Inheritance, Abstraction, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Constant, & Static. ECMAScript 6 is also coming up with similar feature set that have already been implemented in JSFM.
Windows 95 was the first release to support dragging of full window contents. I think that hack was even supported in the Windows 95 tech preview for Windows NT 3.51.
Sounds like their plan for this is just that the panels are super thick and therefore really hard to dent, though I don't know what that means for crumple zones and safety.

Perhaps there's an argument here that the bare metal will acquire a kind of patina, that the accumulation of small blemishes will over time contribute to an attractive worn look? That's certainly not how cars conventionally age, but it will be interesting to see what a Cybertruck looks like once it's got 200k miles on it.
Ooops, good catch, it got there from an old blog post of mine, just forgot to update the meta tags and re-used the old ones...
Microsoft still patched products so old they had lost the source code by editing the binary itself!
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15882683
It looks like it's a US-based company without enough of a European presence to fall under their jurisdiction.
Of all the places where you could find "epstein news" you choose to link the New York Post.
This is absurd. Tesla has had a period of danger of bankrupting every two years for its entire existence. Each of which they pulled out of by doubling deliveries.

They’re quite possibly the only car company who has had actual skin in the game in recent years.

The rest of them just went begging to Daddy (Congress) when they got themselves fully fucked.

Your notion that GM,
Ford, etc are somehow living in “the real world” seems willfully ignorant of history.
Right. I'd rather they increase the subscription fee.
I love Haskell as much as the next guy, but are we to believe that he has simply forgotten how to program in an imperative fashion? I doubt that. I guess he's asking "how do you make programming in ____ less painful"? That's a very open-ended question. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but if this gentleman wants serious responses he might want to get a bit more specific.

Otherwise it just comes off as a roundabout way to talk about how awesome Haskell is.
There are other encoding systems than Unicode out there.
The moral of the story is the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

You act like your the "first" to do something (or at least since the jetsons), then when someone calls you on it you fall back to a subtly different claim to be the "first to do it right" where right is a subjective opinion that can be argued with, but not an objective fact that can be disproved like your first claim.

It helps if you and your audience are both american and have little idea of what has been done and/or done right in telecommunications for years overseas. Then you can focus on the Android phone that introduced front facing cameras to the world last month as your benchmark for better.

Personally, I think video calling will be niche, but having a front facing camera will open the door to all kinds of cool 3rd party software like photo manipulation software similar to Photobooth on Mac OS X or the software built into the Nintendo DSi, or eye-tracking etc. This is where the policy that Apple only ships hardware that it finds a slick 1st party use for falls down. I have a video camera on my Macbook, only ever used for Photobooth and Skype, never video iChat.
Really? Downvoted? Did no one else find the sexism in that poster as noticeable as I did?
0. It's like calling someone to see if they got your email. If they read your blog, they read it. If they don't, write something more interesting. If you're so infrequent that you need to tweet when you blog then find something else to do.

tweet, blog... I feel dirty.