jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
alright but can you explain how that works? I didn't quite understand from your article. what I'm doing is this:

1) in plain non-incognito window, enter text, hit "Store"

2) open incognito window, go to same URL, the text is there!

that means the sessions can be linked now. where does this info come from? does Chrome (and Opera, which I also tested) share ETags between non-incognito and incognito windows?
Interesting post from reddit about trade dress http://i.imgur.com/aLGOQ.jpg from http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/gtg5i/apple_vs_sams...
The accessibility of PHP is its strength and downfall.

There exist so many third party libraries because of the low barrier to entry. But as more people join the party, the party moves toward the average. The average third party library is an untested and undocumented mess. I do not think this is specific to PHP.
What you said, plus the employee commute time - I have actually turned down a (nominally) better paid job offer to accept a (nominally) lower one. The pay is lower, but the almost instant commute means I actually earn more per (work + commute) hour. On top of that I also save on fuel, car wear and tear and road jam frustration.
To understand the Geometry Wars love see some of the top players scoring Highscore records for pacifism mode. Gets progressively more exciting so don't stop till the end. Worse case skip past half way:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=geometry+wars+2+...
You can sandbox it.
I have been unemployed. And I can tell you: lack of time is not the problem, for most projects. What is lacking is the will to actually do it. I find it often easier to actually do something, when you already have a (nearly) full schedule.
PHP + MySQL ended up being the VB+Access of the FOSS ecosystem.
I get it. Its hard. Its not simple. You still have to do it. unit testing and integration tests are hard in my line of work. They take time I could be spending creating stuff. They are an annoying interruption in my day. I still have to do them though. And after a while they pay off when the code gets bigger. Doing the work to share the data will pay off too, but first you have to do the sharing.
Raising the minimum age wouldn't hurt people who are already retired. But that wouldn't stop the AARP from mobilizing its entire membership against it, of course.
Does anyone know of any alternatives for IE?
I found one link.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/09/kinect-hacking-video...

It talks about data dump. Anyone know of good resources to learn about understanding this data.
Bah, my comment was something I had in the back of my mind... so I looked at the parent and misread it as being on the same topic, sorry :)
I also recommend: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html
When it comes to wireshark and remote servers i often do this:

ssh root@someserver "/tmp/tcpdump -i any -p -s0 -w - not port 22" | \
wireshark -i - -k
What do you think, technical writing should be included in the daily job of engineers, or is it ok if the company is hiring people with some low technical skills/experience in favor of some target-language-Bachelor-of-Arts students to do these tasks?
The language has a lot of really nice stuff and the introduction of threads and support for them in the standard libraries (beginning in 1.3) has helped us a lot.

That said, the tooling is still frustrating. Generating compiled binaries is a slow, painful process.
Not more serious than the seasonal flu is the bullshit that continues to be spat around. 20% need hospitalization for Covid vs 1-2% for the flu. 11 days for Covid in that hospital vs 5-6 for the flu. 1-5% death rate vs .1%. The chances of getting lung scarring are tremendously higher. Also the rate of asymptomatic seems to be significantly higher. It’s more deadly and more contagious than the Spanish flu. Please stop this “it’s just like getting the flu!” Nonsense.
What you've linked has essentially nothing to do with the discussion. What the person who replied to you thought you were talking about was the equation for energy stored in a capacitor, which is proportional to inverse of distance.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call for a lot more people to spend a modest amount of their income saving for a rainy day when this is all over. And not just in terms of cash, but in terms of enough staples and essentials for a few weeks of weeks of interrupted supply chains, a go-bag in case your residence needs to be evacuated suddenly, the ability to teach your own kids stuff. These sound paranoid to some. It's a burden for others. But look where we are right now. And as possible apocalyptic events go, this is minor.

The desperation and helplessness I hear from people after literally days of being affected by other people's panic and by public health orders is completely avoidable. It doesn't matter where you live, natural disasters, pandemics, job loss, closures of basic services and other not-THAT-impossible events are a thing. It doesn't even have to be real. If a handful of people THINK there will be a TP shortage, there will be. Things like hygiene supplies, rice, etc. won't go to waste if the world doesn't end. You'll use them eventually. Just buffer a little.

Be prepared.
> I view 3 weeks without work as a feature, not as a problem.

3 weeks without work can mean real cash issues, especially for those who are just starting out in freelancing. It may be nice to have a three week break but let's be honest, most would be terrified and be frantically hunting for work.

Hardly a feature.

>But I believe that a freelance should always keep at least six months of living expenses worth of funds in liquid assets.

But if you have a six month emergency fund, then it may be a feature I guess ;). Many do not though.
Joking aside, I don't know why we are still using such simple tech to secure transactions. Large numbers aren't good security measure.
Is the bit about Cabot saying that French and Portuguese fisherman started fishing there in earnest by 1502?
> 50 years ago?

Can you provide any link or evidence that you made the specific bet 50 years ago?

> Sure, and if you give a monkey with a typewriter infinite time, he'll eventually write Shakespeare.

Only impatient and ignorant monkeys think it takes several years to change 1.4 billion people.
They're anticipating being able to socialize the losses. We shouldn't let them.
It's perfectly valid for you to argue in defense of that right, even that it trumps property rights if that's what you believe. What's not okay is to say that the people siding with the issue's other concerns are dumb greedy idiots who shoot themselves in the foot because they can't understand sharing.
I'm not getting any kind of paywall or even popup, so you might want to open the URL in private browsing.
I'm completely unfamiliar with this, but could they not get HAM licenses and operate on amateur radio frequencies? Or simply turn what they are doing into a podcast?

Or is the issue that their target audience only has access to AM/FM radios?
I immediately thought of this article:

https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2019/11/10/just-putting-it-ou...

Just putting it out there: Fuck Callum Booth's opinion.
This reminds me of an old article by David D. Friedman, "Choosing Metarules for Legal Change".

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Metarules/Metarules.h...

It discusses some of the problems with both horns of the dilemma about changing rules.
You know... I know a guy who has several different Google Chromes installed on his Mac. Google Chrome, Google Chrome (2), Google Chrome (3), etc. (He has an intellectual disability. This kind of thing happens.) I guess you could have as many as you wanted and name them anything you wanted, right? It's like taking your favorite web apps and Electron-izing them.
which in 2000 was ~ 1% of worldwide internet users.
That's a good point, I've always seen Uighur but who knows. The Chinese story has not gained a network effect yet, not enough people know about it to make it a profitable target for media companies. Occasionally you'll see a story on it, but until more people understand china headlines won't drive clicks.
The article discusses this as its main theme and shows generalization across datasets.
Lisp's development was skewed by the high cost of memory. Early on, scope was dynamic, lists were mutable and often spliced in-place, linear searches were typical (hash tables were almost unheard of), and there were very few first-class types because a pointer only had so many tag bits available.
It certainly can be, but that's not a business problem, there will always be people who failed to prepare or lacked the necessary skills to prepare for old age or people who refuse to move somewhere they can find a job. Education doesn't equal skill; jobs pay for skills, not for education; if you have skills you can find a better than minimum wage job, but you might have to move.

Those are problems for society, not for individual business owners. Those problems should be solved by taxes, not by forcing business owners to pay people more than they are worth to the business.
Related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776521

Also: https://medium.com/fibery/fibery-io-burnout-so-exploring-a-s...
Is it the guy who was making 400k at Amazon? Paying someone a quarter of what they are "worth" isn't that great a trick.
Will it be around in 20 years? Probably not. Does that make it a fad? I don't know. I've had one for 4 years and I'll certainly be riding it for another 4. That's good enough for me. I tend to be allergic to fads and trends, but as long as one is happy with what they get for the price paid, what's the problem?
I can't view the article (seeing "Error establishing a database connection"). But isn't trademark prohibitively expensive and (traditionally) applies to just one country?
My usual warning when these stories reach the front page: If you feel you might need medical help for a mental illness, please don't let stories like this dissuade you from seeking appropriate care. The author notes that the medications were effective at treating their condition. Too many people delay necessary treatment for years for fear of side effects, only to later discover that their underlying depression was far worse than any medication side effects. Medications aren't perfect, but untreated depression is no joke. The author's experience is also unlikely to match the average patient's, as their medications were also chosen to treat their very painful trigeminal neuralgia.

That said, it's strange that the author's doctors didn't notice this earlier. The topic of which antidepressants cause somnolence is hardly new research. Even the author's own doctor knew that Medication 2 was responsible for the daytime sleepiness. I suspect they may have underestimated the degree of fatigue reported by the patient.

From the article:

> I did in fact know that fatigue was a possible side effect of the medication, but I was taking it off label at a drastically lower dosage than is typically prescribed (<1/20th), so it didn’t seem very applicable

Counterintuitively, some medications are more sedating at lower doses than higher doses. Trazodone, for example, is frequently used for insomnia at low doses when taken only at night, but can also be an effective antidepressant at higher doses when taken multiple times per day.

Mirtazapine is another example of a medication that can be very sedating at lower doses but become activating at higher doses. Low doses primarily antagonize the histamine H1 receptor (similar to antihistamines like Benadryl), while higher doses activate a wider range of receptors that can become stimulatory.

With pharmacology, it's not safe to assume that a lower dose of a drug simply produces reduced effects relative to a full dose. The effects can change throughout the dosage range.
all men are created equal under the law.
yes, she does
A good ruling.

Re-implementing an API is how we got clone PC's when Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS interface and associated ISA bus logic which made Intel based DOS home computers cheaper and affordable for ordinary people.
Read Thomas' dissent, it'sabsolutely insane. He says how those 11k lines are basically 97.5% of Java's entire usefulness, and billions of dollars of value to Oracle from an Amazon deal. Absurdity.
Now while I eat my hat, I am waiting to see what will be the next excuse for not updating Android Java to latest versions.
Well, before this decision in a situation like this you would at least be able to retain your existing customers who are already invested in your platform, due to API incompatibilities etc, but with the ability to painlessly re-implement platforms the large business would take your existing customers too, and reuse the platform momentum that you've built.
Here's a screenshot from one of your articles: https://i.imgur.com/5AJ5mut.png (Crudely made on iOS, sorry.)

When am I supposed to read the highlighted text? Is it when it was pulled out and strongly emphasized? Or when it appears again, separated by a single paragraph, in the flow of how you originally composed the article?

Or in this one: https://i.imgur.com/DnhsI8n.jpg -- the pull quote comes after what I've just read, instead of before it, so I may have the pleasure of reading it twice. Both copies of the text are on my screen at the same time. Can you imagine if a podcast every few minutes repeated a sentence that was just spoken seconds ago, only at 4x volume, and then just resumed as if nothing happened?

(A comment about this second example: The paragraph directly after the pull quote starts, "The FCC took on this question..." Which "question" am I supposed to interpret this as? The one in the pull quote or the one in the previous body paragraph? The pull quote has not only screwed up the ordering of the text, but added ambiguity merely through its presence.)

If your intent is to appeal to readers who just flick through the page to read the headlines, why not write in bulleted form like Axios? If your intent is to look attractive, a text-heavy format is not ideal.
When I took the trans siberian railway in 2008, they actually took a break at the border of Mongolia and China I believe to change the axles for different size ones which took a couple of hours.
Having the ability to execute without too much handholding on the projects they've been given, based on their skills set.
I'm confused on why you brought up security cameras. It doesn't say anything about them. I see things like

> governments monitor our communications and social media activity

> The fact of the matter is that if you're using the Internet, you can bet the NSA is watching. They keep a record of what you’ve visited and whom you’ve been talking to. The NSA has the ability to build a complete picture of your day-to-day activities.

> if you have called a Pizza Hut, and a known drug dealer has called that Pizza Hut, then the NSA is currently keeping records of your actions -- and the actions of everyone you’ve spoken to.

It also addresses the good - there isn't any, or at least no good reason has been given:

> If it’s to prevent terrorism or keep the public safe, it’s not working. On December 12, 2013, the President’s Review Group found that this data collection was “not essential to preventing attacks”.

If there's a lot of bad (it gives details) and no known good ... I believe their point is, why have it in the first place?
Doing something very similar, hosting a lot of things on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 400 GB SD card.

Dockerizing most things https://github.com/divyenduz/dev-infrastructure

Not as easy though, I still need to figure backup strategy and everything. My goal is to eventually remove photos, and almost everything hosted entirely really.
Sorry, poor wording on my part, I meant something related to a bad bite (like TMJ). I had worn a joint on one side like a bad knee, but not the other. So the ALF realigned my bite by making room for the teeth to be where they wanted to be, so the joint could open back up. Good point though, my situation might be something unrelated, and I don't know if there's a correlation between TMJ and tinnitus.
That's an odd argument to post for having no opinion....
The difference could also be due to how long the beef is hung or aged. Beef tasting too “gamey” might not be hung long enough (suggestion made last night by small farmer friends, fwiw).
Yes, they can observe my queries to authoritative servers. But I didn't claim that running your own recursive DNS guaranteed privacy; I only claimed that it dispelled all problems arising from relying on someone else's DNS recursors.

I happen to trust my ISP, BTW; I really just like running my own because I can observe what it's doing.
I could accuse you of the same thing, if you're saying a large percentage of the girls a.k.a. a majority are trafficked yet they don't report it, how are you coming to that conclusion and getting that data in the first place?

Show me your evidence.
What does that have to do with “white supremacy”?
We should work under general provision: if data is gathered, it will be used. Even if it is not legal today for IRS to do something, it does not mean it will not be tomorrow. And law unfortunately works backwards too.
Former conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532146
Which features of Go would you say make it inherently more secure to use than php given the same developer?
Do you think that pertains here or are you being argumentative? Or do you wish to make a larger point about the idiocy of the CFAA?
Khan Academy used to let you watch videos, do questions, and collect points. Then you would sign in to claim them.

Their new homepage looks to push you to sign up first though. There is still a link to "Unclaimed points > Sign up to claim your points" in the top nav.
One of my research interests is leveraging the benefits of crowdsourcing to answer some problems/challenges that are best addressed by human intuition and cognitive ability. For this class project, we were interested to see how a robot without the ability to change facial expressions can still express different emotions. The robot, Keepon, is a (relatively) well-known robot used in social interaction studies with autistic children. If any of you have some extra time to play around with this mini webapp, I'd appreciate it. I'd also love to hear from any of you regarding your opinions on how these sort of crowdsourcing approaches might best be implemented in the future.
What are the differences between this and a data: URI? Just the shortener and that it can use out-of-band Javascript for the editor?
I had signed up for http://gavamedia.com a few days ago. Their home page has some pretty cool animating 3D effects in chrome for those clouds.

The site's a development environment. An IDE for online programming to make web apps. Hope the launch product is as good as the launch page.
If a laptop is a major purchase you should probably hold off until you can save for it unless you require mobility (e.g. client visits) or a smaller form factor (e.g. small apartment). However, be sure that those requirements are actually bringing in enough money to justify the cost. If you need to make client visits, but a laptop purchase is a big deal, should raise your rates.

I bought a late 2009 MBP because I wanted a modern consumer operating system as well as easy access to linux tools. I've been very happy with it. Previously, I had been running Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 9300 and was fed up with the poor support for everyday things. I recommend unless you do Windows dev work or think it's a big purchase.
Agree completely. After getting all this feedback we think we are going to let users take a really cool tour of this product through the eyes of a user.
By an odd coincidence, I just got an email from United/Continental offering to donate $1.00 to a conservation group if you use a mobile boarding pass on Earth Day.
I am in awe at people who say “market forces should rule everything “ and then in the same breath say “government has a responsibility to enforce that a private organization must allow everyone to use their platform in an arbitrary way”.

No one was arrested. No one was silenced. Project Veritas could send an email out with the information to all their subscribers completely legally (assuming they weren’t breaking federal law by doxxing people).

If I was mod of a knitting forum and had a public policy of never allowing people to talk about Tom Brady, and someone did so, I could ban the person. That’s not censorship, that’s me kicking someone out of my (and only my) community. They can still talk all they want.
If it costs $100/month, and you can get local streaming TV service from it too, then this can compete with cable tv.
Absolutely, there has been a dramatic shift in the type of people who visit HN in the past years.

I used to think that Reddit was bad in this regard but to be honest it mostly affects the big subreddits, the niche and small ones still have a high quality community. HN became pretty much like the biggest subs on Reddit.
That's right, but what's new about this time is that the "how bad things have to get before we rethink laws and governance"-threshold had changed, as has the "how efficient of a government we'll accept before we stop iterating"-threshold.

Governments run themselves but until recently, economies didn't. Now that there are two memes (besides violence) that are each independently capable of mediating coersion on a global scale, we can play them against each other and select for the one we like best.
> "People who understand human beings" and the have the ability to synthesize those insights into compelling technology products are exceedingly in demand in 2021. Rest assured, we hire as many as we possibly can and offer them a lot of money/benefits. However, they can pretty much get jobs anywhere and many choose to start their own venture.

How is Google to address this issue? Buying more startup teams and then abandon their products? What about the talents who do actually want to work for Google but have no chance to pass the high barrier of engineering culture which is the symptom of lacking “understanding of human beings“?

These are serious social engineering challenges Google is facing and deserve serious discussion.
Then it's clear what must be done in the CPU world -- we need to insulate our CPUs better and eliminate all heat transfer.
What was the forest coverage of Germany when it was as poor as Ethiopia today is, per capita?

When Ethiopia gets wealthy, it will afford to have more forest.
> ~10 years later and Imgur is basically a social network itself. I hate seeing an imgur link now. Photo upload doesn't seem to be something that can be offered in a way that pleases everyone.

It seems like it can start out good. But then, inevitably, some “product owner” or UX designer won’t be able to keep his or her hands off it, and will eventually ruin it with chat, social features, newsletter subscriptions, JavaScript, scrolljacking, clickjacking. It always ends up like “imgur 10 years later”.

This is how so many good software products go bad. People can’t just leave it alone.
What helps me is cleanliness and tidiness (which is about aesthetic) more than minimalism (which should be about function but its aesthetic is more.. well.. visible.).
"Well actually", they can if they have a greencard.
Not meant to be comprehensive - just out of personal curiosity - Stanford has produced larger technology companies than life sciences but latter is growing.

Daphne Koller is incredible - will add her work next time. Papers are often a starting point/PoC for a lot of companies in life sciences. IP and other components come out as a result.

Appreciate it.
I actually think this a great example of the Curb Cut effect, where accessibility features that are vitally important to one group of people (wrt curb cuts, wheelchair users) also provide broad benefits to many others (wrt curb cuts, one example would beparents with small children in strollers).