jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hey, grantheaslip, I know this is offtopic, but I'm LDS and just fwiw, we aren't "a group which at its very core believes that friends of mine are inferior, sinful, damaged goods because of the way that they were born." In fact, the LDS church doesn't think anybody is damaged goods, gay, straight or otherwise. I have a few really good friends who are gay and LDS and would take issue with that statement, too. That doesn't mean that we see things the same way you do, but we wouldn't call anybody damaged goods. People are just too good and precious to be thought of that way.
I don't think his definition is completely satisfying, but I love this discussion since developers so often use the term "business logic." It's one of those terms that we can't immediately define, but we just sorta know what it means. If it looks like business logic, talks like business logic, you know the drill.

I've noticed a similar idea when trying to classify issues in an issue tracker for a software project. We realized that using tags called "cosmetic" and "feature request," it sometimes gets hard to distinguish between the two, especially in GUI (or web) applications.
This part is pretty cool, but quite subtle: "Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling". I mean that they noticed the number going down, not "people started raising tickets saying it doesn't work".
I would think that Google probably don't need or want to colo in Manhattan. Jersey is only milliseconds away.

That being said, a growing NY engineering staff probably don't want to be in Garden City.
Many of the people who wrote those papers went on to work at rentec. Rented, by dollars, is the most successful hedge fund ever.
It involves a sledgehammer
It's a separate email account on a domain I only use in connection with eBay/Paypal.
I still see the messages IRT.
This comes back to the issue that it is not about ideas, but execution.

And a big part of execution is getting distribution.
Maybe I misunderstood your point, but the second paragraph doesn't seem quite right:

> They can refuse to accept the chip back, ..., or they can ... not accept the chip.

So do they accept those chips or not?
As an alum, I must say:

What the fuck, UCL?
I developed an Android app for one of my Uni classes.

I didn't really feel I learnt better Java though, alot of the programming is quite Android-specific.
Does innovation arc towards decadence

Of course it does. Decadence is sort of a human manifestation of entropy.
This seems more like a plug for your startup than an informative article about journalism -- might have wanted to mention that in the title?

Edit: The link at the end of that post even leads back to this post...
sugarcane?
Yeah.. we need to fix that part up. We'll make it a lot better esp. when we have more cities. Thanks for the feedback though!
Actually, a lot of the places that require Word format use a tool which extracts relevant information from the resume to automatically populate their database. For some reason those custom tools don't work with text documents (go figure).
It could be a network issue - but one that has followed me through two apartments, three routers, and four computers. The only constants in the equation have been Time Warner Cable and me.

No matter what the cause, however, the fact is that streaming media is vulnerable to network issues, and downloaded media is not. It may take longer to get, but once you have it, you know you have it.

I think your point about sloppy internet is so true. American ISPs are in a sorry state overall.
Fair enough, but as I recall HN barrages you with the rules as you join.
Gosh I remember when Postgres didn't have any streaming replication. That was a huge pain point. You had to manually ship the WAL files to the standby and use a trigger for fail-over... and pray that your standby is actually up to date.

The code in Postgres is written in a pragmatic, no-nonsense style and overall I'm quite happy with it. I've been bitten at times by run-away toast table bloat and the odd query plan misfire. But over all it's been a really solid database to work with.
Since I don't do anything close to web dev, I really have no idea what this is saying.
The man published his own blog posts under his real name in a book[1]. If anybody doxed him, it was himself.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Technological_Singu...
Nice summary. I've read most of those. Whether or not Alexander could use an editor would be an interesting piece unto itself. Much of his charm is in the nested parentheses and asides that would get cut, but a distilled version with higher production value could be a useful way to create examples of thoughtfulness and charitableness in public discourse. When I don't agree with him, I still like the sort of enemies he makes.
So it's all one big accident? You know how absurd this all sounds. First, he has a right to anonymity. Second, if he publishes his name he has the right to anonymity.
In undergrad, I went to the library once and watched Andrei Rublev on laserdisc. I had been "into" films before, but this was quite unlike anything I had seen up to that point.

Anyways, there's a scene in the film with a pagan ritual that is shot with such dreamlike perfection. I remember seeing something from the corner of my eye and noticed there were three other film-obsessed laserdisc enthusiasts standing behind me mesmerized.

Andrei Rublev is on Criterion blu-ray now as a flawless restoration. Watching it recently, it's a bit heavy-handed, but still magnificent if you watch the film on it's own terms.

I think many of the visual techniques pioneered by Tarkovsky are now commonplace, but the meandering dreamlike pace and tone is still rare. Apichatpong Weerasethakul comes to mind as a director who can pull-off the dreamike stuff as well as Tarkovsky. See Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall his Past Lives (https://youtu.be/gqlD_VnsM-k).
This is already a thing, checkout Zero Trust Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_networks these systems kind of operate on the premise the network is compromised to being with so what do you do then?
You know how everyone rolls their eyes and are skeptical of the police policing themselves.
My feelings are the same with the media. I never see the media fight, hard against themselves, like other professions. It just seems a bit to chummy inside the establishment.
But Social Media is no panacea either. It's lots of people not moderating each other.
In Finland, I usually hear people talk about salaries before taxes and less often after taxes. For example my union has a yearly salary survey and publish results in before taxes salaries. But since it's so confusing, you usually see "brutto" ("gross", before taxes) and "netto" ("net", after taxes) being discussed when talking about salaries.
Cooling from 100 degrees to 70 uses much less energy than heating from 10 to 70.
The testing for Covid doesn't help anyone that has it, it helps all of us as a community. The health agencies need to know how many people have it and where to direct resources and understand if they need to increase (or are able to decrease) the restrictions to movements and gatherings.

There is no special treatment yet available for Covid, so whether or not your doctor knows you have it won't change how they treat you.
I'm working on an RPG Card generator. It allows you to design a set of cards in a wysiwyg way and then print them out to do good old Dungeons&Dragons or whatever tickles your fancy. It's not usable yet but if this is interesting for you, you can track its progress here: https://github.com/nkoehring/rpg-cards-ng/
I've always wanted to build a system from discrete parts, but that whole "thousands and thousands of transistors" thing changes my mind every time :D
I don't see how this could work unless you cordon off populations, test them and _keep_ them isolated from each other. Even then you would have to sterilize goods that passed between isolated groups. That may work for cows if you have enough barns and fences but definitely is impossible for humans.

I believe that we must be practical and treat based on symptoms. The oft-sought but elusive "test" is a mirage sought by medical researchers that would be nice but is not practical given today's technology and the limitations of human behavior. Besides the test is generally simply not available.

I'll be surprised if the italian towns' quarantines hold.
400.45 :P that's a nice one
Nice!

I was pleasantly surprised that there is a testing centre 3 blocks from my apartment (i don't know where else I could have found this information).

I also really like this "Unless you are explicitly told otherwise, you MUST complete your self-isolation period - even if your test result is negative for COVID-19." I'm quite concerned by hypochondriac's and general attention seekers spamming the test system, being forced to self-isolate regardless is a perfect deterrent.
There is a few important things to note here before people jumping into conclusions "Flagship ( or not Flagship ) Android dropped in value roughly twice as fast as Apple’s "

First thing being Android vendors Choose to devalue their phone faster. The Trade in "Value" is not only governed by the Market "perceived" value, but how much it was still wholesaling at the end of specific period of time. This is by and large a Vendor's decision.

If a Samsung S20 was Retailing $699 but wholesaling at $599 giving retail $100 profits, but at the end of the period drop the price to $599 but wholesaling at $449, giving additional profits ( $50+ ) to clear out stocks. No firm will buy your 2nd hand S20 for anywhere close to $449, despite its retail price is still going for $599.

Giving 2nd hand phone a 80% discount of Wholesale price, you end up with at best $360. ( Assuming perfect condition ), All of a sudden your phone only worth half of its price you bought it for.

( The above numbers are for illustration only )

Compared to Apple extremely stringent pricing and minimal margin to retailers. Apple prefer to give a package bonus if you achieve your sales target. Something Samsung has also been following in recent years. The wholesale pricing of iPhone hasn't drop much at all. And hence their 2nd hand value tends to be higher.

The question then obviously comes to why dont Android vendors keep their wholesaling price higher. For a few reasons, they need to give higher profits to retailer to help them push for sales. A sales will need higher commission. As far as I know, no Android Vendor command the same market power as Apple. Trying to keep Wholesaling price up is basically giving other Android Vendor opportunities for market share. Android can switch brands, iPhone users switch models.

Second being Apple's Supply Chain Management is a Just in Time operational marvel that no one has yet been able to copy. At the end of the cycle when it is hard to judge supply and demand, you will have Phone sitting in warehouse that either do not get sold and zero cash returns, or lower the wholesaling price and try to clear it out so you have better cash flow.
Side question: How do you create the "paper" texture? Or is it just an image here?
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Same here in Switzerland. The landscape is totally split up between many small and big companies doing their thing. They also come and go, I never witnessed a deep fixation as HN makes me think the US haves for Facebook.

I can easily say I don't use Facebook and still be connected, don't use eBay and still sell used things, refuse to use Google and still receive emails and be able to find places. There simply is no hard monopoly
You also see people's username when they are in the same group conversation as them (and they are not in your contact list).

That's what I observe by using Axolotl on the phone and Signal Desktop on the computer.
I don't understand how with all that's happening in the world, with the country & planet going to shit, future prospects for younger generations looking so bleak, someone got up and said "porn! that's where we should focus our efforts".
Thank you very much - yet I really like my job. Honestly. I've took hiatus few times (burnout) but I always wanted to get back. I have only the best memories with both companies I worked for and people I worked with. Even fiascos weren't that bad. The only issue I have is about myself, I really want to go somewhere where I can say "oh you know, I am ADHD, I have temper and sometimes you need to micromanage me, that's my thing" and not jeopardize my career over that.
> This is all thanks to CRDTs.

If you don't sync immediately, you may lose the node without it replicating yet and losing the data forever. There's no fancy algorithm when the machine gets destroyed before it replicated the data. And you can't write to 2 replicas simultaneously from the client like, say, when using a Cassandra-smart-driver since S3 doesn't support that.

CRDTs are nice but not magic.
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Yep, a designer that ignores criticism of his work is indeed destined to reach far. / s
This article has great advice. I work on fraud detection, and a lot of companies start off by building basic checks like AVS, CVV, proxies, IP-billing location mismatch, etc. What usually happens afterward is that the fraudsters get more clever. For example, we've seen sites implement SMS verification, but then the fraudsters will set up Twilio phone numbers to fool it. The sites block IPs, but then fraudsters go through an internet cafe or proxy. Sites shut down one account, and the fraudsters rent a bot net and run scripts to create a thousand more. It's a cat and mouse game.

Companies where payments are central (e.g., PayPal, Square) end up building some combination of machine learning, investigation tools, a dedicated operations team to review/verify suspicious transactions, and custom logic to look at all sorts of signals correlated with fraud. Often they'll have dozens or hundreds of people working on this.

For everybody else, I'd echo Eran's advice to just outsource this. There are plenty of vendors out there. Here's one list:
https://www.merchantriskcouncil.org/index.cfm?pageId=702

If anybody out there is dealing with fraud or chargebacks, my company (Sift Science) provides an API to do exactly the checks Eran's article suggests and a lot more. Even if our technology doesn't apply, I'm happy to just give advice and point people in the right direction. My e-mail is brandon@siftscience.com.
That is absolutely a fair point.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8898046
50k staff and that can only support 125k patients?

So you are saying a person trained on the use of a ventilator can only support a little over 2 patients on a ventilator? Are they sitting between the beds and pedaling the machine?

These are $30k machines. I would think, especially in a crisis situation, a single medical professional could probably handle a few dozen people on ventilators if they had too.
That will be way too late.
Did he get lucky or did China fix the numbers to his conclusion? China has a suspect history of magically hitting numbers on the mark, every time.
> Which begs the question, what are we getting wrong in the rest of the world?

They literally locked people in their homes in the entirety of Wuhan (population 19 million) for a month and sent drones after them if they walked out. It's really not possible for a disease to spread if people are physically isolated. That much is settled science haha.

The difference is China kept people apart by force, and much of the west doesn't have the necessary respect for authority to do so voluntarily. One comment I replied to here someone literally quoted me the national anthem as their justification for going outside and ignoring the shelter-in-place orders.

If there's one thing a totalitarian government can do effectively, it's lock people indoors.
I am not a credible source on this, but I believe if we achieve heard immunity the virus burns itself out because it will eventually not find new hosts to infect. The virus has to keep finding new hosts, because otherwise the people infected will either get well and gain immunity or die. If enough people gain immunity then the virus can't spread anymore. Not everyone has to be become immune, just enough.
Unless you are in a room with 20 infected people the filter won’t matter that much.

A few layers of cotton is usually enough to filter 95%> of all 0.3 micron particles this is because the filtration is based on the fact that the thickness of the filter is orders of magnitude larger than the size of the particles so the size individual holes at any given layer don’t matter that much.

That said the majority of the benefit from this suit wouldn’t come from air filtering but from the fact that you won’t get contaminated droplets on your face and you won’t be able to touch your face with your hands after touching contaminated surfaces.
And exactly which essentials are being delivered instead?

They are prioritizing the hand sanitizer that is always out of stock? How about Clorox wipes? Fine, how about making your own...oh...isopropyl is sold out too.

What exactly is being shipping now?
Recorders can be transcendent instruments in the right composer's hands: https://youtu.be/G6hQvvhqfJo
Might consider Bartender.

Check that UISystemServer is not crashing repeatedly (flapping).
"here you have pretty much the same behavior"

what is meant by 'pretty much?'
Why? If this reality is (something like) a dream, it wouldn't be all that strange if the dream contents (drugs, brains) behaved in ways commensurate with what's going on in "reality" (the mind of God or whatever), without those dream contents being the cause.
Wow.. I checked with an email address I use for disposable purposes. The only thing they had on it was a blank LinkedIn profile -- meaning that LinkedIn cancer has trawled some pretty questionable sites, harvesting email addresses as placeholders for their accounts. WTF.
I think many people overestimate how large the teams who are behind most of Google's products. You have a few large ones like search, ads or cloud, but many of the smaller ones are just a few dozens who over the years dwindle down to just a handful as people realize it is a dead end project. At some point the team is not longer big enough to maintain the project and it gets shut down.
Not sure I follow you, can you explain?
Yeah or have that folder synced to a PC running at home, and then have a service running on that machine that prints anything that shows up in that folder.
We don't need to eliminate all misinformation. Just getting rid of the 5g/microchip/flat earth/vaccines cause autism zone would be enough.

EDIT: We did this for ages. Remember in the 90s how the only place you read crackpot weirdo outlandish conspiracy theory garbage was Weekly World News and Nexus Magazine?
I still miss the hive regularly. So many great discussions lost in the fog.
> For me, the 13" MBA doesn't cut it because of the lack of ports.

Out of curiosity, why doesn't a powered Thunderbolt dock solve that problem for you? I went from a Mac mini to a (generally docked) MacBook Air, and that setup has worked great.
Good point - he assumes that false positives are always less costly than false negatives, but that may not be true in this example.
There are few countries which are "democratic". If that was the case, minorities would have no rights.
I've been to India three times (for one month, for a year and for two weeks) and never thought it was anywhere near as bad as this. Mind you:
- I did not try to drag around a 60 pound (?!!) backpack in the middle of the Indian summer.
- I did not imagine that visiting tourist sites in the most crowded cities in the middle of the Indian summer would be a fun thing to do.
- I learned enough Hindi to tell annoying people to get lost.
- I learned to slow down and take it easy.

India is a huge challenge, to be sure, but overall I had more of a shock coming back to North America.
I think the questions are more revealing than the answers. Interesting stuff whichever way you look at it.
Professionally since late 90s, but since late 80s on Commodore 16 and Amstrad CPC. Then Qbasic on a PC. Good times.
I am not disputing that, only the fact that it got those upvotes is what troubles me.
Before fellow HNers take offense, it's better we give it some thought and realize how something simple (yet so hard) can make much difference in not just in our own life but also for others.
Well, for starters, this is not a journalistic piece, nor it claims to be a travel guide. This is just the perspective of a person who visited India and unfortunately, this is what he experienced.
I don't think 4chan users would be anymore likely to give wrong answers than subjects of any other survey. - Very interesting stuff and probably one of the best representations of the youth in the 21st century.
The article is a bit misleading. Test accounts have been available to developers for a while, but the system of creating them is being replaced by one where they are created with the Graph API.
That list claimed that all of EC2 had only 7000 cores, which seems absolutely ridiculous to me. I'm more inclined to believe that the list is full of shit than to think that EC2 has so much less computing power than these other supercomputers.
In various conversations on the internet, starting with comp.text.sgml where XML was born in the 1990s, I have seen many signs that someone hopes or expects some of the immense richness in meaning that humans assign to words and other symbols to be carried along by the XML.

In other words, I've seen many special cases of the mistaken belief that programmers of today can do things that only researchers of the future wielding human-level AI will be able to do -- and that just has to cause grief if those hopes and expectations inform IT decisions.
Facebook don't appear to review automated deletions manually unless somebody complains.

It's a tough situation. The "What you can do" section of http://www.talesfromthe.net/blog/?p=28 is a couple years old, but it describes a few techniques that worked at the time. there are also some discussions at http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook that might be useful.
1. Note problems people have, like the Techcrunch post yesterday with Sarah Lacy complaining about OpenTable: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/can-and-should-opentable-be...

2. Write a blog post about it

3. See how many people react to my post when it's pushed to Facebook

4. Keep developing the ideas that get a lot of attention (for me that's been reviews/Yelp, and annoyance with paper business cards. The latter is turning into a Japan focused startup)
according to legend, this was supposed to be merely a proof of concept, but a bug in the code caused it to replicate uncontrollably. does anybody know what that bug was?
>But the first makes my intent clearer than the second

That is entirely a matter of opinion. I would say python programmers with no functional background would find the list comprehension clearer, because that is the idiomatic python way.

May would have no idea what map even does without looking it up on the net.
I think you're wrong about that. Obama has very vocal critics on the left.