jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When a metric is quantifiable with numbers it is objective. It may not be the best tool for the job or even valid at all, but it is still objective.

Subjectivity, on the other hand, means to prioritize a content or bias above its measures.
> I argue that Facebook isn't a dumpster fire. I use it mostly to share photos with my friends and family, and I see little or no propaganda on my feed.

So Facebook, a site used by hundreds of millions of people, is fine because... you don't see any propaganda?
> Ford and the rest are going to have to change things up big time.

Actually, I don't think they will, at least not anytime soon and not exclusively because of Tesla. Even if this was a more conventional design, truck owners can be tough nuts to crack. Plus, a huge number of trucks are purchased as stripped down fleet vehicles, designed to be workhorses that are fixable/maintainable by on-site crews. The Cybertruck won't appeal to that large segment.

The fact that this isn't a conventional truck design leaves a huge door for the conventional truck makers to step into with simply an electric version of their existing lineup. Add Rivian to the mix, which looks way better than this IMHO, and I think conventional-style pickups are here for a long while.
I thank the French for the metric system. But their numbers between 70 and 100 are bonkers.

70 is pronunced "60 10". 71 is "60 11". And so on until 80, which is pronounced, obviously, "4 20". 81 is "4 20 1". It goes up to 90, which is "4 20 10". 91 is "4 20 11". The craziness continues until 100, which is, thankfully, a different word ("cent", instead of "4 20 20", or, dear lord, "60 40"). But in 170 it all comes back.

I think the French-speaking parts of Belgium, Switzerland and Canada did the right thing when they replaced all that complexity by dedicated words for 70, 80 and 90.
I agree with the first two, but I don't think expensive equipment is really much of an influence -- a lot of small restaurants (and bars etc) in Japan turn out amazing food with little more than a hob and a frypan, and indeed that seems more the rule than the exception.

[Of course, higher prices also can help pay for higher-quality ingredients, which do play a part.]
>>kind of barrier to the Americanisation of the planet, including via its dominant websites, is such a bad thing

India is a democracy, if they want to block it for 'cultural' reasons they should get the people's approval to block it for 'cultural' reasons. Right now they are acting on the wrong mandate. We are most likely looking at a case of gross detachment from the constituents they serve.
You'll have to go a little further back. After I switched to round lenses, I couldn't see the frame as well in my peripheral vision, which led to me looking for my glasses as they were on my face.
>HN has a strong bias towards criticism of US policy

You must read another HN than I do. I see a HN that is extremely pro-US and anti-PRC. So much so that a random American can pull stuff out his ass about Chinese education and get upvoted while the person living in China gets downvoted for disagreeing. Search this thread for PISA test and see the comments above...

>Are there 2 million people in reducation camps in the US based on ethnicity?

Have you not seen the historic and current state of blacks incarcerated in the US and how policy is made specifically to criminalise some skin colors and cultures? Some states have as high as 72% black population in prisons. Not to mention all the medicinally experimentation done on poor and/or black people in the US through time.

Even if we had been without those today it is still a crazy comparison. If country A have been a highly developed country for hundreds of years and they then point fingers of country B and C who is not only all the way to where A is yet but have also been highly developed for way less time then you are comparing apples to pumpkins.
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I just did a google image search for images of the US Capitol Riot from January this year, and it doesn't look like a particularly young crowd. Looks more middle-aged to me.
That's absurd logic. You don't need to know the specific laws to know there are laws.
Sneaking into a country is clearly illegal.
Sneaking out of a country to break your contract has to be illegal.
Sending a person by freight is pretty definitely specifically illegal, and even if it isn't nailing someone up and mailing him has to be breaking some sort of reckless endangerment law.
Wow if this goes on for long I wonder if we'll see M1 macs shoot up in value. Everyone wants the awesome new ARM experience.
I remember reading something about a debate between --options and -=options. It's pretty tough to search for this but maybe someone else knows where I might have come across it?
So it sounds like... you are unsure if they broke any laws

Also remember there was no internet in 1965, they couldn’t exactly google for a law.
I read up a bit on this when I was setting it up.

> What ensures that the hibernation image was actually written out by the kernel? Absolutely nothing, which means a motivated attacker with root access could turn off swap, write a hibernation image to the swap partition themselves, and then reboot

Maybe I'm just really thick, but I can't think of a reason to care that root could bypass secure boot. The attacker already has access to the entire system and I would usually assume the valuable part of that access is the data and not the hardware or the kernel. This is an attack at a level beyond the typical "evil maid" with physical level access.

Besides that, I'm not sure what would stop anyone from just tampering with pacman, mkinitcpio, or other things and just wait until the next kernel is being built and redeployed to have their fun. You're going to have to upgrade your kernel at some point, and you'll need some kind of tools to do so.

There's probably a very thin line between the threat that secure boot protects against and someone beating me to death for my password.
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I agree. This gives us the prospect of a democratic nation with internal passports and a border where you'll be shot for trying to cross. I don't think that is likely, which is why I'm pessimistic about the odds of reunification.
It is likely that they have saturated their market. Apple has 90% market share in PCs > $1000. http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_...
Perhaps that loud fan is generating enough gentle white noise for you. A quote from the below article states:

"Some people benefit from white noise, or fans. Make sure you have effective blinds, or earplugs, if they help. It's all about reducing distractions and sending a message to your brain about your safety."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

Interestingly, as I was doing my "research" (well, just some web searches really), I came across studies that claimed white noise can impair brain development in sleeping baby rats:

"When baby rats listened to white noise for prolonged periods of time, a part of the brain responsible for hearing, called the auditory cortex, didn't develop properly. However, when the noise was taken away, the young rats' brains were able to resume normal development."

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/97/white_noise_may_dela...

I haven't found any articles showing whether or not this phenomenon has been tested on humans yet.

I suppose one takeaway from all of this research is that we need to continue doing more research.
The only explanation I can think of for you being downvoted is, well, ignorance. Perhaps HNers are not familiar with Israel's policy of mandatory military service and thought your remark was somehow prejudiced.

As far as small aggressive countries that _aren't_ Israel, how about Georgia, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, or Greece?
If only Lamo knew how to channel his hacking capability and work with authorities first before performing the breach. Of course, kids with that ability could have done it through sheer excitement. It's hard to judge someone easily when we don't really know what's going on with their lives on a day-to-day basis. What only shows up on the headlines are one of 365 days where they caused social turmoil.
don't worry Vendder .. when they copy it, it's a sign of your success!
"This isn't true if you just make websites and there's no-one with much experience because the technology changes every few years."

Websites are in their own world though. An * expert web programmer has certain advantages. At any moment you can delve into blackhat stuff and make money. I'm not sure what you mean by website technology as always changing so maybe I'm about to say something dumb but here it goes - The syntax changes a lot, sure, but the basic ideas of automation and data work of mining, collecting, and organizing have always been around. Now they are just at the forefront.

* all this really means is you're a good programmer that understands how the web works and knows things like traffic generation, and how money is made on the web. But basically 90% of the real expertise and time is still with actual programming.
I'm assuming Scoble is doing his usual act--that is, construing what he personally likes, what he sees in the Bay area, and what he hears from the "new media" sycophants that comment on his posts for how normal people operate.

Among normal people I know, Twitter has just recently actually become a thing that they're at least aware of and use a bit. They might have seen Google Buzz when it got unceremoniously foisted upon them (which I still think was a sleazy move on Google's part), but they ignored it and are probably more or less confused as to what value it offers them or even what it is. And frankly, so am I--I find using Twitter hard enough to rationalise, and left Facebook months ago. Why do I need yet another social network?

Scoble's life may revolve around churning up page views for his bullshit, and he may have the time and incentive to sign up for every new social media site that pops up and actually think that they matter, but the other 99.9% of us are too busy actually doing something productive with our lives.
Mostly they should worry about getting revenue and getting into the black. Culture is a bit farther down the list.
Can you explain why please?
You can also squat with weights. I've started in April and am doing 120kg now. Consult `Starting Strength' for that.

Running isn't too bad either. Go barefoot or with something like Vibram FiveFingers if you care about your joints at all.
Seems like they did not scale heroscale.com itself. All I get is:

App crashed

This application is temporarily offline.

If you're the administrator of this app,
please check your heroku logs for the backtrace.
Like I said, I am sure there is some truth to this and people are nice and all, but I think the story was embellished. It's ok for me to believe this, it doesn't mean I'm a misanthrope or anything. :) The story certainly hit an emotional chord with everyone, as it was designed to do. People are really upset that I don't just believe it outright!
Ouch. "App crashed" messages not the best marketing for an auto-scaling app.
"App crashed"

Looks like it couldn't scale to the hacker news traffic. Is that Irony?
We named our (soon to be announced) start-up after this principle. The company is called "Netkine", as in a kine of cattle on the net.

That, and we thought it sounded kind of cool.
> drag a directory or file from somewhere else on top of them, which will switch the dialog to that selection. Some years ago, on a macOS beta, they changed this behaviour and it would instead move the path...power users hated it.

Huh? Dragging and dropping things into modal dialogs sounds like a terrible way to do anything.

The limitation of the macOS file dialogs have nothing to do with dragging or dropping to or from external sources. The functionality that's missing from them are things like: Not being able to rename, move or delete a folder that you mistakenly created through the dialog.

Power users typically prefer having a function over not having it. I doubt any power user would lament being able to do these things I've mentioned.
def mirrors my experience too. Vast majority of spark jobs were easily ported to sql/dbt and the remaining ones are in pyspark. I used to use a lot of scala spark in backend data processing in 2016 but now its almost down to zero.

scala is real big impediment to making data processing accessible to general public in your company. order of preference now at my company is,

1. sql
2. pyspark
3. java spark
4. scala spark

eg: shopify found that 70% of their pyspark could be converted to just sql https://shopify.engineering/build-production-grade-workflow-...
> Throwing them away and giving them to friends and family aren't the only two options.

With a six hour window, it's unlikely he's gonna be able to invent a fair queuing system on his own, and get applicants to it. The article indicates he tried first with EMS, police, etc. at the vaccination location.

There should be state-wide efforts at this; a "we might call you at 2am to ask you if you can be to the hospital by 3am for a shot" list.
The only, and it is a major problem with unavoidable pitfalls that shouldn't - can't be in our systems - is that Bitcoin is an MLM scheme and thus it is aligning people through financial gain, creating a religion of "HODLers" who are already a mob of varying levels of self-control and critical thinking. And as Dalio says, those who speak a counter-narrative to Bitcoin are rightfully "a few scared souls cowering in a corner;" so he's in fact acknowledging this mob without actually directly stating it. He's being very careful with his words to avoid being a target.
Eventually San Diego fills up. Why not let efficiency dictate these things?
I made this a couple years back and I just remembered about it today. Thought I would share given the recent hype in dogecoin and the like.

Let me know if you have any feedback, etc
Minor nitpick, but isn't that Firefox, not Chromium in the screenshot of the web browser overlaying emacs, right after mentioning that he uses Chromium instead of Firefox because it requires a "real" window manager?

Regardless though it's an interesting setup, I've always wanted to try a minimal window manager.
Excellent idea, it never occurred to me to try and sell this on Amazon. I think in the spirit of "bootstrapping" this would be step 2 or 3 on the list due to the start up costs.
It still does not have symbolic link support for shared folders with a snow leopard host. FAIL. I have to use vmware fusion instead.
A symptom of a business where a large part of the monetary value is assigned to a small number of star producers, and this assigning is heavily influenced by a class of middlemen who are busily pretending, through social conventions and traditions, that the money is not important, since they profit greatly from the consumers' belief that the non-monetary aspects are the most important ones.

Simchowitz is basically a "munchkin middleman" who blithely ignores said conventions and traditions and addresses a different class of consumers.

edited in reaction to reply
> scp and sftp were added after the fact

scp was there from the beginning, or thereabouts. It certainly was present the first time I played with it which was within a few months of the first release.

ssh was specifically designed as a replacement for BSD remote tools (rsh/rlogin/rcp) even falling back to those protocols if ssh wasn't available (although the FallBackToRsh option was removed from OpenSSH a decade or so ago I think). That's also why "slogin" is installed as a symlink to "ssh", to keep it similar to rsh/rlogin. It only made sense for there to be a "scp" to work like the existing "rcp".

You are right that sftp only came later.
It is common to repurpose words this way. I think it is called 'metaphor'. See also: half the names in technology and all nearly every apple product name.

Anyway, I find the term useful.
I take interest in this subject because I'm someone who COULD have easily been a programmer, had I known programming existed in high school.

I excelled at math and all the sciences. I identified with science for most of my student life. Then around grade 11, I suddenly became interested in history due to age of empires II and a great book on WWII that my dad bought me.

I majored in international relations, had a few years trying to figure out what to do with a liberal arts degree, and ended up creating a bootstrapped internet business. Learned enough programming to handle a few scripts to simplify site building and understand how to manage a contract programmer. (The site is not programming intensive)

I only got a computer in grade 10, and I didn't know what a terminal was or a programming language. No one in my family was technical, and no teacher or friend knew how to program or mentioned it to me. When I eventually studied it for a while in 2012 I found it instantly fascinating, but by then working on the business itself became more lucrative than learning to program.

Based on my background, I suspect I'm the sort of person that could have become the kind of programmer companies want to hire. And I know a bunch of fellow students like me who had similar minds but didn't study CS. One's a doctor now, one's a tutor with some local company, one's a musician, a few are lawyers, some are in the sciences.

I graduated right after the crash of the dotcom bubble, so programming was actively discouraged. Science was encouraged, but it was hard. Mostly, the people who did it were the ones who really liked it.

And everyone on my list above could have been in science. They just didn't do it because they found interest in something else. Or in the case of the lawyers, they took science degrees but decided law was more interesting/lucrative. (they went to an elite school)

But I went to a great public high school with a thorough science program. This is perhaps not typical, especially in America (I'm Canadian). There may be significant numbers of students who could enjoy STEM fields and excel, if they only knew it earlier.

Which I suppose is like my situation re:programming. I preferred liberal arts to science, but I think I would have preferred programming to history. I just literally didn't know about it.
What the...? Does the author just not know anything about SSH, or web browsers? Why would we use SSH for everything?

On top of the fact that they're entirely different protocols and tools designed for entirely different purposes, browsers already support virtually everything SSH does. File transfers, authentication, client certs, multiplexing, key pinning, etc. There is no need to use SSH, and if you did, it would be slower, less secure, and generally more annoying than using the existing tools built into browsers.

I find it aggravating when users read the manual to some software and think they have discovered fire.
We ran with ZFS in production with https://Clara.io but we had to switch away since it appears to be leading to a lot of fragmentation as a result of our MongoDB. I think that the write pattern from MongoDB isn't that compatible with ZFS (nor btrsf), or at least that is our belief.

I wrote about that here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777000
If you are talking about that kind of fraud then can't you do that regardless of if you are trying to make a profitable company or one which you intend to sell?
I thought most of the ocean "plastic" was really paint.
What other actors are going to give people unwanted bone marrow transplants?

I guess medical companies testing the technology might do things to get people to participate in trials, but I'm not real sure people with sickle cell anemia would be mad about having to use modern anti-malarials instead of suffering with sickle cell.
NextDNS is a trusted company IMHO.
Well stated. Makes me wonder...

Maybe you can somewhat pay your landlord in living experience, frequently blogging about your amenities included in the place for a possibly more-than-one-time rent extension for pandemic purposes.
There are several benefits that the wealthy generally take advantage of that the average person does not. Three big ones are:

1. An educated workforce
2. Enforcement of private property
3. Bailouts and junk bond purchases

Most businesses benefit from a workforce which they do not need to pay to "produce", but merely hire at an hourly rate.

Private property is only really possible in a system that allows it, otherwise might = right, and we would be talking about the 1% with the biggest biceps.

My pet solution is a wealth tax. For those who argue that wealth is hard to trace, see point 2, the system can be designed to allow only declared private wealth.
The lesson I take from the bet is: you can only be very smart if you have a lot of money. Otherwise, do no try in the long run*. And I stick to that (because I just want to keep a living in the future, not to be rich).

"Risk-adjustment" is just another metric which makes not much sense: either I have the money or I do not. Money now is worth more than possible money tomorrow.

About "the highest performing funds of the past 10 - 30", which ones, the two first ones, the Medallion fund? those which cannot be used by ordinary people?

I know Buffet is not exactly the paradigm of "ordinarity" but nevertheless, I think his intention with his stubborn support of "just the market" is to teach that "ordinary people can very seldom outperform the market".
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513#issu...

Is there a citation for this claim? I tried searching on Twitter for tweets regarding Signal errors, and I didn't see anything except for retweets of the link to this HN post.

It's also just the local database, so the phone that their desktop app is linked to will still have their chat history, thus these alleged journalists would not have lost their sources.
I was probably a little unclear. Basically I'm saying all you can take away from this is a statement about aggregate performance. You're not doing this in your comment, but I frequently see people on HN extrapolate this bet to support the idea that there's no such thing as a hedge fund which beats the market, or which is a worthwhile investment, etc.

You can't derive a conclusion about individual hedge funds from this. That might seem obvious to you, but maybe you'd be surprised then :)
> I’ve heard of decentralized protocols like Handshake attempt to decentralize the entire sector of TLD’s but they just seem be riddled with early profit seekers buying up all the names, so it seems unlikely the large browsers will incorporate them.

Yes, and any system will be riddled with early profit seekers. With Handshake, there's a lot less profit to seek:

1. The current TLDs are pre-reserved on Handshake for the current owners.

2. The number of Handshake TLDs is ~infinite. If it were to catch on, I'd expect a race-to-the-bottom for second level domain prices.