jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Imagine that data center will ask you to move out because you're helping Parler. Imagine that your bank will ask you to find another bank in a three days and other banks will not want to work with you. When will you give up?

Cancel culture is spreading fast.
Not the original poster but, it seems pretty direct to me: everything we do online is logged somewhere online, for most practical purposes forever, and that’s the surveillance they are worried about.
If all of a sudden, Hacker News decided to add a 2px blur filter to this entire website using CSS, making everything harder to read, would your desire to have it go back to the way it was be for 'nostalgic' reasons? I suppose you could argue 'yes' because presently reading this site right now is satisfying in some way, and you would want to return to it being satisfying. But is that THE reason? If someone walks into your room right now and begins to torture you with a knife, do you say 'Hey stop i have nostalgic memories of not being tortured 30 seconds ago?' Again yes... damn you are right nostalgia is blinding!
>Colorectal is also one of most treatable, and curable cancers there are.

Iff diagnosed early enough.
Ok just for the record you’re not going to freeze to death at 67. I know because I’m in Dallas and my heater is out entirely. It’s 52 in here and were cold and uncomfortable but we’re not going to freeze to death either.
It didn’t seem great to me when I lived in DC. Having the “right of way” doesn’t mean that cars, eager to grab their turn, will respect it, or even see you. Plus, most of these are not 4-way stop signs. And, DC has plenty of roundabouts as well (streets were laid out in the 18th c. by a French dude). And that’s even worse, as a driver or a pedestrian, because US drivers have no idea what to do in a traffic circle.
How many live youtube or twitch channels have 3 million viewers?
That all may be true, but what are the odds they didn't enable some kind of remote wipe on there?
Why not try both approaches? We'll let Pence and Graham explain, with logic and reason, why the Electoral College selected Biden, and then we'll see how people respond.
> Germany, which hasn't renazified since WWII in part because of its hate speech laws.

The US has a number of troops stationed in Germany comparable to the German army. The ideology of Germany has not been left to chance at any point after WWII.

That probably isn't the model that most people look for in their own country's governance.
Amazon was already a public company and pretty big that time. But I don't think people like me realised what big could mean 20 years into the future.
Because every single time the left agrees to sit down and have a conversation with “reason and logical arguments” they get met with bad-fair arguments.

In spite of this, they keep offering. As soon as they do anything except bend-over-backwards to accomodate the right, they are met with “so much for the tolerant left”. Is it any surprise that people get fed up when this is all they’re ever met with. If you can’t come to the table and behave like an adult, don’t be surprised when you get relegated to the kids table.
This video is likely being misinterpreted. It doesn't really make any sense because there are masses of plain clothes citizens on this side of the barricade before it is opened, including the guy who steps forward and gestures for everyone to "come on over." The police and barricade where they were had already lost the line by this time. The zooming at the beginning makes it hard to see exactly who is lifting and moving the barricades, though. Perhaps frame by frame it could be better analyzed.

Considering [4] Rudy "trial by combat" Giuliani, I'm going to take a pass at using that as a news source. Allowing him to shape your message is probably not ideal!

Here's an analysis of the footage: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/07/ask-politifac...
> None of the people killed were involved in the protests. The shootings simply happened while protests were occurring elsewhere.

Objectively false - you didn't read the article again. It says "In Louisville, Kentucky, early Monday, a man was shot dead during a protest against the death of Breonna Taylor." right in the middle.

Other HN commenters who are acting in good faith: I invite you to click the article and C-f for that text. Yes, not all of the deaths were at the protests - my apologies for not reading carefully - but the claim that none of them are is factually incorrect.

> puppet

You've been continually resorting to ad-hominems and content-less fallacies, labels, and accusations. This is anti-intellectual.
Most of the discussion seems to be centered around freedom of speech and enabling dissenting voices, no matter how violent, but I think we're missing the bigger picture here.

This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but this undeniably strips Trump of a major source of power for him, and that merits a discussion of the role that private social media companies play in our discourse and presidential function as well.

edit: imagine trying to run for re-election without a social media presence. It's hard to imagine that anyone could mount a serious campaign without it, let alone win.
The Google engineer, right? I try not to read too much into company politics. Even at a relatively large company it can get very personal. AFAIK he wasn't really deplatformed anyway, he was fired. It seems that the NLRB decided the firing was proper. That's the sum total of my knowledge, and at first glance I don't think it's a good comparison with the larger discussion about deplatforming on public services.
>LED lights also offer hope as they can be easily tuned to avoid harmful colours ...

Can they? Most white LEDs emit blue light into a phosphor. You are always going to end up with a definite blue spike in the spectrum.
A custom JavasScript-DSL for this seems to conflict with established CommonJS conventions for browser-packages/assets distributed on npm (ie. to use "browser" instead or in addition to "main" entries in package.json), and also with ES6 modules ("esm").
Both. Preview features are enabled via a flag; the same compiler ships in both release and preview builds.
Why wouldn't flat response through 20 kHz sound like the performer is in the room with you? Are these mics compensating for speakers that also don't have flat response?
Nice! any plans to support the WebGL glsl version ?
I've seen many engineers manage this by simply finding ways to work less.

Programming is sufficiently difficult that time it takes to complete tasks can vary by more than order of magnitude. I've given a junior engineer a task that would take me 2 hours, had them come back with a solution in a week, and been happy with the result.

So if you achieve a certain level of skill you can take jobs that are "beneath you" and claim the tasks that took you 10-20 hours actually took you 40. It's not particularly honest, but most employers aren't willing to engage in fair market rates at 20 hours a week so people find ways to get what they want outside of the system.
How about this: because there's a mass involved with a non-zero cross section, so velocity is being added to an area, not a point.

Hence v^2 is hiding the complexity of density vs surface area (the law was originally derived by observing steel ball impact craters on a bed of sand vs the height).

0.5 is because only one side hits.

EDIT: And what surface area? Well General Relativity does like to mash up the concept of objects affecting space time due to having energy...
Not that I know. I really miss developer tools on mobile. Developer tools are practically required to be able to use the web these days.
Hijacking this thread in hope that some fellow physicist could chime in.

I'm physicist myself so maybe I should know this or be able to figure it out myself but here's the question:

Where is kinetic or rotational energy 'stored'?

Is it eventually the transformation of fields that gives rise to kinetic energy? For example an electron whose electric field is not a radially symmetric must be a moving electron and the difference in energy between the field configurations (simple radially symmetric electric field on one hand and the mix of electric and magnetic fields on the other) is exactly the kinetic energy it has?
Thank you for the formula.

Do you know of example advances that have been made or problems that have been solved as a consequence of applying the concept implied in that formula?
I'm interested! What was the idea? How'd you realize it? What's your story?

bh@brandonhsiao.com if you don't mind chatting more.
Do you also have a problem with 64-bit systems that have provisions for 64 bits of address space? In your book they also seem like a waste, and we should have designed something closer to ~48 bits of address space.
So how do you test such applications?
"It is not yet known what caused the ship, which was bound for Saudi Arabia, to capsize"

The romanian newspapers initially reported that the sheep were simply not loaded on both sides of the ship.
By far the most interesting part of this release is the new multi-threading features, I recommend reading https://julialang.org/blog/2019/07/multithreading for an overview, and watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiZa0Y3F3c for a talk about some unique stuff that's being worked on with Julia's multi-threading (though the depth-first scheduling is not in 1.3 afaik).
Xoogler. Several people who were involved in organizing protests have also quit over the past year or so, after posting stories of the retaliation they faced, including being reassigned, getting bad performance reviews and such.

I jumped ship for these kinds of reasons, but looking ahead a couple years. You simply cannot scale culture, especially when culture that prevents it from going full balls-to-the-wall profit. Google is growing at such a rate that it surpassed organic trajectory; it's discarding and digesting its own culture as it swallows up the tech industry and doubles down on surveillance. The technical capabilities of the panopticon it has already built should be the subject of (world) government oversight. Sadly, tech giants have outpaced democracy's ability to recognize and rein in threats to human freedom.

Google's play to be everyone's digital assistant should be recognized for what it nakedly is: a play to absolutely dominate every single person's life and sell those lives to the highest bidder.
While humans try to predict the most horrific dystopian futures, animals are living that nightmare today.
Thread later on claims it's 100^3.

But its not likely to tell the difference between 50-0-50 and 49-0-49. I suspect the "70% chance" for the robot to succeed is because it's going to try every 4th number or 5th number to hugely reduce the search space.

Trying every 5th number is just 8000 combinations!
Sheeping is hard
> It only works if there is sustained, substantial additional contributions over a lifetime.

That's literally how I was taught about compound interest: saving money means making weekly/monthly/annual contributions. And that was a regular (non-honors) class in an inner-city middle school.

> Try convincing a kid with even modest arithmetic skills that saving $2 and letting it compound is “smart.”

No, that's idiotic. I think you're beating on a straw man.
I'm late to the game but you should check out 'Cog' by Ned Batchelder.

http://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/

I used it several years ago with great success.
That is a large part of it, but it's not all of it. While it's a legitimate service to provide food and lodging to travelers–even if those travelers happen to be there primarily to see your cultural offerings–it bothers me that there are services directed towards showing them off pseudo-educationally.

It's... you learn enough to think you've learned something, when all you've really learned is a superficial, well-packaged veneer. If the point is to have something to do while being on vacation, that's fine... but why pretend? It doesn't really help that things are often designed to be entertainment. Is it really a good thing to put your culture on as a show? Sure, there's satire, but satire isn't satire when the audience doesn't actually know what you're satirizing.

(Also, isn't the income differential a fundamental part of a tourism economy? I mean, in Seattle's Pioneer Square, we've got random little gold mining shops and see-the-underground tours, which I'm also uneasy with... but that's not a tourism economy. I'd estimate a good 50% of people who work in this neighborhood are in tech; others are nightclub stuff; and a noted above-average complement of food people; etc. There's a tourism industry here, yes, but it's not a tourism economy.)

Like I said, it's more feeling than reasoning.
>>>> The insinuation, I guess, is that because it doesn't go very far, it isn't worth much?

Not at all. The point is in a high rent area, everything is more expensive. Simply put, $14 won't go very far. It doesn't mean that $14 is worthless.

>>>> You can probably afford to lose that and it doesn't really affect your life much, which is why you have such a skewed view on what is minimal or worthwhile and what isn't.

Whoa! Pump yo brakes there playah. First of all, you don't know me from a hole in the wall. You shouldn't start swinging wildly like that when you don't even know where I came from or where I've been. I have a crystal clear view on what's worthwhile, but at the same time, it's relative to your own life. I've been in a gutter, I know what its like to live on food stamps and have to bootstrap yourself to get somewhere in life. Nobody needs to tell me I don't know the value of money. I've been there, and I know.

>>>> Hybrid car? Okay, I get it, either this is a troll or you seriously just don't consider anyone other than yourself to matter, and thus this idea of saving money is nonimportant to you.

Quite the opposite actually. My whole point in the first place is there are better, less arduous ways of saving $56 a month than trying to find someone to trade a train ticket with every day for a full year. Hell, you could probably skip the $6 Starbucks every day for a few weeks and save that. You could bike to work two days out of five and save it in gas. You could start a side business and MAKE an additional $56 per month. That was my point to begin with. I'd rather be doing something that's enjoyable to save or earn that money instead of hounding some stranger to swap tickets with me so I can save some money.

Does that make sense??
Unused parameter for lambda function.
In common language Scandinavia is frequently used synonymously with the Nordic countries. WP backs that up too.
At the start of this year I started an experiment; whenever an application distracted me more than once per day with a push notification or toast, it would have its permissions to send any notification of any type revoked. Even if it was a work-related app, probably the scariest category of things to turn off.

A surprise for me was that once the biggest offenders were turned off, my brain craved the low-reward distraction fix - I would find myself compulsively refreshing Twitter or a forum in the hope of getting that same brief, low-value, "here is something you need to look at" reward. But it didn't come, and while I lost close to a month of leisure time on compulsive-refreshing I found that "there is no reward here" eventually filtered through to my subconscious.

The other shock was how little people at work noticed the difference between "I have a notification, let me respond to that" and "I'm at a nice break, let me check my messages". I thought median response time going from a few seconds to a few minutes would be problematic but nobody even notices. (Perhaps they're also too distracted?) Of course there is the worst case that I get head down in something and then I'm 2-3 hours out before I can get back, but it helps we have a team where we can be quite open with the idea of, "I quit Slack if I need focus time, here are emergency ways to contact me if necessary"

I am not yet back to reading books. I hope that will come in time. But I definitely find myself better at engaging with long-form entertainment, without stopping and getting distracted within the first few minutes.
Same question for Russians, please ;-)
Really liked Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis on the phenomena: https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU
The whole thing doesn't make sense:

> "The measures could be regarded as being 'necessary in a democratic society,'"

What does vaccination has to do with democracy?

Also, freedom is the most basic human right. It's a pre-condition to every other right as almost every single one is a corollary to freedom. The right to live is the right to respect your will to live.

So, how can you put "human right" and "compulsory" on the same sentence?
mao was a farmer you dumb hillbilly
This, so much... Windows already forces so many updates, what's one more? As long as it doesn't take two hours to install, it would go a long way to help the perception of Microsoft's browser
It's been awhile but their alleged fillers probably make it healthier than it would be otherwise.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/taco-bell-beef-laws...
Just my opinion here, but this is terrible advice. I agree with the author that JQuery's existence was predicated on the fact that it wrapped terrible browser APIs, and that in the (more) modern world we no longer need these wrappers. However, non-framework code is more verbose and is more likely to be prone to error. It's also likely harder to code review with peers. From a maintenance perspective you want less content/more safety.
Wow, I've been looking for something just like this. Absolutely fantastic!
Think of finding metaphors like bitcoin mining. All it takes is finding a value that works, even if there are better ones. :)
"movie theaters should be free to license movies outside the distribution agreements."

I'm not sure I understand what that means. Any deal they make to license the movie is a distribution agreement, by definition.
> As in that you don't have to value the same things as society at large

He's not from a rich background, is not well-connected, is not a business person, is not stunningly young or good looking, is not being sponsored by a media conglomerate - he is just a nerdy nice guy. I'm having trouble seeing the conformity you ascribe to him. In fact, he started out by being different.

> can go on and do things that really matter. Seems like he's wasting that opportunity.

It's depressing but interesting that big-time CEOs who are unpleasant in every way imaginable are somehow beyond reproach as long as they make a big show of donating a bit to charity here and there, but when someone who's not "a captain of industry" or a line-manufactured superstar buys something extravagant, people's propriety alarm bells start going off.

You also seem to imply that his wealth is somehow random and undeserved, and that he should retroactively work on deserving it - as if Minecraft didn't have an enormously positive impact on many people (including children) already.
>Unless he does some smart investing

This is an investment. He didn't throw a $70 million party, he bought an asset he can sell in the future and which he presumably thinks will increase in value over time.

And anybody who just became a billionaire is not going to stick that money into a savings account, they will get hooked up with a very good financial advisor who will help them to grow their wealth. Say he has $1 billion, a decent but not great return on that would be 8% a year. That's $80 million! He could buy one of these every year, spend $5 million and still have $5 million left over. And that's exactly how he should and presumably will manage his wealth. You don't spend your wealth, you grow it and spend some of the income it produces. Which is precisely what any rookie financial advisor would teach him on day 1.
Maybe I'm cynical, but...

Yes, you are cynical, but, perhaps unfortunately, you are probably correct.

While the need to create some sort of modded-out system to allow interested parties a way to really examine what's in the db almost surely exists, I, too, wonder of what value it would ultimately be.

It's often difficult enough in business to crack the money-making side of it, and adding the large administrative and financial burdens of dealing with onerous patent restrictions sure doesn't help.
Is there any country other than the US where people see a truck as a viable option to drive around in?
Politicians care about taking down Facebook’s or Twitter’s power mainly to leverage it for themselves or because they view it as an existential threat.
That's not illegal here (the UK), and the link you've posted seems to simply recommend using a crossing where one is available nearby (which is mostly common sense).

I don't see how this advice implies that laws are in place?
Community Q&A always feels like bad satire to me: Customer q: how do I do X? Customer a: sorry, I don't know.

At least on Amazon Germany this pattern is extremely common.
Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke.

They were a vehicle to poke fun at ignorant westeners.
Incredible! It reminded me of watching the Apollo launches when I was a kid. The web video feed was fantastic - amazing to be able to watch the Earth falling away in real-time.

Would be interesting to know if the roll that was occurring as the ship reached orbit was intentional.
You said that philosophy is only limited by the need to be internally consistent.

Well, for one, religious philosophy is often not internally consistent. Same for eastern philosophy. And most of the history of western philosophy, for that matter. So even your one criterion doesn't work when you force it to be universally applied to everything that's ever been given the title of philosophy.

And that's the problem with your statement. It takes the broadest possible subject in the history of man and makes a generalization about it that at best applies to some small sub-set and at worst applies to absolutely nothing.

What you are talking about is the validity of a philosophical argument. But just about every discipline in philosophy is also concerned with the soundness of the argument.

Even things like ontology or metaphysics are concerned with correlating their arguments with the way things actually are in the world.

Otherwise, all philosophical discourse would occur in symbols. But instead, the factual accuracy of the argument's constituent premises is also important.

So epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of law, religion, mathematics, and language... 100% of these things are concerned with much more than being internally consistent.
This is joyous, scrolling to the side...it reminds me of an old text based game. I see that the goons and 4chan have arrived already. TXT PARTY!
Just curious, how different is IE in Windows versus Safari on OSX? (or iPhone)
He's starting a new Bank, "Bank Simple"

From their FAQ:

Why do other banks make it such a pain to transfer money?

Many banks make transferring money from your account painful as they fear losing your deposits. We figure if we make it easy to do the things you want to do, you’ll be happier and less likely to leave. So, transfers are simple with us.

I've always viewed the difficulty of transferring money out of my account as a robust security feature.
I have worked with these guys before. Its a tough spot to be in. I think they are doing good overall.
It's mostly carried by water, accumulating at every hole around - what includes bottom of lakes and the oceans.
They're changing to Swift in the next version.

(He mentions it at the end of the video)