jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
MSNBC is the fourth result at Google in a search for “news”, but its page title is so long that “MSNBC” doesn’t actually appear in the result entry title.

that is hilarious. i wonder how quickly you can a/b test a change on a website with regard to its pagerank.
I definitely respect people for being financially successful if they added value to the world doing so (wealth creation). Also, my own life experiences do go against what you're saying - as I've made more money, I've always become more satisfied with my life, and don't see why that would change in the future.
I agree. In all fairness it is in people's nature to buy from their friends even if it doesn't always make sense.
Missed some Python:

Import the IndexTank client library to the Python interpreter by typing the following command at the Python prompt.

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
irb(main):002:0> require 'indextank'
How many people were curious enough to sign up today? I think that speaks to how compelling the concept is. Of course, it also has a lot to do with the desire to name squat to protect your brand. Personally, I signed up but may never use the service. But I don't want someone else using my name as their handle.
Maybe there's a certain problem a developer was born to solve. Like the hummingbirds whose beak only fits one type of flower. On this problem, the developer could be 10x, on others he sits with his peers.
I'm quite sure it is completely true. In aggregate it is an absurd view for so many people to hold, but that doesn't mean it isn't held.

Look at where we are! Hacker News - 10,000s of people talking around start ups! Pretty much none of us will "make it." Yet here we are.
I don't think you understand the ticking time-bomb thought experiment. It's well-bounded and presents a very compelling argument for the moral permissibility if we're virtue ethicists or requirement, if we're utilitarians, of torture.

The only counter-argument is, does it actually happen in real life? Some say yes, some say no.
Depends how you look at it. If you manage to attain mortgage free home ownership, you'll be free from rent or mortgage expenses.
He didn’t offer to delete them. He offered “not to do it again.” Which means she is stuck.
Nah. As their lieutenant governor said in recent months about covid, there are more important things than living.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=texas+%22more+important+things+tha...

Winterizing would have cost money. The facilities are insured (I assume).

Whoever froze or asphyxiated to death were merely acceptable casualties in the Texas electricity cost/benefit equation. Texas power is the Ford Pinto of electricity.
Ice cream. sounds like cliche from chick flicks but apparently it is based on fact.
The Fed is not a government entity. It's a private for profit company.
The result of that and what I did is the same, actually. :)
I'm actually expecting this whole thing to turn out to be a fantastic case of guerilla marketing by tumblr. It just seems too hilariously perfect.
Has this something to do with Children's Day?
They just didn't say who they provide equal opportunity to!
How to find one - look for blogs and work. Look for good portfolios. Usually they can be found writing about logos on Top Design Blogs.

How much will you pay really depends on the kinda person you hire. There is no fixed rate.

If you go crowd-sourcing (which is very stupid) you get away with a few 100 dollars and some pros charge around 1000s of dollars so see who's work you like and all.
'Final solution' was classified all the way till the end of the war, only some of the party and SS officers knew about the scale of the plan and the name itself. Ordinary Germans, both soldiers and civilians, knew little about it. Any kind of deliberate violence was never on Nazi's electoral leaflets (who would voluntarily vote for it?).

This speech is precisely an example of what it is exposing – clickbaits.
First, correctness first. Second, correlated subqueries in selects really aren't noticably slow at all in my experience (Postgres, Oracle) when they're really needed, meaning alternatives are as slow or slower. Especially compared to the alternative of actually doing a cartesian product across independent children of any size. I don't think the optimizer could help much with avoiding that cartesian product to be actually realized, either - the grouping after that join is going to be a big sort in general with results that depend on the distribution of child values on a row-by-row basis. But in any case it would give the wrong answers for both children regardless of speed and memory used!
That said, it's not like people fact-check CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, Fox News etc (though Fox News probably gets fact-checked more than the rest). There have been many times just this year that all of the above have gotten stories wrong, or published disinformation because it fit a narrative.

This doesn't even get into the number of blog-style news orgs out there. And it's coming from all sides, and really hard sometimes to tell what is, and isn't actually truthful. I'm not sure I can expect FB/Twitter to be able to handle it on an even larger scale.

Everyone is in their bubbles and it's pretty toxic in a lot of ways. And I'm not sure I could even begin to suggest a way out...

I've been trying to convince people to take the week of Christmas off social media (5-9 days, depending on weekends) ... and no traction at all. I don't have a large follower base.
I am not familiar
This video from UN Special Rapporteur on Torture may be helpful

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a...
I used to, until my MR2 was run off a road by a careless truck driver. I was fine but the trauma persists - the sickening sound of running into hard items at 70+ mph is hard to forget.
As an aside, you can install both Mojave (or High Sierra) and Catalina on a single laptop with minimal friction.
I love this! Probably because it's how I operate, too. It sounds hectic to a lot of people, but I thrive with a little organized chaos like this. Also when I have a dozen things on the go there's always at least one that is interesting enough that I actually want to do it.
When we came back, it was the period where (if you arrived in the evening), you'd spend the first night in a government hotel, and then 13 nights in any hotel that would take you. At 2 a.m. in the government hotel, we discovered a problem with our booking the next day. We called up one hotel's front desk at 3 a.m., and the poor guy on duty told us they accepted quarantine guests. We kept trying to get our original booking problem ironed out for the next 6 hours, but eventually gave up at 9 a.m.

Luckily, we gave the second hotel's front desk a second call at 9 a.m. to double-check they accepted quarantine guests before making our online booking. The day shift guy who came in told us that they didn't accept quarantine guests.

Now, it's a bit better organized, with an official government list of all acceptable quarantine hotels. Though, prices have gone up significantly for those few hotels. When we arrived, there was a government list, but it was just a subset of all hotels accepting quarantine guests, and of course prices shot up and vacancies vanished for those hotels on the government list.
My son was big into this game 6-8 years ago. We bought and put together a PC for him. I bought him a $35 ship. While I cherish the time I spent with him building the rig, and he's surpassed me in "what's good these days in PC stuff", he's now a sophomore in college in another state.

Still no game.
Somewhat related: At one point I introduced my kids to what I called the number-machine-game. It goes like this:

I ask my kids to say a number, and then I do something to that number and tell them the answer.

Their job is to figure out the calculation I do.

Examples:

- I add a number: they say 3, I say 8. They say 11, I say 16

- I multiply a number.

- I multiply by something and add something else.

- etc

If you want to drive them nuts you can count the letters of the number, i.e. four = f o u r = 4, five = f i v e = also 4, ten = t e n = 3 etc :-D

(I might have gotten the idea from HN, but the above is how I taught it.)
The sick joke is we have far more clean energy than we would ever need.

We don’t need to live half our existence in “low power mode”, if we just made some simple rational decisions.
I think you’re mixing up a few different items.

The streetcar is, indeed, a disaster. I think that is largely because they built it essentially as an amusement park ride for the weekends rather than a serious commute option. A subway that had the ability to actually move people across town (like the planned 16 mile loop) would have been great. The subway suffered not so much from local incompetence as inflation.

The Brent-Spence bridge does need repair but that’s not a city issue. It’s a mix of state and federal. It doesn’t help that Ohio thinks that Kentucky should pay for it and vice versa.
This Verge article and photos are terrific as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/10/12411632/public-transport...
One of the things I found incredible about the antitrust hearings this past year was how heavily every Big Tech CEO relied on "I don't know", "I don't recall", or "I'll have to get back to you". Often about things I, an outsider, know of.

It strains plausibility they didn't know, they're just punting to a time they aren't under oath.
How did you even get 2.11.498 (which seems to be newer than mine but still not latest)? I'm trying to download and all I get is 2.11.491.
so on a given day, or by week, how many drives do you replace?
> I guess earlier versions of Windows stopped being Windows once version 8.1 was released.

Well, yeah. We're (presumably) talking about software architecture choices here. Are you telling me you'd purposefully build a new system on top of an old version of Windows, and specifically on old features that have since been deprecated+removed? If not, then it doesn't matter what old Windows does; "Windows is not POSIX-compliant" is the fact that you are making a choice based upon when you design a system right now.
With a bit of work it should be possible to track "circa 1955" down to a more exact date by browsing through the Philadelphia newspaper archives. I wonder when image search will be able to do this, if it hasn't already.
I know everyone is complaining about Chrome only support, but the more important question we should be asking is what technology stack are they using for the web client?

It's well documented that Whatsapp is a Erlang shop.

Did they stay with using Erlang for the web as well ... or did they switch to another technology like Nodejs, etc?
I would say "enabling" applies to all of those examples apart from supporting it on twitter, which counts as "supporting".
and part two: https://www.fluentcpp.com/2019/11/22/how-c17-benefits-from-b...
When I lived in rural Missouri, I was shocked at how many of my neighbors and colleagues were shelling out $70k for their pickup trucks.

The price here is not a concern at all. The design.... not so sure about that.
Thanks for the info.

I travel a good bit. Hours on planes where i get lots of work done. However for this i find slightly smaller screens than 15" easier to manage.
He's saying it's those people's motive.
I see I've been modded down. Why? What do you people know that I don't?

It seems to me like I'm asking a simple, obvious question: what is stopping governments from simply shutting down Bitcoin within their physical borders? You think they will not be smart enough to handle a simple port number change?

Regarding the comparison with Bittorrent, my ISP (Comcast) did in fact block and throttle Bittorrent, successfully, until someone sued them. It seem to me Bittorrent is an example of how ISP's can block an application, not an example of them being unable to do so.

"The client could probably just check periodically for a signed message from a central server (or a broadcast on the network itself) with instructions to currently operate on the network." -- why could the ISP not block this, also?

Especially if the software is open source, as Bitcoin is, all the knowledge of the inner workings of the protocol is public knowledge, which makes it impossible to stick in something like "just check periodically for a signed message from a central server (or a broadcast on the network itself) " secretly without governments wanting to block the system knowing about it.
Why not? I think this type of educational content for betterment is quite a desirable trait of HN. If you want an alphabet soup of what’s hot, corpo PR or clickbait content there’s many other places on the internet, like Reddit just for that. I view the intellectual and thoughtfulness of HN as a feature, not a bug.
Spoiler: Is it the number of letters? That is, only an even-length string is permitted?
It’s the same in the US. Prices in vast areas are stagnant, but some areas skyrocketed. It’s just an exacerbation of the growing wealth/income divide.
Yeah, see here for example [0]:

Regarding the "worm" in the Sun being a black hole, I don't think the Prophet's description in Dr Talos's play (Claw, ch. XXIV) leaves much doubt: "Yet even you must know that cancer eats the heart of the old sun. At its center, matter falls in upon itelf, as though there were a pit without bottom, whose top surrounds it." He also says of it: "We know it to be far more, for it is a discontinuity in our universe, a rent in its fabric bound by no law we know. From it nothing comes - all enters in, nought escapes."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AThe_Book_of_the_New_Sun
Some context: the clinic (technically named the Arkansas Cancer Institute, not the Arkansas Cancer Clinic as in the story) faced lawsuits in 2018-19 after more than 50 patients tested positive for an undisclosed bacterial infection linked to saline flushes on infusion ports.[1][2] The results of the lawsuit weren't reported, but the clinic closed in February 2020, about a year after the firm behind the suit pursued class-action status.

[1] https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/feb/03/at-first-pin...

[2] https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jan/13/pb-clinic-la...
likely because the 767 size & range is larger.
Emacs is best understood not just as an editor, but as an integrated computing environment promoting user freedoms to the fullest extent possible in a manner naturally integrated with its user interface and extensibility. In that sense, it shouldn’t be the least bit surprising to see the kind of in-built application suite one would expect from an operating system or desktop environment. One must also remember that historically the most common computer (power) users were academics, and not “software developers” — so expect a lot of scratches for their itches.

It’s a bit like asking why does bash come with a utility like awk or bc; it’s equally natural.
The reasons for Go's rising popularity among malware authors are many and include the fact that detection of Go malware is still spotty, analyzing Go malware is usually more complicated than malware written in C, C++ or C#, and that Go also allows operators to easily compile binaries for different platforms easier than other languages, allowing malware operators to create multi-platform malware easier than before.
This isn't a benefit to the chef himself, just his employer. And with IP restrictions limiting the spread of the product, it may not become very popular and the money made by the restaurant and its partners may be very small relative to the benefit to society without those restrictions.
> say you want to check for guns and explosives before people get on an airplane.
> How do you do it?

The way we did it before the one-off event that made airports unbearable and sane people behaving like headless chicken.
If it wasn't scared before, it is now.
First off, it's not that cynical. Plenty of people die before the age of 60. Male life expectancy is 76, so 35 years is 70% of expected remaining.

Also, the point I was originally making, is that for most people the quality of life between 25-60 is far higher than the quality of life from 60-95. Even if he does happen to live to 95 and it's "only half", most people are going to enjoy age 35 more than they are going to enjoy age 95.
I like what you say, but I am conflicted. As I understood it, math is the language that physics uses for us to understand/manipulate reality. Just as one understand "coffee" without the word coffee, one can understand projectile motion without understanding derivatives -- however in the absence of a language to describe it, the concept remains difficult to build upon.

I do not understand about it not being logically separated from assumptions about dualities (Platonic forms?) and their respective worldview. Could you explain more please.
This really can't be right though...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=sou...
> git is so basic and easy to learn that everyone feels comfortable enough with it to write a tutorial?

Nobody writes tutorials on how easy Lyft or Uber apps are to use. Easy interfaces don't need lots and lots of tutorials. That's exclusively the result of poorly designed interfaces AND complicated systems.
Unfortunately as we've seen with Project Roomkey (and like you alluded to) the problem is a lot more complicated than just routing unhoused people to empty beds. The LA Times[1] actually did an interesting series of articles a couple years back, chronicling what happens the city basically moved an entire encampment into a block of apartments.

People are homeless for different reasons. If someone just happens to be down on their luck or having financial trouble after fleeing an abusive family situation, housing seems to work fairly well. However for people with untreated mental illness and addiction, there can be problems. Especially since many of those people would actually turn down a free place to stay (as we saw recently in Echo Park). Maybe we can make more inclusive housing for the homeless that allows large pets and drug use, but the rent you see on those empty apartments is predicated on assumptions on a tenant's risk. Employees people who care about their credit score are going to have a much different risk profile than the homeless.

[1]: Called The Streets Within, part 1 here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-15/the-stre...
> which makes the problem electricity storage

In that case, compressing the biogas I to tanks might be a cheaper and higher capacity energy storage solution than a Powerwall.
I'm not going to call it the best SSG out there, but not the worst. I wrote one and released it. It started as something to just spit out some Twig templates wtih content mixed in, and a few features later, I had a Static Site Generator. And anybody who wants to take a look, maybe make some pull requests, it's in my github, https://github.com/SeleneSoftware
We make it work with two Teslas living in an apartment with no chargers on site. Need either charging at work or a close Supercharger or nearby fast public chargers to make it work. Preferably at least two out of those three.
You don't understand. The very act of having sex with a man is so revolting to them, they would never do it. They do have prison male rape between inmates (same as the US), but that's about it. Remember: in a wartime situation like this, the perpetrators would have no shortage of targets of the opposite sex, and they do partake quite abundantly. A homophobe in particular is not going to rape a male in this situation, even if this inflicts an emotional scar.

Africa and other places, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure this would not happen in Yugoslavia.
Not just rst support, but with plugins you can get support for pretty much any format. I wrote a plugin for org format. All it does behind the scenes is create an rst using pandoc for each org file and Pelican handles the rest.
As additional info:
The same is going on in some of the CIA's secret prisons, according to whistleblowers and images. And many other kinds of torture. Also stuff going on in Saudi Arabia. Of course the CIA used "national security" to forbid any publicity on it. But you can find it on wikileaks or similar uncensored sites. The only way to bring this into the open, is by revoking the "national security" in cases of crimes and war-crimes.

I have also seen problems for women (and some men) in the US military. But that is a whole different chapter.
The PC ecosystem is laughably insecure.
Politicians inability to tackle an imminent threat like covid has left me completely without hope that we have even a remote chance at tackling a threat like climate change that's taking decades to manifest.
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Why do these still exist? Is this really how academics find out about the paper and not just read the paper? I'm flabbergasted conferences are like middle school science fairs.
I don't understand why people want fast compile speeds so much. My day job is/was writing C on something that requires 30+ minutes for one compilation run. It feels like people want fast compilation speeds because they need to keep running their software for some reason.

Fast compilation speeds are a nice to have but basically irrelevant for normal developing of software in my experience.
There are a number of things that banks can do to increase customers' faith in them, or to abuse that trust. Personally, trollface references don't affect my confidence in the bank's ability to protect my money. Things like conning mortgage applicants to take on loans that they could never possibly repay, or buying and selling CDOs and other shady financial instruments? Drops my confidence in that bank like a stone. That's not what BankSimple's doing here.

I appreciate that BankSimple is a humane organization. I imagine that once they launch and start growing, there'll be hierarchies and levels of bureaucracy that will rise up and that will affect how they're able to relate to their users. But, honestly, trollface references don't bother me.

So ... if I prefer humane organizations, why not go with a local bank? A quick story. I had an account with a local bank, opened by necessity when I got a mortgage with that bank. When we refinanced the mortgage elsewhere, I went in to the teller to close the account. She gave me a long-winded song-and-dance about how they could surely meet my banking needs and so on, and wouldn't I like to schedule a meeting to go over how they could best serve me? I replied that, no, I'd like to close the account. "Where will you store your money?" "I'm planning on putting it into an online bank." She then goes into another long-winded spiel about how important it is to be able to look people in the eye, and ... these are her words: "I really just could never bring myself to trust mister cyber-face."

All other things being equal (and I doubt that'd be the case), I'd much rather bank with someone who knows about trollface than with someone who references online banking as "mister cyber-face."