jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the measures they put in place to reduce the spread of the coronavirus were an absolutely unprecedented obstruction of the ability of observers to watch the process.

The mask isn't supposed to over the eyes, only the mouth and nose. Do you have any concrete examples of "unprecedented obstruction" and their effects? Or evidence that it didn't affect both sides equally? These are just random insinuations.

Also there's a bit of karmic justice here, because if Trump had taken the pandemic more seriously in the first place maybe there wouldn't have been all these restrictions. Or maybe he deliberately sabotaged the response so he could blame the restrictions for affecting the result later. (See? It's so easy to make up accusations).

> An election observer should be able to see everything every election worker does as closely as the election worker sees it.

Do observers generally get closer than 6ft to workers? Even under normal circumstances that's considered personal space.

Also this would require a conspiracy among hundreds if not thousands of election workers to have any effect. Without a single person blowing the whistle.

> How could anyone have known he was going to lose,

The polls had him losing WI by a far larger margin so that was a hint. The WI race being so close, and the history of the Republican party's treachery in that state is more an indicator of a failed Trump steal. I don't believe that is the case either - it's more likely that it was bad polling.

> Can you answer the actual question I asked?

You haven't presented any facts - only vague accusations. What is there to answer? You're a concern troll. I'm done responding to you.
I’m a Trump supporter who voted for him twice. I condemn what happened in the capital as well as the BLM riots that burned down businesses. I’m okay with both sides being met with gas and rubber bullets. All of trumps supporters aren’t lunatics. I would say the people who stormed the capital are maybe 10% of his support in the type of person who would attack someone over politics.
> A judge providing an opinion is not adjudication.

If it is a tangential opinion (not supporting one of the decisive grounds for an action), sure. If it is a opinion that is part of the basis for a grounds of dismissal that inherently asks whether, even before considering how the other side might challenge it, the evidence could ever support the plaintiff winning, it absolutely is adjudication.

The difference is important because the last can be (and has been in some of the cases at issue) part of the analysis when dismissing for failure to state a claim.
I remember how, in the Obama era, there was a constant drumbeat of "they're coming for your guns," and unsurprisingly it never materialized.

Why should I believe you this time?
Intellectual property laws are going to be more deadly than usual in the next few years. The populations of many countries won't get vaccines until 2022 and beyond, it's completely unnecessary and immoral.
Can we ban banning? What is so scary about words? And how did he even advocate for anything? It is scary how quickly we are ready to silence any dissent.
Venezuela operates like that too.
> And yet if we look at it objectively, the right is clearly overrepresnted in our political system.

That isn't nearly as clear as it seems, because of the incentives the electoral college creates.

Republicans could pick up a lot more votes in places like California or New York if they had any reason to try, but none of those votes help them if they can't flip the state. Spending resources campaigning in California so that it goes to the Democrats by 54 to 46 instead 65 to 35 is a losing strategy, so they don't.

But then that's why the popular vote numbers come out the way they do. If you actually abolished the electoral college, suddenly the foregone conclusion states would matter, everybody's campaign strategy would change and so would all the numbers.

The people the electoral college actually underrepresents are the people of California and Massachusetts. But also Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, etc. The people it overrepresents are the people of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. The swing states. Because they're the only people whose vote can plausibly change the outcome, so they're the only people whose concerns politicians care to address.

Which means you can pretty easily end up in a situation where people from deep red states feel underrepresented, because in practice they are. The same as the people from deep blue states.
Trump was not banned for his wars/drone strikes that killed civilians (which he increased, BTW: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-afghanistan-middle-... ).

He was banned for inciting violence using Twitter's platform.

I suppose if Trump ordered unlawful drone killings using Twitter, they also may have banned him for that, but Trump used Twitter to control mobs, not drones.
Quora is the dumbest shit ever. They send out these readers digest emails with interesting questions and shit and when you click on them they take you the freaking homepage every time. Like wtf is even the point of sending me the email than if you're gonna make it incredible difficult for me to find that particular question that i really need answered now?!
Then become your own factory.
running 2 programs to provide another higher level interface? not really.

IRCd - real time, ram buffering of messages. Quassel - reads and stores buffers in a database, allows users to retrieve them.
Right up until it nukes your perfectly working server.

The happy case works, it always does. The problem is in the edge cases and the exceptions. This probably goes for the bulk of all software.
I thought this is what the -site: operator was supposed to exist for?

Could that perhaps be a solution client/user side?
If YouTube were an independent company, they would have less leverage in the marketplace overall since they no longer are backed by Google's resources, no longer a part of Google's walled garden. Google will no longer have reason to give YouTube preferential treatment in ranking, advertising, etc. There's a lot of foundational things that will be shaken up, things which will force YouTube to actually be competitive, and actually provide value to users. Competitors will actually have a chance to dethrone them, and then the competitive forces of the marketplace, much like evolution, will lead to the crappiest business practices (like this premium spam) dying off and the market power shifting over to the users/customers.

That's of course assuming there's sufficient competition, and the power doesn't just shift over to Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft or some other anti-competitive giants.
We have to stop expecting moral behavior from publicly listed companies.

They will naturally trend towards short to medium term profit maximization within the given legal constraints.

The boundaries for corporate behaviour have to be established by elected governments.

In the case of China that could mean customs duties, sanctions and stricter regulations for moving part of your supply chain there.
google also has a definite opinion on news, politics and other controversial topics which will get worse and worse during election years or during times of war.
Question not directly related to this event, but triggered by this:

Has any of the countries around the world built a communication mechanism to directly reach its people without using any third-party platforms?

Isn't this a must, in case external/foreign malicious actors forcibly take control of the major third-party platforms used in a country someday in future?
People brought firearms to BLM events, too. Whether they brought them before or after riots broke out is unknowable. I support BLM and not rioters, fwiw.

What makes this unique is that there are records online of people planning violence in advance.
free speech has always had restrictions in the united states. this clearly crosses the “can’t use it to incite violence” line
But many of the legacy telecom laws remain on the books. It's tech that was exempted from these regulations, not legacy telecom. Sadly the privacy protections we had on phone calls were never applied to data. That would have resulted in a very different world than that in which we live today.
Theatres do indeed have an app to let someone yell "fire", which is the fire alarm.

It funny to me that the standard example of speech that shouldn't be protected is the only one that's required to be protected by building codes.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this.

A corrective upvote would have sufficed. Notice that the comment you're talking about is no longer in a downvoted state.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He is wrong and is corrected later on in that tweet. At that time, AMZN was mostly DEC Digital Unix. The DNS and mail servers were Linux in 97. AMZN started with SUNW (pre 97), but switched to Digital Unix because it was 64bit and could fit the catalog into RAM.
Link to the bill, since I don't see it in the article: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4192...
I'm not sure that you should be using the "recommended tests" option of Dromaeo, since that option includes SunSpider and V8 Bench. We already know the results of those tests (since you ran them separately), so maybe you should just run the Dromaeo-specific tests.
How many jvm:s are you running and what version?
> Quite a few people are quicker to recognize something from a picture than they are from a written description, which is why icons were invented in the first place.

Somebody should have told the team responsible for the Windows 7 start menu, where the items in the right-hand column have no icons until you're already pointing at them (and pause a moment) at which point they pointlessly draw attention away with a giant icon in a different place on the screen.
>"since the situation is in flux and information is still trickling in"

>I won't find you the data that doesn't exist yet.

Right, so not exactly something that you can base much on (yet). I could also make very similar arguments about the AZ vaccine, as a younger person.

Declaring your statements to be "basic evolution" does not make them true.

>How that milder variant is doing now? Compared to, let's say, the British one, or the Brazilian one?

The article was talking about the British one. I am also in the UK, and not dead. Yes, it was written soon after the initial outbreak, because Covid-19 mutated quite quickly. Using some similar fuzzy evidence, it would seem that "long Covid" sufferers are primarily people who caught Covid in March/April 2020.
Homelessness increases pretty linearly with housing costs:

https://www.zillow.com/research/homelessness-rent-affordabil...

And California is really bad at providing housing that's affordable.
I believe Guile and GNU Smalltalk used to run on lightning, do they still do?

What other projects use GNU lightning these days?
Doesn't matter where the material came from, there was still harassment.
Most developers think of commits as diffs and they can for all intents and purposes be thought of as such. It’s actually best for the understanding of how to practically get things done to think of them in this way.

Odd semantic argument to make.
Ah, they are catching on! https://twitter.com/dr0dil/status/1380230776017534980
Little known fact: high concentration of TCE permeates the Bay Area in cites like Palo Alto and Mountain View. The concentration is so bad that these superfund sites are regularly monitored by the federal government.[1]

I lived next to the superfund site of Palo Alto, which was right under Mayfield Soccer Complex. Little had been done to monitor the risks for the children [2]. Reading this article linking TCE to Parkinson's disease, I hope there will be more awareness about Silicon Valley toxic undergrounds.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...
[2] http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-...
My own impression has been that he does not really care one way or the other about tivoization. If that clause had been present in the GPL since the beginning, it would not have stopped him from using it.

However, he sees things like adding it as being a pretty significant change to the GPL, and does not like the fundamentally changing the deal. If GPL v3 consisted only of wording clarifications to ensure it worked properly in more regions and perhaps to allow apache license compatibility, he would presumably have had no objections, but of course, would be unlikely to have been able to relicense the kernel, given the kernel's numerous contributors and lack of "or later version" clause.
My off-topic rant: I'd really wish Spotify would focus on improving the core player experience. It has barely seen any improvements in years.

* Not overwrite/delete my listening history everytime I switch devices

* Allow tabs, or some way to resume what I've been listening to in different contexts

* Option to open only one instance, instead of having multiple instances that mess with each other

* Playing local files crashes/not working on Linux

* Change playback speed, not just for podcasts

* Jump back/forward, not just for podcasts

* Have some visibility when the song was last played / play count

* Liked songs not always appearing in search results

* Sorting search results not working

* Add basic functionality to the dbus interface (e.g. seeking)

* Ability to report songs (e.g. wrong titles/badly split tracks/etc.)
Would /dev/random be the combined entropy?
From the wiki article itself:

> The compulsory sterilization of American men and women continues to this day. In 2013, it was reported that 148 female prisoners in two California prisons were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures.
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-stern/sterilization-calif...

It was banned in 2014 at least. But 2013 is contemporary enough.
Greenwald's already been booted out of his own media org that he founded. Private corporations & all that.
It would be preposterous, if anyone were saying it.
Because my boss's boss has sent down a directive that there will be NO MORE MEETINGS. This then requires every manager to meet with everyone they have ever talked to (not just their direct reports) to explain that there will be no more meetings.

However, customer meetings are exempt, so the time previously taken up by meetings with co-workers is now used by sales and project management to "improve communication" about the customer needs or to "give them higher visibility" into our (non-existent) progress.
Yeah that is my biggest problem with this legislation... the law should allow or criminalise specific behaviours or characteristics, not name specific organisations.

I'm no Google or Facebook fan but targeting them in legislation for who they are rather than what they do is crazy.
By the common understanding of the word, it is not. Just as “homicide” means killing a person and “suicide” means killing yourself, “genocide” means killing a people. China’s persecution of the Uyghurs is horrific: it has locked up perhaps 1m of them in prison camps, which it naturally mislabels “vocational training centres”. It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women. But it is not slaughtering them.

- Yes, Guardian is so sure that no mass murders took place. How ? Cause you know, CCP says so, so must be the truth.

A sham of an article in the name of journalism and "trying to name the crime accurately".
What US laws have had an effect on the Prius? Japan just cares more, in the right ways, such as nuclear power, future technologies.
The video seems kind of misleading since it looks like the camera is mounted to an arm extended from the helmets. In a real game they're not going to be like that.
No Safari support either
I broadly agree with what you are saying. Most of the journalists covering India have an left-bias or are from the opposite ideological/religious spectrum. Modi has won the last two general elections with an overwhelming majority and regularly gets approval ratings highest of any world leader but NYT has not done a single positive article on him. Guess 1.3B Indians wrong and NYT right. If that is not blinkered colonialist superiority complex, I don't know what is.

You are getting downvoted by the wide HN audience, I guess the NYT has fans on HN ;)
FYI tptacek has gone dozens of comments deep on this topic every time it has come up. I don't know why he picked this hill (although I believe he has said he dislikes Scott) but I do know he ain't budging.
I was hoping to replace my laptop with a NUC running Linux, that I would transport between home and office. Since a NUC is a (small) desktop machine it doesn’t have a battery. Hibernate would have been great.
You can always add Cloudflare to the mix to cache static assets. This change is additive meaning you can start with a single Heroku deployment and if static asset traffic becomes an issue, you can create a Cloudflare account, configure DNS and be done.
My old desktop:

Name: AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 550 Processor
Microarchitecture: K10
Technology: 45nm
@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@ ############ Max Frequency: 3.100 GHz
@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @@@ ########## Cores: 2 cores
@@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@ # ##### AVX: No
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@ ### ##### FMA: No
@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ ######### ### L1i Size: 64KB (128KB Total)
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@ ######## ## L1d Size: 64KB (128KB Total)
L2 Size: 512KB (1MB Total)
L3 Size: 6MB
Peak Performance: 24.80 GFLOP/s

My recent laptop:

Name: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
Microarchitecture: Zen+
Technology: 12nm
@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@ ############ Max Frequency: 2.100 GHz
@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @@@ ########## Cores: 4 cores (8 threads)
@@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@ # ##### AVX: AVX,AVX2
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@ ### ##### FMA: FMA3
@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ ######### ### L1i Size: 64KB (256KB Total)
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@ ######## ## L1d Size: 32KB (128KB Total)
L2 Size: 512KB (2MB Total)
L3 Size: 4MB
Peak Performance: 134.40 GFLOP/s

Last year's server:

Name: AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core Processor
Microarchitecture: Zen
Technology: 14nm
@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@ ############ Max Frequency: 2.400 GHz
@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@ @@@ ########## Cores: 16 cores (32 threads)
@@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@ # ##### AVX: AVX,AVX2
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@ ### ##### FMA: FMA3
@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ ######### ### L1i Size: 64KB (1MB Total)
@@@ @@@ @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@ ######## ## L1d Size: 32KB (512KB Total)
L2 Size: 512KB (8MB Total)
L3 Size: 8MB (64MB Total)
Peak Performance: 614.40 GFLOP/s
I used to work for a large US-based publisher with a big presence in education. I worked on the ePub parser and renderer written in React. As a company we basically took the standard and ran with it. Each book could have its own interactive widgets where kids could do reading comprehension questions or math problems and the system would capture all this for the teacher to grade. We had closed captioned audio for a lot books that the ePub reader would co-ordinate and play. Last I heard they abandoned all that for a completely proprietary format though. It's been the only situation where I've gotten elbow deep into implementing a specification. It was interesting feeling out the nuances and finding the optional parts of the spec that actually end up being important because it was all planned to fit together.
> I've heard banks using SMS!!!!

It sounds like you're incredulous that even banks are being insecure, but history has shown that you can expect banks to be roughly last in terms of competent and secure IT. I trust my Walmart.com account info to be safer than my bank info.
In my experience, caffeine tolerance is dependent on how much you regularly intake. I switched to decaf about a year ago (which still has a not-insignificant amount of caffeine in it) and I get the boost I normally would from a fully caffeinated cup once my body adjusted (a month or a so). I have to go out of my way to find good whole bean decaf but the taste is great, the effect is very similar, and the headaches I get on the weekend when I don’t drink any are far more mild. Highly recommend switching to exclusively decaf.
Groovy is a very flexible language with an elegant and approachable syntax.

It provides fantastic support for concurrency with gpars.

It provides the ability to write static or dynamic code.

It integrates seamlessly with Java.

I feel groovy has created it's own space in the ecosystem, continues to grow and has a bright future.
This is fascinating...

Leon Trotsky, of all people, had a theory of "uneven and combined development" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uneven_and_combined_development

Essentially, this says an under-developed area has an opportunity to leapfrog the most develop areas, producing an entire new paradigm of development.

By the time African villages directly contact the West, they may have an entirely different form of capitalism we may be emulating...
I think 4 could be a legitimate concern - if there are no good resources for you to learn from, you don't want to accidentally put your company into a position where you have an unmaintainable code base because of a "known unknown". However these days we have the wonderful open source code being put out by the Basho people as a useful guide, so it's no longer a problem with Erlang.
Those are good points. I appreciate your responses—I definitely don't want to be seen as putting your program down, and I'm genuinely curious about what I was asking.

I suppose the increased risk is small, and probably nothing to worry about. Cheers!
This article reads like "yeah Erlang has a lot of cool features, but it's really scary to an OO programmer like me."

> I can’t imagine how you can organize large code-bases in Erlang or even work as team, and this doesn’t feel right to any OO programmer.

Well, yeah, but neither would Clojure or Haskell or a host of other interesting and useful languages. Functional programming is a completely different paradigm, and if you come into with an OO mindset the results will not be good. But that's more a fault of the programmer than the language.
* DTerm: http://decimus.net/DTerm/

With DTerm, a hotkey of your choice brings up a temporary little command prompt and sets its cwd to the folder of the file you're working on (e.g. in TextMate)
I love the coining of this word - let's claim the language high ground on this. Do mainstream people even know/care about this yet?
This man is suing for 60 million and will probably get a settlement for less but still large sum. If he were to get $10 million, would that be enough for 10 years behind bars?

No. At least, not if it were me.

But then again, if it were me, no amount of money would make me feel that justice was done. I'd want to see the prosecutor and anyone else involved in the frauds that got me convicted do some time themselves.
I really enjoyed the humor in this article. It makes it accessible enough that I will probably send it to a few if my newbie-programmer friends.

Thanks, that's what I was going for - glad it's funny to someone other than myself ;)

I had been reading through a backlog of old Steve Yegge articles at the time, some of which have very good jokes, and that inspired me to try to use it in this article. I agree that when done well, it can make the information that much more approachable.
Someone in the comments mentioned Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) which seems interesting, and appears to live on (in relative obscurity) at https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

Friendlier macros is a win at the very least!
Employers use the reality that someone equally talented will do it for the same wages or less. It's that simple.