jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It is not clear to me why being selfish is either antisocial or being greedy is antisocial.

Because greed leads people to harm and neglect others for gain? This is an extremely basic idea, and if it's still not clear to you, maybe you could watch a movie like Wall Street (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/) and pay close attention to the Blue Star employees, how Gordon Gekko is willing to harm them, and how little he cares about it. It's probably not the best movie to teach this, but at least it's for adults and it came to mind easily. It feels like it would take more time than I'm willing to spend to explain it.

> Almost all the better societies, more livable societies are where people are free to pursue their own self interest (aka greed or profits). The one like North Korea where government beats people to be "non-greedy" appear to be pretty violent places to live.

It would probably do you well to just completely forget about North Korea. I'm no fan of it at all, but what you wrote reads like a rough rehash of some melodramatic libertarian propaganda meme (e.g. make and extreme idea like "greed is good" by placing it in opposition to a villain).

>> which is almost never correct

> I am not seeing either any black or white. You on other hand just called a lot of people antisocial. So people who move out of California to Nevada because they dont want to pay 10% (or 16%) state tax are antisocial ? Seems pretty black and white assertion to me.

You totally are seeing things in back and white (or more precisely, pairs of radical extremes). However, I'm not really willing to spend any more effort trying to hand hold you away from that.

Also, the free association argumentation thing is obnoxious. We're talking about tax havens (and a weird assertion that they should be pride-inducing), what do state resident income tax rates have to do with that? Those are very different things.
I’ve spent so much money on cheap or inexpensive phones the past few years. They end up breaking or they lose functionality and become unusable.

I have the new SE and knowing that it will likely be supported (and repairs, if needed, are accessible) I until the next SE comes out. I’m very excited the next SE will probably be the form factor of the 12 mini or very close to that.
My ancestors were all farmers. I knew my great-grand dad when I was still a boy, he was born in 1900. I'm not a historian, so take my point of view with what I understand of how the "younger generations of farmers" thought.

I actually don't think they had it bad. Sure, they worked very hard, but that was their life. The good part is that they were fully self-reliant. They had food, were able to protect themselves, were able to fix anything that was broken, they had a strong community with the other farmers in the neighborhood. In rough times, I think this is very valuable.

I'm sure they didn't want to become knights and die in some war. Just because the scholars looked down on them, didn't mean they looked down on themselves, or were all stupid. Because back then you didn't have as much chances to study, I'm sure the intelligence of farmers was very diverse. About 50% of my cousins have a university degree, and most of the rest bachelor. So our genes can't be that stupid ;).
-For something same, same but decidedly different, you could do worse than checking out Keith Jarrett.

I usually recommend his Köln Concert as a starting point - a recording of a 1975 concert which even though I've probably listened to it a thousand times over the years still sounds fresh and brings a smile to my face every time I put it on.

Among the contemporaries, I have a soft spot for Iiro Rantala. Oh, and Bugge Wesseltoft.
Yeah, the discovery does not provide support for the article's title.

We already knew that Neanderthals and H. Sapiens interbred. While their finding of teeth is cool, that just reinforces what we already knew.

It doesn't say anything about how this interbreeding occurred or about the relationship between the two species.
Does anyone know of any good resources for learning basics of JCL, datasets, jobs, the z/OS Host and so on? I find that when I look at the screens of my mainframe colleagues, the COBOL code is actually the only thing I can wrap my head around, as opposed to all the weird mainframe tools built around it.
That means the recommendation system isn't a neural net trained on the buying habits of users. It's a simple logistics system that recommends items similar to the ones you've bought.
sorta, but synology seems to lack the unifying product strategy and the consumer focus.
There are plenty of jobs in and around Manchester.

South East is expensive and you wouldn't catch me going anywhere near London for any reason what-so-ever.
Is a bigger house/condo with an office an option?

If you can work remotely, why live (I’m assuming) in a city that is expensive because it was built around an in-person existence?
Botswana: it has some of the wildest and most spectacular safaris in the world.
C++ is hard and complicated, but it's very useful if you're strict with it. I agree with the authors post though, there's a lot of inherent complexity that's non-trivial to solve and often leads developers to try and be clever rather than building strong software.
I use https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles for all my vim and zsh needs. I don't need/want to maintain my plugins and I like the recommended shortcuts.
Noob question here.

> Your partitions need to be < 300 MB or cassandra falls over dead

Why is that? Is that some kind of engineered-in limitation?
Signatures from "the public"?
This seems to have come out of no where.

Helium is an old trick, but MAMR / HAMR (energy assist technology, either microwave or heat) was a big announcement from Seagate and WD.

I didn't know Toshiba was also working on the tech.
Jokes about having less sex after marriage and practically none after kids wouldn't be so universal if they weren't relatable.
> They trot out headlines from questionable studies from totally different living environments in the world that indicate some 3 IQ point increase in kids that were breastfed and then they act like it's proof that formula feeding is child abuse.

Breastfeeding, apart from being cheap, convenient and natural, has been shown to have numerous benefits, not just to intelligence but overall health, even for the mother. There is such an abundance of evidence for this that it's just silly to even question, but you can always research it for yourself.

Regarding women feeling anxious. Since refraining from breastfeeding is a significant risk factor, similar to not properly medicating, I think it's reasonable to view it in the same light. I.e. if you refrain from breastfeeding without a very good reason, you are increasing health risks for your child.

Some interesting statistics can be found here for example. Formula-fed children have about twice the risk of vomiting or diarrhea during their first year. Breastfeeding is about as efficient as antibiotics in preventing ear infections. Etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2998971/

General references:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/breastfeeding#tab=tab_1

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
In practice, age comes first 90% of the time.
So it wasn't by choice, but most of my grad school business classes are now virtual. Most have a team presentation aspect where you collaborate on a powerpoint and charts and spreadsheets then "present" virtually by tacking on audio and video and then upload the whole mess after a lot of stress and panic.

Have you considered creating a free "edu" edition that would generate a mashup of uploaded videos, ppt and media, watermarked or whatever? The students would then conversion to a paid model for work? I would use it
> Both of those could be 5-10 people with the right skills (called it an "infrastructure" team)

Why not call it just the IT team? What would the difference be, really?
Why would it need to be? It's a regular length single pitch. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was easy enough to add some hangers mid-way.
This looks great. Just signed up, I'm very interested in trying it out. Shoot me an email, I'm happy to talk through your roadmap and give feedback.
Partially this is from reading a book by a Soviet ex-patriot (who I'll admit might be lying) and partially from the textbooks from my early Soviet history class in college. I'd give you better references, but my books are at home and I'm not right now.

The population grew from 1926 to 1937, but not from 1930 to 1937 - which is the reason the producers of the 1937 census were sent to the gulag. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937)
And the discussion about Soviet population statistics in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukranian_famine

I should also point out that during the 1920-1940 period the USSR did a lot of territorial expansion into the lands held by the Whites, and then later into the Baltic states and grabbing parts of Finland and Poland.

I'll admit, though, that given that we're talking about the industrialization period in general I shouldn't be talking about a decreasing population since over the whole early industrialization timeframe the population did rise even without considering conquest. I would have done better to day "but a notable part of it was due to keeping population growth down with the use of famines."
The blame isn't for studying the old test. It's for not letting the instructor know they had seen the exam already. That's when their behavior crossed an ethical line.

The instructor isn't blameless here - he both misrepresented his creation of the tests, as well as was lazy and pulled questions from his test bank. But the students should have let him know that they had acquired the test ahead of time.

Nobody came out of this looking good.
That is my observation and from a business standpoint that's all well and good.

However when the insurance companies collude to deny coverage for tuberculosis, it is problematic from the standpoint of my self interest because your untreated tuberculosis will kill me. There is a difference between healthcare and insurance.
I'd like to compile a list of all the remote companies that pass the joel-remote test.

Has anyone got any examples?
What at the major operating systems you feel are missed, and how do their market shares compare to Windows, OSX and Linux?
Unfortunately, along with Hollywood and other culture, the US thanks to the Internet also exports its political and social issues to the world. It has reached the point that "white people" are now considered the oppressors of every country, regardless of whether those people are indeed the indigenous population of the country.

It is even more absurd in the UK, where in fact multiple groups of white people were successively displaced by conquest (Celts, Angles, Saxons, Normans, etc), and yet collectively, "Anglo Saxons" are perceived as oppressors, even if many decend from a group of people who were themselves oppressed.
Well maybe so when you don't die, you are not having pstd of the near death experience and can continue living normally?

Maybe it's nothing to do with dying but more to be mentally stable if you don't die?
"49 minutes ago" <- how long it took me to beat the hardware part of the game for the 4th time after D-Flip-Flop
No, even though it feels like it would. At home, I need to pretend working much less, which feels less like working.
Regex101 is especially useful, I use it to check for catastrophic backtracking¹ before committing a regex.

1-https://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html
> death penalty is appropriate if there is overwhelming evidence of an unrepentant killer

The problem with that is that it is impossible to tell the difference between an unrepentant killer and a falsely convicted innocent who will not admit to something they didn't do.
Journalists routinely protect people's identities when they think outing them could threaten their safety in some way. They do this regardless of whether a dedicated investigator might be able to piece together someone's identity from existing public information.

It's not a requirement to offer this protection, but declining when it's asked for by the subject of a story is certainly a weighty ethical decision that respectable journalists don't take lightly.

Outing someone in a vulnerable position simply because the journalist disagrees with their ideas and wants to harm them (vs. deciding it's in the public interest) would be a very clear breach of ethics.
Induced outages when you are under your error budget because no one should build dependencies on your system assuming higher uptime than advertised.

Imagine..

Your home internet being cut for a day because it’s been up for 365 days and that’s better than the SLO.

Your iPhone sending 1 out of 1000 emails into the ether because you shouldn’t expect better than 99.9% service.

Bank losing some of your money because too many of their transfers went well this month.

Boeing crashing a plane because they didn’t do enough this year.

Very cool stuff.
I think the WHO did a fine job of writing it up. The US motive for proving China is at fault is largely political diversion from the US' mishandling, which would be mishandling no matter what origin.

That China blocked the Who's efforts and the WHO disclosed this is more relevant to future health policy than where this particular outbreak started. (Do we really want the public health system to tune to this specific scenario?)
This is a really horrible statement about why we don't pay scientist a fair wage for their work.

I really hope that at some point in the future people stop internalize this sort of abuse regarding their careers.
> Biology-focused hacker spaces are on the rise so there are still ways to do research.

I am very interested in this concept. Are you thinking of any in particular? I really wish people invested in public spaces people could go do science, particularly chemistry.
The difference is there is no opposition to question the official stance. So I’d say it’s naive to imply the same holds true everywhere. Even Russia and Turkey have vocal dissidents.
> These social morays have applied to everyone, everywhere, forever.

Sexism has also been applied forever, doesn't make it right.
https://xkcd.com/2365/
https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/voice-controls/plain/#is-sp...

"Is Spotify recording all of my conversations?

No. Spotify will begin receiving your voice input data when you press the action button or say the wake word or (for voice ads) when you hear an audible tone, and continue until Spotify has processed your question or request.

The device will always indicate to you when Spotify is receiving your voice input, for example with a visual indicator or an audible tone.

When listening for the wake-word, Spotify listens in short snippets of a few seconds which are deleted if the wake-word is not detected."
> The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
Yeah no kidding. Common law is perhaps at the heart of how rich Americans understand the state. And then the overrepresentation of lawyers in legislatures just makes this worse. Either way, this stuff is completely sacrosanct for no good reason.
Yes exactly, it was only my guess, based on:

a) the assumption that country in question was likely English-speaking (which increases the risk of translation mistakes, due to the "false friend" effect)

b) the fact that India is a powerhouse when it comes to offshoring software development.

If it's not the case, well, I wonder if someone is able to identify the country? Out of sheer linguistic curiosity
Rubygems, and then Bundler, followed the same pattern. Neither was batteries-included, both were unofficial community efforts. Bundler directly influenced cargo.
To me, this is not a simple matter of preference like your choice of editor or the way you prefer to have it configured, to be used by you and you alone.

Software, especially open source software, is often collaborative. The programming language is a way of expressing yourself not only to your compiler, but also to other human beings.

Would you write a book today in Middle English, when the rest of the world is expecting modern English?
Just curious .. when YouTube has it all . Why text recipes ? Personally I feel when you know recipe visually it’s better .
Yeah, but how do you assign a weighting here if you don't have the telemetry?

Maybe Firefox usage is really like 25% power users, but most of those disable Telemetry, causing the priorities to be all screwed up (See the ALSA example!).
I wrote a blog post on exactly this topic:
http://dev.bizo.com/2010/05/improving-global-application.htm...

Basically, you're on the right track. Note Route 53 doesn't support GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing... e.g., different DNS results for users from different geographic locations). Akamai and Dynect do, however. More details in the blog post.
For example, as I write this, I have 23 upvotes for the parent comment. How does that compare to some of the others? More than the other top-level comments, presumably, but what about the nested comments? Since voting patterns have changed, past experience isn't any guide.
Are your robots moving around? I'm just curious because the positioning research I've been exposed to couldn't get better than ~50cm accuracy for objects in motion (for example, a person walking around at a normal pace).
From the article:

"Most oil sales throughout the world are denominated in United States dollars (USD). According to proponents of the petrodollar warfare hypothesis, because most countries rely on oil imports, they are forced to maintain large stockpiles of dollars in order to continue imports. This creates a consistent demand for USDs and upwards pressure on the USD's value, regardless of economic conditions in the United States. This in turn allegedly allows the US government to gain revenues through seignorage and by issuing bonds at lower interest rates than they otherwise would be able to. As a result the U.S. government can run higher budget deficits at a more sustainable level than can most other countries. A stronger USD also means that goods imported into the United States are relatively cheap."
The root cause seems to be the existence of independent central banks in those countries. That is what allows them to switch the trade to euros and provokes occupation by NATO.
I don't disagree with the high level points of the article. Amazon itself was humming along nicely during the problems in the eastern AWS region.

Decouple using SQS, SNS. Use ELB to split traffic across regions. Rely on S3 and SimpleDB for robust storage.

I am curious about how much of Amazon's internal systems rely on EBS.
I don't understand why talloc preclues a different malloc/free implementation.

According to the article, talloc is a malloc wrapper. If that's the case, why shouldn't you be able to drop in whatever allocator you want? talloc should still use it under the covers.
why I'm glad to be writing objective-c and getting free reference counting built it :-)
It's real.

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/
The reason "nobody does that" is because it's a stupid question that only a tiny minority of people actually care about.

It's like the EU cookie law, the net result of which is that a handful of websites are required to post obnoxious warnings.

Great. Your solution means even more obnoxious warnings internet wide. "Hey, the person running this website wants to see what its users are doing. Allow Y/N?" This is a future I literally cannot wait to see.
Thanks very much for the term "embodied energy" - now I know how what to google for!
There's one nearby in Daly City, CA. Though alas being LGBT I don't think there's any analogue to Reform Karaism!
I see two strategies: (1) fight to restrict how much spy agencies spy. (2) fight to bolster ordinary citizens' use of technologies like encryption so that they cannot be spied upon.

I would bet that strategy (2) is the more likely one to gain traction and make a difference against the infringement of our rights as citizens.
Hi there! No it's available in english too: http://colog.io/en/
Well, that's true, the masters didn't forget about Bach even though the public mostly ignored it. Thankfully Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn helped to keep an appreciation of Bach's work alive.
> but I find it difficult to swallow as a universal rule

But the author doesn't claim it's a universal rule, the author claims that the rule applies generally. Good thing to think about the cases it doesn't apply, but the author did put it in a proper way to express this.
Start providing content that users are willing to pay for?
Don't forget 'o', for others!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod
I'm surprised at the comments here. Yes, spending $100k to get a silly degree is a mistake for a middle class kid, but not a crime. It's a key principle, for moral and practical reasons, that we allow people a way out of crushing debt.

Liberal arts and humanities departments that deceive prospective students to keep their headcount up so as to justify their existence are as much to blame as the students who believe them.
Sounds like a last minute add-on to try to stay relevant.
The implication being that the handful of parties who hold shorts in GME are "singlehandedly" responsible for propping up the value of the entire stock market? Seems unlikely...
I wish had both the skill and energy to put the sort of care and attention to detail into my work that Josh does. Really, really great stuff.
In THIS case, a writer for the Atlantic with a bio of "Shannon Stirone is a freelance science writer based in the Bay Area" is criticizing. If we had an expert in planetary exploration doing the criticism, I think it would be a more interesting conversation, even if I feel that conversation would be FAR more nuanced than - "Mars bad. Elon Musk bad." Which is what I read here. If I agree with Elon's vision or not is immaterial - he's executing, I'm not, neither is the author. If I have a better idea, I should do it, or at least get it to a point of doable, then we can discuss if they are mutually exclusive or at cross purposes.
Using Texas as an example again: 10 years ago, 1M+ Texans lost power due to unusually cold temperatures. Last week, the same thing happened.

This wasn't some unpredictable event. It just wasn't considered sufficiently profitable to prepare.
Strong agree; someone needs to give her like a million dollars a year salary and unlimited resources to explore whatever she wants for life, just to see what she comes up with.
Extensible browsers are true "user-agents"! Congratulations on the launch.

As uMatrix user, I see a lot of potential, and love the no-code approach to let users build extensions themselves to suit their needs. Can't wait to see this go cross-platform: I get it is going to take a while but any tentative dates for Linux (deb) and Android flavours?

That said, I want to point that the FAQ on the homepage for "What about privacy?" is a bit incomplete, "Insight disables trackers by default with a much larger blocklist than Safari. It uses server-side logic to suggest extensions as you browse. This data is never logged, but you can also turn this setting off so Insight does not make any calls to its servers at all."

'Cause the privacy policy [0] reveals that Insight may collect information including IP addresses, device-ids, location, and browsing history and share them with third-parties; which is not really what a few folks (like me) who block trackers in expectation of better privacy (and not just speed) want to hear, especially with the monetization strategy unclear at this stage.

[0] https://archive.is/q4u4R
One of the interviewers even laughed ...

They obviously know something that you don't --- like the fact that you can't pay rent or buy food with BTC --- because (wait for it) --- it's not a real, practical functioning currency.