jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Added to the top: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Kranzberg

Kranzberg six laws of technology should ease your mind.

You don’t need MRI’s to manipulate people. Knowing basic psychology and allowing yourself some time to learn about them will allow the same effect. I understand you are saying mass produced, with data science applying these learning models to groups of people is easy enough.

You know why political campaigning on social media is effective? It’s because they take a best fit approach. You find clustered of people, and identify the one most easily manipulated. It won’t be long till they start to push the agenda fed through IV to their peers. Maybe 2/10 are dissenters and won’t listen. Maybe another 2/10 are as stubborn as the opposite agenda and won’t listen. So you are left with 6/10 people who are more likely to be convinced from someone they know rather than political advertisements. Especially if the IV being fed to best fit manipulator has disarm tactics for the opposites agenda, regardless of how true the disarm tactic is.

There was a time where you had to go to town hall, listen to the radio, and read the news paper. Even then, you were probably likely to find the same tactics maybe less pruned to actual manipulation and closer to the parties real ideologies.

Every technology has a cost benefit analysis. Do not let this stop progress. Stopping technological progress is the worst thing we can do because humans are evolving and growing and the technology is needed to keep up with the numbers.

Some of the argument may have fallen apart in the middle I’m more than willing to discuss further to clear up any anomalies...
To restate this: developers almost always want to work backwards in time, by rerunning the program under test if necessary, even if you argue that in some sense they don't have to in some cases. So I think providing a detailed snapshot of the state when the error surfaces, while useful, is definitely going to be seen as inferior to the experience of a full record-and-replay system (all other things being equal).
But there are a lot of new exciting products.
Sorry I should have been more clear in my OP. Unfortunately I doubt I’ll get a decent response having seen just how fast this post fell off /new

By recaptcha I meant the current version of it, invisible to the user
Yes but in a computer every processing unit can be used for widely different tasks. In contrast, the neurons in a brain are used for the same task over and over again.
100% agreed, which is why Concise Encoding has 1:1 type-compatible binary [1] and text [2] formats, which can be automatically converted when needed with no data loss.

Human accessibility is an absolute must for any modern format.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...
Trump was not a participant in the 2016 democratic primary, where HRC won by the indicated margins.
My favorite example of this was during a lecture on waveguides, when Michael Schick picked up the section of cylindrical metal pipe he was using to motivate the cylindrical-waveguide problem at hand, looked at the class through the pipe, and said, "clearly, it admits higher-order modes."

That little episode brought great joy to this experimentalist's heart.
It was used in Killer Game Programming in Java by Andrew Davidson published in 1995. That used a Webcam and a color coded bracelet you made yourself as an input device for one of the code examples. Microsoft had Surface touchscreen 2.0 pre 2011 that tracked real world objects [1].

1. https://youtu.be/57k2iJbotV4
> there are gatekeepers in most of the companies, who don't want to train you at all.

This is fear mongering for the juniors. Most people don't help because they don't get asked. Juniors, reach out and I will help. I'm the kind of person that is sociable and helpful anyway though.
It definitely feels like real remote work, being that I'm in Dundas building a data pipeline for our ERP/CRMs/publishing platform that will run on a server someplace else in North America and used by sales teams around the GTHA and print ops in Vaughn. So I'm not sure I follow.

While my employer had no remote work policy, the general approach to the office was that everyone is an adult and a professional and you do what you need to do, but be at the office for work.

Running errands, etc, were never obstacles. Working hours have actually gone down out of necessity (save 10% on payroll during the pandemic, keep everyone employed) while productivity has remained. Now that things are starting to come back to life, there's actually too many projects coming down the pipe and we will need to start hiring to meet the expanding business goals.

I can't say my situation has been suppressed, personally. In the past year I've started to reignite my music career, got myself a recording grant and am spending my non-commute time writing and practicing before work and afterward, while not having to sacrifice making and having dinner with my spouse. And I had the space to build a room out for that work—something I couldn't afford in Toronto. And the air here—it's just so much nicer than in the city. It's all so nice that sometimes I can't believe it's real.
You may want to read that study closer. Most of it is finding cross reactive antibodies, which as the title study here indicates we know isn't indication of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. Specifically this paragraph:

> In order to better characterize the specimens that were reactive on the pan-Ig ELISA containing whole SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as the capture antigen, and distinguish these from cross-reactivity to common coronaviruses, additional, more specific SARS-CoV-2 testing was performed. The S1 subunit has been reported to be a more specific antigen for SARS-CoV-2 serologic diagnosis than the whole S protein [23]. Furthermore, in recent studies, sera from patients with confirmed human coronavirus infection only contained SARS-CoV-2 S protein–specific IgG antibodies and did not contain IgM or IgA antibodies; neutralizing activity in these sera was found to target only the S2 portion of the spike protein [23, 24]. Therefore, the presence of IgM or IgA antibodies and S1-specific binding activity may distinguish antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 from antibodies to human common coronaviruses [23, 24]. In the present study, 84 of 90 (>93%) reactive sera had neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 virus, 39 (44.3%) had both IgG and IgM SARS-CoV-2 S protein–specific antibodies, 2 (2.2%) sera had surrogate neutralization activities, and 1 of 90 (1.1%) had SARS-CoV-2 S1-specific Ig. Collectively, these data suggest that at least some of the reactive blood donor sera could be due to prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. One serum sample, collected on 10 January 2020 in Connecticut, demonstrated a neutralization titer of 320, a signal-to-threshold ratio of 6.75, and 70% inhibition activity by surrogate neutralization activity, but was Ortho S1 nonreactive. These data indicate that this donation was likely from an individual with a past or active SARS-CoV-2 infection.

They found maybe two good signals for SARS-CoV-2 infection, with only one in Jan 2020 that really passes the test for definitively being SARS-CoV-2 infection. The neutralizing titers were in the total absence of IgG/IgM SARS-CoV-2 S-protein specific antibodies, which can be cross reactivity to antibodies against other coronaviruses. The fact that they were neutralizing against SARS-CoV-2 though in vitro doesn't necessarily confer actual protection as was seen in the study that Derek Lowe cites.

That study is still consistent with not knowing of any SARS-CoV-2 infections in the USA in 2019 and there being nothing possible other than cryptic spread.
Free speech includes reacting to what someone else has said.

You can make an argument about whether or not people should have thicker skin, but you can't make an argument that people should not be allowed to react to speech without forfeiting the moral concept of freedom of speech.

Someone did build the town square, and if that someone was a private entity, that someone can kick everyone right the heck out of the town square, because it's theirs. If the people of the town want to make that reality different, they should probably band together and purchase the town square and own it collectively, as a government.

If you think Twitch, Twitter, HN or Reddit are such critical infrastructure, then you should lobby your government to purchase them.
> City councils believe cycling is recreational, not for commuting or for "real" use.

And nobody gives them a talking to? If any official said that here they would never live down the humiliation. They'd be the butt of every joke for weeks.

Some societies appear to tolerate stupid ideas that I'd be afraid to say out loud. Or maybe nobody actually believes that.

Is there actually someone from a city council or whoever on record saying that? I am doubtful.

It's not even this specific thing. There's a lot of "nothing going is going to happen because X believes Y" to go around that may just be straw men. Seems more like a defeatist attitude to me than something resembling reality.
Often in old European cities there is no space to take away from, unless you cut from pedestrian side, or rebuild whole block to have wider gap. Or you completely remove that single one way lane, and good bye resupplies for the shops/restaurants and good luck to those poor folks that will move in/away. The bigger the city, usually the older it is, and center looks like this - tons of single lane one-ways.

US roads always stroke me as super wide and at least those I saw myself had plenty of space for this.

One example to illustrate the difference - on say Swiss or French car parks, if you park perfectly in the center of the parking spot and if cars around you do the same, even with regular car (say BMW 3 series) you can't just open the door fully, often not even that half-open position in the middle. Significantly wider cars effectively take 2 spaces, but then again not many folks buy them here also for this reason.
In my view, the most striking feature of the Dutch solution is that it's not a type of bike, but a transportation system developed over a span of years within a specific niche of climate, terrain, population density, and so forth. Cargo bikes came after the system was already up and running.

Moving any specific component of that system to another niche might help a little, and I'd welcome any progress, but is not a solution.

With that said, I'm a year around bike commuter. Cargo bikes, trailers, and baekfiets are gaining popularity in my locale, especially the electrics.
I agree that twitch is within their rights. I also think we're within our rights to pressure them to adopt standards we would like. The law has long recognized different rights for "public figures" and private citizens, and I think that most Twitch users are better understood as private citizens. Even if I felt the behavior policing history of media was perfect (I do not), I think this is different in important ways.
laptop = lap top, and 0 word on power efficiency, fan noise, and cooling

laptop industry is dead since apple released their M1
What the hell are you doing wasting time on HN, then? Come on, Google!
I believe it was satire. :)
This is simply not true. Certain App Store developers have added web service calls to their applications so they "phone home" and pirated apps could be denied access. Similar to an API key.
Agreed. It would also be worth considering using Stack Overflow-style voting for comments.
From a conversion rate standpoint not much seems to beat verisign - although GoDaddy SSL seems to be making gains.

Also see "Proper placement of "trust logos" can make a huge difference in conversion rate." :

http://conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/07/proper-placement-of...
If you have Homebrew:

brew update && brew install privoxy

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...
Who is their Visa Qualified Security Assessor? If there is a corrupt Security Assessor, the problem is bigger than one processor. Are they on the Visa registry of Qualified Service Providers (http://www.visa.com/splisting/searchGrsp.do)? If either of those is the case, this is a big problem. Report it to Visa.

Or is this some small operation which provides services for a niche market and is below the 300,000 transactions/year where it gets serious? Then, maybe not so much.

Visa is quite serious about enforcing those standards. They took away every user-facing credit card reader from Barnes and Noble for a year after a breach. They took away Sony Online's ability to accept credit cards at all for several weeks after Sony had a breach.
I didn't say that they needed population growth. I'm just giving the reasons for Japan's population decline.
Should come as no surprise then that the "Winklevi" have been accused of pump-and-dumping bitcoin before.
We should put together a HN equivalent of couchsurfing .. and on that note, I have two sofas in San Francisco that are free until I move the middle of august!

There seems to be a small but growing movement of nomads. The first I met was @ioerror and at least in the way he travels he was quite inspiring. My personal goal with every move for the past three years has been to reduce my amount of "stuff". When I moved back to SF from Seattle everything fit in an SUV. With this coming move, except for those two couches and a stand-up office desk, I could fit everything in that SUV and have 2 or 3 passengers.

It would be awesome if more of the hacker labs around the country were live/work so that visiting hackers could crash there. I know a couple of companies in SF that have "visiting hacker" lofts, like Squid Labs.
I actually dated her for quite a long time past this discussion. We parted ways quite amicably after growing apart because I kept switching back and forth between Philadelphia and the west coast for internships. You're reading too much into it, but I definitely understand where you are coming from and in the common case, you are right.
As the creator of HearWhere, I've got a bit of experience in this live music space, and I actually started building a service to connect bands with venues which I ended up scrapping.

To start off, it would be really great to show a demo to artists of what the venues would be getting from you. You've kinda explained how to use your service and what it does, but I don't know that I understand what a venue is going to get.

As a band (which I'm not) I suspect I'd like to see that.

I'm sure you know there has been a few attempts at this space, the most recent one I'm familiar with is http://www.toursavant.com/.

In my research when I was looking into this space, I found that venues were wanted to work with local booking agents. The reason (they told me) is that they aren't in the business of promoting or choosing artist, it just isn't what their good at. That is what the local booking agent does. Of course, this depends on the venue a bit.

The big challenge that I think you are going to have is building the database of venues or booking agents.

Right now as I see it, bands can add themselves to your site, but there are very few venues that they can request to be promoted too.
I think that is the next challenge for you.

As far as the current site you've got, it's easy to navigate, and add venues, so you've so far managed that process well.

Your logo is quite pixelated, so I'd get that cleaned up a bit. I don't think you have to worry too much about the design at this stage. As long as it looks cool and professional(ish), i think you're good.

Best of luck
I hate that the questions are slides rather than voice.
I wonder if the restriction is because EA already licensed the Mac publishing rights to someone like Aspyr?
Ledio, this is sweet! Welcome to HN :)
I just don't see jQuery as a grand interconnected topic deserving of "book treatment." It shouldn't be seen as something that requires one to read a book before you can start using it. Just find the function that does what you want to do in the docs, read the description and example code, and use it. Before long, you'll intuitively get the jQuery aesthetic. There is no reason to try to master the theory before attempting to actually use jQuery. There is no theory. It's all very simple.

Now, on the other hand, if you don't yet know Javascript and you're trying to use jQuery, I would suggest learning the syntax and semantics of the language first. But if you know Javascript, then jQuery is trivial.

In that respect, I think maybe the biggest value in this book is the Javascript overview at the beginning. Too many people try to use jQuery without grasping its foundation.
These interviews are getting really really good. I listened to the one with Jon Staenberg the other day and found it really interesting and inspiring. Andrew really does his homework too. Jon at one point asked him if he was James Lipton.

I also think the production quality is really good on the podcasts and that's my preferred method of consumption these days.

(http://mixergy.com/jon-staenberg-interview)

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mixergy-main-podcast)
I am from a very cold northern area filled with Norwegians, in the USA. From a cultural and seasonal affective disorder point of view, I do think it is a good thing to get out of that sort of environment if you want to be a software entrepreneur.

If I were you I would try to figure out how to go to school in the USA. It's expensive but I think worth it. You would kill two birds with one stone. Plus, I think it's better to start out in school, rather than move to a new place and jump into a job. You meet a lot of friends, learn interesting things, and have fun. I have worked on a visa in a foreign country, and it is a lonely and kind of boring existence.
does it support datamapper?
Be careful: I just installed it and it decided it will be my default browser and take over the file associations (.htm, .html, .xhtml) and protocol associations from Firefox.

I thought we left this kind of crappy warfare in the late 90s.
I imagine the government will eventually take steps to try to fix this "problem". It's not exactly voluntary.
What's the next example?
> An even better idea would be to hand out that "standard pantry" to people for free

I agree. But it's probably very hard to get most poor people to accept that. They could survive (for the most part) on a bag of rice and a bag of beans every month. But instead they use the food stamps to buy 10 ounces of potato chips for $3. You need to solve that problem first.
As someone with 10 years drug experience, I'll agree with you.
I often see people say LSD is provably safe, when we don't even understand the brain.

I'd say instead that it's empirically proven that some people have suffered from negative psychological side-effects for months after an experience. You just have to read boards. From what I've read, it can last up to 6 months.

A female friend of mine actually had panic attacks for a while after. It's rare but it happens. And from my own experience, I'd say it has changed me probably more than anything else I tried, in ways I can't describe. I'd rather see someone responsible take ecstasy once or once a year, even though it's addictive and potentially neurotoxic, especially without antioxidants, it tends to be a spectacularly positive experience, emotionally and psychologically, a lifetime event. Also there are studies about how it may help against neurosis, shyness and all. And doing it with close friends or a lover, will give memories to cherish. At least it did for me. It's dangerously addictive and very negatively connotated, it doesn't have the esoterically intellectual marketing appeal of LSD, but I'd dare say it's more intellectually interesting, in that its rewards are clear, human and real.

There are a lot of people who take LSD regularly, so it's not that risky, but it's not trivial, especially for intellectual people with anxiety, higher sensitivity, and often difficult lives and childhood. But it's certainly interesting and perspective-shifting.
People who already own property in places where values are rising have no incentive to do anything to counteract the rising trend. So we have the spectacle of Mountain View denying Google's request for approval to build apartments for their employees near their campus -- at a time when housing in Silicon Valley is getting absurdly expensive.
I think the biggest problem caused by the change in the cost and the availability of food was actually the cost itself. People can afford to consume more calories without going broke, and so they do - too many calories. I regularly eat fast food (probably 2-3x a week), but I get something that has a reasonable number of calories and skip the soda (which is just raw sugar) ... I have not become obese, and it has not had detrimental effects on my health. For example, a reasonable lunch at McDonad's might be a McDouble, and perhaps a small fry now and then. The McDouble is 390 Calories, and the small fry is 230. If you figure on fries every other time you get McDonalds, that averages out to a 505 Calorie lunch, which definitely will not add anything to your waistline.

The famous "documentary" by Michael Moore (who, personally, I can't stand) was based on the premise that he'd ALWAYS add any extras suggested by the restaurant (fries, coke, super-size, etc.) Eating like that, it's no surprise that he's morbidly obese.
I used the gnu utilites before linux existed.
it's less and less relevant.
With less and less care for civilian casualties (and cover up by declaring anyone over 15 a enemy)
With drones (they are imprecise, but see 1)
With less emphasis on actual ground occupation (the US as been unable to organize any democratic transition after a war since WWII)
With virtualization of war.

it's still relevant because the transition is not complete, but the clone war is coming faster than the new plane is coming, you can afford to lose a drone and you don't want to lose a pilot, you learn faster developing a drone program.
Yeah, but that totally violates DRY principles.
Anytime someone says "I think too much" I feel the need to speak up. This mentality is, from my experience, destructive. When I was on a Mormon mission questioning the beliefs and bringing it up to my superiors, that was the response I was given far too often and I've come to resent it.

The sentence before says: "I think I know too much" and that bogs down his creativity and energy. I'm calling bullshit. Who knows too much? How can you know too much? Does gaining knowledge really prevent one from being creative or energetic?

I think he comes closer to a point when he says: "it’s my attention to that knowledge which is destroying my inspiration." But I think its not the attention to the knowledge that is "destroying" his inspiration, but the way in which he uses that knowledge.

Why not give attention to the vast amount of knowledge gained writing web apps since IE4, and then use that knowledge to create novel ideas or better ways of doing things? Why not use the knowledge to create something better than JavaScript instead of complaining about it?

I think the point to take from this, at least for me, is to keep an open mind. He sort of said things contrary to that multiple times, but I want to believe thats what he was getting at.
I used to use this, back in the day with my Mac Os X setup, but then it just became a bitch to setup manually and did not support all the features I needed, like some HTTPS crap or something not working, can't remember exactly what.

Is there an easy way to install this on Mac Os X currently so I can test it out ?