jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm really uncomfortable with the implicit metaphor that this is a fight between the rich and the non-rich. I don't think that is an accurate representation of the situation. Also, many of the rich would not be rich if they were born in some other country. To a large degree they are the product of the opportunities of the environment they are in. That environment requires investment and good management.

Our current situation has people like Warren Buffet paying a far lower percentage of their income in taxes than you and I, yet the rich use government services to a far greater extent than the rest of us. The US military isn't protecting oil fields I own in nigeria because I don't own any oil fields. The fire dept. isn't protecting the factories I own throughout the US because I don't own any.

I think it only makes sense that those who benefit the most from our government, and who can afford it, invest in it accordingly. For starters they shouldn't have a significantly lower percentage of income taxed than the rest of us.
YAAY
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The reality looks a lot like the 80/20 principle doesn't it?
Oh I did. I went to a private college, $45k a year, and took out 6 $2,500 federal loans and at least another loan per semester - the rest was definitely scholarship.
When I joined Apple in '87 there was a sign in the systems software group saying "Time to boot tripled!"

Sort of a group conscience thing; this was just prior to System 6 shipping, and things had gotten lots slower due to collective abdication of the "time to boot" feature. They fixed it, more or less, then less and less over time . . .

Boot time is a good indication of /other/ neglect, and long boot times point to possible architectural and systemic problems. For one thing, if your OS developers are suffering long boot times, what kind of system are you actually hatching?
The courts protect FBI and police. [0] Impossible to get a real win from a lawsuit. Getting money is not a real win. [1] No changes will be made. The dude who got murdered by police and caused a riot of criminals stealing and burning down buildings, not even that caused the police to change.

I should add a white person got killed the same way before that. No riots. No news. No screaming crying people in the streets demanding justice. No change then either. The family of that person didn't even get money from it.

[0] https://abc7news.com/san-jose-police-beating-hotel-couple-ta...

[1] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/10/31/utah-nurse-arrested-f...
weird hashtag usage
Any sufficiently big company is working remote already, because not all employees fit in one room or even one building.

Working from home is just a small step after that.
There is no collapse in any real estate markets, at all.
> you still need the normal stable of runtime detection tooling

I hate that you're getting so many downvotes, and I wish people wouldn't do that...but I still want to disagree slightly :) I think it's interesting to note that the meaning of "you" changes between the two cases. If I write safe code on top of parking_lot, you could argue that I don't really need to do runtime race detection. Rather, someone in the ecosystem needs to do it, but once it's been done, the shared code is improved for everyone. If my code is all safe, I can benefit from these global improvements over time, and I can be confident that I haven't introduced any new races myself.
I think he is talking about commercial real estate -- which very well might collapse.
No, it talks about the other AI effect, where AI researchers thinks that generalizing the model will be relatively easy. Like, lets say someone makes an AI to play tic-tac-toe at the same level as the best human and then says that with just a little bit more work it will be able to beat a grandmaster at Go.
> I dislike the sensationalist title, which is not really supported in the article.

> As the historian Mi Hedu observes in his 1993 book, “The Red Guard Generation,” students at the August 1st School “compared one another on the basis of whose father had a higher rank, whose father rode in a better car. Some would say, ‘Obey whoever’s father has the highest position.’ ” When the Cultural Revolution began, in 1966, Beijing students who were zilaihong (“born red”) promoted a slogan: “If the father is a hero, the son is also a hero; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard.” Red Guards sought to cleanse the capital of opposition, to make it “as pure and clean as crystal,” they said.

He is part of a generation that it's literally called "born red", I've heard that term before, I thought it was an analogy to being "born in Purple".
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci, written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
wow, how cool crime sci-fi would that be.. But there are always good and bad things in a new technology. Imagine all that junk that can be saved with virtual stuff when people buy the new and throw away the old.
I'm currently running Nginx+CherryPy and I'm if you'd like to comment on why you switched to uWSGI, what you gained and if you'd recommend it?
I think a better example would be do people think they will experience similar changes to the people in the before and after photographs (beauty/weight loss/dental) or do they believe the examples of computer speed/performance improvement (download times or computing performance) products.
IMHO you get answers/results, I don't give a darn who or what you are

You say this. And many people say it as well. But most people don't appear to really believe this. To give one example: statistically speaking, women are more rational when it comes to making risk-reward assessments than men. Men are more likely to make irrational choices because they systematically discount quantifiable risk. If our institutions were rational, that would suggest that women would be well represented in the upper echelons of the finance industry: there should be many women traders, hedge fund managers, risk analysts, etc. But this is not the case, in part because Wall Street firms have developed a culture of adolescent machismo.

Michael Lewis recounts in one of his books the story of extremely well paid traders who would literally have a pissing contest every afternoon: they'd all go into the bathroom and see who could piss farthest, inevitably covering bathroom floor in urine. Is it any surprise really that these intellectual giants fail to hire women despite their better risk/reward assessment skills? Is it any surprise that the economy recently imploded because banks decided to loan large sums of money without verifying any ability to repay?
Then I would ask: why is it that designers almost always have their portfolios looked at when they are getting hired? I think we're being slaves to an illogical social pattern.
In some countries, when trademarks are transferred, there must be a continuity in the underlying product or the trademark is lost. (You cannot just buy a famous trademark and ship something completely different with a sticker placed on it.)

Anyway, as you stated in the last paragraph, there may be an infinite number of forks, and that is the core of the problem with trademarks and open source. At the moment of forking, the source codes is identical. Then they start to differ. Which one is truer to the original one? Software is not a shoe. I see the continuity of a software project in the philosophy behind it.

Who is the true producer (the one that guarantees the "quality" for the consumer) in this case? The organization or the community? Which part of the community?

In my opinion, this is a big problem that needs to be solved in the future. Maybe using a trademark are not a good idea for an open source project...
Thoughts on SML vs. Haskell?
For those who did not get the xkcd reference either:

http://xkcd.com/887/
Some of humanity's best toys have come from a bit of harmless science fantasy, so I'm all for it here. Speculation tends to break down when dealing with anything beyond a decade, anyway.
Do you even need UI designers especially that there is basically just no UI/Interaction?
Even though the related specs are not part of the actual W3C HTML5 spec, they are considered by many people to be HTML5 in the broader sense.

That being said, many of those related specs were part of HTML 5 in the past, but spun of to there own spec. Others were proposed on the WhatWG working group, part of the WhatWG Living HTML spec or extensions to HTML 5 elements.
One of the stories in Cory Doctorow's "With a Little Help" is based on the problem of what do you sell to an "immortal, sovereign quadrillionaire living in a vat"

http://craphound.com/walh/

[Edit: The whole of "With a Little Help" is available for free as a podcast, with the stories being read by some interesting folks:

http://www.archive.org/details/WithALittleHelpPodcasts

]
Not for someone who is "intermediate" in jQuery.

He didn't even recognise $ as a valid function name which rules out exposure to other libraries mapping it to different behaviours, and the use of an anonymous function (remember: this is someone who claimed to be "advanced" in Javascript) really blew his mind.
when more money is printed, the value of existing money goes down. all that's happening is that value is being taken from the general population and being given to the banks.

deflation is not a problem. you had huge asset inflation and this is merely the correction of that distortion.

The Fed's easy money and loose lending of Fannie and Freddie caused a doubling in price of the most expensive thing most people will ever buy. It was completely unsustainable and its deflation a necessary occurrence if normal economic growth is ever to be restored. Throwing money at every expansion of government ever conceived of will not restore it.
Despite my deep desire to see a big budget adaptation of World War Z, the truly most relevant zombie fiction of today is Stephen King's Cell.
Proper planning is key, both to ensure that you don't find yourself suddenly and unexpectedly needing 500 new images, and to find areas for optimization.

What's the value in having enemies have slight differences in appearance as they get close to death? Will players actually notice or care about this? In a 2D games, it probably makes a lot more economical sense to add some kind of procedural effect to show this, such as tinting them red, making them flash, or showing a bright red outline.
I'd also note that while I love the expansion of O'Reilly's line over the past few years to more nonstandard topics (books like programming collective intelligence, or mining the social web), I've noticed that the quality of the technical editing has really declined.

I probably buy 5-10 a O'Reilly books per year, and I can't remember the last time I got one without significant typos or code errors that would be deal-breakers to a less experienced programmer.
I dont think hotmail is the only mode of communication CrackZ uses =)
Furthermore I would add that there is no 'magic deploy to cloud' button that is going to work most of the time for most people. As much as the RoR fans would love to think so :)

./generate code && tweak-slightly && deploy-reliably && lunch-on-profits # not gonna happen anytime soon for complex systems
I think the rapid adoption of these first generation cloud type services is basically something that introduces massive inefficiencies and unknowns in to any system.

Simply put, no SLA - even with cash penalties attached - really means anything: you actually have to know the capabilities and specs of your system, its power, cooling and other physical environmental inputs, plus the engineered capacities for live failover on all levels before you can calculate or claim reliability. Anything else is just kidding yourself. A lot of people kid themselves.
yes, coming next week.
Montreal is up now.
I have a few friends/coworkers that almost always get searched. They all share some things in common, like their skin color.
> In a cursory search yesterday (a couple hours only) I found references on both sides of the fence claiming that we can use B12 synthisized in our gut, and about the same number of sources saying we couldn't.

If you can actually link to them, I would be grateful. I can only find yahoo-answers style discussions that claim people cannot.

> A guy with an axe to grind (vegan trying to defend/promote his lifestyle) or the fact that there seems to be no concensious in the sciencific community?

You are making an awful lot of assumptions about me. I'm not a vegan (I was for a few short years; I've been vegetarian for 35 though). And I more often in these discussions advocate against veganism and vegetarianism because even though they can be very healthy, most people do them wrong - and if you can't stand your ground with science in these discussions, you shouldn't be vegan.

And about consensus in the scientific community - I believe I have science backing me here, but let's put it aside - I gave two other examples in which the (so-called) scientific consensus is provably wrong (and others mentioned egg consumption). Personally, I'm not ignoring scientific consensus on everything and try to look at the details. Follow the common/average belief, and you get common/average results. If you like mediocrity, all power to you.
Yes. That's basically the idea...
Bonus: If you never ship, you can never fail :)
Healthcare most certainly is covered by the laws of economics. It's a service for which there is inelastic demand. Laisk and cosmetic surgery are optional, so the price influences the quantity demanded. Nobody would buy a $100,000 cheeseburger. Treatment that's needed to end suffering or make people functional again is inelastic; if you charge someone's annual salary, he still has to pay it.

It's true that there could be competition on price for non-emergency care. It's okay for someone to eat cheap, low-quality food or live in shitty housing, because for the most part they'll be okay. Should there really be a Ramen of surgery? Are you really willing to inflict that on people?

A good portion of this country is. Those of us who voted Democrat aren't.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/inelastic.asp
I don't have hard data (the actual details are often considered confidential), but for the marketing claims of the various makers who all trumpet greater selectivity and the rejection of false positives. Which makes sense, as security is a huge, incredibly competitive industry, and these people are all competing for the world's paranoia dollars.

Because the TSA gained nothing wasting their time on this. There are the normal conspiratorial claims among the comments that someone triggered the "brown guy" button just to harass him (again, only someone who has never been near a large North American city could say such a thing), for what? What did the TSA, NYPD, FBI, and whoever else gain from this giant waste of time?

Something triggered on a molecule or taggant that they couldn't easily exclude, so they tried to help him assist them in excluding it. He couldn't, so they had to exhaust all avenues.

Unless they have countless agents and countless rooms, this isn't something they do with any regularity at all.
That's not really a draw of San Francisco unless you're a female heterosexual or a homosexual of any kind. The gender ratio is pretty damn skewed.

Also, the old "odds are good, but goods are odd" saying shows how people actually feel about living in monocultured, gender-skewed environments.
Wikipedia says the difference between flashbulb memories and traumatic memories is stress, and that there is "a shortage on studies regarding personal events such as accidents or trauma".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbulb_memory#Flashbulb_mem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbulb_memory#Critique_of_f...
Are we who pledged supposed to be in private beta?
I'd put it higher, depending on your dataset, usage patterns, etc.

This is kinda the hill I keep nearly dying on at work. Team X wants to spend months investigating and deploying BigDataToolY because "we have big data". This is not our core business or core competency. I tell them to dump the data into Postgres and just see how it performs out of the box so we can get back to working on stuff that matters. They don't, I do, we end up using Postgres.

We had one team ignore the advice and go straight to Redshift (which is a warehousing product and totally inappropriate for their use case; but they ignored that advice too). When they finished and then woke up to the reality that Redshift wasn't going to work, I literally just dumped their data into a plain vanilla Postgres instance and pointed their app at it and... everything worked out of the box. That was ~1b rows in a single poorly-modeled table.

Another team was certain that Postgres could never work and was looking to build out a solution around BigQuery, Firestore, and some other utilities to pre-process a bunch of data and pre-render responses. One of our main products was operating in a several degraded state while they spent months on "research" before deciding this would take about four more months to implement. So I dumped all the data into a Postgres instance (using TimescaleDB) and it... worked out of the box. The current data is a few billion rows across half a dozen tables (the bulk of the data in a single table), but I'd tested to 4x the data without any significant performance degradation.

These are just a couple "notable" examples, but I've done this probably a dozen times now on fairly sizeable revenue-generating real-world products. Often I'm migrating this data _off_ of big data solutions which are performing poorly due to either the team's lack of knowledge and experience to use them properly or the tool having been the wrong one to use in the first place.

I've yet to have to even have the team model their data properly. Usually just a lift and shift into Postgres solves the problems.

I've told every one of these teams "We'll use Postgres until it stops working or starts getting needy, _then_ we'll look at the big data tools.". I've yet to migrate any of these datasets back _off_ of Postgres.
Are there any services that will strip off bloatware using ADB for you? Would be happy to pay $100 for it to just reliably work out of the box then spend a bunch of time reading forums and worrying that something will break.
Interesting. Does Sublime come with the source (how is it licensed?) when you purchase it?
I do not think so. Its a structural problem:

"Microsoft Defender Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...

Patched only on a update from this late March/April. Allows remote attackers to infect targeted systems with executable code via Windows Defender.
> I don't care how many HN points I lose by saying this

5 at most
Only if you can pronounce "Vggish"
> it wouldn't work otherwise.

Agreed that regulatory agencies are indispensable. But their job is to carry out the law, not make the law. Of course, the law has to delegate some decision-making responsibility to them -- the law can't make every decision ahead of time. But (a) the law can codify principles that regulatory agencies must uphold, and (b) lawsuits can be filed when someone disagrees that a principle has been accurately upheld -- the courts can decide.

We as a country ought to be arguing and disagreeing about principles, and the results (decided by legislators who are under the gun of potential non-reelection) ought to be codified as laws. A lack of principle in congress and in law is what really causes this abdication and delegation of authority.

An ideal legal corpus represents (as much as possible) a simply and directly expressed set of principles under which the country operates.
How do I join the server?
Does this work with vanity usernames e.g. facebook.com/ChrisHughes
People aren’t always choosing cities, there are greater work opportunities in cities and so that is where people have to go. This was true of factory work in the past when people migrated in droves from farms to work in factories because that was their only option and moving to work in cities for office jobs has just been the latest form of this.

Many people (although not all) would choose space in the countryside over dense in the city if they had a choice. I imagine this becomes even more likely as people have families and begin to prioritise other life aspects over and above work.
Diving head first into a culture war seems like one of the most spectacular blunders they could possibly make.
I don’t support all of those proposed changes, but I’m legitimately curious as to why, if the election process is so important and sacred, it is also too much to ask for some sort of proof that the person voting absentee is actually allowed to vote.

I don’t like the witness signature requirement for absentees, but saying that people of a certain race can’t provide a driver’s license or some other state id because they have a certain skin color seems a little racist (?). That might just be me though.
Why not buy gold if that's what you want? What is better than gold about bitcoin? I never really understood this argument. I see some value in bitcoin but it doesn't have the same properties as precious metals: bitcoin value is only based on faith (so from this point of view it's not too different from so-called fiat currencies), there is no natural demand.

If you have gold, silver, platinum, you will always have at least some demand from the industry. Even if the majority of the current market price is due to speculation you still have an actual need for the metal. That's not the case for bitcoin. You could have the market losing faith tomorrow and it's done, your coins have zero value.

Crypto assets are their own things, it's not helpful to associate them to something that has different properties such as gold.
Adding another data point.

I wrote a book[0] (published yesterday!) and, so far, sales are about 3:1 digital to print+digital. For me the biggest sales figures so far occurred when early access (MEAP) was launched.

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/knative-in-action
I mean you either believe in morality or you don't.

If you feel Amazon management isn't moral, they should repent and change their behavior, not "make their case."
Right out of the 1900's in fact, gilded age part 2: technologic boogaloo.
Funny how this conversation started how crypto is slow and expensive, and now turned into slow and expensive is OK :P.

In a crypto world, you don't need to convert to Euros. Are we in a crypto world yet? No. Will we live in crypto world in the future? Maybe, when it's faster and cheaper ;).
It is not. But it is also different story and different complaint about church.
The assumption is that it'd be an expensive treatment, and insurance would be unlikely to cover it if there isn't a medical need.
Thanks for sharing, I was looking for something exactly like this earlier today.
Yes the same for me with people I’ve worked with. But when I see someone from a news article or similar seems like they are very commonly trans.
I made $0/hour when I was unemployed at the start of my career. Never had a job before, and nobody was willing to give me a chance, so I got nothing.

I'm thankful that I will never be in that situation again. It was awful.
Considering the chinese goverment the trade war make sense. However, Risc-V decision makes equal sense. Staying neutral and moving
to place where they can avoid politcal pressure is good for an open foundation.
They could make a directory. If a ZTaxi user opens the app in an unserved city, the app should recommend similar apps that serve the city. Cut out the search engine middle man.
I'd also add that while I agree with the confusion expressed, using code snippets to escape from markdown parsing is important when sharing stuff that literally contains markdown. Of course that depends somewhat on the provider and what custom flavour of MD they use, which is often contraversial.

Like #463 GitHub auto linking, which I usually like, but occasionally been caught by it.