jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is there such a large, morally important difference?

I am going to simplify a lot here, but let's say that the train operator has a fixed operating cost and has a profit target, from which they know the gross revenue that they want over the next quarter. They know how many rides they expect people to pay for, so they divide the target gross revenue by the number of trips to get the ticket price. Assuming that the train timetable is fixed, more paying passengers means they can charge less per ticket and still hit their targets.

So in the case of stealing from someone's wallet, the victim takes a $50 hit. In the case on not paying for a train ticket, the operator will have to charge a slightly higher rate to paying passengers, so between them, the paying passengers take a $50 hit. If there's only one person not paying then that doesn't make much difference. But if 1% of passengers aren't paying, or 10%, or 50%... then that can start to affect the paying passengers quite significantly.

Or if the train operator is a bit less charitable and doesn't raise/lower the price in response to number of passengers, then the train operator's profit takes a $50 hit, which is passed on to the share holders, who may well be (in part) yours and my pension fund.

I would say that just because the $50 loss is divided by a large number of people, it doesn't make it any more morally defensible.
Seems a strange idea to increase load when current users see "Data processing is delayed while we fix an issue related to our servers." when logging in.

Nice deal though, I got in during the appsumo deal so now I have 600,000 for a criminally low price :-)
Where's my iPhone spectrometer!!!

But this is a frequency analyzer for finding overtones to determine broadcast frequency at close distance.
Really, I think the problem is that it defaults to only searching Open bugs. Makes sense, but as this case demonstrates there is a big enough gap between a bug being fixed and an updated build getting into users' hands that there's a problem.

I wonder how many dupes would be eliminated if the search defaulted to Open and Recently Closed bugs.
I know nothing about Ruby/Rails or A/Bingo, but isn't head and body or html just elements? AFAIDK you could test a whole lot more.

In other words, haven't you ever tried to A/B test the full page? :)
In my first year in a lab I built a program
that scrapes the NIST spectral database, reads the data
from a spectrum analyzer attached to the computer, and
figures out which types of atoms the thing the spectrum
analyzer is looking at contains. This is harder than it
sounds.

No no, trust me, that sounds hard. :-)
That's right. The homeservers are extremely noisy in their operation so you can't really hide their existence regardless.
The set of topics that gets you de-platformed (or financially de-platformed) is increasing.
I flew through three airports with backscatter machines last week. I had a small child with me. Each time i was directed to the regular metal detector - and in one case where my child walked ahead and was about to go through the backscatter machine, she got called back by the TSA person with some agitation and directed through the metal detector instead.

I don't have enough data points to know for sure, but I am wondering if they are purposefully not screening kids in these things and if so, are they doing so due to the radiation exposure concerns.

Like the OP, I never saw anybody opt out.
Humans can live off the land just about anywhere on Earth, but with a Mars mission now, they would be wholly dependent for decades at the very least. For colonization to work, it must be self-sufficient nearly from day one. Otherwise, it would be just a few footprints, 50 years too early and countless billions over budget.
There are some rough edges (like the SMS sending screen, yuck) but what I'm impressed by is how performant the app is on my old-ass 3G. It seems to open faster than the SMS or Dialer apps do. Probably 'cause it was developed back when the 3G was cutting-edge!
Indeed economy security is one of the corner pillars of success. Think of it as part of the hierarchy of needs.
But you can be upper class and still feel miserably, then you think if only my startup takes off I will be happy. But that will only lead to more work, not happiness. It's better to do something you love, be around people you love, etc, which is more likely to lead to success.
A lazy and mediocre software developer gets paid more than a world class concert pianist who obsessively practices 10 hours a day.

The world doesn't need pianists like it needs software engineers. This demand was also different 200 years ago.

This is basic economics that not enough people seem to understand when they choose a job. Or maybe they do understand but want to ignore the problem early in their careers.

As a student in my 20s, my love for mathematics exceeded my love of engineering. I studied both and was good at both, but never went far beyond undergrad level mathematics due to job opportunities.

Sometimes in life we need to clearly separate what to do as an amateur (for the love) and as a professional (for the money). Sometimes the interests align, and if they do, good for you! But it's important to be honest with yourself about goals and planning.
I appreciate the good intentions, but confusing Greek readers doesn't seem to me like a good way to honor the cultural impact of Greece.
You could sell access to the platform via a monthly subscription. This is how unusual options activity platforms do it.

Some examples:

https://unusualwhales.com/

https://www.cheddarflow.com/

https://flowalgo.com/
You spent more than 3 person-years migrating twenty services from one container orchestration system to another and you think it was worth it? Not sure that seems worth it to me...
Were they, by chance, from an industrial/manufacturing background or from Waterfall projects? Those are the ones I see trying to establish what you describe. Often there's a notion that the teams are operating in a pipeline/production flow similar to manufacturing. So you hand X off to the designer to do their thing, they hand it to the devs (may be multiple teams), then the designer is working on the next design (either an iteration of the current one or a different system), repeat down the chain.

I've only seen this work well in highly-repetitive, relatively low-skill/knowledge required workloads. Not knocking the participants, but there was often little novelty or real troubleshooting involved in those projects (often troubleshooting was handed off to a specific individual or group and the regular staffers weren't responsible for it).
I wonder how many regex security filters would break using ??/ for escape because very few people know this exists.
More likely the number of "low quality" posts increases over time.

Even if I agree that I sense a decline in quality, I don't have a solution. Why doesn't the world work the way I think it should?

I find the HN format very easy to skim and skip, easier than reddit. Regardless of the quality of the posts I can easily ignore those that don't strike me as relevant or interesting.

The more exclusive groups I have participated in often have different problems. The posts may stay more relevant and "high-quality" but the forum turns into showing off and bickering over trivia -- intellectual posturing. I find that more annoying and time-wasting than having to skip over half of HN posts every day because I don't care about Bitcoin or Elon Musk's tweets or some new React technique, nor do I care to look at someone's to-do list side project and comment on which database they should use.
I think you missed the point in the article. The distro removed the fallback to Google and CloudFlare. How does that benefit them?
I'm not sure how the stats here in the UK compare with the US but I'd be interested to know. Especially as we have a government backed apprenticeship scheme which takes largely unskilled young people of age 16 upwards and funds their training on the job.

I've had countless apprentices work for my software company and it's such a win-win for employer and employee. My company gets dedicated, passionate, diligent and most importantly enthusiastic young people to train in the art of building websites. In return our apprentices get paid and they get to learn a skill in a workplace environment. We end up with employees who are ridiculously loyal, and they end up with a career.

I'm sure we've saved a large number of kids from menial jobs at <insert large megacorp> while they work out how to get a career. Does the US have a similar scheme? If so it must surely be one way to help resolve this issue?
I don't see why there are so many downvotes to this. This is a clear and obvious counter-argument to people jumping the gun and saying it must be the government. While it doesn't _prove_ that it wasn't the government, there's certainly a lot of room for doubt.

Edit: and this post adds even more doubt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285343. There's no clear reason why the PRC's first move would be to turn toward DDOS. As other people have written, it's way too powerful of a weapon for them to use it on something so foolish. Keeping an open mind on this one.
Gitchain needed please, if we can stop ignoring the root of the problem is the habit to preserve corporal central force.

http://Gitchain.org links with http://Factom.org and needs complement not ignore the deep research and development environment we need to profoundly edit safed social structure.

(Their author failed to secure funding for Gitchain and then made Factom, while the issue needs equally relate each part as a side of research, expression, development log, proof, and safety machinations important to combine.)
I'd rather have you steering it to opensource based systems/services, you know in the spirit of open web.
The one big problem with this exam is that the candidates are not well normalized across countries. You don't really get an apples to apples comparison since countries like Japan have a tendency to cherry pick who takes the test.
I guess that was the problem I faced when I started down the OOJS - what do I exactly use this for? I understand that it's a great way for reuse & extending, but aside from giant applications with numerous developers, is it really useful?
Yes, working professionals are the core audience. Some of the topics that are discussed there like resumes and interviewing can be useful for students looking to be hired but not so much for those wondering what to major in.

For students there is also http://academia.stackexchange.com/ that deals with the immediate problems they face.
Huh, it really sounds like he's shifting. Do these electric cars have transmissions?

edit: yeah, they do! Fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIA_Formula_E_Championship#Car
Was that markov text?
Good password hashing functions will not be much impacted by password length. If you stores the password with 128 bit (salted and key-stretched) hash, there's no gain in allowing passwords longer than 64 characters.
Basically, limit the size of input parameters helps preventing DOS and Buffer Overflows.
can you email me? I'd love to talk to you more about your experience...

anthony@175g.com

I'm the creator of LoveActualize.com
For we, the readers, I think we should look at it more as kind of a brainstorm, something to get us thinking. I think looking for more in it than that is not what is most useful for us. Just my two cents.
The thing is that this has always been Apple's design decision - the OS marks very clear distinctions between applications (as described here in another Gruber piece about the OSX - and MacOS - window manager http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/the_problems_with_clickthr...)

The difference being the Mac allowed you to follow the same unix style philosophy through pervasive scripting, which you can't do on iOS.

EDIT: typos
Off topic, but that's one of the oddest permalinks I've seen. Is that a uuid on the end of the url? Any particular reason why it's that format?
Yes, but even in compiler land, you don't say "alphabetic" to mean a symbol taken from your particular alphabet (since that is practically a given... a symbol outside the alphabet might as well not exist).
so... Governments will restrict the web to steal market share from various web apps? I think you may have misinterpreted what they're talking about. :P
I use OneTeam for GTalk - stays signed in for 12 hours and I've not noticed a missed notification (although they were sometimes delayed a bit)
Care to share some examples of what you're doing? I'm always curious...
> Others who are happy with the gains they have made, and think it's too risky to keep holding. I've got a friend who sold his bitcoin recently to buy a house.

Yeah I'm not surprised about moves like this. 35k+ is when things start to get interesting.

A few years ago I grabbed one at $1,200 and then sold it like 6 months later for around $1,800 because I was like "cool a 50% gain".

If I had held onto it, selling at 35-40k seems reasonable because even after 15% capital gains tax that's enough to live comfortably in the US for an entire year. That's a life changing amount of money.
No it absolutely did not. Stop buying the bullshit the media is feeding you.
They only reason why they believe the election was stolen in the first place is because Trump has been lying about it for the past two months. He is the root cause. He could end this easily, but he won’t.
Yes, but the source they link to is quite extensive and interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-06/xbox-the-...
>If you don’t get covid, you don’t die of covid

Likewise If you get covid, doesn't mean you will die from covid. vast majority of people will be fine.

>If you lockdown, you don’t get covid. It’s a simplification but it’s a start

Maybe you don't get covid but if you lockdown, you may suffer/die from starving/mental health issue instead.

>What you have said is that people will suffer under lockdown - but you haven’t really tried to quantify that

Is it really hard to think that lockdown would cause at least some unemployment, some bankruptcy, some mental health issue ?

>“lockdown causes death”

Unemployment has long been associated with a significantly increased risk of death.

I don't have the precise number but how are you sure that the damage from virus is greater than damage from lockdown ?
I was also looking to learn more about this. Discrete Event Simulation books may be of some help.
Sadly I tend to believe that a very small minority of people will ever bother to access the documents, the rest will just believe whatever the media will tell them.
That behaviour is mesmerising to observe in the simulation.
But they are easily searchable for the vast majority of scenarios. I've got years worth of message history on my $300 phone, and yet it has no problems returning search results nearly instantly.
Yes, you can can replace that with the magic number 49 if you want, ord('1') == 49 because ord returns the unicode code point for a character.

Documentation is here for the curious: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#ord
Exercise itself makes me happy. If you do something you like it can be very nice in itself.
As was said; See the movies The Lottery [1], The Cartel [2], and Waiting For "Superman" [3].

----

[1]: http://thelotteryfilm.com/

[2]: http://www.thecartelmovie.com/

[3]: http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/
We drop $500-800/month on Heroku, so I just signed up to give it a shot- doesn't take a lot of savings to make it worthwhile.
The comparison of private school tuition to public school costs has been debunked long ago. It's apples to oranges. Private schools can get rid of their problem cases, public schools can't (and problem cases can take up a huge amount of teacher time). Private schools can cherry pick the best students, public schools can't. Private school parents, simply by the fact that they sought out an alternative (selection bias) are often more involved in their kids' education. They also often donate substantial amounts of time and resources over and above tuition, which never shows up in the books but represents a real resource.

Jobs blames the unions, but what he misses is that the union didn't get that way all on its own. The union's job is to defend the interests of its teachers, and teachers have been given a pretty bad deal over the last 50 years. Falling pay, additional responsibilities, decreased autonomy/creativity and administrators who are all too willing to throw them under the bus at the slightest parent complaint. The union preceives rightly that its constituency is under siege, and becomes obstructionist accordingly.

The studies I've seen of voucher schools -- at least the ones that weren't financed by voucher advocates or businesses -- have shown that once voucher schools have to operate under the conditions that publich schools face, the results are statistically indistinguishable.
The key word was products, i.e. making a living from building tools for other developers.

There are many more developer-run companies today than there were 10 years ago and the number will continue to grow. There have never been more opportunities to do that than right now.
But it can't be accurate. Actors know that even micromovements tell a story and convey emotion. The computer cannot possibly infer enough about the person from a single photo to reconstruct that story. Were they a fidgety person? Were they tired that day? Bored? Impatient because they need to get the store before it closes and the photoshoot is taking a long time?

Imagine running this software on a photo of your parents. Do you think you would be impressed by the accuracy?
> business-folk filing endless claims, many dressed up & full of shit

Ah! And this ...

How little have things changed :)

(ICO, anyone?)
It’s a little baffling the Atom team can’t seem to understand this is a bug. I get that the tone of the report is a little off-putting, but a bug is a bug. Fix it and move on.
That was actually pretty good advice. Looking forward to use it.
Wow, aptly put, reading that made me smile :)
Even for longer periods it works! (Except for DOMS if too long)

Besides, since force is a neurological stuff, you « memorize » lifted weight as you memorize playing guitar or riding a bike. It takes a short period of time to get started again, but the neural connections stay for sure.
Anybody launching a product?
Choosing the location and direction to point the camera is the creative part.
When I was backing up several 100 tb, I tried every open source option at the time and found them all lacking.

What ultimately worked? Plain old rsync over ssh, to a zfs pool with snapshots and compression.

As far as I could figure, the only notable downside of this is that the storage device must be trusted, since it has access to all of the data, and that you effectively needed root permissions on the storage you're copying to for filesystem permissions which makes a multi tenant backup server cumbersome (you could chroot or use containers or something but these solutions can become fiddly, e.g. running multiple instances of ssh on nonstandard ports to enable multitenancy).
The Prius is the ultimate function over form vehicle, and people still complain about its form.
That's the understated truth. All you do today is add a small detail like a full width light bar in the back and that's enough to distinguish the vehicle as unique or new or whatever.

I think it's one of the reasons I like cars like the Kia Soul so much. They look… fun.
Thanks, I have looked at options. I think it could work, but I think it would require writing a custom marshal/unmarshal function for each protobuf struct, even if they are essentially the same for each one. I will have to take a closer look at the links though.
I'm sorry, are you talking about Cohen? He's not usually considered far-right.
I'm not sure we read the same Snowcrash. Yeah, Hiro had to be a good hacker, but he was also fucking killer with a blade. There was a lot of very physical activity in that book (and the world in general).
> and he would like to censor every single word before it is public - that is not freedom, it is authoritarianism

He never said that. He said that a publishing delay just enough to filter out potential illegal content (snuff, hate speech are illegal under US law) would benefit the society overall.
It's a pick-up truck, so... why isn't there a single clear shot of the cargo bed?
I'm thinking laser-disc for the Cybertruck.
Speech that's meant to demean or harm others? Who judges the intentions and what criteria is used to make that determination?

I find the claim that there are not clear double standards within this context to be indefensible.

Is wearing a MAGA hat in public hate speech?

Is telling someone their opinion doesn't count because of "white privileged" or "the patriarchy" hate speech?

What about calling evangelical's red neck climate change deniers?

You see, I've never encountered anyone that's vocal in this realm to apply their own standards logically and objectively.
It reminds me of Leonardo da Vinci’s mirror writing.
you should also be worried by this iphone tracking issue too, i think. such things should be banned immediately, because this is one of the first steps towards the real orwellish regime. it seems like bullshit first, then you'd say 'it's okay to use this tracking in court against rapists, maniacs', then communists, then leftist democrats, or rightist republicans, labour union members.. then say goodbye to all washing machines and four cars per family :)
He is the primary author of Coffeescript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script

I am not sure, but I believe he also has authored or contributed to the others.
has wikileaks itself ever mentioned Manning

They have mentioned him, but they've said that due to the way their system works it is impossible for them to know who their informants are. Therefore their statements are always hedged with things like "the alleged source of such and such".
I completely agree here. Hacker News has become a reddit cesspool over the last year and the types of posts popular on reddit seem to make it over here. I will leave this community in a year because I am sure the two communities will begin to mimic each other too much.

If it wasn't John Resig who "fixed" the subreddit, then this would be lost in the thousands of pointless posts. I hardly find this something worth of HN.
they could use both. why not release this as a controller, and set up a kinect like motion controller for the whole body as well?
Tired: carbon clams ingesting solar energy (tiny plants) and outputting pearls

Wired: silicon clams ingesting solar energy and outputting dogecoin
I don't use GNOME, so I can't say exactly how it configures those formats, but from the rest of the discussion it seems to just set the locale, probably via LC_ALL. But you can set the various settings individually.

Sane Linux Locale settings

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

On my Debian system (KDE) that works for what you asked for. LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.UTF-8" sets SI units, LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" sets dot as decimal separator, and LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8" sets ISO 8601 dates and times with 24H format. LC_ALL being left undefined is important, it will override the rest.

The process for updating your locales will vary depending on your distro. But even if GNOME doesn't allow it you should be able to use the terminal.
Check out the Mother Jones article by Kevin Drum. It's got quite a lot of references. The lead hypothesis is fascinating. The change in crime tracks lead levels internationally as well. While it is probably not the _only_ cause of the late 20th century crime wave, it's likely one of them, and might be a major one.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...