jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's really great to see the best Flash devs contributing back to JS/HTML5. This is a perfect application of using skills learned from Flash to make a really great lib.
It's interesting that some inmates have thousands of dollars in cash on their persons.
Well causing a bigger mess is kind of a big deal. If a toy poodle attacks me I can likely win. Against a pitbull, I don't like my odds.

And there are a LOT more pitbull fatalaties than your average mutt. See http://www.dogsbite.org/bite-fatalities-2010.htm
Just tried this out. Very cool start, looking forward to seeing how it evolves.

I would love to see either an API to pull one's own data to graph it. Or built in graphing of some sort. Also more activities overall. Looks like there are only 8.
Parse it as lisp.

It's haskell-type-system-speak for "If you declare something to be a String, it really means String or null."
Replied. I might be barking up the wrong tree, but it never hurts to at least pass it on :)
Wow, the "except as punishment for a crime" was used to reimplement slavery throughout the south from 1866 to 1941, with widespread arrests of black people on bogus charges, and then selling them to Corporations to be worked to death and beaten as a free labor source that can work 16 hours a day 365 days a year. And all well documented. I had not heard that before and I thank you for linking to a book that documents it.
Lua tables combine arrays and dictionaries, though. They have a dictionary-style interface, but basically, if you use consecutive integer keys, that portion of the dictionary is stored in an array with O(1) access and can be iterated in order.
They've been doing fine for money since they brought in reddit gold. The problem with hiring new staff had to do less with their revenue and more with Conde Nast's print-centric internal structure. That's why reddit gold worked out so well for them: they counted as "paid subscribers", which meant that reddit could get more money allocated for staff. Before, they had rarely had a problem getting servers or other infrastructure, but get approved to hire people to run them was difficult.
I'm also fond of

"What's the thing you like least about your job?"
This makes no damn sense. Any contact signal that Sputnik picked up would be via radio waves. Wouldn't any ground station hear this too? And why wouldn't the signal keep repeating since, until it got a response? Why hasn't every damn satellite heard it since? Why hasn't it been heard on the ground since? Why didn't frikkin SETI pick it up?
OT: Dickbar popping around the place meant that I spent 5 minutes trying to get adblock to work on the cdn and then gave up, don't know why I stayed so long. Don't know what's happened to adblock either ...
What does the current study prove? Some wines cost more?

What needs to be studied is if there is a correlation between price amd consumer preference. As far as I can tell, this was not an effort to do that, but rather to prove the obvious: you can't taste price. This is true for any kind of food.

Can you look at two pieces of art and tell which is ore expensive? No. Is better art more expensive? Sometimes, usually yes, and often eventually. Same can be said for wine. Price is a product of demand, demand depends on information and information distribution. Both products are small batch and highly personal, so price quality correlations will be less accurate and change over time.
The entire security model for consoles has always relied on trusting the client. It has never worked, and yet they keep doing it time and time again. It doesn't surprise me a bit that they did their network the same exact way.
algae fuel would be carbon-neutral.
> Your state of the art free codec might work great on a modern smartphone or PC, but good luck getting it to work on a Nintendo Switch or whatever weird console you're targeting. Bink is available for whatever game-specific platform hardware you're targeting.

So basically this means something like Bink has limited application time wise, and going forward it will become more and more obsolete because free codecs will cover all needed use cases sufficiently.
I love this stack. Although the one where you are most comfortable with is the way to go, hugo + netlify (and eventually add forestry if you need a real CMS) is astonishingly easy and straightforward to set up. Just amazing.

edit: About adding js libraries, just import them via html instead of using package managers
I like cut and tr too, but I try to replace them by sed and awk when I can. I reduces the number of moving parts, and allows you to increase the complexity slowly.

Ex: | sed -e step1 becomes | sed -e step1 -e step2 instead of adding another pipe and another "moving part" like tr
>The soldier who hiked out on to the moor, lay down in the heather and overdosed. Émile Durkheim, the great sociologist, theorised as to why suicide is so common among military personnel – not simply because of the devastating effects of war, or because of their easy access to weapons, but because of the depersonalising effect of army training: “Military esprit can only be strong if the individual is self-detached, and such detachment necessarily throws the door open to suicide.”

Is this saying that veterans can kill themselves more easily because they have more rational clarity about the situation? If so, isn't that a good thing? To be able to carry it out can certainly be framed as "strong" (I doubt I could, though I'd want to if I find myself in the position). Look at these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

If you've thought about it with a level head and conclude, "I want to log off now, that's enough existence for me," is it better to suffer under moral or peer pressure because others offhandedly want you to exist for as long as possible?
Google is where it is now, because they started as good guys. Everyone loved them because they were fixing problems, but they started to change since they became pubic and quarterly earnings became important.
As a fresh Yahoo! Developer Network employee I was the person who blabbed about the top-secret _callback parameter the weekend Pipes launched, which caused the service to be taken offline for capacity upgrade.

I had an interesting series of voicemails, ranging from "dude, WTF?" to "okay, we need to talk to you right away" to "we're pretty sure you're fired" but ending with "hey, Tim O'Reilly picked it up and ALL IS FORGIVEN THANK YOU!!!"

https://web.archive.org/web/20070302201929/http://developer....
You'd also want a much better antenna than what you could fit in a phone.
I'm not sure you can call XOR+static key "rolling your own crypto". :-/
You can escape with \5.
Those aren't job skills. Those are all things you learn as part of your basic education.

So again, what actual skills do you learn on the job? If your argument is that we should remove the minimum wage to help people who can't make it through the educational system, I think the actual argument is that our educational system is fucked and needs to be fixed. Even then, most of the unemployed have those skills you've mentioned but aren't hired for any number of reasons unrelated to their competency or wages.
Fate is a "real" thing. Predestination is another word for it. Everything is cause & effect and you cannot change the path you're on.
I suspect it was more that they never intended to use "true encryption" but just wanted to lightly obfuscate the data. Using strong crypto in a commercial product, especially one intended for international distribution, still brings up a bunch of legal issues that they may have been trying to sidestep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

Having worked before (fortunately not for long) in an environment where trying to argue for "using the OS's crypto library is easy" would've been shot down with a strict "NO!" from management, I can definitely see how this situation occurred. That was a long time ago, but this may have been code left over from that era, and I'm not surprised if many more examples of such, along with people who are still in that mindset, still exist today.

I've seen similar things in all manner of other software (mostly DRM-related, so I won't say more...) --- it's not a hard wall, but a shield from casual observers and "keeping the honest people honest" type of idea.
I agree when SMS 2FA is strictly in addition to a password, and the phone number isn’t used for account recovery (or marketing), it is theoretically no worse than just a password. The problem is it still with great
2FA, and the kind of sites which do SMS 2FA are exactly the ones incompetent enough to turn it into SMS-based password recovery which is worse than no 2FA.

(The other use of SMS which is somewhat legitimate is as a cost gate to create new accounts. Generally creating a new SMS receiving phone number costs someone more than a new email, so if you want to crudely limit creation of large numbers of accounts by individual users, it can be an option.)
What's the difference between your argument and the following?

"Starlink doesn't have an inherent right to launch satellites, and many new astronomy papers will be published in the next few years. If they want to continue launching satellites, it will be their responsibility to do so."

The telescopes were here first, and are in many cases for the public good. Why does Starlink's dubious, potential private good outweigh that?

To be clear, I am talking about ethical, not legal, responsibility.
This leads to an interesting, possibly reusable turn of phrase: a few geniuses short of a posse.
The glass was extremely impressive. You obviously saw the height drop tests demonstrating the Tesla glass as vastly superior to traditional auto glass.
95%. Myself included.
This is what happens when an Aztec mates with a Delorean. This is the biggest boondoggle, maybe ever. The Reliant Robin has more charisma than this thing.
I made an FF add-on for myself that applies css styles to elements matching a given regex. Currently, I only use it to apply visibility: hidden to elements containing text or attribute values matching domains I've blacklisted, including facebook.com, twitter.com and instagram.com. Because I have it enabled, my version of hidelikeseverywhere.com looks like this [1]. Bonus, I won't be able to see this comment on HN because I mention domains in the list :)

I also have the blacklist in uBO, but I was getting sick of accidentally clicking links I didn't realize went to sites I already knew I never wanted to visit.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/xHF0GcX.png

Edit: I guess this plugin has a different purpose than what I use mine for, it assumes you want to be on the site but not be influenced by the numbers. Because I didn't read TFA, I was thinking it was for "Follow/Like us on Site.com" type links.
You can set up aliases in your Fastmail account to forward mail for these addresses elsewhere: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/aliases.html#target
I see 57 inches. It looks like a ridgeline et al. the wells don't look like they protrude into the bed at all.
Poor title ("Removing From Kindles") on the HN submission:

> A discussion thread on Amazon’s Kindle Community forum notes that Amazon has begun removing some previously-published books or stories from its store, and from the Kindle archives. Readers who have previously downloaded them to their Kindles can keep them there, but cannot re-download them (and will be refunded the price of purchase assuming Amazon can still find the purchase record).

http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related... (linked from the submitted story)
> er... think I'l stop before this looks like a post on Lifehacker or something :)

Yea, let's lay low. We don't want gnosis thinking we're another gawker site or something.
fundamentally, I agree. But keep in mind, skimming ATMs is a fine way to end up in jail. There is plenty of genuine crime one may commit with a knack for electronics.
It's a scroll bar with the contents wobbling as you scroll it. What am I missing, how is this useful?
Yeah, I think many of the same things.

How are we supposed to challenge a secret program that even the overseers say they are overreaching, and yet wont acknowledge it exists, or that anyone has any right to sue because they cant prove the secret program targeted them.

Its a complete farce as far as I can tell, and the dog and pony show will eventually calm and then we will basically be in the same position as we ever were.

I will definitely be voting against those that support this buffoonery, but I don't know that most will.
It could assume you are defining image dimensions in the stylesheet the way that normal image tags do. Or it can default to the image scaled down to 2ppx as defined in the media query. Your example looks similar to current audio tags.

<audio controls>
<source src="horse.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
<source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
Probably the guys who just encouraged the interns to stick it out till 10 :-P
Too late. Windows Phone uses similar "stretchiness" (but less cutesy) to indicate over-scroll. It cleverly presents an effect comparable to the rubber banding in iOS without, as far as I can tell, infringing Apple's patent.

And yes, Microsoft has patented it.
When things run on electricity, the power grid becomes ready to be de-centralized, the power can come from anywhere. Right now, it comes from coal and fossil fuels, but things running on electricity make it easier for that to no longer be the case.

Imagine an entirely de-centralized power grid: then, if you could install electricity-generating mechanisms into your home, you could run your Tesla (or other electric car) and home without paying for it. THEN, the incentive to make and sell things that can generate, store, and transfer electricity becomes huge - anything that can do that is like buying people electricity.
I wonder about that too...

We still have a housing bubble, that accounts for the ridiculous rent - just across the river from Montevideo, in Buenos Aires, rent is 50% cheaper.

The economy is pretty strong at the moment, so the exchange rate for us is favorable, that means cheap imports, but relatively expensive local stuff (especially bought in USD).

However, there are stiff trade tariffs, so we can't import cheap foodstuffs, and local ones are pretty expensive - mostly labor went through the roof, and we aren't that much automated yet.

The left-wing government imposes taxes on everything - left-wing voters would say that most were left over from other governments, but they were added upon and expanded.

An employee is extremely expensive due to all the added social security stuff - close to 100% over the salary the worker receives, and very hard to fire. While the take-home salary is lower, a restaurant employee is probably more expensive in Uruguay than in the U.S. (and more expensive to replace)

Same for other stuff, taxi drivers, etc.. are more expensive.

Gasoline is more expensive than in Europe, basically twice as much as in the U.S., utilities are not subsidized as much as in other Latin American countries, and very inefficient, so they're a lot more expensive than in the U.S. or Europe.

Clothing is taxed absurdly, there's now a 200 dollar allowance for imports, which are basically 3 to 4 times cheaper.

We also have some ridiculous bureaucracies in place that impose a huge burden on buying and selling property (housing, cars), creating huge market inefficiencies.

The differences with, say, Argentina, are that they're subsidizing heavily - while cratering their economy, since they impose ridiculous tax burdens on exports (Soy, etc..) and have protectionist barriers which are hurting capital expenditures.

Brazil is almost as expensive as Uruguay. Other countries such as Chile or Peru are a lot cheaper, because they took much different approaches (with their pros and cons of course), and other countries have an "informal" economy where they don't care that much about nominal taxes and legal system.
Create a fake phone number
Peter Martin is a respected Australian economics writer based in the national capital.

I'd be amazed if he's heard of HN. Which makes it hard for him to be in the HN-linkbaiting business.
This article reminds me of a TED talk I liked by Barry Schwartz on "The Paradox of Choice."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM

The speaker argues that that freedom and choice are held as unassailable virtues by Western cultures, but in fact research shows that too much choice leads to unhappiness.

If you think of mind wandering as perhaps a product of too much choice for the mind, the two ideas are complementary.
You're aware that the author of this article is the author of a book titled GNU Make Unleashed, right?

Who is swalling the snake oil?
Looking at their open-source Linux graphics stack, if they ever end up integrating FPGA fabric into their chips as a kind of dynamic accelerator (I remember reading about that being one possibility after the acquisition), I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they did the same for that. Still probably not a fully FOSS FPGA tool suite, but at even drivers and such would be an improvement over what I've heard the current state of the industry is.
This sounds a lot like GDI resource exhaustion. It looks like the limits on handle IDs and the GDI heap size are still in place even in Windows 10.
> was made up by courts

That's hardly unusual in a common law system..
Google Brain team is great and Google DeepMind London team is truly amazing. They both care about AI ethics very much and I am very interested to hear what they've got to say on the subject. It's the Timnit Gebru's "AI Ethics" team that is very problematic in my view. Getting into a public spat with Yann LeCunn, demonstrating that she has no idea about AI to begin with. Demonstrating totally politicized, ideological views.
I suspect the difference will not be very large, as compilers are fairly bad at automatic vectorization. Most of the places that could benefit reside in your libc anyways and those are certainly tuned to your processor model.
Poetry does much more than Flit, like resolving dependencies, creating a lock file, and managing an environment where you can run your code. In particular, Poetry is meant to support application development (where you want to have a fixed version of your dependencies) as well as library development.

Flit is more aimed at being the simplest possible thing to put a package on PyPI, if that's all you want to do. It expects you to list dependencies in pyproject.toml manually.
For reference, this is roughly the size of the English Wikipedia.
I would love to read a blog post on hiring a GM-type. How? Whom? When? Why? How much? What responsibilities?
If I get it right, the main advantage of this is over google calendar is that you tag events and then see piecharts describing how you time was spent. If I am right, I would strongly advise to talk about the charts in the video, since the video is not that readable and is not putting the emphasis on this.

I saw your application last week and I did not understand at the time what was the point over Google calendar.
Dropbox is AFAIK a one founder company. Go figure.
Being crazy gets you leverage on the negotiation table. Seeming measured and rational and restrained oftentimes gets you into trouble. See Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostage crisis, for instance. There's no way that'd happen under a more aggressive President, like FDR or Nixon or GW.

As the Romans said - "Si vis pacem, para bellum." - "If you wish peace, prepare for war." Pacifistic, restrained military and civilian leadership paradoxically can invite violence against you.
It would be nice if you could import calendars. Especially if you could just enter a URL to a CalDAV calendar and it would automatically import updates on a regular basis.
? Lies

Facebook emails me every comment and notification

SMS backup on my Android phone emails me every Tweet (and SMS)

AOLers, aren't they cute.
Wow, thats fairly eye opening.
I'm not surprised that Tahoe is getting more popular though, its a great area with generally low crime.
Just reduce salaries of legislators and use the savings to purchase Tile’s to put on every citizen’s car. Then they can find it when it gets stolen.
I’ve only ever seen “vai” recognized as a sort of anti-shibboleth identifying newbies, who are then corrected.
Wontfixzilla with comments disabled is a clear statement.
Is a wontfix with lots of comments more expensive, than a wontfix with comments blocked?

Shame you cant "give the devs opinion" on bugzilla.
Just use hydrogen for the party balloons
Trusting your instincts is how intergenerational cycles of abuse and neglect happen. If you were raised well, then yes, otherwise you have to work consciously to reject your harmful instincts.
Because GCP has objectively better data services than AWS, and GKE.

EKS sucks. AWS data offerings outside of RDS are not as good as Google's.

AWS hierarchy also sucks. GCP projects/folder mechanism is vastly superior, also org policies.
Ironically for a SV based forum full of web developers and startup enthusiasts, Hacker News can be deeply contrarian and antimodern as a culture, so not updating the UI (or at best, only updating it very rarely) has become a matter of pride, as well as a lifestyle brand for YCombinator.

Personally, I'd like to see them add it just to watch HN lose their collective minds.
This was a really enjoyable find!
Accessible at https://sci-hub.st/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1...
I find it rather unfortunate that this comment is the top comment, because I think the "science is like a religion" is both misleading and a strategy to dismiss evidence which don't align with ones ideological views (which is a very human reaction to be fair and it takes conscious effort to avoid, speaking from my own experience). As you acknowledge the scientific method has given completely new technology (I find your choice of words "revolutionary useful goods" a bit weird, as if the only purpose of science was to produce new goods).

You're setting up a bit of a straw man that science can not tell us with certainty what is the better course of action. Stating that science can give answers with absolute certainty is a stark misunderstanding of the scientific process (something alluded to in the article). However, trusting the (scientific) evidence (what is typically meant when people use "trust the science") can very definitely guide our decision making process. People typically bring up "trust the science" when proposals are being rejected based on some "ideological" reasoning.

To give a more concrete example, in the discussion about universal basic income, one of the main counterarguments is that people will just stop working. The answer to that counterargument is "trust the science", because every study made, has found that in fact people don't just stop working. Now one might still reject the concept of UBI for various other reasons, but this should be underpinned by evidence based arguments, not saying that the side which says trust the science (evidence) is treating it like a religion.

When people use the term "trust the science" what they typically mean is "trust the (scientific) evidence" and yes that is what we should be doing, even outside the "technological fields". The "trust the science" argument is often made when people reject an
This link should be changed from

https://quillette.com/2021/02/14/scott-alexander-philosopher...

to

https://quillette.com/2021/02/14/scott-alexander-philosopher...

For some reason, the extra "The" makes the link go to a different page.
The grid has basically zero capability to change the voltage; frequency is all that matters. Frequency is so low that in the past hour any power line time base has fallen over 5.5 seconds behind. That’s a massive drop in frequency.
All episodes are available on youtube for me.
I went from steel to aluminium and I do think I could tell a big difference. Not a double blind test ofc.