jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is an important point. Someone else is allowed to use the StackOverflow content and likely would if StackOverflow was turned off.
I appreciate the vaporwave aesthetic. I like that it was given space to be designed by someone passionate and not a design by committee - appeal to the masses blob. Unfortunately what they came up with is crap. I'm worried this will kill off any further vaporwave designs because it is so bad.
"might" is the word of the day
Ill jump on this one too and say I am consistently impressed with the engineering quality of their teams, and appreciate their contributions to open source communities. The scale and up-time of their product over its lifetime is impressive, as is their ability to make so many underlying changes and survive with the same user interface for a decade each iteration.
We are geoengineering already, so we are going to have to deliberately geoengineer our way out of the problem.
This would have been useful when I had to download an Android emulator to contact customer support :)
I cannot imagine buying a truck without racks for lumber or ladders or paddle board. I use my rack so much.
"Spiritual" or "visionary" experiences are very saillent when considering exceptional scientific feats.

Heisenberg: suddenly realized he had to study physics on a bike when he was a teenage boy.

Einstein: was driven by Mach's teenage vision of a metaphysics of pure relativity.

Souriau (mathematician): would come up with new concepts in dreams.

Voevodsky: would get mathematical insights by talking to DMT-like entities (but did not consume DMT).

de Maillet (discovered sea level varied across millenia): had an angel tell him he had a destiny and would do great discoveries.

Etc...
> First, the 5th amendment protection against revealing a password seems completely wrong to me, i.e. I'd expect it to get overturned at some point. The point of the 5th amendment was to prevent forced confessions, not to somehow block access to evidence (which the justice system is otherwise entitled to).

There's already established case law that the 5th protects case combinations; this is the reason why American safes use combinations while those everywhere else in the world use physical keys. Encryption keys are very similar on the face.
I don’t think you understand. The arbitrage bots aren’t exploiting poorly written contracts, they are capturing free value that users of a dApp have opened up. This free value is available to miners as well, and could be used to subsidize an otherwise-unprofitable double spend attack.

But more to the point: allowing smart contracts in a blockchain introduces all of the complexity of trying to make any other piece of software secure. Except... now it’s on a blockchain where the code is open source and mistakes can allow adversaries to steal money, not just data. How is this an improvement?
>the point of the 5th amendment was to prevent forced confessions

No the purpose of the 5th amendment was to prevent people from being forced to be a witness against themselves, that is why the 5th amendment says

"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"

Forcing to revel what is in your mind (aka a password) is a clear and obvious violation of the 5th amendment, and I do not expect it to be over turned

>Second, the protection doesn't apply if you're given immunity

If they give you immunity then is no longer a case for which they can compel you to give up anything in the first place. Unless they are going after someone else in which case the 5th amendment did not apply in the first place.

I fail to see while this relevant to the discussion.
We are very lucky indeed
Revolutionary Catalonia was not perfect by a long shot, but didn’t have quite the same set of problems.
Ok, so how to we kill the ad industry? This is ridiculous.
If society feels that people below a certain level of income don't have enough freedom, the correct solution to this problem is to give them more money.

Further constraining their freedom by forbidding them from making their own decisions about what is most important to them will only make their lives worse. They know more about what tradoffs (even difficult ones!) are worth doing in their own lives than you do.
I realize this is nitpicking since you were just reaching for examples to list, but a plethora of research and even the WHO has suggested that criminalizing sex work primarily just makes things even more dangerous for sex workers. This is part of what makes the efforts by law enforcement to rebrand their battle against prostitution as a battle against "human trafficking" especially insidious. Regardless of how a trafficked human got where they are, making sex work illegal only makes it harder for those workers to practice their work safely. A perfect example of this is whatever that American law was that made Backpage take down what was effectively their adult services section, there was a fairly substantial outcry at the time from members of the 'industry' because this had been a tool that allowed at least some minimal way to vet clients.
For almost a quarter century, I've worked as a systems and release engineer on large-scale distributed systems, and I'm now looking for my next challenge

Previous work has included build & release engineering in the VR/Gaming space, looking to do something similar, but open to management work also. Considering a pivot to fintech, ML, or agtech too.

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Remote: Yes, for almost 25 years
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AWS (S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS), Docker, Python, Unix/Linux, Bash, MySQL
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-m-harrison/
Email: steven.harrison+hn@gmail.com
Etc: Hire me, and get llamas on Zoom calls.
All 15 of your employees have medically serious dog allergies?
This type of compelled behavior seems like an oversized club to wield for the problem at hand. No individual should be forced to do something that will be harmful to them just because another individual belongs to a particular group.
Well that explains why I got my LG G8X ThinQ for 50% off, with a free dual screen case, $100 gift card rebate and a free 2 year warranty with proof of purchase. I got this phone just over a year ago. It's a great phone. Fantastic battery life, and it has a headphone jack. It's a shame - I felt a little weird getting an LG phone but I literally asked for "the best phone for the cheapest price" and LG/the dude at the Sprint store definitely delivered. I would have definitely considered an LG phone for my next purchase, but I'm hoping that won't be for another few years.
NPR's Code Switch podcast had an episode a few years ago on this, which they call the explanatory comma: https://www.npr.org/2016/12/14/504482252/-hold-up-time-for-a...

It gets at what you assume about your audience when you include vs. don't include these.

I'm sometimes amused by what gets the explanatory comma in The New Yorker. I recall one issue where they included one for what an MLA citation was. But in the same issue assumed familiarity with someone like Jacques Derrida and their ideas. (This probably wasn't the exact example, but it was close to this.)
Inequality is simply inherent to capitalism. The free flow of capital, goods and labor will always see concentration happening. The issue is that it should be very possible to eliminate true poverty with reasonable redistribution policy. Capitalism (and Industrialization) have gotten us tantalizing close to a post-scarcity economy. We still need the last 1/3 or so of the world to get on the trolley while addressing our growing ecological crises. Both of which are hard problems to solve, but at this point we actually probably have all the ammunition we need if we can just summon the will. We can reach a point where we still have some absurdly wealthy people, but everyone else down the ladder has food, shelter, health care and dignity available at all times.
What is a good alternative to working with CSV files than Excel? Excel sure isn't ideal but it's always there as part of the MS Office suite, so I've never looked for anything esle.
And constantly reinventing broken wheels in every program isn’t a massive waste of transistors AND electricity?

I get where you’re coming from but that line of thinking got us into that mess in the first place IMO. At one point we should draw a line. Which we still don’t.
We need a global maximum, of 0%.

I don't want to sound like some kind of hardcore Austrian fundamentalist, because I'm not. Taxes are fine, but levying them on fictitious non-person entities is just a means of obscuring to voters where the tax burden ultimately lies. All taxes are paid by individuals, either directly, or by corporations raising or lowering the prices they charge and prices they pay, to suppliers, employees, owners, and customers. But this just means who bears the burden is now an opaque function of relative bargaining power and price elasticity of supply and demand.

But that is not what we want from tax rates. We want them to be an open, transparent reflection of democratically passed laws. To that end, it is far better to levy taxes directly on suppliers, employees, owners, and customers of businesses, rather than on the businesses. This would also have the nice side effect of causing businesses to choose where they locate headquarters and factories based on something other than comparative tax rates, reducing an avenue of both dead weight loss and potential corruption.
Often times, one cannot make the same statement without using words like "fuck" simply because the resulting statement doesn't have the same intensity. Once can use the word "fudge", but that's really just highlighting that they are replacing "fuck", which was what they really meant. This is true for most intensifying words.
Reminds me of this API design post for Go: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fr...
That's what I would do when leaving behind a safe in a house: lock it with a note inside with the combination on it.
Yes, but that's no longer their motto, remember? It's now 'do good', and 'doing good' does not mean you also can't be an asshole on the side.
what mechanisms the 0.1% are using to drive the growing wage gap

I don't think the 0.1% cares much about the wage gap. They don't take wages and the gap simply doesn't affect them.

They care about wages generally in that any wages growth has an effect on investment returns. So they oppose wages growth, and if that means an increasing wage gap that is fine.
I think this is probably just a deliberate and horrendous mis-representation. I don't know how Google's internal systems work and would love someone who works there to comment further. However, in the public Google calendar I can set up alerts for all the meetings someone else has (useful for secretaries etc.). And so if you just sign up for those alerts you're going to get:

> received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent.

Except that that is how Google has designed its calendar system. If you put your medical appointments into your calendar without marking them private then yes, they're going to be public.

So basically, Google seems to have managed to take a feature in its own Calendar App, and the default behaviour of meetings on Google and dressed it up like stalking.
You should be prohibited from viewing anyone else's calendar? It's a pretty core functionality to scheduling meetings. They obviously use Google Calendar internally, where event details can be controlled with privacy settings. That said, when you're stalking someone, it's pretty easy to infer if it's an unlabelled block of time is for a 1:1, doctor's appointment, friend visiting for lunch, whatever.

Yeah, the policy should be "employees are not allowed to stalk other employees". Sounds like that's what the policy actually was; I don't see any incompetency.
If the safe is high quality, that is a bargain. I was quoted 5x that for a quality tool-resistant safe.

Having a safe in one’s home is a useful thing indeed.

https://sneak.berlin/20191119/your-money-isnt-yours/
> so it could be either.
or both
> Yet the professional class has only marginal voting power and comparatively little to contribute to political funding, so it's not surprising that the astute ones are concerned.

Likelihood of voting is highly correlated with education. I wouldn’t be surprised if the top ten percent are three or four times more likely to vote than the bottom decile. Money is also far less important in politics than many think. If money won elections Michael Bloomberg would have been president long ago, Eric Cantor would still be a Congressman, rather than having been beaten by Dave Brat[1]. Joe Crowley would still be a Congressman rather than having been beaten by AOC[2].

> Add up all US spending on candidates, PACs, lobbying, think tanks, and advocacy organizations – liberal and conservative combined – and we’re still $2 billion short of what we spend on almonds each year. In fact, we’re still less than Elon Musk’s personal fortune; Musk could personally fund the entire US political ecosystem on both sides for a whole two-year election cycle.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brat

In his challenge of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination, Brat was outspent by Cantor 40 to 1: Cantor spent over $5 million, while Brat raised $200,000 and did not spend all of it.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez

She was outspent by a margin of 18 to 1 ($1.5 million to $83,000)
The U-turn by McConnell is no surprise. He needs the Trump supporters to remain in the GOP. It's also no surprise that after he votes to acquit, he gives a scathing speech on Trump to pretend to have any ounce of care for the constitution...to keep GOP defectors from leaving when they realize McConnell has no spine.

The U-Turn by Democrats on witnesses was not expected. However I believe they knew they wouldn't have the vote and just wanted to move on and focus on legislation...rather than drag this out a few other weeks.
You're lucky they laugh.
Grocery costs are a concern? Perhaps. But I'd say that's driven by housing costs. That is, you can skip meals but a least (or property taxes) is a non-toggling commitment. When in doubt, the rent gets paid.

There's also the cost of healthcare, or the financial repercussion of not having coverage.

People are food insecure. It's freightening. But the root issue is more than food.
The thing is cigarettes were known to be harmful for a century before anything was done. In 1867 a report found smoking associated with cancer and lung disease. cigarettes were popularly known as coffin nails. At this point several centuries in, we would know if coffee was having a significant impact on our health
Oof, What a mess it would be to have to dredge through terrabytes of online forum posts, tweets, and other nonsense.

But your point stands, looked at as a whole, and with data mining, I guess they could gather something about common words uses, time spent on the internet etc...

But I wonder who would really care about the flame wars, and chit chat 200 years from now.
You took my comments about my local market and twisted them to fit your argument about other markets. I assure you, the reduction in short-term rentals in my local market has not had the expected outcome. Source: I am both a landlord and a real estate agent in my local market. Likewise, look up the term “regulatory capture” if you want to understand what the hotels did here. Making a corona virus argument at this moment in time does not justify the actions taken by those hotels and city council 18 months ago.
I have a garmin that constantly has my RHr.

I knew i had COV-19, so I logged everything.

Friday (contraction of virus) to Tuesday (first symtoms) my RHR tanked each day incrementally from 62 all the way to 50. on Wednesday when my fever kicked in, RHR jumped to 64.
For high Knudsen numbers [0] the Navier-Stokes equations will be inaccurate. You can use a different approach based on the Boltzmann equation [1] like DSMC [2] for example.

As I wrote elsewhere there are good reasons to not use the Boltzmann equation everywhere [3]. Navier-Stokes is simpler and often completely adequate.

There are surely other situations as well; this is just what comes immediately to mind as I had a class covering some of this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knudsen_number

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_equation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_simulation_Monte_Carlo

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054992
Risk of loss, theft or physical degradation. Then there’s the costs of holding cash, which are known to give you a negative yield due to inflation (nevermind bank fees or insurance costs, etc)
Sorry, I should have said "I presume you would never...". Honestly didn't mean it to come off that way.

> it would be no different for any of those professions

Do you want a surgeon with 12 years of experience or 3?

The issue at hand, unequal pay, has nothing to with experience in the first place, so making up an imaginary scenario where the experienced employee is a slacker is a strawman fallacy anyway. The point is that if someone from a low pay area moves 50 miles in one direction they could suddenly be worth 2-3x as much to the company?

Additionally, most tech companies don't actually pay based on cost of living, they pay based off of cost of the local competition. There are generally* 3 pay tiers in the United States; Hawaii is a Tier 3 state (lowest pay) despite being one of the most expensive places to live. The most expensive zip code in the USA is in Florida, but again: it's a Tier 3.

Anything above the cost of living is money the employee can choose to spend on quality-of-life improvements that are generally the same price no matter where in the USA you live (think investments, tuition, cars, boats, shopping, etc). The Tier 1 employee gets more money for those fixed-price items than the Tier 3.

I'm just saying it doesn't make sense; it's an artificial constraint made even worse when companies exploit the timezones of an employee because they desire a globally diverse workforce.

* Note: I only have experience with two businesses that collect salaries from mid to large (100+ employees) business subscribers in exchange for information about what others in their sector pay their own employees on average. It's a legal form of wage fixing.
You stick a diode on the reverse fry line, so sending -5v resets the console instead of the copy chip.
Scoring attracts people who try to game the score system. Relevant content usually loses out in the competition for scores.
If it's known to be write-only, then only they are to blame for wasting time. They could literally write anything, or nothing, and nobody would ever know, right? Otherwise, it's not write-only.
You don't have to reward anyone. Just don't borrow. But if you want to borrow the lender will expect a reward. Simples.
Is it even fair to say they have similar goals such that relative success could be compared? I'm not convinced this makes sense.
I've been buying California Olive Ranch olive oil for years, after reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/dining/californias-olive-o... in the New York Times and "Slippery Business: The trade in adulterated olive oil." (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-busine...). So far it's been great!
Did you even understand that the whole point of the article was about not bringing up Monads?

Jesus.
Thank you. I find it interesting that you describe her to be "uniformly happy" yet your former lab mate, Justin Feinstein (along with Adolphs, Damasio, Tranel), uses "adverse consequences of living life without the amygdala" to describe her.

And when he (they) concluded the paper by writing "[SM's] behavior, time and time again, leads her back to the very situations she should be avoiding, highlighting the indispensable role that the amygdala plays in promoting survival by compelling the organism away from danger." were they thinking of the experimental situations (snakes, haunt houses) in mind or real world situations? I ask because for someone living in a "poverty-stricken area replete with crime, drugs, and danger" at the age of 44 being held at knifepoint/ gunpoint 4 times seems par for the course.

Even so, what evidence is there that SM went back to the very situations she should be avoiding in real life (i.e., not experimental situations of poking snakes and monsters). For example, did she go back to the situation that put herself at knifepoint (the incident which she handled fearlessly by saying "go ahead and cut me")?

I can't help but think that the authors are bringing their own bias (that fear-response is essential in modern times) when concluding as that. I'm not a neuroscientist, but I'm very interested in the topic of fear.
No. "In place" has virtually no meaning in Haskell.

I find this very interesting -- a popular idiom in one language can't even be represented in another.
> The Paris terror attacks probably would have been stopped if Snowden/Guardian never happened or was better controlled in how the specific details were announced.

Citation needed. What do you know of their electronic communications?

The thing is, even if it was true, which I frankly doubt... would it be worth it? The direction many US and EU politicians, especially David Cameron [1], want to go in, is a world without privacy, except for the governments (which means, in practice, a world where every government and cybercriminal can spy on your communications at any time). Even if it could prevent all terrorist attacks (which it won't, because drowning the security services in more data human analysts can process in a lifetime is a ridiculously bad idea...), this wouldn't be a society I would want to live in.

1: Who, at this point, appears to be either raving mad, a complete idiot, or O'Brien from 1984 in disguise.
I was making "$foo, the other white meat" jokes about 15 years ago in Jr High. I'm pretty sure its diluted already.

Cats, the other white meat.
Does anybody have a list that shows which of the new features are available on the old 3G model? Is it just the multitasking and video that don't work?
Which StartUp Weekend did you participate in and is this winner of your event?

I attended one in my hometown of Baltimore - huge turn out and was a sold event. Can't wait to do another Start-Up Weekend!
@bruceboughton thanks for the feedback on the site... the site was something that we put together very very quickly (i.e. in the space of 3 hours)... I have taken on board some of the changes you have mentioned (being able to click on read more), but the content slider will have to wait for a bit as we are busy trying to get the next release out at the moment. Thanks again for your feedback @anthony_vdh
There's a camera on the back!
works fine in chrome... the entire thing is wrong on so, so many levels...
I disagree with this. I actually comment out code to show what the end result would be.

If have a piece of code that iterates over to create the json to make a gallery object. I have done what the json end result should look like and commented it out so if anyone comes back in future they can see what I have done and why I have done it.

I suppose you could argue that the code example is a comment but it is code at the end of the day
Extrapolation doesn't predict the future.
Earlier submission from another publication:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457864
No it will not. That is a business decision anyways.

I dont think this is what the post is concerned about. It is about the dead code, developers leave as commented (for some reason), instead of actually deleting it.
You're right, I should have mentioned something. I've just added a disclaimer.
It looks this way, which means that military and police intervention is what we'll get.