jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is an accurate picture of what happens right now in China, but limited protests are permitted by homeowners to haggle the price. An extra complication is Chinese can only own their properties for a maximum of 70 years anyway, with many having only 30 or 40 years left on the state-granted lease, so even without the demolition cycle Chinese aren't really looking ahead more than a few decades anyway.
I think your idea of `vi -R` or `vim -R` is a good idea. `less` uses less memory and may load faster but looking at logs for things like valgrind vim will give you syntax highlighting that I am not sure you can get with `less`.
The P3D doesn't have the same heat problems the Model S has.

And you could buy two for the price of that Porsche.
A very longwinded story which could have been condensed to the following: A computer aided prescription system is not a super-intelligent AI doctor. Like any other software, it will have bugs and errors. I would expect a physician who uses technology extensively to understand the basics of software, along with its shortfalls.

There were a dozen medical professionals who failed to do their jobs in screening the patient's medication before administering it.

I'm always amazed when people rely on technology as a full crutch, and deem the task the technology now performs to be "useless". So for example, if I get lost on the road, knowing the sun rises in the east is useless because I have the entire world mapped on my phone. But wait...what if my phone has no reception, or if the battery dies? Whoops, turns out basic geography isn't so useless after all.

Technology is not an excuse to become clueless and incompetent.
Seems quite straightforward to me. China wasn't involved in the larger global conflict, so to them, WW2 was just defending against an attempted conquest by Japan. I don't see aggression as an insult or a comment on the inherent nature of the Japanese, it's just a descriptor of how the war came to be. Much like the US declaring independence.

What would you consider a more neutral name?
Ok, here it goes.

I like Whatsapp, and this change seems in line with what Whatsapp always has been. Of course I'm always wary of advancements, ready to uninstall it if really bad news arrive, but in general Whatsapp has been respectful of its users, especially those that are privacy concerned.

They hired a lead developer from Signal to implement E2E encryption, its functionality is almost completely transperent, which reduces the need to inspect source code to understand functionality. The most severe of privacy criticisms have amounted to "Facebook knows who you message and at what times you message", which is a very good position for a 2B user platform to be in, since it doesn't read message contents.

I have tried Signal, but I cannot recommend it to family (yet), since I don't find what they do with metadata harmful, it's just a price to pay for the otherwise free app, like advertisement. Anyone who has recommended Signal so far sounded like an inflexible Stallman fundamentalist. I reserve my voice for other more serious incidents, if there is a successful warrant for message contents or if there is ad targetting based on message contents, then I will start sounding the horns, but for now: Meh.
Just because someone's wearing a police uniform doesn't meant they are cops. Everyone just believed they were cops.
Thanks, I edited the sentence.
> She didn't merely die, she was unarmed and murdered by Capitol Police. They shot her in the neck.

I hope Trump is held responsible for the death his actions resulted in.
Yeah, and considering every time I call my parents it's 20 to 60 minutes long... I would go broke
While I'm sure there are several causes, it would seem that the new strain is the much more fundamental cause.
This is not screaming "fire!" in a crowded theater, this is screaming "Burn the theater down!"...
The people that have serious cases of the flu don't overwhelm the hospitals because a good part of the vulnerable population get vaccinated. The herd immunity also plays a role because this kind of virus has been around for a long time.

We could decide that lockdowns / restrictions are not good but then we also have to be okay with letting lot of people die gasping for air and drowning in their own lungs at home / in the hospital corridors. As much as I hate not being able to socialize how I like I still prefer that and it seem to also be the case for most of the population.

I have no idea if we'll ever be able to eradicate the Covid but if we don't it might become just an other flu when enough people are vaccinated or had it.
"Quibbling about terminology" isn't "silly" when someone is making a public accusation of a sex crime. Neither of us are lawers, but right there in the statutes you've posted is the line "Sexual contact means any touching of an erogenous zone of another, including without limitation the thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, or, if the person is a female, a breast, for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either person." [emphasis mine].

I don't think that brushing up against erogenous zones as part of a search procedure constitues "sexual contact" even though I agree that the TSA employee appears to have failed to give adequate warning and shown a lack of discretion in singling out a new mother in the first place. I don't doubt the indignity of her experience may have been shocking and upsetting, but it stopped well short of sexual abuse.

As other people have pointed out in this thread with rather more eloquence than me, the semantics actually are important here (i) because sexual assault is a very serious crime with significant consequences for both victim and perpetrator (ii) because hyperbole detracts from serious scrutiny of the boundaries of acceptability.
Try this:

http://licorize.com/users/ppolsinelli/shipping?list
This is so incredibly shortsighted it hurts. Why on earth would you take away resources that help people work around your product's suckiness? Maybe they should just prohibit optimizing for their browser in general, then maybe people will finally stop using it alltogether once enough pages look totally destroyed because nobody can check against it...
I wonder if this is a rails thing. It's an out of the box pattern to put production, development and testing credentials into one database configuration file.

Also from what I know Github is a flat org where all the devs have ability to do work in production. My company is like this too, and while it sometimes leads to scary mistakes, it also leads to massive productivity over having to go through a release engineering team.
How faithful is that rendering? The IE7 emulation in IE8 is not an identical reproduction of how IE7 itself renders pages.
The one that really gets me in all this was the bankruptcy reform bill that was passed on the eve of the collapse. They knew what they where doing and they knew that they had to lash the people to the oars and they did a good job of it.

But they robbed us of our right to not be indentured for whatever reason we chose not to be. The founding fathers put sever restrictions on the rights of the creditor for a reason, indenturedness is an easy way to rob the masses of their freedom.

While others complain about healthcare this and bailout that, the bankruptcy reform bill was the single most important piece of legislation that deprived you of your rights.

You know sometimes freedom is more important than trinkets and toil.
Do you take everything literally? Who are you, Drax the destroyer?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/get-started...
> Yelling at people when they use the wrong words, which is his main and constant strategy, does not help the cause of free software.

Arguably the reason you're using the term "free software" is because of RMS' incessant chastising. The only thing as relentless as RMS are the forces that continually eat away at the central thesis of his movement--the necessity for users to have access to the source code of the software they use as requisite for software freedom.

Does the movement need RMS going forward? I don't know. I'm not even sure it can stay as strong as it is, regardless of his participation. I have more certainty, however, that it wouldn't be as successful as it was and currently is without him. His conflation of the utilitarian and political character of software was rather unique. Even today the vast majority of people find the comparison either impractical, trite, or otherwise inapposite. Comparable concepts, like Lessig's "code is law", aren't quite the same and in any event haven't had the staying power.
It's very unofficial, but I heard a debate last fall after city officials uprooted a children's playground over concerns of COVID spread. It lead me to an article which mentioned health officials who were advocating for opening children's playgrounds, with the CDC stating that surface transmission is "not thought to be the main way the virus spreads."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/playground-safe...
How so? I don't find it violating in any way that someone knows that I'm using a messenging app due to my phone number. They aren't exactly private in the first place.

It would be the same if there were usernames, although those would be far harder to assign to a person. Thankfully, Signal is working on that feature and hopefully it's released soon. I'd like to one day not have any phone number at all. It's a system that feels very much antiquated...
> make totally inappropriate jokes or comments (that makes them even more funny)

That is completely different if you are but of those jokes and if you know that those jokes are funny to people, because they express what others think about you.
Most of humanity lives near coasts and rivers. The idea of these houses is that they're flooding resistant: they just move up and down with changing water levels. They're well anchored, but indeed utility connection are a weak spot, perhaps modulated by having solar panels.

In either case, they obviate the need for precise and expensive regional water table control, for which the Netherlands is famous. That kind of control isn't a feasible solution for many countries, whereas floating houses would be.

I'm not sure these houses are the answer though, but perhaps they'll come with some other answers to questions related to living in this way.
> You basically never want storage to be automatically deleted even if your program suddenly uses a surprising amount

In most use cases you're right. But never? Not true, not all storage is used the same way. And the thing is, why should Amazon decide which use case is valid or not? I might care more about being able to afford the service than to keep the data around, depending on what kind of service I offer my user. As a platform provider, they should be agnostic, but their greed for money is shining through their willingness to be a true platform provider.
At the European Common Lisp Meeting later this year in Berlin/Germany I'm probably demoing a real hardware Symbolics Lisp Machine and its OS...
Henry Petroski has a 30 failure cycle for bridge technologies (see http://www.amazon.com/Success-through-Failure-Paradox-Design... ).
But aren't most of those messages point-to-point? Not that I'm trivializing 70M/sec! But for the most part, it's pretty straightforward right? No multi-client support (so no desktop client that requires server sync). Most messages(?) are to one recipient only, right? So send the message, send an ACK, deliver message, deliver read ACK? It seems like the perfect thing for a scale-out architecture. Even group chat can probably just be split into multiple messages, one per recipient.

Not that it's not a lot of work, but isn't most of it just hard work engineering? Add hardware, deal with bottlenecks. Versus having to come up with some novel new datastructures and inter-server communications?

SMTP sends a ton of messages, too. I don't see why an IM system couldn't take essentially the same concept, where one small cluster of services is responsible for the mailboxes for certain individuals.
Someone just pulled that out of thin air. Wikipedia is as good as guessing at this point.
We run two startup coworking spaces in Delhi, so not too far away. I don't know how tied you are to Chandigarh, but I can introduce you to a few startups that are looking for devs. Even if you can't move, shoot me an email, we regularly get requests for contract/remote work.
BTW the M1 Macs run Cities Skylines beautifully through Rosetta 2. I lowkey wanted to try it for years and now on the M1 Air I can and the game is just amazing.
> but I don't believe it should be considered insecure unless you are a journalist, activist, or citizen of a country with severe oppressive regimes: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, etc.

If only those people will try to have privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.
I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB.

Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.
http://photoideas.in/
We have found a good graphical representation for code, in my opinion. We make 'blocks' by tabbing in, draw lines with '/////', and desperately try to make comments seem to hang next to the code to which they refer by putting whitespace in the right place...Code is already 'sort of graphical'; unfortunately, the graphics in question are ASCII art.

I suspect the brain-to-computer interface for tablet/touch interface is too narrow, at least for that kind of thing (input of a big bunch of discrete symbols). Tablet/touch interfaces might be nicer for viewing or better yet debugging code; I'm daydreaming of being able to pull out a variable and 'expand it' in some handwavy fashion.
"It looks to me that dictionaries or mapping variable names to their values fit into this definition."

This is indeed similar, but a dictionary is a function with an enumerable domain. A function may not have an enumerable domain.
This needs random numbers whose randomness can be demonstrated.

You could ask every candidate to commit to his random number, publish a hash of it, and afterwards compute a hash of all candidates' random numbers to get the final random number. As long as most candidates distrust each other, this should work.
Most of the software developers are still in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Russian founders opened a Czech company because being Russian, they could not easily reach world markets.
> No one forced him to write about patients in a public blog nor write a public blog, he is a grown-up and he made that choice.

I'm not sure how this addresses the first paragraph of the parent comment. Their point was that he didn't do much of this, and it wasn't the problem Scott raised which was (paraphrasing the comment) about patients developing a personal relationship with him through his ideas expressed on the blog.
> Immediates require $, but that's the same as the Intel syntax.

No, "$" is not needed (or even allowed) for immediates in Intel syntax.
I have seen "things" served using telnet. In this example, it's a mod for a game that allows for virtual machines to run inside the game, and then has a telnet server that allows you to access them from outside the game. It has a login utility that runs at the start, listing the available virtual machines.

https://github.com/KSP-KOS/KOS/blob/develop/src/kOS/UserIO/T...

Unfortunately, it appears the solution was to write an entirely custom telnet server. Author also says in the included documentation that SSH was the original plan but implementing all of SSH is far too complicated.
There is a powerful (and somewhat overlooked) tool https://www.sokrates.dev/ written by an Ebay engineer Željko Obrenović.

Allows to look at the code-base (and the history of the codebase) from different perspective - complexity, volume, developers contributions, etc.
The simplest answer might be that the people running NYT have big egos and can make stubborn emotional decisions when their egos are threatened. I think it’s a point to consider when evaluating what’s published but not necessarily a reason to write off the paper entirely and as you said, not a political media conspiracy.
What about Musk making tweets about bitcoin whilst his company has a large investment. Isn't that market manipulation or maybe does not apply to rogue billionaires.
How much do you think it costs? I can't find any reasons for it to cost more than 100 billion, and I think even that is too much.
Good point. Whenever I read articles like this, I often wonder if we are over-optimizing for racial discrimination and under-optimizing for other other forms. Interestingly, the people who cry out the loudest for racial discrimination often could care less about the type of discrimination you just pointed out (from my experience).
Another group of users of free proxies (I had been in that group in the past), are people living in countries behind state run firewalls/filters. You want to read the news, or even check your email (in some cases) and you need a proxy. You cannot afford to run your own proxy. So you use the free ones, AND YOU KNOW they are not safe, but you don't have a choice.
I watched Brandon Li's video yesterday on how to turn a shot into a scene. I feel like it strangely applies to marketing for solo developers. You packaged your disperse config files into a cohesive product, with a unified look, and your website even has an emotional response to it.

Here's his insight.

How to turn a SHOT into a SCENE - Travel Video Storytelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTjxk33juo
Great ideas must come from great minds.
Please add GPUs! Google cloud and AWS's interfaces are hard to use. I recently discovered vast.ai which is great but cheap DO GPUs would be more trusted/professional (even if they only had one option).
DO charges $0.10/GB per month for block storage, the same as AWS Lightsail charges for block storage. AWS also has Lightsail Containers which are far cheaper than EKS and is their DO/Linode/etc equivalent.

Lightsail also offers load balancers for $18/mo compared to DO's $10, $30, or $60 per month.

DO $15/mo managed DB 1G 1vCPU 10G SSD

AWS $15/mo managed DB 1G 1vCPU 40G SSD

I'm really not seeing how "pretty much everything else isn't" with respect to their offerings.
Easy way to load huge amount of data into SQL tables with github.com/PumpkinSeed/sqlfuzz
Ah, that makes sense, I’d totally forgotten about proprietary driver blobs/BIOS issues.
It's open source and can be self-hosted. It doesn't require relying on their hosting.
Bitcoin has already happened for a lot of people.
I've said this in another thread, but I feel it really needs repeating.

The diff that bitbucket is showing you is one that has not been tested. That is, the diff against the merge base shows what the requester did and tested. The diff against the current tip, shows what will be the result.

I fully agree that it is important to bear that in mind. But, this is all the more reason for the merge to be done by another party before committing/pushing.

Consider, if you send a pull request for the kernel, Linus will do a local merge, then test, then push. In all of these gui apps, the final merged code is just there. No last second "fails sanity test, so not really going to merge."
Just 2 weeks! I am very impressed. Great work.

First URL I typed in was news.ycombinator.com, which wasn't valid until I added the http://. I don't think most users would know to do that.
Could you default to https / http when it isn't specified?
> She describes herself as happy... and yet somehow has been at gunpoint and knifepoint, both of them multiple times. Most people manage to never have either. This suggests such people have extremely high death rates, and she's just lucky enough to still be around to be studied & interviewed.

Could you elaborate on what you are getting at here? Who are these other people, who are likewise fearless (like SM), that are not around to be studied & interviewed? I'm asking if there is an evidenced based count, or if you are purely speculating. Say, if there are 19 other people like SM with no fear, and all 19 of them of died due their frisky disregard for some 'risky behaviour' or 'real danger' ... then, I would accept that fear is indeed a gift.

> I don't mind feeling fear occasionally if it helps me live out my natural lifespan.

It is not just about the initial feeling of fear -- even then I hardly think fear helps a modern human live out his natural lifespan, as intelligence does a much better job of it -- but also the lack of fear-induced complex emotions, such as separation anxiety. Also it helps to remember that stress (much of it based on fear) shorten the said lifespan tremendously. So you may very well be looking at negligible loss vs substantial profit.

It seems to me that SM is the first candidate to demonstrate that fear can be disregarded like an appendage in modern times. All that these scientists could come up with over the years to justify their (and the general public's) fear of lack of fear is those four incidents of being held at knifepoint and gunpoint.
Not to mention they're not even a US company. Why on earth would Congress pass a law favoring a Canadian company over the US industry leaders?
I think this is about finding a balance between pragmatism and perfectionism. We should strive to find the simplest, cleanest solution to problems and continually refactor to keep complexity at bay. The SOLID guidelines, practically applied, may help in achieving that goal, so they are worth having in your toolbox.
But there isn't really a "trick" here, though. The point of these questions is to figure out if the candidate has enough CS fundamentals to construct a reasonable solution to a problem that they've never seen before.
The ?. has only really worked in scripting, i.e. writing quick scripts to manipulate code written in a proper type-checked programming language. Groovy has it but Java doesn't. In Groovy's heyday if some code spewed out NullPointerException, the first thing people did was replace all the . with ?. and run it again, because the code was throwable quality anyway. I can't imagine anything good will come of putting ?. into C# (or Java) which is meant for building more lasting systems.
How about these use-cases:

* Reminder to take your medication

* Alerts for urgent municipal job opportunities

* How far away is my nearest bus?

* Reminders to take your new baby to get vaccinations

* Motivation to quit smoking

* Interactive customer service / hotlines / health lines

We send text messages to millions of people who certainly appreciate (date I say, love) getting them.
this uses heart rate, not brain activity
Patent trolls are a major issue, especially for tech companies. I always am heartened to read stories of people standing up to these leeches.
Interesting use of statistical framing in the headline: 78% of YC startups have no female founder vs. 22% of YC startups have atleast one female founder, as mentioned in the article.
Still waiting to see a 'gold' is BS post. Diamonds and gold both have plenty of industrial usages, but when it comes to status items there both pointless wastes. However, being pointless is why there status items in the first place.

In the end many people like birds like bright shiny objects. This just in, fads like beany baby's, bitcoins, and baseball cards are also a thing. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

PS: Land is still cheap: "The United States farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms, averaged $2,900 per acre for 2013"