jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
HN was never just about technology, for the same reason hackers don't only hack. That's part of what makes it so great.
Podcasts can be two people and a mic, or something that a team of talented people make over a year or so, like Serial. You can't put both of these types in the same bucket.
This is cool, my wife saw a report on one of the morning talk shows and mentioned it. Glad to see a reputable company (Amazon) who knows the consumer and how to deal with lots of small businesses is going to be a goto point for sourcing home project help.
My biggest problems with C++ (one of my favorite languages)
1. ABI issues.
2. Template Error messages.
3. Templates need be defined in header files (generally).
4. Object Slicing.
5. Cross platform Unicode/ASCII string encoding.

I understand the reasons behind these, none the less they are really annoying.
It would be better to simply mandate that tips cannot be used in determining total compensation. However I am more along the lines of eliminating tips, raising the menu prices to represent the cost of paying the service staff the market wage, and then looking at the whole experience when deciding on coming back.

I never bother with restaurants that have mandatory tips on their checks, its a flat out markup and does not let me decide if the service is good or not. I do think many people suffer tip fatigue as the use of tip jars has become offensive to many, especially in the quick serve food industries.
I agree with everything you just said.

Freedom gives freedom to adjust anything as required, not just testing.

Having freedom means being able to ask for longer deadlines to do things properly, regardless of politics for example.
Perhaps if people would tip IT professionals we'd have a lot less "Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again," "IT is incredibly incompetent" stereotypes. I would tip my IT people if they did an outstanding enough job to warrant it, but it's hard to find anyone that doesn't live up past the stereotype - a self-reenforcing loop of bad wages begets bad service begets bad wages.
"Yahoo is willing to absorb that great business you're running -- so they can own your work and relationships and keep the eyeballs." ==> This doesn't sound like anyone getting "fooled".
(Author here)

Nope, that's the old one for V2 (which isn't very good).

We're currently releasing the third generation of the Ticketmatic platform, where one of the big efforts is in improving the developer story.

That's not public yet, for which I apologise. There will be a beautiful developer program soon.

I didn't think that the article should wait on that. It's the idea that matters and didn't want any discussion to turn into a nitpicking over what we did right (and wrong).

This article mostly came out of a frustration with bad API documentation and I was hoping to inspire people to do (slightly) better.
>"For example, things that we saw this past July, there was an attempt to hack Canadian COVID-19 research. These are the workers that stopped that."

They link to two unrelated stories directly after. In a search about it, I see claims that Russians tried to steal Canadian research, not disrupt it.

If that helpful research data were shared, and if the electricity infrastructure they imply is under attack were taken offline, then they'd reduce the attack surface. Which would reduce the cost of defensive measures.

I wonder how much that's brought up in these negotiations.
If the World is a big laboratory, the stuffs won’t end it by throwing black balls.
The topic is human centralized, as well as viruses and bacteria are capable of black balling each other before human exist.
If there are two World presenting and overlapping happens, one World could be corrupted due to such a black ball.
First thing that came to mind was in one of the "Postgres-backend" projects like Hasura[1], Postgraphile[2], or PostgREST[3].

[1]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/

[2]: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

[3]: https://postgrest.org
> In hindsight, seems smart to pull the plug so far in advance.

Not knowing the product, this looks like it may be a valid interpretation; could another be that the project would be more likely to succeed with the commercial backing of a company like Valve?
Not necessarily. Electricity is driven by peak demand, and adding capacity takes time and is expensive.
People with MS and 6 years of experience are judged differently from fresh graduates.
Outsourcing is and has been a massive trend for years. So much so that they have a word for it!
I think that in order to make it work it has to be completely free, that is - no provisions (or really really extremely low provision), no ads hijacking and other weird gimmicks.

In my perception above is contradictory to plenty of involved entities interests - it's a golden goose, everyone's wet dream to run payment network and reap profits from transactions.

I have feeling that Facebook's Libra/Diem could be the gamechanger, truble is first of all they will face government(s) difficulties because it could make the company insanely powerful and secondly: it's Facebook
The problem with Boston Dynamic's robots imo isn't the cost versus a human but the cost versus a simpler and cheaper yet just as capable (if not more capable) wheeled robot.

I have a very hard time coming up with applications where the walking capability is useful. On the other hand the space wasted to put all this technology could be used for more batteries, a sturdier body to carry heaviers weights, etc.
The context here is that one side is advancing frivolous claims of voter fraud, believed by millions of people, some of whom were moved by those claims to violent insurrection.

And in this context, you are choosing to jump into those conversations to express vague generalities and open ended speculation that can't be pinned down to any specific claims about anything in a context where a mob is looking to those exact themes to motivate their violence.

There's a form of dishonesty that comes from making untrue claims about voter fraud, and there's another kind that comes from the themes you choose to emphasize to fan on the flames of false arguments while being coy about whether you personally believe them. This falls in the latter category, and this is the problem people have with your comments.
Wikipedia says net neutrality is enforced in Brazil, so it should be illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_by_country#Braz...
Easier to do with self driving cars, and can probably be attained with Level 3 autonomy.
> Telegram is not even encrypted by default and there is no option for encrypted groups.

Friendly reminder that encryption is more than E2E-encryption despite what certain people on HN thinks.

Telegram is encrypted point-to-point by default. Same as banks, modern mail etc.

Can we stop spreading technical misinformation now, please? There's plenty of other issues with Telegram and if we stop crying wolf over the neighbors grand danois people might actually believe us when there is an actual wolf.
The problem is the choices of individuals. It's not appropriate to blame a third party for the actions of an individual. If you riot or destroy something it is your fault and your fault alone. This is a major problem for our country, it's easier to be a victim than to take responsibility, and there is an entire subset of our population (the woke left) that supports this attitude.
I discovered the "s" key more or less by accident. Since I learned that you actually can single-step, I've used it a few times, but most of the time it's not necessary.

Compare this to another project I've been working on which is written in Kotlin. Almost every debugging session involves a lot of single-stepping.

There is no insightful point of this reply, except for agreeing that Lisp is powerful enough that single-stepping is mostly pointless. I do add a lot of (break) statements during debugging though.
An anti-mask college professor at a liberal university. That's not a mob cancel culture, that's just a bad professor losing his job after a long record of student complaints.

I see hacker news is canceling my opinion ion with downvotes while depriving me of the same power. Ironic.
"Slippery slope" is only a fallacious argument when your opponent isn't laying out a slip'n'slide and diluting dish soap in a bucket.
I don't see how this requires you to know the intricacies of call/apply or how it would even force you to use it frequently enough to understand the difference.
Everyone has their own experience. I'd love to hear about them.
First, because there's no objective measure of benevolence, and second, because ranking VC's on a spectrum of benevolence vs. malevolence would strain the relationship between YC and these VC firms. You get a lot more traction making general statements like pg does here than you do by calling out individual firms.
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This was a well written and insightful comment. I couldn't have said it better myself. :D

From the grandparent:

> like seeing bomb victims on nightly news or ISIS beheadings on Facebook

That's an interesting point to bring up. Maybe if you raise hell to the members of Parliament, they'll act to ban that stuff too?
I didn't even read the conversation; my eye passed over it like a Lorem Ipsum sample.
Will this allow for judge-shopping?

If I claim that I can't determine a location, can I then pick a judge who's more likely to grant the warrant? How would someone challenge that, can the FBI just shrug and say "we couldn't figure it out" ?
> This makes some serious assumptions regarding what exactly "close to identical" means.

Let me spell that out for you: so close to each other that if you exchanged two of those items and you wouldn't be intimately familiar with it (scratches, dents) that you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

> "Similar in design" or even "identical in design" definitely do not equate to "close to identical" in execution in all cases, despite the provided anecdote.

Not in all cases, but in quite a few of them. Examples:

- wheels bands and hubs (the rest was usually wood)

- weapons

- utensils

- tools

- hardware (like nails, which were insanely valuable)

Almost all of those would be copied very accurately from template designs over a wide region. Decorations (handles and such) would be the first to vary, then dimensions, then materials then the actual design of the business bit and finally the process.

> If we're talking about something that qualifies as the same type of tool or weapon, OK.

Exactly.

> If we're talking about something with extremely similar metallurgical qualities, size, design, age, etc., then it's likely a little more than just "well, it's an x made of y found at z, they're all the same."

No, that's what you'd expect. If they would be made in the same region and time then that's more or less the default since that puts serious constraints on the metallurgical knowledge of the time and on the designs that were permitted and/or in fashion.

We still have this even today, walk into any toolstore and pick tools from roughly the same quality level and you'll find that at that level they're pretty much identical.

Rare exceptions like Estwing hammers do happen but for handtools they're not the norm.

When 'mass production' wasn't possible yet there was greater variability than there is today but that was not because variability was a goal, it was rather an unfortunate side effect of making things by hand. The whole idea of being a good tradesman was to deliver constant quality and to get that variability under control as much as possible.

Having your sword break in battle because it has a nice new pattern on it isn't going to give you many happy customers so better stick to knowing what works.
Looking forward to digging in to some of this
will learning this list of kanji help with mandarin acquisition as well? Do the characters mean the same in Mandarin?
hello fellow <1 points poster pointing out that this article is using the word for the thing that can help us to lambast the thing that is hurting us.
But you need to have at least 2k to read anything serious.
The residents are starving to death and the governments around the salish sea seem to be uninterested in doing anything to address this. It's incredibly depressing.
Was your dad actually Irish, or was he from America? The Irish use 240V and that shit will kill you.
> do you see these practices as a stepping stone to some farther goal?

They are absolutely a stepping stone toward a society where opportunity is not heavily skewed against historically underprivileged racial groups - something like Dr. Kings dream.

But it's false to claim that we would be there today if we just pretended to not see race, and to claim that we have addressed either past or current structural racism.
If only we were that clever
The notion that we can just arbitrarily control inflation in the context of UBI-like spending is not responsible, it's simply not true.
ruby does begin, end. But maybe you were joking? ruby does ommit where it can though.
My favorite Quicktime of Ill Repute website, despite promising that it serves up naught but ill-reputed Quicktime, now tells me that I don't have Flash installed.
World of Warcraft wasn't mentioned once outside of the title.
I just want to say THANK YOU for Hex Fiend!
Curious as to how such a device would recover the original signal while it’s broadcasting a stronger signal to jam the frequency.

Also, if you don’t mind, which city/country are you in? It seems insane that this is a regular problem happening in the same location and law enforcement doesn’t catch on.
Basically what I've been "soap boxing" about. ;)
EDIT: URL is fine now!

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Yeah, the specs on system76 stuff looks nice, but they’ve always had fit and finish issues that are a turnoff.
Way too late IMO.
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Do we know how long immunity lasts?
How is this informative?

There's a 0% chance that the wide variety of predictions would lead hundreds of governments with limited enforcement power to balance it all perfectly.

We're going to have a lot of regrets. Most governments have explicitly (and often at the behest of their citizens) prioritize lives in the short-term over the economy in the long-term. This makes sense, because present-day voters are supposed to control the government, not economists who look at people as anonymous grains of sand in a giant system.
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NATO also deliberately targeted Serbia's power grid and deliberately targeted a radio/TV station during the war. Both of those things would cause uproar in the US media if an opponent of US geopolitical interests did them.
The more people who wear masks the slower respiratory infections spread. The faster we get to universal mask wearing the fewer people will die.

> In this article, a risk assessment model previously developed in general form was used to estimate the effectiveness of different types of protective equipment in reducing the rate of infection in an influenza outbreak. It was found that a 50% compliance in donning the device resulted in a significant (at least 50% prevalence and 20% cumulative incidence) reduction in risk for fitted and unfitted N95 respirators, high-filtration surgical masks, and both low-filtration and high-filtration pediatric masks. An 80% compliance rate essentially eliminated the influenza outbreak. The results of the present study, as well as the application of the model to related influenza scenarios, are potentially useful to public health officials in decisions involving resource allocation or education strategies.

https://twitter.com/peterkolchinsky/status/12395606382398382...

> I’m a virologist. Public should know covid exposure dose matters. We have to conserve masks for healthcare workers, but masks can help anyone, reducing amount of virus released (even by breathing) or taken in. Immune system is more effective if infection starts w/ low dose.

> Keeping the exposure dose to a minimum means that virus has to divide many more times before getting to high levels... but immune system starts responding and therefore can flatten the curve, keeping the peak viral load lower, so it does less damage (fewer symptoms).

> That won’t help everyone. For various reasons, whether genetics, immunosuppressive medications, or underlying conditions, even low exposure levels will climb to high, dangerous levels. But on the whole, keeping everyone’s exposure dose down (if exposed) could save lives.
I see your point.

Italy always fares poorly year on year on flu seasons

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

> We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16

> And it is not influenza, please stop that,

I never asserted that it was, if you read the comment you will see that I was asserting that they usually fare poorly in influenza seasonal outbreaks. For the same reasons it's faring poorly with cv19
Well, if there was any hope of containing the virus it's gone now. Everyone is outside doing stuff. An improvised tent village for the displaced is being raised in the middle of the capital.
Quite disturbing. We are facing a new Cold War, and a new nuclear threat to humanity once again, actually it never went away!
This is C89 style code where you couldn't declare the loop variables in the for loop, as in "for (OBJECT * obj = ... ". There's no problem with this code. The obj variable is initialized in the forEachObject macro which expands to a for loop. (Pretty damn sure - I haven't actually looked up the definition).

The array iteration code is also solid. Seems like a pretty good programmer, judging from the code you cite here at least.

While I personally like to put a few assertions just to find my typos quicker, adding additional fluff here is mostly detrimental. The kind of bugs that can happen with this sort of "dangerous" code are the ones that you basically just typos that you catch on the first run. I.e. it's not like there are any rarely occurring edge cases that are unhandled, since the code is extremely straightforward. The "complexity" is very low.
I’m not sure when the WHO reported that it did not have kits to offer, though they did state that many countries develop their own kits.

It still makes sense to ask why FDA only allowed CDC to develop a test, vs allowing all extant, validated tests and/or allowing private US tests.
Are we?

The comments are all of the style "now, this is the thing that is the thing". None explain anything at all other than to give names to variables or functions. Which you know... can already be named using identifiers in the language.

What are the matrices of constants? Where do they come from? What do they mean? What is their purpose? What are the random indexes into arrays? What do they do?

This is one of the first "comments":

// Documentation below is for implementors. I'll assume you know about Clifford Algebra's, grades, its products, etc ..
// I'll also assume you are familiar with ES6. My style may feel a bith mathematical, advise is to read slow.

I don't know about you, but whenever I see a comment littered with typos that says "this is a bit hard to read", it's a sure sign that whatever is to follow is of low quality. Not reusable. Not suitable for widespread use. Not extensible. Not useful at all.

To reiterate: this makes me sad. I really wish it didn't, because GA is one of my favourite things, and this Enki Mute guy is clearly one of the few people that also "gets it" and wants to spread the good work. Clearly, his heart is in the right place.

I know people like this guy. I went to University with a chap who would casually litter his Haskell code with 5 dimensional arrays of functions. Now I'm sure that made sense in his head, and his code actually worked, but no human being on Earth other than him could read it. He couldn't explain to me even verbally, let alone in comments.

Unfortunately, while Enki Mute could have made a great contribution, his methodology has not helped GA become more approachable.
Me too; but for now zoom is simply the best product in the video chat space.

Everyone else seems to be betting the farm on webrtc and web browsers. But video meetings in chrome or Firefox don’t look or sound as good as zoom does. And Google Meet and the rest are at the mercy of web standards. Its much easier for zoom to add features to their product because they’re in control of the entire stack.

I hope the situation changes, but I think it’ll be several years before browsers are able to meaningfully catch up to where zoom is today.
Why is that? I couldn't find any reference to that on their homepage. Is it a byproduct of the process?
I replied to someone else with a very similar response, but I always thought the awkwardness of Elon giving presentations adds a certain level of sincerity. However, I do agree that some more specifics regarding interior, the bed, etc would have been nice.

Signed, not a Tesla owner :(
If you don’t think the Model 3 is a status vehicle, you crazy.

It has status like having the new iPhone on day 1 has status. Different than big money status, but still status.
Yeah, from the outside it seems like things had to be thinner and lighter to be Apple designed, in the same way that some programmers think they have to architect or optimise or <insert pet obsession> the heck out of everything. If you do it well once you’ll be a hero, but if you do it to everything while losing sight of your actual goals (customer satisfaction, business value, righteous cause) you’ll eventually be cast as a villain.
Police de facto have more rights because they can expect lenient punishment (or no punishment) for crimes they commit even when out of uniform. You can argue until you're blue in the face about de jure rights but those don't matter very much when a cop pulls you over and fears for his life.