jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Over the last three decades, news organizations have traded in their neutrality and integrity for political and "narrative" influence.

No, they haven't. News organizations have always had strong political and narrative-driven tendencies, what has changed is that the media is more diverse in bias and thus the illusion of neutrality that came from the period where the major national media spoke with nearly uniform bias and agenda is lost.
Definitely starting that one in Washington state, much easier to coast downhill than try to ride up from DC.
My guess is this is an old about page used in a version of the site that uses frames.

If you go straight to the root of the domain you’ll get a modern website that links to a completely different about page.
That Coast Guard movie with Kevin Costner has a line people used to quote a lot but I haven't seen lately.

"How do you chose who lives?"

"[...] I take the first one I come to or the weakest one in the group and then I swim as fast and as hard as I can for as long as I can. And the sea takes the rest."
> the vast majority of users

The vast majority of users don’t carry a bunch of dongles around.

It’s just true. What are most people doing?

Zoom, Excel, PowerPoint, Browser, Slack, etc.
"If they're performing a task quickly because it's easy, or slowly because they're struggling with the UX. And you find out that customers on a certain mobile device are suffering huge performance issues, for example."

...

"You don't know these things until you measure them."

If you don't build big, bloated tools using ultra-high-level frameworks and if your product is a simple tool that performs a single, useful task ... then you do know these things and you don't need analytics to tell you.
In our case it's the opposite. Whole company is wired. No WiFi.
This site has an anti ad-block pop up that stops you from closing the browser window in iOS. Had to close the whole HN app to leave the in-app browser.
This is my favorite variation of the trolley problem, which is absolutely tested in real life all the time: https://ruinmyweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/live-laugh...

I especially love this variation because I always take the time to put stray carts back in the cart return and get them all in a neat line. And I warm myself with my moral superiority over all you jagoffs.
Ok, enjoy your treasuries, I’ll stick with dollar-cost averaging S&P 500. I’m sure your valuation models are better than Wall Street.

Hope the treasury yields moving up don’t wreck you, if yields move N%, then bond values move (N*years remaining)% down. Disregard if you buy individual bonds and hold until redemption.
I agree. The miners have no incentive to switch to PoS and share the rewards with all participating holders.
Like he said:

> forget all that driver nonsense
It's more a matter of competition. I've worked for companies that picked Portland specifically because it had plenty of developers, but not as many employers, so the supply/demand dynamics favored a lower salary vs. other areas.
Legally? Yes. Morally? Yes. Ethically, Yes.
Did they have to do this? No. Will I stay a customer because they took responsibility, instead of blaming someone else? Yes.
Do I wish every company (including Amazon themselves) had the balls that Heroku does? Yes.

Sure, it would be easy to blame Amazon - really easy. But as I said I was paying for rails hosting from Heroku, not Amazon.
No. The reason this isn't a mere "uptick" is because of the giant, crazy valuations. Think companies like Color. Think Facebook. These are not incremental in nature.
I was thinking about an essentially identical system to yours some years ago and I came up with an amendment to prevent direct democracy (if desired): nobody can vote for themselves unless they have at least X votes; if not then they must delegate.

Similarly you could try to assemble everyone who has at least X votes into a parliament (if you pick X appropriately), though I'm worried that the cutoff for getting into parliament might cause a chain of tactical redelegations which never stabilizes.
Blocks are also available in Perl, in the form of anonymous subroutines. They follow Perlish conventions for argument handling (rather than having a neat inline syntax like Smalltalk or Ruby), but they're most definitely the same thing!

my $block = sub { say "w00t, blocks!" };
my $closure = sub { $block->(); say "w00t, closures!" };

You'll have to look further for something Ruby does that Perl doesn't :)
Well any criminal would not want to be identified.
If the (in)famous video leaked by Wikileaks showed U.S. servicemen following the ROE, why is that the Pentagon was so upset by its release? Generally speaking, U.S. citizens greatly romanticize war, and videos such as this one show the crudeness of warfare, something few people want to see.

Do people really think that this video will enrage Iraqis further? Well, think about it. Iraqi citizens have endured decades of opression under Saddam, they had their country bombed to the ground in 1991, they endured a decade of embargo, they were bombed and invaded again in 2003, and have lived the past 7 years in chaos. I think the Iraqis are pretty jaded about violence by now. If someone is going to be upset about that video, that someone is the U.S. citizen who pays taxes and, unwillingly, subsidizes such slaughter.

I don't oppose Wikileaks leaking the video. What I oppose is Wikileaks editing for propaganda purposes. A raw video would have been more than enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_X1

Not IPS, but then it is nearly 2 years old. 311 ppi.

There's been a bunch that have been in the 200-300 range but apparently they don't count as 300 is the magic number (assuming you are holding your phone a specific, yet unspecified, distance from your face).
I haven't seen the term sheets, but according to the article (and the one in Inc.) it seems that they jumped in fresh in the Series E, because Tony's investment firm basically did all the other rounds.

If I am not mistaken, Series E was the first round that outsiders joined. I could be mistaken on that though. However, I am reading his book now so if I find out I will be sure to let you know :)
The screen looks incredible. You know how phone ads often disclaim "screen images simulated"? Now the real screen looks as good as any "simulated" picture:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/iphone-4-hands-on-black/#3053...
That's pretty much what I had in mind. I guess I'll find out soon enough whether they run on Heroku! :-p
> front facing camera with open standards for video calling

Which, FWIW, is something that's been available everywhere outside the US for at least 5 years. Not always used much (in Europe anyway), but it's been available for a very long time.

> high def video camera and 5 megapixel still camera.

The part I found most interesting there is the mention that the megapixel race is misguided again, and that they'd boosted not only the resolution but also the size of the sensor in order to keep them balanced, rather than go with 10MPx and a microscopic sensor.

> One thing still to be answered: Is the open standard around video calling really open?

open standard doesn't mean open source standard, fwiw.
> claims that 48% of spending on mobile advertising in the United States

So, to clarify, that's 48% by dollars not number of ads served. And it's US only.
I don't like dark mode.
Please don't do this here. You're welcome to share your own experience, if that's what you're alluding to here, but not to rhetorically put it onto someone else.
This is an interesting opportunity to profit from. This company has massive expectations baked into it's stock price (NASDAQ: OPEN), trading at over a hundred times earnings. It's being massively shorted by the hedge funds. Combine the fact that there's relatively no barrier to entry with the rumors that their customer base isn't very satisfied makes for a huge opportunity to profit in the short/medium term.
That's what I'm waiting to hear about. Clicking the "Buy Now" link gives me the following: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store."
What is he talking about? If he paid taxes on the incomewhy do they think he owes them?
Yes. I did. It will be very challenging.

I, quite a few times, spent more than four hours with a pencil and paper making my way through 2-4 pages of material, as since my background was lacking, there were parts where I had to figure out how they got from A to B. IIRC, I spent multiple days on a few paragraphs at one point.

That said, it is written how I think math books should be written, is considered part of the start of Discrete Mathematics, and is conversational, illuminating, well-layed-out, and approachable despite it's level of difficulty.

I can't recommend it enough.

Don't view it as something where if you're not making progress you're failing. Take the time to ensure you understand every bit of what you read before moving on, and do all the exercises you can muster.
The income tax system is only superficially progressive. Two examples:

1) Everyone's earned income below about $105K has an additional 12.1% tax called Social Security. Half of that is disguised as the employer contribution, but it still has an impact on the economic activity available to poorer people in terms of wages offered, and even the number of jobs offered. Social Security benefits are paid from the general fund, and Social Security taxes are paid into the general fund. This is a regressive tax. The only distinction is the benefits you eventually draw are somewhat determined by your contributions.

2)The truly rich (I'm not talking about couples in expensive metropolitan areas earning $250K) have the luxury of great discretion in regards to when, how, and even IF they take income.

...and we haven't even talked about the underground economy, which by definition does not pay income tax.

...and let us not forget all the tax cheats, the greatest of whom got a Presidential pardon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
As a side point, it goes without saying that if you love your local restaurant book directly with them as it is obvious they reduce their profit margin on an OpenTable booking.

Ditto for delivery - don't use GrubHub who will take a %age if you can order directly with your local neighborhood restaurant.
In August, I used OpenTable to get a reservation at a Michelin-starred restaurant in CA (is Sonoma considered Bay Area? I'm not from the US so not sure) about 15 minutes beforehand. Process worked perfectly.

At 8pm, we arrived at a hotel in the area and looked online for a place to eat. By 8:10 we'd booked. By 8:16, we'd ironed clothes, showered, driven and arrived for a great meal. Ringing around looking for a table would've taken too long.
I scanned this, and there's a lot of talk here about having two separate layers of key-value storage (not nearly the first system to have that design), but I'm missing what is the key innovation here. I need to read it in more detail, but if anyone else figures out what that is, I'd love to hear about it.
Cubesats?
Don't want to presume to answer for the prior poster, but one possible solution to the second problem on your list is to consider the second half of the assertion in the context of radical and ubiquitous observation.

Assume the dystopia: with my smartphone I can tap in to the network of smart dust that blankets the world and can view and hear anything that is happening anywhere. We tend to consider this from the viewpoint of the observed but invert it and consider the constraints upon the observer/judge. Imagine how difficult it would be for people to judge and punish you for this lack of conformity if it is trivial for you to show a similar collection of mistakes and 'bad' behavior on the part of those who would judge you and if you can know who is watching you at any time (because you can watch them watching you.)

It is not quite a complete solution, but it seems to me that people tend to focus on one side of an imagined power relationship without necessarily asking if that power structure could be maintained in the new environment.
I had Chessmaster 8000 and the engine behind it was always really good at mimicing realistic playstyles. It had presets, and you could control things like pawn weakness, willingness to trade, king safety, and preferred pieces.

Modern chess engines usually have a notion of "contempt". I've found that if you turn contempt way up and limit the number of concurrent lines, in combination with adjusting the target rating, you can get a reasonably good approximation of real play. At casual (< 2100 maybe?) levels of play, this simulates the human tendency to make blunders while fixating on a plan.
I think it's very reasonable for a content platform to enforce some kind of norm on speech including against protest content. Back when Tiktok was musical.ly, ie more explicitly devoted to music-based content, I suppose it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow.
What she quoted, "Who ever has the youth has the future" .. well, that's right.

People are seriously afraid of things like Critical Race Theory and Gender Ideology being taught in our schools. It's indoctrinating kids and parent's don't have a choice about it being taught to their kids.

She is literally quoting Hitler to show what the LEFT is doing in schools and how it's WRONG. This reaction is taken entirely out of context.
Nailed it about peak multiscreen. I was on three screens when everyone was on one, then on the highest consumer DPI monitor in 2009 before Retina or Windows OS support, and now I'm on a single-monitor display with a laptop. In 10 more years that will be the format: Laptop below, 8k 40" atop.
isn't it 0.00143045%?
> In normal countries freedom of research is written into the constitution.

Can you name some examples?
You might be interested in Walter Lippman's 'Public Opinion' from 1922. It basically lays the groundwork for manipulating and influencing a population's collective mindset by exploiting our inherent cognitive limitations and biases [1]. It has strongly influenced Western governments over the past century.

You can read it for free, courtesy of the American Studies department at the University of Virginia [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_%28book%29

[2]: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/Lippman/cover.html
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167106, which was posted earlier and has a bit more information than the press release.
"Der Urquell aller technischen Errungenschaften ist die göttliche Neugier und der Spieltrieb des bastelnden und grübelnden Forschers und nicht minder die konstruktive Phantasie des technischen Erfinders"

- Albert Einstein

https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-pate...

"He was denied any teaching position from just about every major University in Europe. This was mostly based on the fact that Albert approached Physics as a "New age day dreamer" (e.g.: thought experiments) rather than primarily from mathematical models or experimental insights. One way he dealt with the rejections was through a discussion group he formed with other workers at the Patent office that he self-mockingly named "The Olympia Academy", which met regularly to discuss science and philosophy. They studied the works of Henri Poincaré, Ernst Mach, and David Hume, which influenced his scientific and philosophical outlook."

https://www.quora.com/How-many-patents-did-Albert-Einstein-h...
Another interesting thing: virtually all the really high-level programmers I know have either a PL or OS background. Jeff Dean worked on Cecil. Urs Hoezle worked on Self. Lars Bak worked on Beta, Self, and HotSpot. Peter Norvig worked on Lisp. Many of the other senior guys at Google - the ones who actually understand how all the search engine works, that people go to when there's a tough problem - worked on languages like Dylan, Python, and HotSpot.

Most of them aren't working on languages now, but there's this blip in the past of a surprisingly large number of them. I wonder if it's causation or correlation.
But we're talking about bitcoins, which are extremely easy to just leave sitting on your hard drive rather than invest.
Do the down-voters care to add any actual constructive criticism of my claim?
No doubt this is on the front page because of the previous generative music application posted not long ago on HN. I'll make the same comment here as I did there (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455023), namely WolframTones tries too hard to emulate human-generated music and ends up sounding awful instead. There is an interesting argument to be made that 'art' attempted to be understood from an analytic viewpoint ("what is the automaton that creates jazz?") loses its meaning while extracting art from mathematics ("I wonder what a random automaton sounds like?") tends to have very interesting results. It seems to be a one-way operation.
The reality is that there are startups out there working on really interesting problems that can't afford the $5k, but would love to get great interns.

Yes, that reduces the pool drastically. You are essentially finding the intersection of students that believe in your challenge over immediate compensation, and do not have financial constraints. But to quote the quoted Chris Dixon: "People who say recruiting is hard are right. People who say it is impossible just aren’t showing up enough."

Reaching out to this group of students is about pitching yourself right. And as the post highlights, understanding the motivations is an important first step.
Could someone clarify on the RiakSearch scoring function for evaluating retrieved results?

It appears that RiakSearch is modeled after Lucene in a variety of ways (https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Search):

"At index time, Riak Search tokenizes a document into an inverted index using standard Lucene Analyzers. (For improved performance, the team re-implemented some of these in Erlang to reduce hops between Erlang and Java.)"

"Search queries use the same syntax as Lucene, and support most Lucene operators including term searches, field searches, boolean operators, grouping, lexicographical range queries, and wildcards (at the end of a word only)."

However, there is difference in the scoring function (https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak+Search+-+Querying):

"Documents are scored using roughly the same formulas described here:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_2/api/core/org/apache/luce...

The key difference is in how Riak Search calculates the Inverse Document Frequency. The equations described on the /Similarity/ page require knowledge of the total number of documents in a collection. Riak Search does not maintain this information for a collection, so instead uses the count of the total number of documents associated with each term in the query."

I am confused by this statement that they don't know "the total number of documents in a collection".

If they were to say: "We don't use the document frequency (# of documents containing this term / total # documents) because we cannot compute (# of documents containing this term) over the entire corpus. Instead we estimate the document frequency using the term frequency (# of occurrences of this term in the corpus / total # terms)." that might be sensible.

But I am not really clear what the current scoring function is.
There is no magic to working 8 hours every day or any other number for that matter.

Before the industrial revolution, most people were farmers. They got up at sunrise and typically worked long, hard days in the fields - workdays that were not circumscribed by any arbitrary time limit but rather defined by whatever it took to deal with the exigencies of each day.

The 8-hour day, as some sort of idealized goal, came about as a direct result of the industrial revolution. With people moving to cities and taking up factory work, reformers began to characterize such work situations as exploitative, particularly of children but also of adults in terms of length of hours worked in physically demanding situations. The answer for reformers lay in having governments prescribe maximum normative work periods, with anything in excess of the prescribed maximum being deemed extraordinary and warranting extraordinary compensation. Hence, in America, we eventually got the 8-hour day and the 40-hour week. (See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day for an overview).

I don't think "corporate America" has any particular stake in the 8-hour day. If anything, employers would undoubtedly want to have the power to shape the work schedules of employees in more flexible ways, especially by being able to freely demand longer work hours at normal compensation as a condition of continued employment. Of course, this would require repeal of the wage-and-hour laws that today proscribe any such thing. My point, though, is that it is those laws and not any scheme by employers that keeps the 8-hour structure in place as the normative work environment.

Bottom line: given pure freedom of contract, people could work any schedules they want and, in fact do so (that is what it means to be in business for yourself); however, given the problems arising from pure freedom of contract, the law imposes rigid limits deemed beneficial from a societal perspective on what may be expected of employees. That, I believe (and, I don't think, any other major factor), is what requires most people to work 8-hour schedules as their normative workday, at least in the U.S.

On a final note: the typical startup environment is really a throwback to the freedom of farming days because, in the earliest stages, there basically are no formal employees but rather just founders working round-the-clock like madmen for what might often be described as "below dirt wages," and, in later stages, there are large numbers of "exempt" engineers who are not subject to the overtime rules and hence who are also working insane hours - thus, not too many 8-hour days in your prototypical startup. I don't think most of the participants regard this as exploitation, probably because most of it is self-driven, i.e., most such people want to drive themselves hard in order to succeed.
If that's your threat, the device doesn't leave your sight or possession, ever. I work at a significantly lower threat level than that and we're regularly told that when off site devices don't leave your possession, and on-site, deviecs should be tethered and locked when not in use.
Sounds like a game developer's competitive advantage waiting to happen!
It's a question I'd love to have an answer to, even if terribly imprecise; just get me in the neighborhood. Because everything I hear is about indoor dining and weddings. But me running 5-10m away without a mask? One side of me says that if a hypothetical someone gets covid from me in that scenario, we're all screwed. But I'm open to just about anything that resembles contrary evidence.
I fundamentally distrust any program which claims E2E encryption and is capable of recovering my chat history onto a new device. This means that Telegram is technically able to recover my chat history, making the "E2E" bit of the encryption smoke-and-mirrors.
+1 for an awesome readme.

It would be great if more projects would add screenshots and succinct overview as you have done.
Someone posted this comment in the arstechnica article:

To be clear and despite its name, this is not Adobe code. Microsoft was given the source code for ATM Light for inclusion in Windows 2000/XP. After that, Microsoft took 100% responsibility for maintaining the code.

Microsoft has added additional code and removed code from that DLL (they shove all their Type 1 handling and Open Type font format handling into that one DLL)
That's an oversimplification.

The amount for an overdose is only around 3X a regular dose (2g vs 600mg) In contrast, most drugs for which you overdose need to be at much higher dosage multiples compared to the prescribed dose.
>relatively modern TV

Will accept hdmi. The OSSC is an hdmi outputting device that will handle analog input well, as long as it is rgb or ycrcb.

Future OSSC Pro will handle composite and s-video as an addon board.