jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Business owners in the should be forced to serve the entire public in a non-discriminatory manner because they depend on taxpayer-maintained public infrastructure which also serves the public in a non-discriminatory manner (roads, zoning ordinances) for business inputs and for money-spending customers to get to them.

> Since the Internet is not a public utility and is privately paid for by ISP subscribers, they can control who uses their service.

If the internet was a public utility and roads were funded by congestion pricing, would that make any difference as to how twitter should or shouldn't be regulated?

This isn't even an unrealistic hypothetical, there are places where the government runs free wifi hotspots, such as Bavaria and Berlin, in Britain Corbyn even promised free broadband, and there are of course places that use road congestion pricing, such as Singapore, though I can't think of any place that has both.

> Someone who accesses the Twitter site doesn't pay a dime, therefore they are not a customer.

- Net neutrality outlaws making a limited version of the internet that includes only certain sites available for free.

- In Marsh v. Alabama, the supreme court decided that a company town couldn't prevent people from distributing religious materials on sidewalks they owned. These people were not the company's customers either.
That is true. I prefer an experience that's more fiddly and annoying overall, but that can be customised to fit my preferred usage if necessary. I would not be happy on an iPhone, stuck with what they have chosen. I like to install my own launcher and such. That's why I use GNU/Linux on the desktop, and Android on my phone. Both of these ecosystems are very fragmented as well. For example, my old Android phone had neither of the problems I mentioned.
I assume that price is negotiated down per employee for bulk purchases, or else it's not a drop in the bucket even for a large corporation. Just two of those would be a beginning salary for an engineer. Yes, companies do like support.
One differentiator: somebody other than Porsche might, perhaps accidentally, make an electric car that isn't ugly. That's rare enough with ICE cars, but electrics seem to have embraced ugliness as a crucially important feature.
These are technical details for normally working with the app. They charge you, so they need you name and credit card. You ask for a support, so they need your ip etc. They list what they may gather, because privacy policy should cover everything, doesn't mean they require all that info at once. I also didn't provide them many of these items.
> For example, batteries still need to be 20 times more dense before we can build a cargo/passenger aircraft with one.

Significantly more than 20 times I'd bet. The airframe will have to be significantly reinforced to support a design where the maximum takeoff weight is equal to the maximum landing weight. At that point, aerodynamics start to look a lot more like a rocket equation where you can't dump stages.

I think medium to long term, nuclear or renewable powered synthetic fuel is far more likely, especially since we already have a lot of generic infrastructure applicable to fossil fuels and carbon taxes could be the thing that pushes synthetic fuel into the market.
Then it wraps longer statements into one line. Which for things of unrestricted length (e.g. arrays) is not an option.
Do you have a source for that number? I'm asking, because I somewhat feel like this number is supportive of my assumption that they test the wrong people.

I understand that the symptoms are pretty ordinary and there are a lot of pathogens which could cause it. And you're right, all I have are anecdotes.

My own cough is still going on for almost two weeks now. I'm pretty sure that I got it from a coughing man on my commuting train. Four days later I had a sore throat and on the fifth day I had this cough. If this person was tested, and was positive, there's no chance they could find me.
Total not an expert in this area or really qualified to comment. But I think if they can get the known case load low enough, and continue aggressive testing and contact tracing, they may be able to lift the lockdown. Then aggressively isolate anyone who's come into contact with a known case.

If that doesn't work, restart the lockdown.

The big risk my be re-importing it back from other parts of the world who've been much less successful at containing this.
In the meantime, since that event, they met multiple co-workers, and they in turn met other people as well (families etc.). So potential for spreading is high.
There is a lot of noise in the data but the general trend is more than clear.
FDA is remarkably quick to authorize things like this test that will make the epidemic look worse, and yet are somehow utterly unwilling to consider authorizing the treatments that have been shown to be effective.

I wonder why that is
Too bad its using JSON. There are lots of other cleaner formats like YAML, RJSON, etc
Well, it gives a rough order of magnitude, and might encourage people to consider destinations that they would have thought were too expensive. As in "Gee, I was going to go to Salt Lake City, but it turns out I can get to Lima for the same price..."
C++ played the C as a gateway card very heavily early on, in the 80s that was a brilliant strategy, now not so much. If youre interested in efficiency straight C does fairly well (also because building foreign function interfaces for C code is much easier), if youre interested in correctness then some variant of haskell or ml will serve you with actual type checking, and if speed of writing code is what youre after then some dynamic language will do.
Hi HN! I was doing some performance optimization on a large MySQL query a few weeks ago and had a hard time reading MySQL's EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. So I wrote a webapp to help others.

I was inspired by https://explain.depesz.com/ which is for PostgreSQL (MySQL's output does work too) but wanted to do a little side project so I whipped up a MVP.

Feedback welcome :)
It is very much incorrect to put $15/hr wages on that list. The minimum wage is lower than it ever has been, inflation adjusted, and back when the minimum wage was actually that high, it didn’t blow up fast food prices or kill small businesses like everyone seems to fret over today. It is obviously not a problem to pay everyone a minimum wage of $15/hr nationally, and the only people who think it would be are extremely wealthy shareholders who would see slightly less capital flowing into their own coffers if they had to share any with the rabble.

A more likely culprit is the number of people walking around SF who pull down $350k+/yr, since they are willing and able to buy $17 salads, as well as overpriced real estate. It all comes down to the amount of money in flux in that location.
Virginia has everything from both lists, except for proximity to Asia.
CPython could do both; allocations are usually not byte-perfect, and the small remaining room at the end of string can be used as an optimization, or a new buffer can be allocated if there's no more room.

Also, cutting long strings with .strip() can use the same optimization. Allocation isn't fast.

IDK if it's used, but it's entirely plausible to implement.
"We have diverged from Mastodon in several ways in pursuit of our own goals. [...]"

https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social/-/blob/develop/RE...
They have a Hot Chips presentation on YouTube with a lot more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjumOyWj0g

I don't notice anything in particular that stands out vs. the many other AI chips people are making, at first glance. But I'm far from an expert. There are several other technical videos on their YouTube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7041p6DlAh0r4_Fnlk10pQ
I saw it all the time when I was consulting. I would visit a client with ten or twenty programmers and find that one or two of them did the bulk of the work.
TLDR: The author presumes that the call for banning is nothing more than an aggressive negotiation stance that isn’t intended to stand.

I agree
I disagree: I'm a programmer; I have "some" ideas and I "implement" them. Works for me.
S $200k/yr == USD 144k/yr.
What users don't realise is that Facebook could pay people to use the site and still make money.
Men and women have different cars? Where is this? The US?
O HAI.

Just thought I'd mention that technical people like lolcats too.
You said:

> 211 new people entered the Forbes 400 list during this ten-year period.
> Of these, 59 were from finance.
> 17 were from technology.

He said: 'that list (of deltas) would be dominated by Finance'

So how exactly was he wrong wrong?
It's a big market and there are no network effects in play. There's plenty of room for more than one player.
'Aunt Irma'?
The original discussion was about expected value, not maximum value. I continue to believe that the expected value of finance exceeds that of startups, but the answer to that is not in the Forbes 400, which shows those who are at the extreme.
To make an analogy, the guy that just won the Powerball lottery is far richer than all the doctors in his state, but that doesnt mean the expected value of playing the lottery is higher than being a doctor.
Salaries in finance tend to start at close to $100K for first year employees coming out of undergrad. A solid performer can get up to $300K/year in 5 years.
The difference between this kind of career path and startup is that the finance employee has much more control over his compensation - if you're smart and willing to work hard, the salary rises in a predictable fashion.
An entrepreneur can make a lot more if he is successful, but many of the factors that determine success are out his control.
The entrepreneurs win much bigger than financiers (so the entrepreneuers should be much better represented in the Forbes 400), but the expected value of being a financier is greater (no data available to prove that).
Fumbling players being treated harshly by their coaches is true of every team as far as I know. That said, I still think it's more likely that the Patriots have some unique practice/drilling regimen that results in less fumbles than they are regularly using deflated balls to their advantage. This is interesting in and of itself, so no matter what, I think this is an interesting analysis. But it's hard for me to believe that they were regularly using under-inflated balls for FOUR YEARS before being detected (or perhaps I should say reported).

Of course, giving the context of its publication, we know what it's trying to imply.
Good clothing is still surprisingly expensive relative to other goods. You can get a perfectly good new mini-fridge or microwave oven for $100. A pair of jeans that will last heavy usage for three years is over $100. I find that confusing. I would expect the mini-fridge and microwave oven to be many times the price of a pair of blue jeans.
I'm dubious. First, it only works during daylight hours. Second, its ecologically disastrous (sterilizes the ecosystem under the facility due to lack of sunlight). Third, centralized generation adds transmission losses which are substantial.

I favor orbital generation, which mitigates all of these.
It is also difficult for me to imagine that the government would compel private businesses to transmit speech inciting or coordinating riots at the capitol.

Even if the heavy hand of regulation were applied to private corps, it seems like they'd still draw the line somewhere.
And who started the violence? And do you think the police responded in an equivocal manner? (Narrator: no, they did not).
No, he was left... and still is.

More seriously, it will be curious to see what he thinks of all this recent unrest as it relates to free software and such.
>Anyone who buys an Apple phone is apparently a user. Apparently they know what is best for you by telling you which apps you may and may not use. Apparently they believe Parler is responsible for ALL user generated content on Parler. Therefor by the same logic, Apple must be responsible for ALL actions taken by their phones. Every car bomb, every illegal cell phone conversation, every illegal crime committed on an iPhone, Apple must also be responsible for.... Standards not applied to Twitter, Facebook or even Apple themselves, apply to Parler.

>>Jan 8, 2021

>>To the developers of the Parler app require your immediate attention regarding…

>>… intended to incite violence or other lawless acts has never been acceptable on the App Store.

>>Your CEO was quoted recently saying l'But I don't feel responsible for any of this and neither should the platform, considering we're a neutral town square that just adheres to the law!' We want to be clear that Parler is in fact responsible for all the user generated content present on your service and for ensuring that this content meets App Store requirements for the safety and protection of our users. We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.

>>We have now rejected your app for the App Store Review Guidelines detailed below.

* https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1347705034184777742
It's kinda like when SPAs became popular.

A progressive web app is just a regular website (typically a SPA but not necessarily) that typically takes advantage of a few newer web APIs that can make it behave more native app like when those APIs are supported.
So you want AI censorship?

Hundreds of hours of video is uploaded to Youtube every minute, you can't have people to watch it through all. Twitter has thousands of tweets a second.

It's impossible to manually moderate social media platforms by your standard, it's the whole point of Section 230.

You remove disallowed content when it's discovered. Parler deletes illegal parleys when are notified, they deleted parleys from Lin Wood a few days ago.
Spitballing here: more land in the US means lower cost to stock cars in dealerships. Also makes it easier to do an impulse purchase with all the easy financing available, compared to the European scenario of waiting for delivery (and possibly changing one's mind).
I was making an allusion to the actual Hunter Biden laptop story.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
I'd love to see someone fork https://github.com/arc90/jsonlintdotcom and add an option for I-JSON validation.

[edit] Actually, it looks like the guts of this tool live here: https://github.com/zaach/jsonlint
> The other reason we are successful is due to experience. We've all done startups before, so we know the drill. I can't emphasis how important this is enough

I've worked remotely for a few years now and think this is the key. I would not advocate hiring junior developers remotely. There's too much risk in it. I was once faced with the task of trying to mentor a junior dev remotely and it just didn't work.
> Many would argue that Haskell ends up more consistent...

I would argue that Haskell is an outlier in more than one dimension.
I was really excited about handling some of the messy constraint situations better than existing tools. I'll split this into two pieces:

> It happens pretty often that you'll modify a single constraint (flipping it is a common culprit), the solver will get "confused" and flip a bunch of your other constraints around.

For "confused" constraint solvers, I see this as largely being a problem of there being lots of solutions to a well constrained system, because of flips and such. It needs to be easy for the user to specify which one they want.

Our approach was to have fast pulls of the mouse temporarily over ride the constraint solver. So, if you needed to flip the model, you do a really fast pull and it would flip. This works much better with multi touch, where you can just grab a few points with different fingers and force your model into whatever shape you want.

> Constraint conflict resolution also often gets very hairy to almost impossible.

There's some really powerful tools from algebraic geometry I tried to apply to this. In particular, there's these things called Grobner Bases which you can use to test if certain polynomials imply that another is true, false, or if it's independent of them.

From the users perspective, I wanted to use these to do a few things.

(1) Display implied constraints. If you make three corners of a quadrilateral perpendicular, the fourth is forced to be perpendicular. I grayed out perpendicular constraint could alert you to this, and prevent you from adding a conflicting constraint. Obviously, that example is kind of silly, but I think that propagating constraints through the whole model would really help people understand how more complicated models are constrained.

(2) If you try to add a constraint which conflicts with preexisting ones, highlight in red a minimal set it conflicts with.

I never got this part of the project to work though. I did some very small proof of concepts in sage, but couldn't really get things to work. I'm not really sure how realistic it is to make these work for real models.
To anyone else also hiring: This deck made me want to work for Votizen. Instead of listing responsibilities/requirements, it sold the position to me. Hard. And that worked.

Perhaps we ought to have marketing do a once-over on all our job descriptions and hiring ads.
Awesome goals, that are even better considering how much the US is paying for education now - and planning to cut.
The shape of the hair and face are different between the statues, too.
It sounds like his dad ruined his childhood not Ayn Rand.
Funny yours should be the top voted reply - when I read the blog I thought of one of the entries I read in your scribd preview the other day. The one that said you code for 6 or 7 hours a day, then print out the stuff and review it before you go to bed (in order to achieve the attention to detail required). I thought, 'omg, this guy must live in the zone.'

I discovered my own little productivity-hack/zone-portal recently. If it's still working after a few weeks maybe I'll blog about it.
You attribute tags to a task, php, javascript, design, bizplan, etc. Is that what you mean by different focuses?
Theres a big difference between losing in social and losing.

Remember when MS was losing the internet?

Edit: Fixed the loosing typos. Not a native speaker here - so I'll blame the spellchecker :)
Ok, but there are more games than FPS.

Gaming isn't universal, but neither is drinking alcohol.
As a European I keep failing to understand this insistence at keeping employees in the loop 24/7. Don’t you have a social life or identity outside?
Of course very few tenured research professors grow up to be professional athletes, but that hardly seems relevant.
These billionaire politicians need a reality check about the viability of beating Trump and especially from the left. Bloomberg would lose a significant amount of progressive voters just by nature of his extreme wealth, he has controversial past with policing policies that targeted minorities, and his main policy outside of stop and frisk was a soda tax. This is a vanity project not a serious campaign for president.
Inflation is good for governments who want to reduce their debt obligations denominated in their own currency, and it encourages economic activity.

It’s bad if you have little money, your wages don’t raise automatically with inflation, and every year what little you have has been reduced in value 1 to 10%.

I as a homeowner with a government-subsidized 30 year fixed rate mortgage love it however, as what I pay for my asset each month is less and less as inflation helps me and the tax payers finance my wealth creation. Renters, not so much!
Schneier et. al.'s Keys Under Dormats paper tackles that problem from many angles. You might find it interesting.

https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...
thanks for mentioning
are you using the statistic to imply that women would be less likely to enjoy fortnite in the first place, or that they would be more likely to encounter embarrassment what would be a work-related event?

if the game isn't as appealing to women for whatever cultural reasons, it's probably not appropriate to endorse it for team building. if the pervasive harassment is the main concern, this is much easier to work around. very little is lost by disabling area comms in battle royale games; I usually disable it because I don't want to hear fifty people eating their mics in spawn. in games like CS, you can just host a private server for a trivial amount of money.

in general though, I have mixed feelings about company events after work hours. inevitably, there will be people who don't care for the "fun" activity and but feel obligated to participate or worry about missing networking opportunities if they don't. especially when it comes to something like videogames, it's quite easy for people to organize this stuff themselves without an official endorsement from the company. I don't really see any reason why a company should go beyond just giving employees space in slack to organize activities outside of work.
Efforts like Avalonia and Uno platform enjoy a level of support from MS, and Microsoft produces Xamarin Forms to enable Xaml-based cross platform development.

Microsoft themselves have stated that it's a requested development, but they have not yet figured out a sensible way forward.A lot of effort was invested and I feel accusing them of ill will is unfair.

Meanwhile Linux UI/Graphics situation is a mess and Avalonia developers struggle with it. The same flexibility that makes Linux a good as embedded/server, makes it a horrible target for client application development.
But the TPP didn't fail - Trump pulled the US out, the rest of the countries came to an agreement (under a different name and without the onerous US/Disney IP stuff) and are happily free-trading today

More info on the CPTPP here: https://tpp.mfat.govt.nz/
Let's say you have a list with 50 items and want to add one item in between. Instead of updating all the indexes, you just type a number and Markdown does that for you.

In any case, it can be escaped by writing 1\. instead of 1.
Agreed, and just to expand, not only the engineers, but ops, infrastructure maintenance, customer support, sales, rent, HR, legal, recruiters, translators, the IT guy that keeps the TVs with Zoom working, and the list goes on and on and on. Some of these people are full time on the project, some are part-time, some are shared costs, some are not, but sometimes it's totally worth to shed the $25mil/year and re-focus on something else.
US-China trade war will further benefit India. But it looks like they are moving towards a settlement.
In the US? You should have been able to get heavily subsidized health insurance (which is a hassle), unemployment, etc. Still crappy but it's not $0.

But that's exactly my point: it's very difficult to discuss this when policy is such a swirl.
If this is targeted at low power microcontrollers, I don't understand how the devices are supposed to recognise the attention word ("Alexa" by default in Echo devices) and filter out unwanted chatter. Our maybe doing that filtering is cheaper than I expect it to be ?

If Alexa ends up in many devices in the same room, which one am I addressing when I use the attention word ? Are we going to have many different attention words for different devices ?
The signal to noise ratio is still devastatingly bad.

Most cancers aren't throwing large amounts of detectable crap into your bloodstream. If they were, people would be doing routine cancer tests when you do things like cholesterol screening.

The fact that nobody can do this with vials makes me suspicious of being able to do this with drops.
Doesn't Excel run under Wine? That might actually be the better option.

(LibreOffice user here on Windows, donated in the past, but I find LibreOffice Calc really unpolished. It puzzles me because NeoOffice is really quite good on the Mac. I should probably just switch to MS Office.)
Yeah, all my kids stopped using facebook when my mom got on it too.
Dunno, not being murdered is a big one.

SF is 6.5 per 100k people, London is 1.8.