jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Consider the goals of a propaganda machine with respect to naming a holiday.

If you wanted to evoke national pride and unity, "Victory Day of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance" describes it perfectly well, and properly taught historical context will fill in the rest. By adding "Against Japanese Aggression", you're dividing attention away from your people and putting focus on the adversary -- a very strong rhetorical device.

There is no reason to diminish the initial nationalistic message of the holiday, unless you also want the adversary at the forefront of everybody's thoughts -- an us-versus-them scenario. When people think of Independence Day in the US, we don't immediately think of the British, but rather of our collective accomplishments as Americans in declaring and building our country.

Anyway, I had no idea if this style of naming or speech was common in China, which is why I asked -- other responses have addressed the question.
my understanding of the US legal system is that Feds really get to choose which laws they are going or not going to enforce. At the top level it is what is called executive action and power of pardon. For example, Obama has followed moral instead of laws in his immigration actions.
Most guys I know that have done time certainly don't love the cops. But when you get caught doing a crime they don't protest either.

And you call me tough guy. That's funny. I told you I committed crimes, that I was a violent person in the past. Then you attack me and you want me to be civil? I don't have that in me sorry. I'm a victim of the system you see. Pity me.
> "Am I using this project as an excuse to learn
some new technology, or am I trying to solve a problem?"

How about both?
My review and experience of using TLA+ in distributed systems class are in the below posts:
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/08/using-tla-for-teach... http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-experience-with-...
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann:

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Look up GOOG-411 which was a service they used to collect speech and language data in addition to providing services to the public. I'm sure people had a similar opinion to yours about GOOG-411, but it was incredibly valuable them. Sometimes companies disguise data collection as a service.
Not until the line between human and machine blurs (e.g. cyborg). At that point it stops making sense.
Interesting, thanks for the perspective.
Could you imagine the complaining for treating different ad libraries differently?
I ask this as a non-Whatsapp user. I have read the comments and I understand in some countries (Brazil, Netherlands, etc.) that Whatsapp is the main tool for person to person and person to business communications. What I can't figure out is why did it displace "plain SMS" or other tools. What drove the adoption? I'd love to hear more about that - was Whatsapp just the first mover?
Ursula K LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is an interesting meditation on this.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IZDmzk...

Yes, generally we do just silently accept these things. You're typing this on a PC or phone built using slave labor using minerals extracted by warlords to fund campaigns of oppression (despite some companies paying lip service to these issues it really still affects all electronic devices). When you are finished with them, they will be sent to Africa and burned in open landfills by hand to extract valuable minerals. Our oil market is based on dictators extracting their nation's wealth and using it to fund terror, in some cases literally on us.

Nobody in the modern world walks away from Omelas.
Yes AMS Euler is very nontraditional as mathematical typesetting goes — to put it in terms of Zapf's oeuvre, it's not Palatino or Optima but rather Zapfino. :-) Looking at what was written/expected before it was created, it can probably be seen as somewhat of a disappointment.

But it was created to mimic the style of mathematicians writing by hand on a blackboard, and I must say that in the book Concrete Mathematics (reading which was, in retrospect, one of the highlights of my life) it works very well, going well with the book's conversational style, the irreverent margin graffiti by students, etc.
Isn't it also useless if you got multiple monitors? I connect my Macbook to my external monitors, and move the Zoom screen to my monitor instead of my laptop. Thus, I am never directly looking at my laptop screen. Any employer tracking me will always think I am never ever looking at my Zoom screen.
I know. I was being a bit flippant on purpose. Having every body in one giant room doesn't mean there is no rhyme or reason to how things are laid out and labeled. Instead of moving between Building 1 & Building 4, you might go from Section 1 to Section 4. Only people that work there are going to need to know where Sections 1 & 4 are.
Beyond that: to me, the thing that distinguishes Harrison Bergeron in the field of dystopian literature is how relentlessly farcical it is. The "handicaps" are self-defeating because they blatantly advertise the advantages that they're meant to neutralize. The allegedly super-intelligent rebel protagonist acts like an impulsive idiot. His ultimate showdown isn't against a legion of high-tech enforcers, but against a shotgun-wielding bureaucrat.

In short, it goes beyond merely being unbelievable; it gleefully throws the whole notion of believability into a dumpster and sets it on fire because the fire is pretty.
> Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke.

How could one tell?
TLDR; they use nmap + vulners (nmap script). Their wrapper outputs those low/medium/high-risk cve reports that no one likes to look at
A simpler problem is months. The English system uses arbitrary names, while Japanese/Chinese/Korean just call them "1-month", "2-month", etc.

Even though I grew up with it, I find the English system impenetrable. Quick, what's 3 months before November? I have to count it out every time. (In mod 12, -3 is the same as +9, so I just count forward 9 months.)

The names of the months are a nice nod to our Roman history but they are a pain in the rear to use. It's high time to relegate them to second-class status, like Roman numerals.
The title should be rich humans can survive underwater.

Yes we have the capacity to run engineering programs that would halt the rising sea levels, we can build huge dykes, perform land reclamation, pump water out and even use the rising sea levels for energy generation.

And while we can save Manhattan and perhaps even venice this won't help Bangladesh and other poor regions which are at risk of being flooded by the rising seas destroying not only their homes but also their ecology putting their limited food supply at greater risk.

And that is a problem a distbalized Bangladesh and other poor(er) countries in South East Asia would destabilize the more established nations like India, China and Pakistan all 3 of which are nuclear powers.

A destabilized middle east and africa would spill out into Europe, a destabilized South America would spill into North America.

You can't rely on local solutions for a global crisis if you want to maintain the same quality of life you enjoy today.

Even in the current political climate which some loonies on the left would call a "fascist regime" in the US no one is going to open fire on millions of refugees that could come to the border once their homes get flooded. And the author also forgets that if we want to save New York we would likely need China to be stable and continuing providing it's manufacturing capacity to the world which means that if its neighbourhood turns into a warzone the capacity of the west to perform these amazing feats of engineering would be greatly diminished.

If anything the media portrays the wrong message, I don't think we are screwed or we have already run out of time and reached some point of no return and I don't think that we will go extinct in the next 100 years due to climate change, I don't see climate change as something we solve but as something we adapt too and maybe eventually reverse but this also something that cannot be performed on a local scale because once it gets really bad and people get desperate they'll flood you and while a dyke can hold off water it won't hold up against 50 million people wanting to get in.
The divisiveness of this design is precisely what will propel its success. It's the coolest production car I've ever seen. And I expect >50% of the population to strongly disagree, mostly people from different generations. "Appalling" designs get free viral marketing; the trick is to still appeal to enough of your target market.

This truck gets attention. It's a loud status statement that looks cheap to build, costs less than $50k. Well done Tesla.
Reflexively, the only way to neuter the danger of speech is to suppress everything that isn't already accepted. Then nobody can effect change on the grounds that change might be harmful.
Your co-worker is trading carbon credits. Keep it up.
I'm getting a strong "Homer Simpson's car" vibe from this. I'm rooting for Tesla but this... I wouldn't even want to ride in it.
Or at least prevent siting upside down. Add a triangular roof to the top side?
Is Zanzibar ganpati?
That makes sense to me. I'm used to people not understanding that getting an address solves a lot of problems for a lot of homeless people. And since we're on the same page about that I understand now that you're wanting to focus elsewhere.
While I agree with you, I feel like I should point out that is it indeed because people operate by trust that, maybe, accepting money from a "tentacle of the american government" is not a great PR move. Add to that the shady crypto stuff...
Whether they're form China seems pretty irrelevant. You could very well make the opposite case that people from China know even less about its actual KPIs.

It's trivial to pick a relevant metric and look up the median value for China. A quarter of the people there live on less than $5/day. They're not swanning off to do a Masters at MIT any time soon. They're not even able to move to the better cities within China, for the most part.

This person is a total anomaly. Taking them as representative is quite ridiculous and rather insulting to the hundreds of millions "with a K-12 education" that somehow are still living in abject poverty with no opportunities. It's an arbitrary and meaningless claim to make. It's like saying China and America have the same hygiene standards because most people in both places have access to soap.
that explains dig?
single-page application
I've learned that the changes are actually relatively forgiving. Many of the fake book changes are different from the harmonies that were used when the tunes were show and popular tunes.

Also, even if you're a rhythm player, tunes are a lot easier to memorize if you learn melodies. And that helps in two ways. The first is just having a better grasp of the tune, and the second is that if you're unsure of the changes, you can improvise directly from the melody.

Granted, as a bass player I can get away with not knowing all of those 7ths, 9ths, etc. "I solemnly swear to play the root, the whole root, and nothing but the root, so help me Dusty Hill."
Take a look at the source code at GitHub, this is only the demo https://github.com/mgechev/angular-webrtc
One thing that should be mentioned here is that the amount of time that one has to learn to write code really depends on the company one works at. If you work at smaller firms, its much harder to justify putting in extra time beyond just making it work (although this bites you in the long term by making the codebase uglier). In the larger firms, you have much more time to do code reviews and refactoring.
Macsumption.

So also, if it's not for all platforms (web?) then please, platform should be in the title.
His sudden withdrawal from a successful musical comedy career was a mystery to many.

Well, the official explanation was that Henry Kissinger's winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 made musical comedy obsolete:

"It was at that moment that satire died," says Lehrer.
"There was nothing more to say after that."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_...
I don't understand how this works. Once I authenticate with the free SaaS model hosted on Heroku it doesn't give me an option to pick a channel and back it up.
Wow, these are all really surprisingly and disappointingly conventional and mainstream.

If someone had told me these were the BBC's top stories of the year, I would have bought it.
It's an interesting idea and a good deal with a charity angle; it got coverage on blogs and forums, and spread around like links do.
Yes, Augmented Times linked it. Did a cursory HN search and it seemed to be new. Apologies if it was a double post.
You can look this up.

And when you do, you'll discover various activists with an agenda pushing speculation and prediction backed by gigantic statistical formulae. And this is even taking the neo-Keynesian picture of the economy as a proven truth (as opposed to a wildly oversimplified model based on assumptions known to be false).

(Note: not trying to imply that any other macroeconomic prediction models are much better.)
Protip: Once you use "Government" with a capital-G and a whole bunch of implied baggage, it's clear you're arguing backwards from a conclusion.

Also, consumption taxes would disproportionately kill the poor since they tend to spend 100% of their income if not more.
I share the same perspective. So far, my only guess is that their plan is to turn the 'indie bundle' into a repeatable business model, where they either get paid to run bundles for individual developers, or they turn a profit solely on the 'tip to the bundle operator' that's included as one of the sliders when you make a purchase. For obvious reasons, relying on the tip seems like a risky model, but it's possible that they could find success by charging a flat fee to developers and then collecting the tip as extra upside. Valve certainly hasn't been doing badly through turning Steam into a distribution platform for indies, so there's probably still room in that market.
Snow Crash is great. Generally I'd recommend some "classics", just to see who treaded some ground first, i.e. who gets copied by everyone.

Isaac Asimov - Foundation (and the rest of the trilogy)

Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land / Starship Troopers / The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man / The Stars My Destination

Jack Vance - The Dying Earth

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep / The Man in the High Castle

Larry Niven - Ringworld

etc. etc.

A list of Hugo Award winners[1] might come in helpful.

Another advantage of having read "the greats" is that if some critic says that new author X writes "in the style of Y" you have a slightly better idea if you might like it.

Tastes vary, of course. Personally I never got what's supposed to be so great about Ender's Game. Teen Mary Sue geek power fantasy with questionable morals. Then again, lots of people said similar things about Heinlein…

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
The article says that Lamo says he doesn't have them any more.
Considering recent developments like stuxnet worm, Chinese cyber attacks, the fact that cyber crime was one of the main topics discussed during latest NATO summit I think its more about strategy and security than about money.
It's a puzzle enthusiast named Gil, from the looks of it. There's a tradition of running these for fun.
"Constant space" and "zero garbage" perhaps?
Could you explain how this would be faster than light? Wouldn't the particles be traveling at the speed of light?
Which is why I mentioned the glob operator! Speaking of which, if you did touch '/-i', it would catch

rm -rf /*

Ironically, I was thinking of adding that specific directories would not be caught (obviously), but I figured that would be understood implicitly since most people ought to know what <asterisk> actually does in the shell. And if they don't...

Edit: I just noticed that the glob operator in my first comment didn't show up, because it was eaten by markdown. Incidentally, so was the asterisk in your post! That might be the source of your confusion. In that case, I should specify such a trick only works with:

rm -rf *
rm -rf /*
rm -rf ~/*

Or similar. Not specific files. But, again, I appeal to the importance of understanding what the glob operator actually does!

As an aside, the context of this post is a mistake in steam.sh which may essentially do:

rm -rf /*

So, the discussion implicitly has nothing to do with exact paths. :)
Doubt it. Not wearing masks has become a political hill many have chosen to die on, and there are tons of people who virtue signal by choosing to go without them or judging others for choosing to wear them.
Well, you know what they say: "Fake it till you make it."
Yes and no. There's no doubt they often act like echo-chambers. However, there are also innocent examples of them enabling discovery, e.g being recommended a knife skills video after watching many cooking videos - it's in the general domain you're interested in, but was probably something you hadn't considered before.
> No one has declared themselves the "guild of truth"

Get back to me on this in a couple of years, when "fighting misinformation" reaches its peak. All social media already have "guild of truth", and you can be very effectively silenced if you run afoul of this guild. The formal institutionalization of this de-facto arrangement is still in the works, but there's no doubt there is a wide demand for it and wide agreement - at least among politicians, academia, news media, entertainers and big tech companies - that having a "guild of truth", tightly controlling masses' information intake, is a good and vital project.

> It seems perfectly adequate

Adequate for what? It is a partisan propaganda organ including some infotainment content along the way. For people that see the task of the press to be something else, it is abhorrent. For people seeing nothing wrong with a correct-minded propaganda, especially coupled with a bit of fun infotainment, it's perfectly fine.
It's funny I had the exact same thought before opening the link, "Weird, a Swing article on the front page of HN? The same Swing that was causing me sadness every time I tried to figure out why a component was expanding/not expanding like I wanted to?"
Sometimes, what you're describing is called "rule by law" to distinguish it from "rule of law", because one practical aspect of rule of law is that everyone is subject to the law, even lawmakers.

This is not an intuitive concept by any means, but it helps to think about it in terms of the origins of the common law: the underlying idea is that the long acceptance of something or practice of something by regular people is a sound basis for its legitimacy. This still finds expression in the theory (in the US, anyways) that the speed limit should be the speed at which 85% of people drive. On this footing, the legitimacy of law is more about observation than about the decision of a particular person or administrative body.

Some things to contrast with the common law are "positive law" and "statute law". Legislation passed by Parliament is indeed statute law; it's not common law. Yet, to a significant degree, common law ideas and ways of judging remain prevalent in the United States, the United Kingdom and the other English speaking countries. It's the common law that defines most crimes with which you'd be familiar. It's more relevant than you think.

Although Parliament is indeed sovereign and Parliamentary sovereignty is said to mean that Parliament can not be bound even by Parliament, there are contemporary limits recognized to Parliament's law making authority. Sometimes they are even called "constitutional", referencing the unwritten English constitution; and sometimes they are clearly linked to the Convention on Human Rights. Either way, what we see here is an assertion of the old idea of "transcendent law" that binds everyone, even the law makers -- and that is what rule of law is really about.
"In Russia or China the state runs the media, in the US the media runs the state"

Apart from Sheldon and Rupert not a single name strikes me as significantly non-progressive. Sheldon has passed away, Rupert is going to be not to far in the future and his heir is decidedly in the opposite camp (maxed out his legal spending cap for donations to Biden's campaign).
Isn't that dangerous for the screen?
The UX looks way ahead of LibreOffice. It's clean and looks like it's out of the way. I just can't handle using patchwork UIs like LibreOffice (I have basically given up with office suites on Linux and use Google Docs) - as it turns out, interacting with pleasing things improves the enjoyment of using those things.
The author seems to think that Linus's aggressive tone only has a single effect on the community - to dissuade developers from contributing. It's possible that's true, but it's unlikely[1]. Things rarely have a single isolated effect on the world. It's entirely possible that the way Linus interacts with the community makes people stop and really think before they post lest they be 'flamed'. Or makes people more likely to group together for support from his 'burns'. Or keeps the community small enough to stop Linux becoming bloated (hmm..).

It's easy to focus on the downside of the way Linus writes his posts, but that doesn't mean there isn't an upside.

[1] This is an interesting example of the Principle of Double Effect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect - The negative effect of writing aggressively is inseparable from the beneficial effect, consequently making the act good if posting is a good thing, if Linus is acting with good intentions, and if the downside of annoying people is less than the upside of being fiercely opinionated about the way Linux should evolve.

Thomas Aquinas writing 800 years ago about the morality of killing people in self-defence applied to whether or not flaming people on message boards is acceptable... This is why I love philosophy.
Fantastic writing on that site!
Why is HN so interested in linear algebra lately?