jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_inve...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Jassam

[3] http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_det...

[4] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald...

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/us/case-of-james-risen-tim...

[6a] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/04/former-l-times...

[6b] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/5/headlines#959

[7] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/29/iraq.usa1

[8] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04...

[9] http://www.globalresearch.ca/psyops-media-warfare-and-the-we...

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_during_the_Iraq_War

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fallujah_during_t...

[12] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/14/nyt-nsa-leak...

[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_Mohyeldin#2014_Israel.E2....

[14] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ferguson-no-fly-zone-...

[15] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections...

[16] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

[17] http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20...

[18] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/heroes-error?pag...

[19] http://www.salon.com/2005/02/23/more_gannon/

[20] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Williams#.22No_Child_...

[21] http://www.thenation.com/article/bushs-war-press

[22] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/13covert.html?pag...

[23] http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/government-says-federal-a...

[24] https://web.archive.org/web/20031025141143/http://www.channe...

[25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch#Controversy_rega...

[26] http://thelibertybeat.com/anti-propaganda-law-repealed-state...

[27] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/politics/09intel.html

[28] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/politics/06intel.ready.htm...

[29] http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/27/world/fg-infowar27

[30] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/heroes-error?pag...

[31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

[32] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/austin-goodrich-spy-who...

[33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kearns

[34] http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html

[35] http://www.marayamedia.com/company.php

[36] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

[37] http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf

[38] http://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN&ROBERTSON_2014-Manipulati...

[39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Act_of_196...
I just wish we had F# on the JVM that would be a game changer imho
I agree cancel culture is a pernicious undermining of civil discourse, but this is not cancel culture which is about de-platforming perfectly legal speech.

It’s literally illegal in America to incited and plot murder and insurrection against the government of the USA. Not joking, not boasting, but actually plotting and then executing the plan for real.

There’s a perfectly reasonable argument that while merely disseminating such messages as a platform may not be criminal, that knowingly disseminating or facilitating such discourse while being fully aware of it is reckless and irresponsible. I think if Amazon doesn’t want to behave recklessly and irresponsibly in that way, that’s a reasonable position for them to take.

There’s clearly a cultural blind spot here. If these were Islamic terrorists plotting a repeat of 9/11 nobody here would have any concerns about this.
When doing it manually can people find shortcuts that would elude brute force computation?
Thanks for the explanation, and for the all the effort you guys put in moderating the site.
I would argue this isn't a California problem or a national problem. It's a global problem. Example: Hong Kong. In Hong Kong the government funds itself in large part through property ownership. They are therefore incentivised to make housing as expensive as possible. The result is predictable. I would argue that in democracies this will remain a problem as long as the majority of voters benefit from high housing prices. When combined with rent control you don't need to own property to benefit from high housing prices, since you are likely paid as if you where paying market rate rent. I don't really see any practical solutions. Work from home might change things a bit but I'm pessimistic, since lots of people want to live near stuff, which requires living near other people, which means someone has an inventive to raise prices. Perhaps boomers cashing out all there housing at once might help things.
If I’m unfamiliar with a project I force slow work by first looking for existing process improvements, like organized GitHub milestones and well-described and meta’d issues.

I’ll commonly explore new tech by generating my own summarized documentation and through light tooling of initial configuration.

I am in the midst of this now where an existing operational “algorithm” needs better software support.

A lot of the discovery for that is starting with very general issues describing “problem” areas and then drilling them down to specific issues that might require action.

It can be tedious to go this “slow,” but it’s how I get to fast.
I've been investing for a long time. I've lived thru two bubbles already- the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble. I lost money in the first and made a killing in the second.

I won't say whether this is a bubble or not, but the number one thing I look for is businessweek (or newsweek) saying that "things have changed!" A mainstream publication putting the bull market on its cover is the prime indicator that it is a bubble and that it will be a painful crash.

It is almost a cliche.

The real bubble right now is in the dollar. We've been able to inflate, an export that inflation, for nearly 100 years, and we got away with it because of military might and manufacturing might (and bretton woods). 2 of those 3 are gone and the last one is losing respect rapidly. It is gonna be a bloodbath when those dollars come home to roost. (and it will kick off a bubble in gold.)

Maybe the bursting of this "tech bubble" (if we're in one) will be the trigger that causes the end of the dollar bubble.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of business week putting the dollar on the cover and saying "This time its different". (But maybe one of their covers for gold will count.)
Now companies and countries do that for us! coughWikiLeakscough
What is this "language of the internet" of which you speak? Some sort of artificial human distinction laid down upon an incredibly complex landscape to make you feel like you understand what's going on? I do not think there is any such beast.

"The Internet" is ultimately still just the accumulation of many people speaking together, and languages will be what they are. There won't be a "lingua fraca" of the Internet because there doesn't need to be one.
I said that because of increasing level of acceptance among people. And I beg to differ on "The cost of changing language is not that high" point of yours.

I know that English was not always the first language to communicate for everyone but look at 'today" where billions of people are reading and writing English everyday on web at a faster pace than any other language. All the dominant languages earlier did not have this privilege. And the bigger point is that no body minds it. People are more concerned about the their economic status. And this might be very personal but somehow I don't relate to languages emotionally. I am very much an Indian at heart even though I use English for most of my everyday communication needs :)

Regarding the cost for language change, it will take lot of economic turmoil to turn it totally upside down.
first thing I saw was a tron light cycle
or the London Olympics logo (think Lisa Simpson)
Hulu has DRM.
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I don't want to diminish this problem, but I am not a fan of the way some of these survey questions were framed. It lumps people have taken actions in with people who have considered taking that action. It is a real "Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?" type situation. There is a big difference between a third of writers thinking about whether they should change what they write about and a third of writers actually following through with it.
Pretty depressing if you ask me. You're limited to just plugging libraries together if all you understand is the type system. Hey it compiles and runs without error. Congrats. But does it do what you want? Impossible to say.
basically lisp with the biggest standard library you've ever imagined,

That's what I was thinking too. And I also think it could mostly be re-implement as open source, with say Python.
What's the argument -- that if China stopped making toothbrushes we would stop buying them? A US factory might struggle to compete with a Chinese factory on price, but that's exactly my point. Global capitalism does not account for the human cost and environmental cost necessary to make the Chinese factory cheaper.
I'm curious about the DARPA work you mention. Do you have any references?

And yes: Ms. Banner's explanation of the costs of production -- in materials, governed by the layers and needs of the garment -- and in labour, was highly illuminating. It's instructive both in how much the underlying production costs of fine clothing are, the markups which still remain in high fashion, and how inexpensive most day-to-day clothing is.
I know this isn't as simple as what you're looking for, but this is what I go to macros for. Kill the line, paste it twice, move to the first one, comment it out, move down one.

Once you create a macro like that you can run it, name it, save it to your config, bind it to a key, whatever suits your workflow.

I never really thought of how much I do this manually, so I just set it up for myself right now. I'll probably rewrite it as an elisp function though.
This does not seem to be a contradiction. Once you are in the right region of solution space training is expected to be faster and easier. Re-initialization could have a regularizing effect, explaining the better performance.
Back end, data systems, esp. large scale. Shoot at theengway at gmail
I hope Facebook does the same thing at least for deleted users. I’ve deleted my FB account for ages and I still receive emails from FB asking me to go back while I’m not subscribed to any email notification from FB.
Indeed, finding bugs at compilation is better, which is why I prefer languages with strong typing.

I reread my comment to make sure, but I am being painfully explicit that good debug tools are still useful. But I prefer good tests over even good debug tools. I very rarely even printf debug as a result of automated testing.

This isn’t really just lip service; I have a project right now where I literally can’t attach a debugger or run locally. Of course, that’s a flaw and unreasonable. But, with good test hygiene, you can still be pretty productive in the face of this. Not only that, pushing code feels safe, even without the ability to actually run the code locally.

Do I think debugging is bad? No. I think it’s worse than testing, which when done right can save you from a hell of a lot of manual debugging, even in the face of complex software with networked dependencies.

I get ire on HN every single time I mention the virtues of testing instead of debugging. I suspect people literally don’t believe you can exchange quantities of one for the other, but where I’m standing it’s obviously possible. Same thing comes up with strong typing frequently, where you have people making the claim that typings don’t prevent bugs - but anyone who’s transitioned a medium sized code base to TypeScript can attest to the improvements it can bring.

In my opinion, automated tests are almost literally just debugging done by a script instead of a human.

edit: It's also being pointed out to me that rr is being used to debug failing tests, which is not something I thought of and my ignorance may be contributing to some of the reason my comment was so poorly received here rather than the testing vs debugging comparison. (In many cases, for unit tests, I had never thought of using a debugger to try to find the problem, because the actual problem is often made obvious enough by the failed assertion output.)
Delphi is as old as Python, damn.
I didn't say they're insoluble, and I certainly didn't say we shouldn't attempt to treat and cure diseases. My issue is with seeing illness as an isolated "thing" almost as if it exists independently of the person.

Obviously, this is heavily dependent on the situation.

For example, there's the issue of fixing "problems" that are not seen as problems by the person living with them. A kinda health normalisation.

Since you mention lactose intolerance, I can certainly imagine millions of people in Asia shrugging with indifference. Plenty would be unlikely to want to change their lifestyle. What would be the point? They've been lactose intolerant for thousands of years. If they don't see a problem, does a problem exist? (I'm sure some would want to eat dairy, of course.)

Does this mean that a westerner in a dairy-consuming culture shouldn't see lactose intolerance as a problem? Nope, I know several who very much do. It's just context dependent, isn't it.

People decline treatment all the time, for a huge variety of reasons.

Even in situations where a cure is highly desirable and can be highly effective, it might not be straightforward. (I'm going to put aside religious objections, that's a whole other can of worms.) A cure might be extremely unpleasant, even disfiguring. Radical mastectomy is an obvious example.

Describing illness as a problem requires defining that problem in order to define the cure. Radical mastectomy might effectively "cure" some breast cancer, but the definitions of the problem and the cure are very limited.

So we should just move the goalposts, right? Solutions shouldn't result in severe scarring, lymphoedema, dysmorphia, depression, relationship difficulties... hmmm, moving those goalposts is starting to seem tricky.

There's plenty I'm not saying. I'm not saying we shouldn't try. I'm not saying problems don't exist (quite the opposite) and I'm not saying that health conditions should be ignored.

Health conditions are not just problems that don't yet have a solution. They can be deeply complex, involving issues of identity and ethics and more.

Like I said, I certainly don't object to curing disease. I'm just pointing out that it can be complex.
I'm a worker in the trenches myself. If you read a different story, that's based on your perception or experience rather than my motives. You can look through my previous posts. I want everyone to be happy and fulfilled, and money is not my driving force.

All that said, I do believe that doing things well and providing a great collaborative atmosphere (even family-like perhaps) can lead to high performance.

What I do not want is people merely trading their time, their lives, for a bit of money. That is not living.
none of the former neighbors live there anymore, the leasing arrangement was to provide time for them to find new places to move to
I'm having a little trouble following this, could you explain a bit more? It seems to me like "66" would be pronounced "SIKSIKS", so for that to become "SIKS" would mean the "KS" (consonants) would be collapsed, no? (Not trying to refute you or anything, just understand :) )
(Yes I know my bio says "Oakland" right now. I am working out of my partner's house during Covid. I still own a place in the South Bay).
You're thinking of Mesosphere, a separate company building a product on top of Mesos.
I started taking and deleting my data off FB 5 years ago, after I knew better. I'm only on FB because of messenger, and checks FB less than once a month.

I think that's a better approach than suing them and getting the $10 from a class action.
Just like to the other commenter mentioned, be careful of standing all day. My mother was a hairdresser for 50+ years. She needed operations on both her knees.

I think it's all a balance of sitting and standing, and not taking one to the extreme. I say this as I just threw my back out a few weeks ago, because I was sitting all day :( So yeah, I'm not a model person to listen to either!
A technically correct one, but perhaps not a useful one.

There is no inherent incompatibility between "very strongly challenging peoples' ideas and practices" and "violating consent."
> In my opinion, the main limitation of TSan is that it cannot find all possible races.

In my experience TSan finds all possible races if it's built with unit tests and unit tests provide enough coverage. If unit tests don't provide enough coverage then there are likely other bugs lurking beyond just data races.
> That seems like a ton of effort for them to keep up with, though. Would it not be easier to make an appimage?

I'm curious where does this myth come from. Making a Debian or an Arch package doesn't seem any hard.
That is indeed the progressive interpretation of those events. The other interpretation is FDR's progressive policies extended the Depression into by far the longest in US history.

The banking runs were caused by the fixed exchange rate between gold and fiat money - in 1929 one could double one's wealth by buying gold from banks at the official exchange rate. This naturally caused endless runs until the banks either collapsed or FDR (correctly) suspended such sales. The banks remained crippled for lack of money because the Federal Reserve Bank (not a free market bank) failed to understand what the problem was.

The country came out of the Depression late in the 30's because of vast quantities of money flowing into the country from foreign countries buying arms.
My favorite: when do you do rounding?

For instance, with proration. Take each line item, prorate it, round it, then add them all together. Totally reasonable.

Now add all the line items together, prorate the total, and round it. Also reasonable, but there's a decent chance the number is different by a few pennies because of rounding differences. If you chained more calculations the differences would compound.

Whichever way you choose, somebody is going to whip out their calculator and tell you that you did it wrong (but only when they come out better the other way).

This applies anywhere you're doing multiplication or division. Discounts, proration, taxes, "cashback", "store credit dividend", whatever.
Making electronics work at a very high or low temperature is a challenge. You normally have to decide between custom-designing all components to work at the extreme temperature, or to figure out how to use off the shelf stuff, yet insulate them from the environmental temperature.

More and more designs are choosing the latter, although notable exceptions are LED light bulbs (which use special components rated to operate for years at ~150 Celcuis)
> Vitamin D is relatively safe (although few medical interventions are entirely risk-free, especially at high doses) so it may not appear to be the most harmful of misinformation.

it's shocking that journalists are calling anything which isnt proven fully proven or universally accepted 'misinformation', when it very likely could have a beneficial effect with basically 0 downside.

this is extremely dangerous and highly Orwellian.
> If people don’t want to be associated with these videos then perhaps they shouldn’t be uploaded.

I don't often use the word privilege, but there it is.
From what I can tell, Europe tends to prefer far smaller trains than the US does.

The old-style couplers used in Europe are too weak for longer trains. "The buffers and chain coupling system has a maximum load much less than that of the Janney coupler. They allow around 3,000-4,000 (metric) tonnes total train weight depending on the how they are constructed. The Janney coupler sometimes is built for 32,000 tonnes (31,000 long tons; 35,000 short tons)."

The EU attempt to standardize on an automatic freight coupler across the entire EU was a flop. There's a new project under way to test a new generation of freight coupler, one that connects the mechanical, air, and electrical connections.[1] But it's just getting started.

[1] https://uic.org/com/enews/article/germany-rail-freight-trans...
That's one positive of projects like Posthaven
OT: I'd be fine with a law that made Senators and Representatives count as a 10% shareholder for any public company whose stock they own and so subjecting them to rule 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

That rule, which applies to officers, directors, and 10% shareholders of public companies, makes it so that any "short swing" profits from trades have to be given to the company. A "short swing" profit is profit from buying and selling shares of the company, or from selling and buying shares of the company, if the buying and the selling is less than six months apart.

The idea is that officers, directors, and big shareholders should be thinking about the long term good of the company rather than concentrating on short term swings in stock value that they might immediately personally profit from.

16(b) enforcement is brilliant. The people it applies to are the same people that are required to publicly disclose trades, and if you violate it any other shareholder has standing to sue to require you to give the profits to the company. Furthermore, to get that standing they only have to be a shareholder when they file suit, not when the violation occurred. Finally, if they win not only do you have to disgorge your short swing profits, you have to pay the plaintiff's attorney fees.

And so the SEC doesn't have to lift a finger to enforce it. There are attorneys who get the public disclosure data and look for violations, then buy a share of stock in the company and sue.

Even worse from the violator's point of view: if there is more than one purchase or sale of stock in a six month period, they just match up the highest sale price with the lowest purchase, then the second highest sale price with the second lowest, and so on, regardless of order.

For example, if you bought at 100, a month later sold at 90, a month later bought at 80, and a month later sold at 70, you have in reality lost 20. But you've got a 10 short swing profit from that buy at 80, sell at 90, which is all 16(b) cares about.
At least they are keeping the attack going...

At least as guilty, imho.