jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Trump's been riling his base up with lies and almost everyone important in the republican party has been doing nearly nothing to disagree. They're supposed to be about half of our elected leadership. They can be blamed for inaction.

If they were openly and clearly disagreeing with Trump, then they wouldn't be at fault. But they're giving tacit approval.
Two things:

1) You can't reason yourself out of a position that you didn't reason yourself into. They don't care that the data is bad, they care that it supports their worldview.

2) The folowing remains true now as it did more than 70 years ago:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre
ShapeShift has never had an order book.
Oregon and Washington have been voting entirely by mail for decades without any apparent problems.
The specs might be compatible but the programs aren't, exactly because of the assumptions (or plain old buggy code) you mention. So you need workarounds.

I run a lot of older software, especially (though not only) games and i often have to do such workarounds like wrapper or replacement libs. I've also tried running older stuff on Linux (e.g. i have a collection of Linux game demos from the late 90s to early 2000s) and while most stuff run, you do need to find and install a bunch of missing libraries and wrappers (e.g. for OSS support).
This was made before Trump was elected and it's amazing how accurate it is in hindsight.
I'm guessing they don't count Fox News, OAN, Breitbart, etc... as part of "the Media" in that?

To be fair, they probably shouldn't be counted in that regard, but it is how they have branded themselves.
> Like I said, most states use a paper trail.

Most states don't matter, the swing states do.

> But make no mistake, people who are crying about massive fraud are not actually serious about doing any of that.

Those people signed affidavits, what papers did you sign that make you liable under the penalty of perjury to get any weight and seriousness to your position?
Agreed, although I use NoScript + apply-confirmations-to-whitelisted-sites setting and ditched Flashblock.
Poland wasn’t into colonizing. The country wasn’t overpopulated yet and the elites were very rich from grain exports anyway, so why bother competing with other European powers for the New World?
Do a blind taste test with store bought and home grown eggs. You will be able to tell. After years of eating home grown eggs, I nearly spit out store eggs when I had them. The texture and flavor is so bad it was an immediate involuntary response. Home eggs are velvety and rich in flavor. Store eggs tasted like bland rubber. I say the difference is as stark as comparing scrambled store eggs and reconstituted powdered eggs.

My wife claimed there was no difference for a very long time. She had the same experience when we needed to buy store eggs last winter.

Strangely, when going from store eggs to home eggs the difference isn't as pronounced.
From the article

"And while on this subject of breakthroughs and records, please let’s not say stupid things like “We should just run barefoot”, or the common gaslighting method used by many that innovation has always been part of the sport, and the 2016 shoes were way better than Jim Peters and Roger Bannister’s shoes in the 1950s. Yes, but if you’re daft enough to actually entertain the debate about whether Kipchoge is a better runner than Jim Peters, great, but find someone equally daft who’ll have that one. I’d need ten beers for it to even seem worthwhile. Nobody cares. We get it, we expect innovation over many generations."
There will be false positives too and then the big question is will there be a proper appeal process or will users be forced to talk to a chat or email bot while trying to get unbanned.

For some people this is their livelihood and they will hopefully take that into account.
Isn’t Drone also an example of the author’s ideal solution?
With this method there is no additional per-user state, fortunately.
It's funny, no matter how I post about cities that have made cycling for transport work, there's always someone downplaying how meaningful it is.

You could look at Stockholm or Amsterdam or Copenhagen or Munich for biking, too. Those are all colder cities (but not as cold as Oulu) with decent or better bike infrastructure and cycling rates.

I'm in Munich and can speak to my experience here. Munich isn't as good as Dutch cities, but it's still better than any US city I've visited or heard of, by a fair margin. Weather is similar to Seattle, so kind of cold on average, but not horribly so. This winter we definitely had a fair amount of freezing though, and actually the last couple days we had snow again.

Munich makes it work with lots of protected bike lanes that clearly used to just be sidewalk. That's not ideal -- it cuts into walking space, obviously -- but it's still better than no bike infra, or painted bike lanes. There's also a fair number of off-street trails, multi-use paths (half the time these are just sidewalks where bikes are allowed, really) and walk/bike cut-throughs in neighborhoods. Oh, and the default road width in residential neighborhoods is small, which helps a lot.
The US doesn't really have the distinction legally, it's from English Common law.

Something is illegal if it breaks criminal law (aka you can be punished for it). Unlawful just means something is not lawful.

If you take something reasonably believing it is yours (pickup the wrong coat), you've acted unlawfully: you can be made to give the coat back or pay recompense. If you take a coat knowing it isn't yours, that's illegal.

Everything illegal is unlawful, but not everything unlawful is illegal.
I have been notified many times by reputable firms that my data has been taken, even if it was just a password.

Most of the stuff that I appear on havibeenpwned for is some strange data brokerage that probably grabbed my data from another hacked brokerage, etc
What did you use to make that data flow diagram?
Making a hostile environment at work probably isn't protected, though, and that's what carrying a swastika flag on national television will make.

As soon as I know a coworker is running about carrying a swastika flag, I can never feel safe around that coworker again.
Huh, I thought this would be original enough as I sited the original link in the post itself, which has more of a 'more great things to do with a microwave' theme than a 'check out this other post' theme (which is to say that this post is almost completely different). Sorry.
That is exactly what I came to this link to add. Kudos.

My only other advice: if you still need a mentor, find someone who you can get an hour or two a week from. You probably still do need advice, but it sounds like you're pretty grounded.
This is true. Many people get confused by the name. I've met several developers who refer to it as "Postgray" or some variation.
Given a decent percentage of my macros -don't- need capturing I quite like having a form available that's hygeinic out of the box to save me from capturing by accident.

I would not at all be happy to not have a facility to do capturing as well, though.
I mean, that's one way to solve cross-browser compatibility issues.
Yes, I linked to that same page at the top of my comment :-)
You're missing the point. Yes, most people work 8 hours a day. Why is someone's effort worth billions more than others?

And contributing capital is worth much, yes, but that's a chicken and egg problem: how did they amass that capital in the first place, if their 8 hours work a day isn't worth billions more than other's 8 hours of work?
Edit: Keycloak is licensed with the Apache 2.0 license, so none of this is relevant for Keycloak.

GPL is only a problem if you import or change the source code. If you just run it in the backend, as a service, you're most likely fine.

If you customise Keycloak through code, you're probably in GPL violation territory. With the customisability of Keycloak, I doubt that this is something many projects will ever run into.
no one here can diagnose you. see a professional if you would like a professional diagnosis.

take some responsibility for yourself.
- no support for one liners because of python syntax
- commands too verbose. a line with two lambda expressions would look terrible

(All my personal preference, obviously. But I'd rather have any other language than python, even lua)
Programming was the first “hard” class I took in high school.I did miserably in it, barely scraped by with a C. Despite having a ton of interest in it and a desire to learn, it was just so hard to get started. I decided it wasn’t for me and studied something unrelated in college. I took a dead end job out of college because I had no idea what to do with my degree.

I randomly met some professional software engineers through a local run club and started doing online classes/coding challenges with them through edX and project Euler. The spark came back and I decided to entertain the possibility of doing this full time. I made the leap and have been quite happy with my decision.

I think I was put off because I struggled so much with programming compared to my other classes. I didn’t see other people struggling with it, because the smart kids were the only ones getting called on. In hindsight, most of the class was struggling and I fell somewhere in the middle.

I like the idea of explicitly saying programming is hard. But it’s double edged, it will put off many people who may have an aptitude for it because most beginners are full of self doubt and humility. To the authors point, we should work towards changing the connotation around the word “hard” to be more positive.
I teach roughly 100k students through online courses. Whenever I release a new course, I get ~1% who immediately purchase it. Not sure if it's because I tend to produce high quality material which adds value to this niche audience, or if they are "die hard fans". I tend to believe it is the former. At least I hope so.
I don't have an answer but it's exactly the same phenomenon as when people refer to '#' as a hash-tag.
Do you remember the effort put into explaining to people that when the Large Hadron Collider was turned on, it wasn't going create a black hole that would swallow the entire planet?

This is the audience CNN has to entertain. You know... morons.
So, maybe that's an interesting thing you've got there, right?

Time-dependent type systems--and that kind of makes me think of state machines. Not sure if there's anything there, but maybe there is. Maybe we can prove that type systems that are time-dependent have certain computability properties?
That wasn't at all the sort of technique I was expecting. Without knowing otherwise, I'd presumed that you were doing something that directly measured evaporation rate, and that the claim that it was covering a large area instead of a single point was just puffery based on the the hope that air conditions were constant over the whole area. This is much better.

I only glanced at the original paper, but I was lost by the end of the first sentence: "Numerous methods exist for estimating the flux density of scalars." Mathematically, that doesn't make much sense. Does scalar have a different definition in meteorology? Or is this an odd translation from another language?
Asteroid natural resources comes to mind.

http://www.planetaryresources.com/
Was this not obvious from the start?
You can easily test in virtual markets.

Optionshouse has a nice one that has a XML ajax interface.

VSE from marketwatch is a bit older but can also be done.

I've wrote APIs for both.
I like Perl. :P
What's wrong with s3? It's cheap and simple. If you use linux, try http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup -- it provides a dead-easy gui to automate backups (to s3, or to other kinds of storage).
I would not like to see ISPs block alternative DNS services.
I use OpenDNS to block distracting sites, and alias
http://block.opendns.com to localhost, which is then
redirected to my to-do list. A web server on my machine
redirects the default page at localhost to my to-do
list on http://rememberthemilk.com.

In addition, my /etc/hosts file includes the hosts file
from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/, which aliases
ad and tracker site domains to localhost.

Ad blockers suppress ads, but do not provide positive reinforcement. Site blocking software systems filter unwanted content, but do not substitute desired content in its place. It's not enough to slap the user's hand.

The domain name filtering service OpenDNS displays a block
page at http://block.opendns.com if a site meets the criteria for filtering. This is negative reinforcement. OpenDNS might provide positive reinforcement if users could to substitute something else, for example, an online to-do list such as http://rememberthemilk.com, for the block page.

Maybe OpenDNS could provide such a service.
No one has mentioned that in any of the articles I've read, or the comments on HN (though, again, I haven't read all of them). Citations, please?
I've added the link to my profile, but no dice -- I cannot sign up.
Feasibility aside, that's a pretty narrow definition.
Well, yes. :-) But I'm considering the language from me, a user.
I beat my head on APIs from Google spreadsheets, so good on ya!

How does blockspring deal with Google Spreadsheet availability issues? I remember the spreadsheet not always being available.
> And we're mostly stuck with blurry pixel mess in devices which cost several times the price of a smartphone.

It’s not that black and white.

These days you can get $200 laptops and $2000 smart-phones.
Is that really true? I can think of at least 4 brands of car, shoes, jam, and even hosting services.
“Previous research, such as some data from a 300-computer cluster, showed that memory modules had correctable error rates of 200 to 5,000 failures per billion hours of operation. Google, though, found the rate much higher: 25,000 to 75,000 failures per billion hours.”

First it’s old data, but google having observed higher error rates suggests different choices. Location, power supplies, motherboard design etc can all play a role. Further, they should be optimizing for slightly different things. Finally, they got data for temperatures from running their actual production system at these temperatures while assuming it would cause even more problems.
I think this does a good job of presenting the financial issues properly without too much rhetoric. The most important point was that if these corporations need a bailout to survive, then the stockholders have already lost their money. The bailout preserves the corporation, for the good of the country and/or workers, not to prevent stock holders from seeing losses.

One place where I am in less agreement is when the authors says that the government should be paid back and retain its share of ownership (I think that's what the article implied). The author wants this to be an equity investment. Those are not paid back. Any dividend would be shared in proportion to ownership (previous stockholders may have been quite diluted, of course).

And then my final question is, should the government retain equity indefinitely? Might we imagine paying out shares to citizens?
I too hold this 30fps->29.97 solution to be quite ingenious. I wonder if they had any insight into the future of broadcast formats if they might have chosen a different path? I have no idea if anything else was possible, but looking back monday morning blah blah blah

This backwards compatibility has been the bane of my career. The 29.97 or 30000/1001 frequency, the interlacing, and the effects it had on 24fps film transfer has given me a niche career path, but one so frustrating when dealing with media content butchered by people that had zero understanding of the history of why film/video content was formatted the way it was.
No way is it clearer. Moving a pattern match to the top level removes the obvious intent that two (or more) functions overload each other and remove the debug/trace point for figuring out why one body was chosen over another.
Still no TPM? Seriously?
Just an aside, your parts list for the pi dramble has 4 Pi 4B's but micro usb power cables
If your comp is ridiculous, cut your expenses, and stick it out until you have a nest egg. Then go off king.
Is it? Obscenity is still not protected by the first amendment in the United States.
I wonder what the consequences would be if after a few years Facebook just decided to disable E2E encryption and all those privacy features, and started collecting and using all that data for advertising purposes contrary to what they're claiming now?

Another $5 billion fine? $10 billion? $100 billion? If enough people buy it, it could still be a profitable endeavor.

Although I'm sure we can trust Facebook not to do that. They certainly deserve it /s
There's actually survey data about this. They ask people, basically, 'How much do differences in parenting style and decisions affect a child's personality/behavior?"

Everyone in the survey thought there was a strong effect except one group: Mothers with two or more kids.
> you wouldn't throw away books from a library either.

While i wouldn't, the libraries do throw books away which aren't being borrowed.
You'll come up for air around 3 and minor hobbies will re-emerge around 5. I would recommend finding some deeply informed and interesting podcasts on subjects you expect to be helpful in order to educate yourself passively during the early years.
"I'm sure if everyone switched to Linux today, they'd start by talking about how much faster it is and within a few years be complaining about how the same system is slow and unreliable"

Not at all. Linux isn't windows. I don't know if that happens to OSX, but adding slow software to linux only slows the system when the software is running. The best example of that would be flash, which will bring a linux box to its knees. Once you kill the flash process, everything is back to normal.
Luckily US proxies are still working for moi.

I just watched this incredible Doc on the most famous Chinese Artist/Activist : http://aiweiweineversorry.com/

fyi, their chat support flat out said "we dont offer different content regionally, you should be able to see everything." ha!
LOL, more downvotes? That's bad form.
Because GPL is hard to work with. I want to write code, not dig through legalese or discuss with a lawyer whether it's okay for me to do X or Y. More often the easier option is either to completely isolate GPL'ed bits (i.e. run GPL software on a separate machine so that there's no possible interpretation under which we're modifying it), or use something with a different license.

Or are you saying companies should be more willing to GPL their products? That's unlikely to happen.
They demonstrate the truth that humans evolved as opportunistic hunter-gatherer-scavengers who can survive comfortably on a huge range of diets, so anyone selling any particular narrowly defined diet--like "Paleo"--as in any way particularly "natural" to humans is in a state of evolution-denial that would make the average Creationist proud.
What do you call it if you're just using a big list of regexes? I've seen that used for a simple dialog scripting language in a game.
Who would you prefer to be critical of Western culture, rather than a Western news organization? Or do you feel that criticism isn't warranted?
You still do war planning even if you don't want to go to war. We still keep our better nuclear deterrent up and running, even though literally no one wants a nuclear war.
Perspective is very important. Sometimes - especially when looking for a specific item when doing something like stargazing, it’s amazing what else you find along the way.
Surprise, surprise — the only female-indicating handle in this discussion is getting downvoted into oblivion.

One reason boards stay demographically skewed is because everybody on them vehemently opposes taking concrete action to address said demographic skew. Members of underrepresented minorities tend to favor active steps, disqualifying them as candidates from the perspective of the status quo.

A similar effect preserves the demographic skew of Hacker News. HN is overwhelmingly male dominated, and thus disproportionately unreceptive to views typically held by women and not typically held by men. That disagreement gets expressed through downvoting, which is ultimately indistinguishable from animus even if the intent was benign. And thus people who hold views common among women, finding this forum unfriendly, go elsewhere.
People were smuggling cheese from the states all the time. Canada is on serious downward slope. Super expensive housing, and food prices and high taxes. And outside of the big cities, very little development in decades. Thinking of moving back to Europe.
A company that owns $100 of cash and does nothing, should be worth $100. It earns $0, but is still worth $100. Therefore, its P/E would be 100/0 = infinity.

MSTR is becoming sort of like that. It very well could still be overvalued, but people aren't buying it for its earnings, they are buying it for the assets it holds (bitcoin).
There is NimData [1] and ggplotnim [2] and Arraymancer [3]. Also, neovim works well with the alaviss plugin [4], though it's not quite a full IDE. Most Nim coders use VS.

[1] https://github.com/bluenote10/NimData

[2] https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim

[3] https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer

[4] https://github.com/alaviss/nim.nvim
Wouldn't that make them more likely to mirror the Google/Chrome position than to take the opposite position?
Checking his alias is an indicator of what you should expect.
> the world wants brainless consumers

We don't have to select for that, the vast majority of people are already brainless consumers. And most of them think they are not.
Apparently Japan is. Now that China and India have "won" that particular game, it doesn't seem worth playing.
I run an app that helps farms manage their weekly or monthly CSA programs. One farm had their monthly distribution yesterday - thankfully they had already downloaded the data they needed to pack and label the orders, but they weren't able to tell customers their final total or send reminders, so they had higher-than-average missed pickups and are receiving money several days later than usual. Farmers are already distrustful of digital/automated solutions, so I'm sad that this has added to that distrust.
Please revise the title to conform to the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) by removing the "5" at the start — thank you.
I don't think the main point was that Apple have crushed IBM, but to give some perspective on Apples recent success with a historical context.
Disco looks incredible. Are you aware of any big production uses of it outside of nokia?
It would probably work better in a large company. We spent a couple weeks evaluating Hadoop in our small startup and came to the conclusion that we couldn't afford to have such an infrastructure team, and I imagine most startups considering Hadoop are in a similar boat.
once processors get fast enough that apple's ingenious integration isn't needed anymore

It's hard for me to envision what this means...