jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I did not know this, thanks for sharing
If there's a program to create work environments for people who experience mortal battles with burnout, procrastination and self-doubt when things are stale and there's nothing to do but boring forms, then that sounds like something I'd quite like to get into myself, even without having ADHD.
Bridges break end-to-end encryption.
I doubt it. set -e is POSIX, I think, but the rest are probably bash extensions.

I'll probably get flak for this, but for 99% of the scripts, at this point I'd just use bash. Linux has it as a default, as does Mac OS, anyone running BSDs can install it trivially, and Unixes probably have it as well since most of them have antiquated CLI environments and administrators usually install GNU utils to have a more human working environment.
Light rail works great downtown. In particular, slowness is a good thing for local businesses. Fast travel like cars does not encourage people to go to your store, it encourages people to drive past it. This is why e.g. Melbourne has a free transit zone in the CBD.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641234
Certainly that is true if all spend improved one's ability to help in the future. But I think if we all honestly looked within our monthly spending statements we would find ourselves hard-pressed to make that claim.

Even accounting for second-order effects I do not believe people act in a manner consistent with arbitrary human lives being valued above some small number (less than $1000).

But there's no reason for me to convince you. You may act according to a different model of mankind and I shall act according to this model and whichever one predicts behaviour better is better.
Would they accept you using a work-related Google account?
Fourty percent of the homes Manhattan would be illegal to build today. I would claim that not all of Manhattan is industrial or otherwise miserable.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
which masks are we talking about here? cloth masks used throughout the population effectively reduce the transmission rate
I’d suggest that the article is the auxiliary content to the video.
No religious flamewar here, please.
YouTube premium is cheap and content created get paid. From an ethical standpoint we shouldn’t be using blockers.
Please explain how a disease transmitted by unprotected sex and IV drug use (once the blood supply was screened) is in any way comparable to an airborne illness.

It’s not, the vast majority of western society (hell, eastern too) has never been at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. The vast majority are at risk of COVID-19.

HIV/AIDS is technically a pandemic, but not one that affects all populations/demographics. Completely different.
>Sure as hell beats a bunch of people in the same supermarket breathing all over the produce and right on the cashier.

going to macdonalds twice a day is definitely riskier than getting groceries at the supermarket once a week. most of the food is packaged, and the stuff that isn't can be thoroughly washed before eating it. even for the stuff that isn't packaged and can't be washed, coronavirus isn't known to last longer than three days, so you can just buy it and let it sit.

contrast that to the multiple different staff preparing your food, which you then immediately stick in your mouth.
Cochrane reviews (of which this is one) are the gold standard for meta-analysis and evidence-based medicine. I trust their work a lot
Path of least resistance. Also, if he would have used that part for the "evil self" there would have been no guards because that memory would be in use now.
The main reason why Symbols were added AFAIK is to specify protocols / interfaces. Right now, duck typing is all we have in JS.

How do you check if an object is a Promise? You do `(typeof obj.then === 'function')`. Is this good? No, not really, especially not when the language reserves such a word - the problem is that they're global names and can easily conflict with existing methods.

In contrast, a symbol is used for the Iterator protocol [1]. You implement the protocol by adding a method to your object at the key "Symbol.iterator" that returns an iterator object. Unlike with string keys, its impossible for someone to have already used Symbol.iterator as a key before: the value didn't exist at all. As a result, this feature lets ES.next and libraries define new protocols without the need to come up with unique method names that aren't used in any library.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/T...
I was working on a framework like this, too -- I spoke about it at RubyConf in 2008, and the last version of the code (from 2009) is at http://github.com/bscofield/athena

I put it on hold a while back, though I'm thinking about bringing it back on top of Rails 3's more flexible substructure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6nS8W0bOU

'Young Messi' was definitely a talent
> I don't know whether this counts as highly rational, highly contrarian, or just annoying.

I am confidant that any attempt to rule out the third possibility will fail.
Read the article, then please tell me what this has to do with NFTs?
> People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

Remember how, just a few months ago, one could get banned from Social media for suggesting Covid-19 originated in a lab? "Fact Checkers" were hard at work silencing that content and attributing it to "conspiracy theorists".

Now the lab leak hypothesis is mainstream, with experts supporting investigating the labs in Wuhan and bringing in evidence that the disease indeed originated in a Chinese lab. The Chinese authorities certainly didn't release any more data, the only thing that changed was the presidential administration. How can this be explained? Why would the “authorities” try to initially divert attention from the evidence pointing to a lab leak from China?
There are better prediction markets out there now with more markets on more things.

See, for example:

https://kalshi.com/ (if you're in the US)

https://polymarket.com/ (if you're elsewhere)

Also, if you just want to get your feet wet, this one utilizes a system of reputation rather than money:

https://www.metaculus.com/
It’s a little more than that - basically, Third Room experiments with using Matrix as the existing server infrastructure to power the open metaverse. So you can take any Matrix server, point Third Room at it, and store all your assets in it (as glTF + WASM) while decentralising it across the wider Matrix network, and then use Matrix for the in-world VoIP and Video and Chat and other comms. So you get Matrix’s end-to-end-encryption and decentralisation and decentralised access control model for free - as well as all the comms protocol, to the extent that you don’t even need a dedicated game server.

It’s literally expanding Matrix’s concept of chatrooms to store and communicate open metaverse world data instead :)
Truly, if you consider the life of a redwood, just a blip on its radar
This is a good example how how very different people's biochemistry can be, resulting in massively different perception and effects of exogenous compounds. While these compounds don't agree at all with you, there are many of us who find these drugs highly useful.

I hope you can find relief some way, mental illnesses are no fun to deal with.
There was a brief window during the latter bit of the 20th century and early 2020s during which public trust in the media and academia were relatively high. The relevant factor as far as I can tell were that these institutions aspired toward neutrality and objectivity (someone will predictably miss the distinction between aspired toward and successfully delivered 100% of the time, but hopefully the rest of us can enjoy a fruitful discussion). It really feels like there was a significant shift in these fields away from integrity and toward activism in the most recent couple of decades, and that this is driving mistrust (and consequently causing people to feel around through the fog for more reliable institutions, often unsuccessfully).
Cool! Thanks for the link
Can't agree more.
Java in particular suffers greatly from Object toString with a weak contract and no global String interface. If String were an interface instead of an implementation than any method signature could accept multiple implementations. This allows for really effective type aliases which even support strong typing so if you have a signature with multiple String values you can use the strong types to ensure you don't transpose arguments.
There's another one of these things that's used on lots of sites, that takes three (3!) minutes, with no network requests or anything happening after the first couple of seconds. I forget the name of the company behind it, but it's a large one, one of the ones that sites proudly proclaim with a "protected by X" image.

It's beyond a dark pattern - it's plain fucking disgusting behaviour.
> BTW, they are the next generation programming languages.

What does this mean? You mean like those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_la... ?
> remarked today to my family that I bet Russians and North Koreans were watching going, wait, we can just walk in?

The US Congress of of great symbolic and relatively little actual importance. If the North Korean military walked in to the Senate and gunned down everyone in it the outcomes would roughly be: US loses ~80 corrupt leaches. US loses ~20 great people. Northern part of the Korean peninsula becomes a glassy wasteland inhabited by cockroaches.

Mobs of grumpy people routinely yell at US politicians, I've seen various protesters screaming politicians into a defensive corner. The BLM protests at the 2020 RNC convention jumps to mind as having scenes that were probably felt just as scary for the politicians involved (the treatment of Rand Paul jumped out at me as unpleasant). US citizens get to scream at their politicians an they frequently exercise that privilege. There isn't an obvious racial element to it.
Yeah, there is absolutely no possible way for a president with a press secretary and press corps consisting of dozens of news outlets to communicate with the American people if Twitter doesn't allow it. FFS.
The actions today were dictated from the top, by a large portion of Republican leadership. They created the lies, promoted them, and made sure the people heard them wherever they could reach them. It's not the media's fault for taking action against these lies, and in doing so offended people so much that they had to resort to sedition.

It's absurd to me to hear that people just needed to talk it out more openly! If only someone could nicely tell them the truth! As if all these people were discussing things in good faith and would listen to reality about their conspiracy theories. Must we really coddle and give a voice to dangerous conspiracy theorists that have steadily gotten more and more extreme and violent? They are being groomed and egged on by Republican leadership - surely that's the source of the problem, and one that nobody seems to be able to do anything about.
Isn’t this lapse in security somehow intentional? Most likely ordered by Trump not to interfere or he intentionally weakened the security.
Maybe they could gather the media into one room in the White House and tell them all the things the President wants them to know. I bet reporters would show up every day to something like that.
I think I have the answer, and it's a lot less interesting than it appears at face value.

These titles are created by an IT company that is selling software / services. The software appears to do platform price matching / analytics, and one of those is on Amazon.

My understanding / assumption is that it appears that if they are a high frequency sellerid paired to their developerid, then they can increase their requests per second (http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_US/dev_guide/DG_...) either by requesting a change, or maybe via background quotas set by Amazon.

The IT company has some promotional stuff, and they indicate a number of VM's using multiple public IPs to avoid throttling, and in addition:

> [as a top seller we get 8 rp/s, instead of the newbie 0.5 rp/s against 20 items per request]

I went through some of the sellers, and noted some have some complete shite ratings, but that their ratings are consistently at a certain value even over 30/90/12 months. Lifetime values are highly skewed as it appears they pre-stuffed the hat. So for every real person that gets screwed by a cancelled order, they create a number of fake reviews.

So my conclusion based on what I see is that this is their place-holder author, each of the clients they've sold this to has a store front stocked with these titles, the clients generate a ton of fake sales at a reduced price, request a quota increase as "we're a large seller", and then happily do whatever system gaming they actually intended to do.

I could go further down this rabbit hole, but this hypothesis has been exhausted. I wish I was this interested in my actual job.
It's not only about friends. Here in Mexico many small businesses operate with Whatsapp (eg: food delivery, gas delivery, plumber, etc).
Talk to Congress on that one.
I am probably wrong here, but I was under the impression that a HTTP based protocol like PSHB would probably struggle to manage traffic at the 1000's of messages per second level. Correct?

They will probably be rolling out a pure TCP (XMPP maybe) interface that should be more efficient.
I think that, ultimately, this sort of equilibrium is probably better for the market anyway. Any one platform becoming too dominant may be nice in that you only have one thing to write to, but it's bad for competition and innovation. Also, having multiple platforms will encourage people to do web applications that work on mobile devices, and, hopefully, also encourage the platform guys to make stuff available to web applications.
If you've gotten to this stage it may be time to get professional help.
Exactly. Google's approach is to lose money on creating the OS and promoting it (give it free to handset manufacturers) but hope to make money off the users that use it. I am sure they can make money from this, however, I am also sure Apple will make more money per user by selling an actual phone to them AND making money from the user.
I don't think Scarface is a strange choice for the same reason I like the fraud trilogy. Stories of meteoric success followed by tragic failure are hella inspiring, because you get to see where they went wrong. So while your watching your brain is telling you: 'All we have to do is follow The 10 Crack Commandments and we'll make it!'
its a boot strapping community, what do you expect? I bet even HN had there shares of headaches.
I find the Stayfocusd (sic) Google Chrome extension quite useful for a friendly "you should be working" kick in the pants: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip...

Sure you can overcome it using various ways, but for me the fact that it gets in the way is enough to prompt me to go back to what I should be doing (i.e. something productive)
We've seen products lacking certain "major" features win from more technically advanced competitors before. Because regular consumers don't care about the same things that geeks do. Look at the iPod. Not to mention other reasons that give an edge to a product (e.g. the porn industry backing a certain media format that consequently beats its competition).
In my opinion the most important feature is freedom, contrary to the locked platform you get with iOS. Android isn't perfect in that regard, but at least a step in the right direction. Sadly, most people don't care enough about freedom to let it determine their purchasing decisions (although they do like to complain after the fact when they can't port their data to another device).
I just found this after their twitter account followed me. Looks promising.
I think that was meant as Google is an example of a company not designed to crush you.
In any case, we can divide pedagogy from credential granting. The British have done it with positive results.

Really? That's news to me, and I'm in the late stages of getting some credentials granted by a British University.
"Copyright owners tend to focus on the aspect they see of piracy, which is the lost revenue. They therefore think what drives users to do it is the desire to get something for free. But iTunes shows that people will pay for stuff online, if you make it easy. A significant component of piracy is simply that it offers a better user experience."

I find this even truer than when I first read this article.

In the past month (since buying my iPhone), I've bought many, many applications+games for the iPhone, and yesterday I discovered the magic of buying ebooks from Amazon for the Kindle app.

On the other hand, I can't buy music/tv shows online (I'm in Israel, Apple doesn't have the licensing deals here), which means I have to either give up on the music or go buy it at the store. Or listen to it on YouTube. Guess what happens most often?
I suppose this is teaching people about intellectual property...

...how some intellectual property, that owned by large corporations, is so important that other intellectual property should be confiscated by fiat to protect it!
"Even the best streets in the world's best towns can accommodate people of various incomes."

I wonder how the author can say this with a straight face. The only way to prevent clumping into income groups is through the dystopian planning law - which he claims elsewhere to criticise.

If people see cheap housing near where they're friends live, they'll buy it and convert it, and it becomes expensive housing.
Side note: Registration rejects paton@bu.edu as an invalid email.
It's a perfect name b/c I don't need this tool now, but I probably will later. And I will never, EVER forget the name. Kudos.
We continue to sell military equipment to Saudi Arabia despite objections to their actions in Yemen. A lot of what our gov't does is very ceremonial with no teeth
It is also possible to read beyond just the headline though; not all information has to be crammed in there. As it was, the article's headline was already slightly too long for HN, so I shortened 'hospitalization risk' to just 'hospitalization'.
That movie and the book it's based on are both wildly inaccurate and biased.
You are mistaken. In fact, your link quite clearly supports my position (namely: that intent is key):

>In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: [...]

(Emphasis mine)
What does a large GDP prove? It is the largest state after all. A smaller state, that doesn't happen to contain some of the country's best real estate and most productive industries (say, New Hampshire) could be better run, but of course with a smaller GDP to show for it.

California's large GDP could then be in spite of its management, not a product of it.
Yeah, it's really sad how we can't have nice things anymore like nuking hundreds of thousands of civilians.
It's not surprising how many people aren't aware of that. When you look at the ceremony around the chair and reports to congress, when you read Wikipedia articles, it sounds as if we have a government owned central bank when in fact we have a private entity with distributed and opaque governance which is ostensibly accountable to the congress although I've not seen congress ever act like it has any accountability for fed behavior.
And if Hitler had been the winner?
They release earnings for Q3 2020 on Feb 25th. The hack was announced Dec 12th so it will be difficult to gauge how many orders they lost as a result.

On April 28th 2021 they will announce Q1 2020 results. THAT's when we'll know for sure how bad this hurt them.

They may release less than sanguine guidance on Feb 25th, we'll see.

The reason why I know this stuff I will leave as an exercise to the reader. :)
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you in general and considered supporting $EDITOR. The problem is that I wanted to support always opening on a specific line, because it quickly became annoying starting at the top of the file and always scrolling/jumping.

The options that I see for using $EDITOR are: (1) simply ignore the line option for non-vim editors, (2) add implementation for specific editors, each with their own "jump to line" argument if it exists, or (3) add an additional command line argument that passes args/flags on to the editor. Option (3) seems best to me but I do worry about the number of supported flags - it is quite a lot already! More seriously, this option could be a vector for malicious code execution.

Thanks again, really appreciate the feedback! I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[EDIT: add comment on malicious code execution]
The biggest problem with these posts is that authors seem to fail to see how K8s isn't targeting home servers or small companies. Sure, there's K3s which allows you to have a more minimalistic experience but it's still K8s.

K8s is enterprise stuff and should be seen as such. It's complex because the problems that are being attempted to solve are complex and varied. That doesn't discount that Nomad is a great piece of software though.
I wonder when sputnik V will be legalized.
In France you don't get to choose the vaccine (most of the time?) you know which one you'll receive but not in advance.
Well suffice to say the population was pissed off when Mulroney passed the GST. So much he had to add extra senators to the Senate to get it passed.
It’s become meaningless. Think of it as crypto, AI/ML/DL, big data, etc of investment management industry.
DIGITAL, IBM and HP typically supplied COBOL compilers with their relevant big iron systems and a lot of time the actual code base will be tied so closely to a greater framework provided by/for those platforms that just being able to compile COBOL on an different environment is the least part of the migration process.
Yes, I would consider the examples "some of the most technically proficient graphics", but you can find practically infinite examples of impressive procedural work done with visual-programming-language-based tools.

I'd love to find more impressive examples using text-based programming languages though, those are harder to find.

I agree that comparing a video to something that runs live obviously isn't fair, but that's not really the axis I'm concerned about here. Plain-text code seems to struggle at the artistic level vs. visual tools, not the performance level. E.g., the counterargument I'm looking for would be impressive visuals created purely in code that's either pre-render (e.g., as a video), or running live, I don't really care, I just want to see visually impressive work.
I really hope this will be successful.

Does anyone have an idea how much a treatment like this would cost?
https://www.sandvine.com/blog/netflix-vs.-google-vs.-amazon-...

"Over 43% of the internet is consumed by Netflix, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple"

Not only that but some of these companies collude to limit access both from competition and political opposition.
Sure it is, use web components syntax.
> Natural gas power plants cannot;

They could. Build them on a salt dome.
The problem is that Apple claims:

"Applications on the device are 'sandboxed ' so they cannot access data stored by other applications. In addition, system files, resources, and the kernel are shielded from the user's application space."

http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_Security...

The research demonstrates the opposite.