jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The author writes:

"As we finalize our installation setup for CoreOS this next week (after plowing through Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS)"

Pity he doesn't elaborate on that. I understand that CoreOS is his choice, but it would be nice to know why the other distros aren't.
Wash your ass with water. What do you think people did prior to the invention of toilet paper?
You're literally commenting on an article called "Eat for $1.50 per day". If you can't, over years of plenty, build up a few weeks reserve then we're having a different discussion because a mere broken bone or car battery failure will then wipe out your independence. And yes there are people in that situation. But most people are a little beyond that. And even those WAY beyond that are helpless and dependent on rushed government solutions and the preparedness of others right now.
I don't know how it fares with others but I was told about https://outbreak.cc/ which has lots of charts (and some headlines).

You can also use https://outbreak.cc/canada.html, etc for some countries.

The stat I'm most interested in is daily new cases with fine granularity and for regions. I can't think of a clearer indicator of how well we're dealing with containing it.
This one hits too close to home. I told a family member about how this virus doubles every ~5 days which means there will be over a million people in a handful of weeks if we do nothing to abate the spread. That's when I got their attention.
reality prevails here CYA regulations are not something to cling to for a little while
Interesting fact about Goethe: as The Sorrows of Young Werther became widely popular it inspired surge in suicides among young men. Suicide became a fashion in those days.

This is called The Werther Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

If you read 17th - 19th you may sometime come across suicide being referred to as in/out of fashion. Apparently it had cycles.
Emojis aren’t on the keyboard either but folks don’t seem to have a problem typing them, even on desktop.

Funny that software engineers can figure out complex parallelism and algorithms, but typing ∪ as a function name is next to blasphemy.
It's not all that confusing. The science is pretty clear. The best use of masks on people in public is on the sick themselves. You can't use the standards and practices in something like a TB hospital for medical personnel in public spaces. Not only is it an inefficient use of resources, but the efficacy is in question.

You cannot expect the general population to adhere to the standards of a TB hospital. It cannot be done, even if it was a good idea. For example, standard practice is that a mask is meant to be worn for only 8 hours and that is under the assumption that you have no reason to believe you were exposed. If the mask becomes wet, damp, or if you have any reason to believe you've been exposed you're supposed to immediately doff it carefully and dispose of it. Typically PPE is used only once per exposure, or is reused for exposure to one patient at a time.

There are so many variables at play here. From the efficacy of the masks themselves, the best allocation of resources, the different varieties of masks, the techniques for proper fitting, the decontamination processes, other PPE. Does this mean masks are not useful? No. And you won't find many experts making this claim. It's clear that masks help.

Think critically about this. It is not as simple as "masks good" or "surgeon general lied." There are manifold hysterics going around -- please don't contribute to it.
Odd to bring up the economic gains of the Roaring 20s without mentioning the Great Depression that immediately followed.
U.S. focus: Right now the biggest issues are demand and liquidity. Demand fell off a cliff. When demand falls off like that it screws up working capital flows so now there’s a huge demand for cash. That’s why the fed stepped into the treasury, money market, commercial paper and municipal bond markets. It also looks like they may try to step into the corporate bond market to keep it functioning. Prior to all this the general consensus was that markets were priced to perfection, highly priced but not unreasonable given growth. The market needed growth to function. The risk of defaults will be delayed a bit but severe when if/it hits. Much of the market is covenant lite so by the time you report financials, break covs, get through the cure period many businesses will have the entire capital structure wiped out. Events like this tend to have lasting impacts on people, it changes their consumption and savings behavior. People will demand that certain industries have more resilient supply chains and larger economies will take protectionist stances in those industries. There’s so much to unpack here...
The economic output that we don't have right now is the "nonessential" stuff. Giving people money right now is just a loan based on the "nonessential" stuff coming back online in the future. It makes perfect economic sense, I'm getting really upset at the idea that people dismiss this as futile or impossible.

The point of giving people money is so we can preserve the means of producing both essential and nonessential things going forward.

In any reasonably wealthy modern country, a small fraction of the output is used for subsistance.

The idea that we can't save things scares the shit out of me because the way I interpret several historical examples of countries or societies being destroyed is not that they went unaccountably crazy or evil, but that they had superficially logical economic theories that made them destroy everything on purpose as everyone accepted there was no alternative.
The IoT is here.

Hardware is the easy bit in the whole IoT business model. The tricky bit will be persuading people that it's something they need. For this business model to work it has to solve a big enough problem that taking the time to sign up for something like this button, getting it delivered, setting it up, and actually remembering to press it when necessary is worth the effort. That's a challenging thing to market to people - especially those who live outside of the tech industry. Which is most people.

"Build it, they will come" will not work here. Because it doesn't work anywhere.
When I first heard of capacitive touch screens (as opposed to resistive touch screens), I thought they would be able to detect hovering fingers. Perhaps some future version of touch screen technology will include smart hover detection.
Isn't this obvious to anyone seeing the ads? I don't think people skiing are actually going to fly out of my TV when I see those ads, or that a humanoid rabbit is actually going to try to steal my Trix.
There is _always_ stuff to do. If he's doing hardcore stuff, then perhaps there's UI work or design work. What's going to happen when he's done? Is there a rollout plan?

If your gut's telling you to talk to him about it, don't let your lack of confidence get in the way of making it happen. He probably has been hesitant to ask for help on certain matters, afraid it would offend you. The real tragedy would be if you never talk about it.
Apple saying their going to stop ruling the AppStore like a dictatorship and introducing an open-protocol voice chat that they could champion? It would definitely get a second look from me.

A higher density screen that is only slightly better than current Android phones, a lack luster multitasking architechture, video chat that ONLY works with other iPhone 4 users... not "game changing" in my opinion.

Facetime is the one that just bugs me. What is Jobs thinking? Why would you not call it iChat and allow it to work with desktop-iChat? Even then it would still be a joke. With Qik, any Android phone, or more important any phone period has the ability to communicate with other Qik users regardless of their phone. How does he expect Facetime to take off? Apple spearheading an open video chat platform would be ... cool. I still am not sure I would jump to the word "revolutionary".

Or is it just a sale gimmick?
Very much worth reading, especially the last comment today by Felipe Albertao on how they will pay for education.
I'm not sure how Apple gets a free pass for this kind of stuff. Sure, they get a blog post or two written about them, but it never sticks. People grumble a bit, but in the end everyone gets back in line for the next iGewgaw.

Some nasty things Apple has done:

* Blocks all non-licensed integration with their products (notably iTunes).

* Banned Flash from iOS

* Banned iOS devs from using cross-compilers

* Blocked apps from the App Store that compete with Apple products/services

Apple has far surpassed Microsoft as abusers of the"lock-in" strategy to grow their business.

I await the day that Google decides they've had enough of this bullshit and drops support for all Apple products. I'm not sure how compelling the iPhone would be without Google Search, Maps, YouTube, Gmail, etc. The cherry on top would be for Adobe to do the same with their creative suite.

I suppose that's just a savage fantasy. The reality is that Google will simply continue to improve Android and, like a slow motion replay of the 90s, Apple will watch the iOS lineup pushed back into the luxury niche that the Mac has enjoyed for all these years.
The red scare was about as justified as the invasion of Iraq, which is to say, not at all and not even a little bit.
> Driving the speed limit actually becomes dangerous.

I've lived in VA for decades and have driven all over the state. There is no highway where driving the speed limit is actually dangerous and there certainly isn't a highway where the norm is 20 over.
I just like to go to these to see if they actually are working. Sadly, but predictably, they never are.
After years of using Terraform and Puppet, I seriously consider using plain bash to handle infrastructure as code on a future project, which deploys to multiple cloud and non-cloud vendors.

There is some beauty to creating a standalone idempotent and well-tested bash scripts that are simple to share and version using something like import.sh

Given the maturity of tools such as shellcheck, simple composable tools such as age (for encryption), machma (parallel execution), Make for the dependency graph and the assistance provided by Github Copilot to developers intimidated by bash syntax, what would be the drawbacks of going with this approach?

What other simple tools like import.sh would you recommend for building IaaC pipelines?
It worked ridiculously well before I posted it to Hacker News. ;)
I kind of love it, but it sort of feels like the burn of social networks at this point is less about the bite sized crap stream and more that some entity now has my social network and interests saved for the purpose of targeting ads. Ads are the evil that drives the crap to keep us doom scrolling. Has this somehow found another revenue stream? Ads as a revenue stream is the issue, not the size or rate of posting.
The question is not to "trust"

The question is how to hide your online fingerprint

Everyone is your enemy, you can only count on yourself, either self host a crawler

Or use the most popular one, if results aren't good, check with another one

Remove your dependencies, and change your identity

Anything else is USELESS, expecting a VC funded company in the USA will care for your privacy, is like asking for a thief to not rob you

Google gives 0 shit about you, you are just data, manipulate it
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/...
Sure - http://groups.google.com/group/hn-london
Not affiliated, just remembered the "Shown HN" post when I saw your comment :)
Nick Sandmann
Adaptive exams can be a huge win. I know they can be hard/time-consuming to do really well, but it's fairly easy to make static multiple choice a little more dynamic.

For example, imagine an end-of-section quiz with 5 multiple choice questions with 4 answers each. The static way is each student sees the same 5 questions with the same 4 answers to choose from.

Instead, you could have a bank of 100 questions, in buckets of 20 covering the same material. So, each student sees one question from each bucket, drawn randomly. And then each question could have 10 answers, with 4 randomly displayed for any given instance of the question, sometimes with multiple right answers, sometimes none, etc.

This would require more work, but effort spent on assessment should scale with the number of students, just not linearly. (Right?)

The goal is not to make cheating impossible. The goal is to make cheating hard enough that it's easier to just learn the material and answer the question.

Furthermore, once you have that bank of 100 questions, you can start running analytics on it to see which variations are harder or easier for students to understand, which topics might need a better explanation in the teaching section, etc. You could eventually be able to generate adaptive exams from this data.

Sal Khan of the Khan Academy talks about all these things. I recommend his book: The One World Schoolhouse. (http://www.amazon.com/The-One-World-Schoolhouse-Reimagined/d...)
Read the second link.

The literal reading of Thai immigration law is very strict, enforcement is another matter. Even if, as you say, Thai authorities casually say "it's ok", that isn't at all precedent and if they decide tomorrow to bring you in, they just will because it is easy to show that you are breaking the law. It is not like the USA or western countries where laws are more clear cut and more consistently enforced. Don't expect anyone to be reasonable.
Cheap, fast home book scanning. You don’t want to destroy your own books, yet being able to scan them quickly would be pretty sweet.
In my experience, many people will miss the significance of this, or will simply fail to grasp how this is implementing a programming language at all. After all, you're taking advantage of the host language for every single aspect of the new language, even tokenizing/parsing.

More interesting for beginners (in my opinion) are examples implementing a simple tokenizer, parser, and compiler to another source language. This seems to be what closes the gap between programming languages as mystical constructs and programming languages as programs themselves.

This point of view does tend to displease the traditional SICP crowd though :-).
Maybe you should ask this guy [1].

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r
Sounds like he needs a visit from the /b/ hivemind.
This sounds like a great setup. Would you mind sharing the details?
There is a real possibility that you'll get too much of a good thing.

One of the open questions about global warming is whether the Gulf Stream will get shut off, causing your climate to look at lot like Alaska's. See http://www.gulfstreamshutdown.com/ for links to lots of articles and research on this.
Had a play with it and it's lots of fun. I scraped the Hacker News headlines. Is mucking about with HN the new 'Hello World'?

Saw the chaps behind it pitch at Software City in Liverpool this week. Good guys and lots of potential for use in journalism, government and beyond. I think its partly open source too which is always a bonus.
Cool reference, and I'll be working on that too over the next week or so to see if that's close to what I mean.

Thanks.
How does Python's science libraries compare to Java's?

If they're comparable, why not use JRuby and use all the Java libs you want?
Or, just use LLVM's link time optimization:

http://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
Almost!

I see I commented in that thread, and I recall looking at a number of "kanban" style web apps. If I can't find the one I'm looking for, one of these may be able to be adapted, so thank you very much for finding that.

The one with the charcoal background was even simpler, and I think it was shown here later in the year, late summer or fall.
This is willful blindness masquerading as well thought out analysis.

The assertions here would be true if we had a system that said people who lived in the United States when the United States ran up these crazy debts are still responsible for paying those debts even if they move away from the United States (or move their wealth out of the United States which is essentially the same thing). But we don't have that system and people are moving elsewhere.

This isn’t a hypothetical scenario. There was an article posted on HN today where Warren Buffett was essentially moving his wealth elsewhere (or "Betting against the dollar" as the article put it). So this is already happening.

Yes, right now the value of all the wealth U.S. residents have is way more than the debt. But as the Government tries to take more of it from wealthy private citizens and corporations those people will start finding ways to move that wealth elsewhere. Once wealthy private citizens and corporations start to move elsewhere the middle class will start to lose their jobs or get paid less. Which will cause the wealth that can’t be moved to diminish and leave the U.S. with a bunch of debt and citizens who can’t pay it.

The Credit Suisse analysis depends on the U.S. always being the richest and most desirable place to live but that’s not a guarantee.

On a side note it's also relevant that the Rich always find ways to subvert taxes. Look here: http://tinyurl.com/93jbf. While the point of the article is the debt pay attention to the revenue. You'll see Tax revenue remains remarkably stable. Even though there was a 90% tax rate at the beginning of the chart.
Thank you ConceitedCode.How about IDEs?
FWIW: that's exactly what ExtJS does:

initComponent: function() {
var me = this;
me.callParent();
...

Thanks for explaining the rationale; I'd never paid enough attention to understand why they were doing that.
All my plugins are up to date.

I think this is the bug I encountered:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?range_value=2...

The top 1 crash in Firefox crash stats...
My understanding, and I could be wrong because I don't know the percentages, has always been that research done on energy and medicine is primarily done by Universities with government grants. Don't get me wrong. I don't deny there are jobs for PhD's outside of academia but we're talking about averages here and I still think the majority of PhD's end up being paid by a University of some kind (be it as a professor or in a research lab)
Good point.

On a related note, I would like to see a "perverse" compiler and library which exhibits random behavior when undefined behavior is specified by the language.
>so you'll get some air cooling you wouldn't get if you were just walking.

39C is well above skin temperature so you're only going to get evaporative cooling and the effectiveness of that depends on humidity. It's possible the heating effect of the hot air blowing over your skin overwhelms the evaporative cooling and you are actually getting net warming.

Even if the humidity is low if you're not already drenched in sweet, it's going to feel awful.
Here are some ways you could simplify some of the tasks in the article, saving on typing:

cat data.csv | sed 's/"//g'

can be simplified by doing this instead:

cat data.csv | tr d '"'

This awk command:

cat sales.csv | awk -F',' '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

Can be replaced with a simpler (IMO) cut instead:

cat sales.csv | cut -d , -f 1 | sort | uniq

When using head or tail like this:

head -n 3

You don't need the -n:

head -3

Also shout out to jq, xsv, and zsh (extended glob), all nice complements to the typical command line utils.
The purpose is not to "make money on people forgetting to cancel."

The fact of the matter is that many more people buy when a free trial is offered. If your competitor offers a free trial, and you don't, they get more sales than you.

It's "risk reversal". Similar to a "30 day money back guarantee". People are attracted to the idea of there being no risk to trying this and not liking it.

In some industries, you simply HAVE to offer it.
How do you know how much of Picasa’s code was intertwined with Google’s? Could it have been a profitable in going concern by itself? How?
Don't be a hater, exits can be of multiple types including IPO and that could very swell make this company become a formidable competitor to the big 3 Chip Makers.
One of the things I like about Paypal is that I have a list of entities authorized to pull money from my account and I can simply revoke them.

It's a critical tool for managing your finances.
> There would, however, be limitations on where and how this technology could be applied. Concentrated-solar plants generally only work in very sunny areas, and you can’t ship heat over long distances. So industrial companies that want to take advantage of this process may have to build new plants near these solar thermal facilities, or vice versa.

> “The middle of the desert is not typically an industrial hub,” says Julio Friedmann, a senior research scholar at the Center for Global Energy Policy and lead author of the report.

Aluminum was made in the Pacific Northwest because of cheap and abundant electricity from hydroelectric dams.

Move to where the resource is. That may turn out to be the desert.

https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/alu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest#Economy
Yep, there are a whole bunch out there already for REST, but not really anything for GraphQL that I’m aware of, which is the main reason I built this
This makes no sense. The initial implementation of the Fed (until power was moved to Washington in 1934) was ineffective. The recession of 1920 (it was called a depression, and the drop in prices was one of the most severe in history) was caused by Fed policy, as was the Great Depression. The Fed has always had a huge role in the economy (and that role has changed substantially over time). What they do effects the cycle. You don't need to make wildly general conclusions.

It is also very odd to call all of the periods you mention recessions...they weren't. Some of them were specific banking panics that had no effect on the real economy. The purpose of the Fed, which was effective eventually, was to alleviate the disruption caused by the agricultural cycle (which caused gold to flow in/out changing the monetary base. But there was no real mandate for economic stability, that isn't why the Fed was created, and that idea would have made no sense to central bankers until very recently (probably the 1980s, although for different reasons over time).
There’s so much bloat in Browsers already though. And millions of school children study math, so there’s a big market for online mathematics.

I agree with you that the solution needs to be a good one, you don’t want a standard that is difficult to implement across browsers or is inefficient / bad. I’m no expert so I can’t comment on MathML, but I am just hopeful that some standardized math format can be agreed on; and web standards have the best chance for this —- hence its important for Chrome to implement what is a W3C standard. My opinion anyway.
It is especially a concern for me as many of the more vocal proponents and moving forces of transhumanism overlap greatly with the people pushing completely inhuman and dysfunctional technologies.
That really doesn’t change the outcome of what kind of company Google is, on the whole, and where they get their value extraction from. Gsuite is only 5% of their revenue. Photos is also not part of Gsuite afaik.
What you’re describing is already possible with Git: rebase and committing chunk/lines allows you to organize your changes coherently. The trick is finding ways to get into the habit of doing it that way and staying consistent with the whole team.

Edit: i’m not saying that this is a solved problem. I think the parent’s point is valid. I am just saying that there are some tools that make this possible and I agree that there is a definite need for improvements in this area.