jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hey, I didn't see it was you! Still at Douban?

I know what you mean in terms of "boiling milk" - in that respect I agree. I keep thinking these days of that old saying of China as a sleeping elephant; instead I think the people are the sleeping elephant. I think the government's strategy relies a lot on ignorance and apathy, but if even half of these stories we read as standard on NYTimes etc made it into the public consciousness, there would be huge issues.

About the laws - I guess it's not the actual content of the laws or relatively different values that illustrates control. Eg in your example about working on Sunday's - if you decided to fight one of those laws, you could do it openly and publicly and in principle it would be a fair fight. You might even embarrass the government or a political leader, but here there's so little chance of that - that's the different nature of the Communist Party control. The government/party has taken away avenues to legitimately discuss/debate/fight, so the options are either total apathy or explosive revolution. That's scary!
Poetry often goes way beyond just the naked words. Understanding the context around the writer, including background on his or her place and time matters a lot.

In this sense, this amazing iOS app completely changed my understanding of T.S. Eliot and his classic "The Waste of the Land": https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-waste-land/id427434046?m...

Highly recommended. It makes it pretty obvious that there is still so much opportunity to do more things with augmented content.
And, because nation wide state of emergency has been declared few weeks ago, even small law breaking stuff is a crime. So people running these bot networks might not have realized that if caught, penalty can easily be 10x the usual rate.
Yep. I was an artist before I became a programmer, and one thing we were taught is that we have to learn to draw/paint from direct observation rather than from photographs. Cameras reduce so much from the real world.
They don't have a way of verifying ownership of any other item on the marketplace either. That tablet I have for sale - did I steal it? Maybe. A thief can easily supply a forged receipt. An honest person who bought if for real might have lost their receipt. It's an intractable problem. It's not possible to verify ownership of every item there is. Should online marketplaces simply shut down then? If they are, people will get around it by making buying-selling groups. It is difficult to police behaviour that is, strictly speaking, legal.

If your suggestion was to shut down land sales in Brazil in particular because of the evident failures of the Brazilian government, yeah seems reasonable. Not like it will stop these criminals, but it's a worthwhile step to take.

You mentioned profit a couple of times. How much profit do you think the marketplace made in this case? My understanding is that listings are free.
As far as I can tell NFTs don’t actually give ownership of the IP. It’s not like the NFT owner could go around DMCAing other copies of the work?
I don't get why people's thinking swings to these wild extremes. Why does it have to be either a societal disruptor that changes everything or a doomed ponzi scheme? Can't it be something like "oh we tried to have cool internet money, turned out that it's not that great, some people are still into it I guess".
Thanks for the feedback! The page is brand new, and yes the professional services we'll be offering are upcoming, so sales will make sense then. I will work on adding more information on the front page itself. The demo is also setup so you can at least view products and tickets without registering, although adding a demo login is a good idea, I'll do that now.
Here you go:

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-suprem...

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.... (2006)
As far as photos go, this photo isn’t well composed or evocative of anything. Compare this photo to the one of the Ohio COVID protests last year (https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/04/ohio-protester-zomb...). I’m sure better photographs of the protest will emerge soon.

This one is wow (https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1346912374406615042).
There are some claims that Gradle builds way faster than maven. I personally witnessed at my last job (usual Spring Boot, Hibernate stack), that the builds were indeed way faster after migrating to Gradle, but then the Maven configuration had quite some years behind it, so it could also be possible that it was not setup optimal.

Anyone has some experience with that?
But is it? It's a bunch of people with little idea how their own government works walking around and holding up flags. They're not actually deposing anyone, they're not taking control of anything. You don't suddenly start running the country by just walking into the big government meeting room and disrupting things. That's not a coup; I see no seizing of the reins of power here.
Western intelligence agencies?
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He is trying to say that accumulation of money is not automatically bad just because some people attempt to do it in an unethical, nonproductive fashion. As long as the attempt to become wealthy is also accompanied by basic morals and decency, the pursuit of wealth is a noble venture.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_companies
They are not retiring all of human spaceflight - they are mothballing what's left of the shuttle fleet. Human spaceflight can continue with Soyuz for now and with SpaceX if and when they are ready. The Dragon can also ride a Delta. Also, the Orion was not canned, AFAIK, so, it too can ride a Delta IV to LEO, as soon as Delta IV's get man-rated. As for the freight capacity, a Delta IV Heavy can carry as heavy a payload as a shuttle (not sure about dimensions), so, there is no loss of capability. A shuttle is a 100 ton vehicle with 30 ton payload. That's 70 more than you need.

If we are to escape Earth, we need something much better than chemical rockets. We may need them to reach LEO, but, from then on, we need to perfect more efficient ways to move. The shuttle is a dead end. We need modular systems that can be assembled in varied ways to suit a given mission profile. The shuttle is perfect for one thing and one thing only - to bring truck-sized payloads back from LEO. For all other uses, it is much more expensive than its competition and the only thing that kept it in operation was an absurd determination that prevented development of other vehicles.

Don't get me wrong - it's a beautiful machine, but it should never be the only system available, for it is unsuitable for just about every real usage.
"Select the Participate button at the bottom of this page and upload your image/name, which will be flown aboard the space shuttle."

What... as binary data in a USB drive? Or is some poor intern going to print out all these, put them onto the cart with the wobbly 3rd wheel (the fourth already fell off) and dump them into the shuttle?

This seems like a bad publicity stunt...
There was a thread at a music production forum I frequent on a specific Audio Unit plugin (Mac only, I think) from Prosoniq that does more than just a band pass, but performs some kind of heuristics to isolate the specific sound and remove it without cutting other sounds that overlap that frequency (such as announcer voices).

I haven't tried it, but it has its own site: http://www.vuvux.com/

It's free; it appears to be a rather clever "vuvuzela only" demo of their full de-mixing package.
Data loss / corruption is design limitation?
Some of them ('Crèches,' for example) are from French, but perhaps you're thinking of others (e.g. 'nascent') that come to both English and French from Latin.
Cool. I did a traffic visualization from my apartment on Haight Street on New Years Eve and the first week of January this year. I just had a webcam with some software to detect movement in the middle of the intersection.

http://tlrobinson.net/projects/haightcam/traffic.png

(My R skills aren't great, sorry it's not pretty. The camera also got blocked for awhile around day 5 so it's not exactly scientific)

That first cycle starts mid day on New Years Eve. You can see a big drop in traffic leading up to midnight, then a big increase soon after. Not surprising, but it's always a little gratifying to confirm a hypothesis.
This comment comes late, but I've recently learned that "just curious" without qualification is a fair indicator of hubris.

A self-described "curious" person will seek out connections where none exists, force others to entertain their "great ideas", and eventually arrive at what looks like knowledge but is merely an illusion borne of their pride.

If curiosity is not balanced by humility, anyone could end up like the GP. Wanting to know, but unable and unfit to know because all their inquiries are perverted by their own unerring, unconscious self-love.
Tritium’s half life is \approx 12 years.
I still use jQuery. I spent a lot of time at todoMVC.com and after going through a bunch of their demos I decided to not use a framework.

I use jQuery, Bootstrap, Mustache.js, Accounting.js, and PouchDB.js.

I use CouchDB to manage users and user data on the server side and Service Workers to make the app fast and give it Offline-First functionality.

PouchDB.js is a great tool. It makes it very easy to work with a CouchDB on the server side.

PouchDB also works with the IndexedDB in the client side web browser, and with a CouchDB installed on a desktop PC for a local-first app that runs at near native app speeds.

And it will "live sync" a user's desktop CouchdB with your server side CouchDB to give your app's users Cloud access too. So, you can create an app that's a Cloud app, and a offline first app, and a local-first app.

CouchDB's Fauxton DB manager makes it easy to set up users, create DBs, and define user permissions on those DBs down to a document level.

That set of tools provides a huge feature set that's rock solid and easy to use and as powerful as any framework, and with the exception of your server side CouchDB it all runs on the client side so the load on your server is minimal.
Really? COBOL is younger than neural network algorithms and seems like a prime language to write neural networks!

The first artificial neural network was invented in 1958 by psychologist Frank Rosenblatt. Called Perceptron, it was intended to model how the human brain processed visual data and learned to recognize objects. Other researchers have since used similar ANNs to study human cognition. [0]

COBOL is a high-level programming language first developed by the CODASYL Committee (Conference on Data Systems Languages) in 1960. [1]

A COBOL-like neural network simulation language based on layer macro definition [2]
Perceptron in COBOL [3]
My first program in COBOL, a single neuron neural network. [4]

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591759/artificial-neural-networks.html
[1] http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/course/COBOLIntro.htm
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/714089
[3] https://github.com/victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gt8cao/my_first_program_in_cobol_a_single_neuron_neural/
Most likely would spread it into the ocean. So same thing as status quo.

(Not like it’s actually a problem FWIW.)
Came here to about how it would be better to use poetry, thanks for spelling it out for me.
The bad headline here seems to be editorializing on the part of the HN submitter. The actual article link headline is "Suga says time ripe to decide fate of treated Fukushima No.1 water".

Renaming "treated Fukushima No.1 water" as "radioactive waste" here is misleading and causing poor discussion by commenters assuming a concentrated high-level nuclear waste product as opposed to low-level contaminated rainwater as is the actual case.
The position I assumed is pretty senior- I report directly to the CEO. As part of the change,I still retained some of my previous responsibilities+ gained a whole lot more.
I did it for two reasons:

1) it was the right thing to do,considering the situation. My approach is always to be open about issues within the business, even if it's my own department. This isn't university liked by my colleagues but appreciated by the CEO, as he knows I'll tell the real situation rather than that with a pink filter.

2) I will move on, sooner or later, and I'd rather have someone in place before that happens. I want the company to be successful in the same way as they've given me tons of opportunities that I successfully used.

3) There's a considerable backlog of things I need to do at any given time,so having more resources would free up my day+ speedup certain developments in the business.
> PyPy3.7, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of Python 3.7, including the stdlib for CPython 3.7.10. We no longer refer to this as beta-quality as the last incompatibilities with CPython (in the re module) have been fixed.

That's pretty big news, I think? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it potential incompatibilities and behavior differences compared to CPython were often given reasons to not use PyPy. Either way, I'm always glad to see that PyPy is making progress. I think that a robust JIT compiler implementation is virtually a necessity for any serious language nowadays. Say what you will about Javascript, but its most common implementation nowadays (Google's V8 engine) is substantially faster than CPython for most benchmarks. The reason is pretty simple - the V8 engine makes use of JIT compilation whereas CPython is strictly a bytecode interpreter. I know that numba and cython exist, and that there are many other to get good performance out of python (mostly through the use of libraries that offload work to optimized C or C++ code), but I don't think having those options erases the need for a performant general purpose implementation.
why doesn't Amazon just ask you on sign-up if you're going to be mining coins, and if you say no, require specific authorization from you (outside of the usual key) to start doing so? Then until you authorize it, they can just not run mining instances on your behalf. surely it's easy for them to tell when this is being done?

EDIT: this got downvoted, but I stand by it, plus it's a question, so you could reply and answer it. In my thinking it's the same reason there's a daily ATM withdrawal limit set by default. You can lift it, but it's there to reduce incentive (payoff from trying to see your PIN and then stealing your ATM card.) the current policy is like the bank calling you and saying, "ummm, I hope you know you've already withdrawn $7,000 and seem to be continuing." Given that bitcoin is (literally) cash, it seems to me saner to not run bitcoin mining instances by default, unless you authorize it specifically. or can they not tell?
Lets be honest... lamebook does look confusingly similar to Facebook - the likely source of trademark violation allegations.

While I'm no fan of facebook acting petty and heavy handed - I can understand their discontent.
First off, hey Joel!

We do the exact same thing at Flickr. Anytime the front-end needs an method to do something, we'll build it in (though it may not always make its way into our public API).

The nice thing is if we change the behavior of an API method inadvertently, we catch it instantly since the site itself reveals the bugs.
There does exist debate on the topic, although I'm not sure if I agree that there should be. The statement is clear by itself, but unnecessary interpretations are what cause a debate. I understand that there is usually necessary interpretations to be made on topics from the constitution and other legal documents, as some are very vague. However, in my opinion, this statement leaves no room for interpretations and therefore no implications should made. [Sure this is debatable, but so is everything]. Rather than spending so much time on forming interpretations, people should consider an amendment. The general consensus now may have changed since then.
Yes, and also we expose them to our ideals. It's a win-win. Either they stay here and produce and inform, or they go back home and produce and inform.
Both the fifth amendment and the fourteenth mention "due process" as in: no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The fifth fifth applies to the federal government, and the fourteenth to the state governments. When the government passes a law that infringes on a person's right, one way a person can challenge it is to claim that the law violates (substantive) due process. The idea is that government has to have a reason for depriving a person of his right.

How important the government's reason has to be depends on the importance of the right being infringed. If the right is "fundamental" (1st amendment, voting, interstate travel, or privacy,) then the government must have a very good reason for infringing the right and it must not infringe more than necessary. This is "strict scrutiny". If the right involved is not very important, the government need only show that it had some acceptable reason (the law must be rationally related to a legitimate government purpose.) This is rational basis. Every law that fails rational basis must also fail strict scrutiny. But not every law that fails strict scrutiny must also fail rational basis. The vast majority of the laws pass rational basis.

It's true that the law being challenged has to relate to the fifth or fourteenth amendments, but that's not a very hard test to meet. Almost anytime a person would legitimately want to challenge a law, it would be because the law is depriving him of some right. And in every such case, the law must at least have a rational basis.

This is case here. The traveler has a right to travel, the government was going to deprive the traveler of this right. The government must have a rational basis at least.
First, every time I make such a disclaimer about something that you're saying is already "very public" I'm criticized for not being quiet about my prior involvement, but if you think that needed to be clarified, that's fine. Either way, in this case my role is completely immaterial. I said that I've written about this topic in the past, so anyone can click on my username and see. My real name is clearly in my profile for anyone to look up. Yours isn't, and I don't see it on your web site, either. And as the CEO of a Y Combinator-backed company, you might want to disclose that you are the beneficiary of the inside access you reference.

Second, call me crazy, but it's an official partnership from what has been reported, not a "partnership."

Third, partnership is an endorsement, plain and simple. You don't partner with people you don't support; you partner with ones you do.
If you refuse to cooperate with security in England, Germany, France, Italy, China, Burma, India, or any other place I can imagine, you would not have a policeman calmly understanding of how you were asserting your constitutional rights.
This was popular with Korean moms some years back.
There is no way I have enough time in my life to fully understand how the banking system works to judge their worth. And I suspect those in power prefer that the masses don't have that understanding either.

I barely understand how my Honda Civic works.
Should've linked to the original German site (just fddb.info), which has 233,000.
I studied health economics a bit, and the article does a really good job of covering all the bases. This really isn't a question that can be answered with grand theories e.g. "Just give them money", "Africa needs low tech solutions" or "White people always create more problems" (actually the first theory might be true, I just haven't seen much specific evidence regarding malaria).

A summary of the background facts are

- Malaria is a big problem.
- Mosquito nets prevent malaria
- It's hard to get people to use mosquito nets.

I think the key takeaways from the article are that (1) the proponents of mosquito nets aren't convinced that the scale of this problem is big enough to offset the overall positive effect of free mosquito nets. But (2) critics of mosquito nets suspect that proponents have too much psychologically (and financially?) invested in the mosquito net solution to consider alternatives. E.g. this interesting quote:

>Dr. Lehman, the American physician on Lake Tanganyika, wonders if there might be better malaria solutions for waterside communities. Specially treated wall coverings? Custom-fit window screens? “Why is this question not being asked?” she said, a bit exasperated. “Is it that we don’t really want to know the answer?”
When the trains are screwed I tend to just swear a lot and imagine that rail engineering meetings consist of crack addled muppets riding around in clown cars. It's interesting to get an actual behind the scenes explanation. They should publicize this kind of thing more, it's good PR.

What I would really like to know is, what's the story behind the London<->Norwich line being frequently down at weekends since I started using it regularly about 15 years ago? Every now and again it seems to go back to being mostly functional, but the rail replacement buses are getting recommissioned again. What's up with that?
and then they have more people and need more food, need more support for their ecosystem because of the exploding population is destroying it, and now you have uneducated people so they need education assistance, schools etc, etc etc. it seems like it would never end
Journals charge to publish. They even charge more if you want color pages.

I have the proofs of my papers, but I cannot access them online anymore.
They call Bezos a vampire because he uses other peoples blood plasma to keep himself young and healthy.

He's a fking vampire.
Not sure what you mean, but we don't care which corporate a press release comes from.
>For fuck's sake, focus on improving the language and this will come organically.

I don't have statistics to back it up but I would wager that waiting for users to come organically is among the top reasons software projects of any kind fail. Why should programming languages be special in this way?
I don't write complex Scala code either. Simple renaming doesn't reliably work for me on Kepler-based Scala IDE for Ubuntu :( This means sometimes it will fail to rename in every call site, and sometimes it will introduce random symbols.
Nano robots specifically, but just watch Star Trek they mapped out quite a few possible problems with future tech.
While I'm receptive to the topic and this looks like a good book, this literally is just an advertisement.
Too much work, very little return-incentives.

As UnoriginalGuy says: first big issue will be supporting 50+ devices * browsers on said-devices (that alone should tell you to avoid it)

Then you'll need to analyze and build up a collection of thousands of e-commerce stores with their specific check-out implementations.

Then you'll need to create filters for sensitive products (and try to define what is sensitive to who)

Then you'll need to support angry spouses who bomb your limited support email due to revenge-restrictions, partner-trolling, etc.

Lastly, some Google AdSense will become counter-productive to making money from this (if you intend to).

Ads sell products and you stopping product-buying would be, well...
I'll have to see if I can find a good library for this. The ones I tried (like Node Natural) just didn't give great results.
You can virtually drive through the infamous train tunnel in Google Street View: http://goo.gl/g1p9Kj