jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have personally never come across a political ideology that I consider to be properly self-consistent in regards to justice, I don’t think any society has a rational idea of what they want their justice system to do. Speaking generally, the right place a lot of importance on law and order, as well as individual liberty. Yet those ideals are in direct contention. The left is very concerned protecting marginalized groups from injustices, but the communities of marginalized groups tend to be the most heavily impacted by crime. Why not come to some agreement on what we want our justice system to do before trying to reform it? Because most theories for reform that I come across tend to either imagine that victims of crime aren’t important, or that the rights of the accused aren’t important.
How do stock buybacks help prevent bankruptcy?
SAP owns Sybase, HANA is for cloud.
Here's a version with English captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajknsrDX-VY
> ADHD-like dysfunction in adults

If a lot of people are struggling with the institutions, it's probably the institutions that are the problem. Not the people.
Great work!

P.s. real-time syntax highlighting is not working for me
Nice, but your js is broken if you write it without semicolons at the end.

Also any chance of Scala support?
Associated blog post with a bit more detail is here: http://blog.readability.com/2011/04/the-readability-api-cont...
Perhaps "pathology" is too strong a word... But to your point, meeting someone isn't the same as knowing them. Did you get the chance to discuss, say, why the GPL license was too "contagious?" Let me say again I've neither met nor gotten to know Stallman, but let me share my experiences with this personality type, just for future reference.

I've gotten to know a few people who have the type of personality I describe. In particular, I have the infrequent occasion to enjoy the company of someone who also charming, funny, intelligent- all of the things that make for a great lunch or evening. However, you'll never change his mind about anything. When he makes up his mind he is absolutely convinced he is right and there is nothing he has overlooked.

And sometimes he just doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. He'll talk about how his doctor is full of shit because what the doctor said doesn't fit with his mental model that he built upon reading a couple of articles in a science magazine. Or how teachers ought to do "X" (he's never taught). Or how programming is "Y" (not a programmer). Or how the football coach should do "Z" (never played or coached). Backs everything up with solid-sounding, logical arguments. But he simply doesn't know enough facts to start with the right axioms.

Very smart. Very persuasive. Very creative. And often very wrong.

Interestingly, as long as their right/wrong ratio is high, they can make great leaders- at least in the beginning of a movement. Alot of people find comfort in their black and white world.

But they are very difficult to deal with as a peer or in an employee/employer capacity. Tireless, pointless arguments that end with "I'm not convinced..." because NOTHING will convince them. They think they have the right axioms. Again, "pathology" may be too strong, but it's certainly a personality type I avoid all but the most casual relationships with if I can help it.
aren't such prejudices a type of racism? at least this is a supremacy/inferiority theory which is not very en vogue these days, isn't it?
If Lazlo Polgar had really wanted to test his thesis, he should have adopted, not had biological children. He is pretty clearly an exceptional intelligence of his own, reading his Wikipedia page.

That said, chess is simply not an inherent skill. But small differences in native ability can lead to large differences in interest, hence time spent, hence results achieved.
Perforce was arguably the best VCS for large groups when Google first started over a decade ago. It's difficult to move all that code and history and the accumulated tools to a new system.
I dont think it is just about sciences... There is a Nobel prize in Literature.
Economics is fine. Now more than ever Economics is a very important subject in our life.
People should learn more about it so let's give a Nobel prize to the best in that field.
If you're generating abstract shapes, to marry be able to use map the image to the screen using toroidal geometry, like that tunnel-flying demo. I think it would be trickier to do that with handcrafted art because the distortion would look weird.
The utility of the test decreases with reduced risk. A 99% specific test is good when there are high levels of disease going around (e.g. covid in a hospital). In the community, rates are much lower, so the positive predictive value of the test is much lower, even with 99% specificity.
My conclusion is that if you tried this in a community setting, the number of false positives would far outweigh the true positives, and lead to dismissal of alerts.
Hi chaps, I wrote this. Some of you seem triggered by the white part. Whiteness is shit. No apologies there.

If y'all want to be a decent human beings, you need to renounce whiteness. I'm brown but I'm not getting together with Pakistanis to bomb Myanmar based on our 'brownness'. Be American, be Italian, be your football team, I don't care. But whiteness is white supremacy, and it's central to the major problems the world faces. If you have a problem with that, you're a part of the problem

As I wrote elsewhere:

"Whiteness is white supremacy. There’s actually nothing else to it. There is no white food, there is no white music. Whiteness is just the dehumanization of everyone else, and that shit’s got to go. Renounce your whiteness. Be a decent human being."

https://indica.medium.com/renounce-your-whiteness-be-a-decen...
Rust strings are UTF-8, and UTF-8 characters vary in byte length, therefore replacing same length character sequences don't guarantee that they will fit in the same number of bytes.
In the late 80s my side-project college consulting company was almost 100% FoxPro. I still have the 5 1/4" floppies laying about. They also had a version that ran on the Mac so I ended up getting my first "real" job writing FoxPro sales management apps for the original Apple stores. Also they gave me a sweet Mac II to code on :)
Line length isn't a python issue. A line length of 80, is. (Thus the punch card reference).

My stint in python made me appreciate A line length more, but 80 got to be absurd.
Rust uses very similar API to other languages for this:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#meth...

The problems you are likely running into are higher level mutability issues. The above linked function requires &mut self, which means you need a mutable string. The above linked documentation has an example of using the `mut` keyword to declare a mutable string that you can replace_range on.
Not exactly, it's way more interesting than that (to me anyway)...

Hertz actually did sell new shares into the price spike. They went to the bankruptcy judge and got permission to sell new shares to help pay off the creditors. Shortly after they started selling the SEC essentially said "lol no" and told them to stop.
To an extent, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_cell

If you look closer and examine the layers individually, it's possible to map out the transistors making up a circuit, but it's a great deal easier to figure things out when you're dealing with a chip made from standard modular components.
So they are evaluating how well the guy responds to missed deadlines? It seems he was promised responses on specific timelines that kept falling through with no response and with the weakest of lip-service paid when he prodded them enough to get an answer.

If this was just trying to harden him up for what it's really like to work inside of Apple, it's a wonder they get anything done at all.
I know a woman whose last name is Null. I remember her telling stories of frequent failed form validation years ago (for failing to enter a last name, of course). I wonder if it's gotten any better as the web has matured.
I wasn't happy with MacOS from 8-ish to pre-X, but what was the alternative? I tried liking Solaris and IRIX (didn't ever use NeXT), but there was just nothing out there. Win 95b was a brief glimpse into a future where Windows didn't suck, but they promptly sat on their laurels with 98 and then slapped their userbase around with ME. I tried BeOS a few times, but it never really had any software and the Web wasn't big enough at the time for a lack of software to be okay. I installed Rhapsody when it came out, and then tried to run OSX Developer Preview for a few months before I had to admit that it still wasn't quite baked. Now I couldn't be happier, but I still occasionally try desktop linux and other mobile phones.

I won't say that Apple's products are perfect - the pinnacle of what can be done - just currently the best.
> If I get a iPhone 4, I have every confidence that Apple will make every effort to ensure that subsequent iOS upgrades work on my phone until there's a legitimate technical reason to exclude it,...

Kudos to Apple for doing this, by the way. I have an iPhone 3G and really appreciate Apple's efforts in keeping my device up-to-date.

Apple's decision to own the phone from end-to-end (sans AT&T) has proven to provide a high-quality experience to customers. It's telling that the only part of the experience that Apple doesn't own is arguably the largest pain point of the iPhone.

It's too bad that Android/WinMo answer to the OEMs, and not the other way around. If Compaq or Dell dictated upgrade policies for PCs the world would be a very different place.
It's not shape, it's more "texture" and connectivity.

The untrained eye can distinguish memory, which is very regular, from other things. The trained eye can distinguish some of those other things.

You can also partition by texture. Knowing the identify of some things helps you identify what they're connected to.

The more that you identify, the more constrained the possibilities are for the remaining things.
Absolutely.

In another year or two Apple may provide the notification system of my dreams, but after three years I'm ready for anything that doesn't involve a button press, screen swipe, and passcode, just to checkif I have unread email.
the risk is lower with data files, but it's not gone.

buffer overflows in non-executable files means it's easy for someone who wants to, to recompromise a machine: pdf, gif, jpg, whatever.
wrong link btw
In a world where money == power, giving millions to your children isn't a lot different from a king passing on the crown to his.
These are very interesting findings. On a higher level though: Are there any significant performance differences between the APIs of node and io? E.g. tcp package processing, file system access etc? I know that a lot of them are effectively C, so independent of the V8 version.
> DON'T TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING PAID OR GIVE THEM A RANGE. [...] No matter what, don't give them a number. Make them give you a number first and negotiate from there.

What tactic do you use for this?
No it is not. But one physicist, Dr.Ron Belt, has published some papers that may explain the reason for the skew toward older drivers among SUA victims. Basically, he says that their driving habits tend to deplete batteries, and the resulting unstable electrical supply shared by loaded cars and their ECUs can tend to set off software glitches in poorly written code.
The pedal confusion theory is often used as a defense by automakers but it has been discredited.
Yep, it's a time-sensitive market, as they're racing teams that will take days/weeks/months/never to catch up.

* Dark web resellers: "20-50% take for X cards at Y $ in Z time" => additional jumbling (drop shipping, ...) and exit points (discounted $ for anonymous purchases for/during illegal activities)

* Normal marketplaces: "$100 starbucks card, 10% off!"

* Sell to physical retailers like small corner stores

The approach & time will all impact % retained

Edit: Here's a fun one, esp. when you think through all the ground operations / people in the drug supply chain: https://losspreventionmedia.com/gift-cards-have-become-a-com... . We work with a lot of sec/fraud teams, where I've repeatedly heard the story "At $100M-1B revenue the finance wizards started a gift cards program, but it became such a pain point that we canceled it."
This is the normal tug of war between upvotes and flags.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Please stop equating the "MSM" with the right wing propaganda machine like FOX. This hyperpolarization is happening in every country that has a sizable Murdoch media machine.
It's not conspiratorial! The president has stated, repeatedly and at length and to many different people, that he'd like to invalidate the election results and make himself the winner. This reflexive dismissal that he could mean what he says is coming very close to ending the country.
Why do these threads get getting flagged, but other protest threads from 2020 were not flagged at all? This is historic.
"Remote" job, physical requirements: "The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds."
;-)
The reason why they don't care about whatever you think about the state of journalism is because it allows them to play you directly like a cheap fiddle, without the risk of any pesky journalists getting in the way.

QED.

The state of journalism may suck, but this airheaded attitude suggests it's merely trying to follow it's intended audience and failing.

People this shallow are not going to be reached with quality journalism, so please stop blaming others for your own shallowness and disinterest.

The "political process" isn't the media or the current crop of political parties, it's you. You switch off, it's 100% your problem.

Don't blame others for your own contribution to turning it into shallow entertainment.
> After I sent Google my first list of questions, they got back to me pushing me to drop the soft balls.

And indeed there were a few tough questions by the first guy. It wasn't exactly a bloodbath of hostility, but is that really necessary..?
> I had an apartment, ate, had utilities paid, with enough left over for beer, weed and cigarettes.

That actually sounds pretty great. You covered your necessities and had a few luxuries. Heck, I make an order of magnitude more than minimum wage, but my life doesn't sound much more glamorous than that.

If poor people are able to afford food, housing, and small luxuries (cigarettes), is life really so bad?
...why were you waiting to hear these details? Court documents are open to the public.
Hey guys. I'm one of the co-founders of HowsItGoin, you can find more details about it here (wearecontrast.com/2015/01/month-1-introducing-howsitgoin/) or feel free to add a comment and I'll respond as soon as I can.
Some boards like this were assembled with the help of CNC wire wrap equipment. I don't think they were fully automated - more like the computer positioned the tools for the operator. On a board with thousands of wires, this eliminated some operator error (he didn't have to follow a list of connections on a sheet of paper anymore.)
If you agree that AI can reach human levels of accuracy is your point that we shouldn't ever try to assess someone's emotion in decision making, whether it's a person or machine deciding?
I suspected this comment was written by gpt3. Kinda surprised you're human....
If you drag open the control center it tells you which app used it recently.
"how are the discoverability and accessibility equations going to be solved?" - this is the whole challenge.

I referred to the WorksonARM project in the blog: https://www.worksonarm.com/

WorksOnARM solved this problem for ARM by making machines available through Equinix Metal's API for development and testing.

Hardware manufacturers can ship boxes to developers, give them access through an API like Equinix Metal's, or some other approach, but one way or another developers are going to need access.
There is alot more to it I think than meets the eye. I've seen a wide spectrum of talents. I've seen some with the capacity to be 10x who have no motivation, and some with almost no chance of reaching 10x status with all the motivation in the world.

I think one of the differentiators, in what makes a 10x programmer significantly more valuable is alot of things people are trying today have never been done before. So to have the insight that a 10x programmer can bring to the table is priceless.

I think it's entirely wrong to believe, in these cases, that you can achieve the same result with average developers.

On the other hand, if you're doing things that have been done a million times before, there's likely to be a few tried and true templates people can follow to get a functioning system up and running.
You could add a hook to use evil only in certain modes, for instance:

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'evil-local-mode)

This activates evil only for modes that derive from prog-mode.
Depends. If the 'unit' is big enough to have an interface spec then a different dev should write the test. If you're doing function level unit testing, a dev should write it. There's a grey area between those two extremes.

My original post was intended to focus on system and api level testing but I wasn't clear on that.
Fair! Many contributors would likely relicense under a fixed version, so old code that was licensed “or later” is permanently leaked under the license they now find too permissive, but code that’s not maintained has significantly less value.
Much as I enjoy writing high quality software, it's irresponsible to spend time or money producing something higher quality than is justified by the needs of the business. Generally I find that unit tests for anything other than actual logic (which is a tiny fraction of most codebases) don't offer enough benefit to be worth the costs.

(I'd also argue that unit testing can reduce the quality of the software as it makes the internals of the architecture more costly to change).
Singularity, robots...

Not certain to happen but a fair bit more than your quantum fluctuation.
I'm pretty sure Bezos doesn't like this idea all that much, but it's the price of getting on board with Biden's infrastructure plan.

He probably views it as an investment. Amazon has a keener interest than most in ensuring road maintenance is done properly and if that means a small increase to his tax bill he's probably ok with it.

He also desperately needs to score some progressive points. His reputation is getting trashed rn. I'm sure that factored in to his decision.

I'm skeptical of the notion that he wants this to keep competitors down.
Like I wrote in another comment, this would split the fact of "stealing" from "having a stolen object". Like "having the stolen object" does not harm anyone, the taking away is the harm done. I don't think this argument flies with anyone - it did not fly in kindergarten for me - and I'm not sure if RMS sees the world this way or it's only with child porn.

To play devils advocate here:

Taking GPL code into your product and selling it, the fact of selling your product is not harming the person who wrote the GPL code. But with GPLed code RMS has a totally different view than with pictures of nude children.
So is RIVM a scientific institution or is it not? Are they to be believed or not? Or do you get to pick and choose when to believe them?
As much as I hate queues at the airport, I believe that TSA and Co. are effective. Sure, they cannot catch anyone but people demonstrating that in tests tend to be much more knowledgeable than would-be attackers. Just knowing that you could get caught is enough to put off many. There's a reason why the terrorist attacks we've seen in recent years (especially in Europe) have been largely focused on vehicles , trying to blow up a plane has become much more risky with TSA.

So I don't think it's mainly window-dressing. It's not perfect but enough to scare off most bad guys.
On related news: Just two days ago the EU ePrivacy regulation took the first hurdle in Brussels. This will most likely bring some changes to the whole consent drama.
I'm not good at reading legalese and there seem to be no commentary for the current version[1] yet. What I understand is that they "encourage" browsers to implement "whitelists" (their choice of word, not mine) as a solution to "end-users [..] overloaded with requests to provide consent". I'm not sure what is in there regarding first-party analytics cookies which some hoped will be exempted.

[1] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6087-2021-I...

Partly recycled comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103635
> I'm curious what the HN thinks about that?

People don't need those white-label commodity cPanel or Plesk shared-hosting or VPS services to run SaaS applications anymore - it's far better for everyone[1] when they switch to a major cloud provider, namely AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.

I argue that most web/saas devs today grew up with - and tinkered-with - said white-label services: which means they got their experience with MySQL because it was part of the stock default configuration for all those web-host accounts: with PHP, maybe Perl, and many preinstalled web-applications like phpBB, Wordpress, Coppermine, phpNuke, and so on... and that's probably a solid 15+ years of commonplace web-hosting market saturation (thinking 2001 through 2016, with 2014 being the tipping-point for AWS/Az/GC being the home of SaaS).

You'd be in high-school age-range (14-18?) and get bored of simply running other peoples' programs on your web-space, and you saw these web-applications were written in PHP so you'd follow some series of online tutorials for PHP and when it inevitably leads to databases they assume you have MySQL - and MySQL (at the time) had not only the widest installbase, but also had a far more forgiving SQL engine than anyone else. While PostgreSQL was often only a few clicks away via quick installers built-in to cPanel/Plesk/etc, MySQL was a safer-bet by everyone involved.

...but those days are past: as a personal anecdote: at no-point in the past 10 years have I come across any "serious" PHP web-application software intended for private or on-prem usage since vBulletin or SVN.

[1]Except free-as-in-freedom software advocates...
>"If you hate Lincoln, you might as well just hate the United States as a whole."

I think a non-trivial number of activists on the American Left really do feel that way. I get the sense they really do believe that the United States is fundamentally flawed, if not outright evil, because it was built on slavery, patriarchy, whiteness, Native American genocide, etc.. For them, those original sins are unforgivable.

This is why you see such a focus on "dismantling" facets of Americana and replacing them with something progressive.
Do you mean society or big government?
Ads could be placed into a search engine, and user agents could choose to request relevant ads based on the page they are viewing (the context) and/or the current user's profile (if the user opts-in to their profile being included).

Advertisers would compete within that search engine to have the most relevant and accurate product and service offerings to match demand, and would pay the search engine provider for the hosting.

The search engine provider could attribute and send credit back to the websites from which advertising requests from the user agent originated. This could be attributed based on requests, clicks, purchases, etc.

Under this model, publisher websites would not need to design and manage their pages specifically to incorporate advertising slots, and users would not have to see any advertising at all unless they are genuinely interested in further commercial information related to the page they're on.

As a side-effect this could reduce the usage of advertising in various grey areas (spam, disinformation, and even the rare-but-feasible harassment of individuals by using targeted advertising).