jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Divisive times will cause damage. Either as the collateral you mentioned when trying to stop it, otherwise when the winning side will change society. Ignoring problems generally increases the damage they cause, so not tackling it earlier might be the bigger fault.

Sure, we can hope this will all blow over, but I don't see reliable mechanisms encouraging this outcome while I really don't want to risk another 1930s germany to repeat itself. Thus I don't see any other way than fighting for (the important parts of) the status quo. Even if it won't be easy.

> Delegating in modern democracies is actually one of the reasons people disengage even when they do have a stake or opinion on the topic.

I was rather talking about using appeals to authority/expertise when forming & defending your opinion. "I'm a for Positions A, B & C cause Person X I respect on some podcast is for it" is fine as defense. You now only have to defend choosing X instead of A, B & C individually.

Yeah, the US two party system seems especially bad. But I'd also look for other factors, since divisiveness seems to generally be on the rise. At least here in germany, with a fresh neo-nazi party worryingly drastically, even with more options available, some of them fitting e.g. your position a lot better than just "left vs right" of the US. Non the less do people still feel ignored and left behind.

Though while looking for more direct counter-examples, the 2019 swiss election does look very similar to their 2007 one. I don't feel confident to form an opinion on that datum alone without knowing the broader context. At the same time, articles about "these places manage to keep their divisiveness in check" would probably not do very well in current media and thus I'd probably not notice them in the first place.
It's certainly possible for a single consciousness to develop severe mental illness, and if that's what we are then I'd say we were already well down that road.
What if, instead of a random sleep, you have a defined period of time for a function to take– you take a clock reading at the start and end of your execution, and sleep the remainder of the execution time?
Taking the money from land ownership instead of from income doesn't make the taking more palatable to those you're taking it from.

Chances are, if I've got a high enough income to be net taxed for UBI based on income tax, I've also got a high enough land interest to be net taxed based on UBI based on land rent/property tax.

Personally, a system based on income tax works better for me, as I'd like to have some high income time, then retire and lower my tax burden. If land/property is a significant source of government revenue, I need to have a much larger reserve before I retire; it may be easier to accumulate, but it's a psychological barrier. If you're changing the rules after I've already retired though, I'm going to get out the torches and pitchforks.
I worked for Jeremy Johnson in Utah. He stole millions from people doing exactly this.

https://blog.zamicol.com/2018/03/mormons-polygamists-and-eva...
But Apple only abides when it has to:

1. USA: Apple denies access to the FBI on known/convicted terrorist's phone, iCloud. China: Apple moves entire iCloud operation over to a government cloud, with no privacy guarantees.

2. USA: Apple blocks app stores within third party apps. China: WeChat/govt. threaten Apple with censure, to which Apple succumbs allowing "apps" on WeChat-china.

3. Apple sure as heck won't approve/deny apps based on government input, but they damn well will remove Taiwan emojis, Hong Kong protestors apps, etc at China's behest.

So no - Apple only punches down, never up. They aren't complying with local law, they are routinely violating their own moral grandstanding on privacy, freedom, tracking, ...
The list of reasons is good but the proposed alternatives in terms of social media (as opposed to messaging - which are pretty good) is laughable. Mastodon and all these federated services IMO fail to address the main problem while bringing several other problems to the table; I've explained this in a previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317513) which I'll quote here:

> One big issue is that there’s nothing decentralised that currently exists that can rival the quality & user experience of mainstream social networks, and decentralisation comes with its own problems (I personally think the problem with mainstream social media is its ad-based business model and not centralisation).
Mastodon (which seems to be the biggest alternative being proposed) is still a joke, even the name and branding sounds awful IMO. And who in their right mind thought calling a post a “toot” (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/toot) was a good idea.
Besides the branding, decentralisation comes with its own issues like the lack of network-wide content moderation and agreement on what content is acceptable. There are solutions (more like hacks) around this where instance admins can choose not to federate with instances they don’t like the policies of, but it then causes problems for end-users where they can’t communicate with their peers on those banned instances despite all of them being on Mastodon. Good luck explaining to a non-technical person why they can’t talk to/see the posts of certain people despite them all being on Mastodon, and the solution is to spend time choosing an instance with policies you agree with and making sure your friends are on it or on a similar instance that’s not banned by yours, and then hoping the instances stay online without any kind of funding (there’s also no knowledge of whether they would scale to the size of mainstream social networks).
The solution IMO is not Mastodon or any of these fringe social networks. The main problem is the lack of an ethical business model in mainstream social media. The solution would be to vote with your wallets and fund a better Facebook alternative - it could even show the current social networks that there’s profit to be made treating their users with respect and make the situation better for everyone else too.
I only use Facebook for events, yet there seems to be no alternative, partly because of the network effect where small and large organizations keep posting their events only to Facebook.

If there was some kind of bot that would automatically crosspost events from Facebook to other social media platforms, then perhaps there would be a chance of winning me over.
The $1 fee is generally standard to see if your card is legitimate.
Exactly the same here. I just quit my job because if this actually + commute.

It just so happens that this time I didn't allow myself to become burnout. Which is progess I guess.

Hope you solve your issue quickly. I know we tell ourselves this and that reason not to quit but sometimes there are two paths - either work against yourself or quit. Not sure if I know the answer here, sadly.
We need to take these foreign stories as serious cautionary tales. For anybody who has been in doubt so far, this is what all this surveillance tech looks like as soon as the government decides it wants to gain power with it
Ask a well-off friend of yours for a dollar every single day and follow it up by explaining that they don't really need it and they've got plenty of dollars, and you need it more than they do. If you can begin to understand why they might start getting angry with you on that micro level, then you will start to understand why it makes people angry on a larger scale.
You might want to have a demo that doesn't require signing into Twitter. I didn't go any further.
Thinking on this further, you're really doing two things: extracting a
schema from an instance; and converting it to C# classes.

1) extracting the schema from an instance: in a JSON instance, a
list will have some number of elements; but in a schema, you just have
the concept of a list, and what it may possibly contain. Because JSON
doesn't explicitly facilitate choice or references, they can't be
automatically extracted (in the rare cases where someone implements
this, they do it in their own non-standard way on top of JSON). JSON
also doesn't represent the idea of productions - fair enough, since
productions are a schema/grammar-level concept, which simply don't
appear in an instance. (In general, there are many different ways of
dividing up a grammar into production that yield identical languages
ie. the set of possible instances.)

2) representing this schema in C# classes. This is conceptually
straightforward, once you've got the schema.

In practice, these two steps almost disappear, even conceptually,
because (with the exception of lists), you are just making classes
that have the equivalent contents to each object in the JSON instance.

i.e. you can see it as an isomorphism:

mapping from JSON "objects" (within {}) to C# classes; and
recursively within that, from
JSON "fields" to C# fields and
JSON values (int, boolean, string etc) to C# primitive types.

(BTW: The mapping of objects to classes is instance-to-schema.)

Lists are an exception to this isomorphism:

mapping a JSON list (within []) to a C# list/array,
the _elements_ of a JSON list are not _all_ mapped -
only one is mapped (eg. a JSON "object" is mapped to a class)
This sounds awesome, but it would be good if I could try it without giving your app unlimited access to my twitter account forever. (much as @ra has pointed out.) Is there scope/resource for a demo version without the API features (i.e. just grabbing my timeline and showing me the links inside your UI, with retweet buttons greyed out)?

I appreciate that is a fairly convoluted feature to add in 3 days though - sounds like you guys did a good job anyway! :)
If you do this you will get much better results by prominently mentioning the reporter's name rather than (say) the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal is an institution, the reporter is just a person. Criticize the Journal and they will all have her back. Criticize her politely, calmly, but from a prominent platform... and her fellow reporters will wonder whether she might be screwing up the Journal's reputation, and internal pressure will be applied. Funny how that works.

Reporters self google more than anyone else alive and have remarkably thin skins given how much they dish out.

The Journal might retaliate by sending a sleazeball reporter like Pui Wing Tam (who went to the extent of stalking Benioff) to write a hit piece, so be prepared to go to war if you do this.
> how sure can I be it'll not be used by a third party to spy on me? Boeing's promise?

It's not really aimed at you, it's aimed at the US government....
A music discovery site: http://tuned.io

SoundCloud API + Node + Backbone + MongoDB

Intend to use it as a learning platform for a lot of data analytics / machine learning. Grouping similar users, identifying tastemakers, etc.

Currently it's a lot of electronic, no-vocals, coding music.
Yes, along with hundreds of other issues that would have had no security impact.
I think it goes to show how slowly culture changes in hardware manufacturing that this isn't a checkbox feature that is in the press kit for new model releases.

From looking at the parts list, it seems like it ought to be reasonably easy to install and run linux ( even the WWAN card looks like it should work with the right drivers ) and yet it's not mentioned. It seems like they are missing out on a core market segment by not slapping a Linux Foundation badge on their website or box saying known to work with Kernel Version x.x and up. Or failing that I think both Canonical and Redhat would be glad to have their logo on there and all three orgs would only need a couple of days to validate on a pre-release model.
interesting insights on the PMing process
Like the joke about writing math textbooks.

Forgotten the proof? Not a problem. The proof of this is elementary and is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think pg is arguing that passionate, disinterested people ought to be founders, if their object of passion matters anyway.
Or breed the animals, harvest the horns without killing anything, sell them for USD.

Like we do with chickens.

Context: done more than my share of rhino protection in Africa.
I strongly recommend against using the Postgres alpine image, sorting is irrevocably broken on it. Cf: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58135353/postgres-seems-...
Anthropomorphizing is dangerous because it leads to metaphor that can both ascribe too much to the subject and create blind spots in the minds of researchers. Saying, for example, "Dogs want love," is fine for the owner but problematic for a researcher because love, as we understand it, is a human state. We'll never really understand what it means for a dog to feel loved. To the ethologist that is not to say that there are not similar emotional processes for dogs, it's to say that they cannot be understood by analogy to the human ones.

It's sort of like the color perception problem [1]. Dogs and machines do see colors, but what do they see?

1. https://newrepublic.com/article/121843/philosophy-color-perc...
Maybe the serial lottery winning is what society subconscious worships.. they know that even with insane amounts of dedications, the others failed when a few particular ones got "lucky".
There is a trend to demonize the Chinese and Russians governments (it is always about governments but then it translates to companies and then to people). This trend is very useful to promote different kinds of online censorship and put people into political boxes (e.g., you like this then you are that). Basically, when every single piece of material about a country is negative, you get a set of feeling where hate is not the least common. Then you go full paranoia cycle and expect that these same people also will punish you for what you write about them. One can benefit from these tendencies and ride them to get attention and respect of like-minded people, basically sell hate.
I don’t think people understand the scope of what I’m talking about.

I’m talking massive submarines the size of cruise ships submerging deep into the water and carrying easily 100 aircraft and 5000 people. And yes a cache of Nuclear Weapons ready to wipe out entire cities if necessary.
You could try brainstorming with your friends to think up apps to be made. Maybe you could also submit an ask hn.
Better, but imo an even better way would be to avoid the refresh-on-dismiss and simply hide the drill overlay on dismiss. Then ensure that any links in the content point to the original source (eg by adding a base href to the copied content, or through some JS). That way when I dismiss the overlay, the page instantly appears, still at the drilll URL, and when I click a link within the page it can either take me to the original URL, or to a drilll-enabled URL.

You are also escaping html entities in the new title. I can't give you an example because the site's now giving me error 500's.
I wonder about the copyright issue with this? It is basically packaging someone else's work and producing it in another format. I thought that is why Hacker Monthly had to contact each individual author to get permissions, or is that just because he is selling it?
This is an important point. 3DS actually trains cardholders to trust web content whose identity/authenticity they cannot verify. At the very least, the third parties that host 3DS content should be serving their content from the Visa and Mastercard domain names. (Requesting the 3DS authentication inline with the merchant's checkout flow is a no-go, though, because the merchant site could be compromised.)

I'm reminded of how my credit card issuer contracts out transaction verification to a third party, so whenever I make a large purchase, I get a phone call originating from a 1-800 number that doesn't match the one on my card, and the first thing they ask from me is sensitive information.
I doubt it, given that Ruby has virtually no traction in NLP circles. That's also why all the good toolkits target other languages.

However, "translating" Python examples into relatively idiomatic Ruby shouldn't too much of a problem if you really want to go down that path.
I had an AHA moment few weeks ago, when I discovered aplying something like that:

.smth{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
bottom:0px;
}

It beautifully solved 2 interfaces I was working on (webapps with fluid widths). I remember being smiling for 2 hours after discovering this.

Not sure about IE support though, i think its covered from IE8 and ahead
The numbers for Yahoo may be accurate. What about Google and all the others on the list? When I go to Google, I see no "b.scorecardresearch" anywhere to be found on my network tab.
I agree, I use this for pretty much everything.
No, generation rate remains constant as computing power increases. You can only generate a few million total, then it stops.
Lol, I don't have the slightest idea if this will work in the long term, but it sounds like a great way to do small-scale money laundering. Or is it? Haven't researched it much.
Based on my usage of Firebug I am under the impression that even if stuff was put onto the page with js (or if the html source is badly broken), the browser will build a valid DOM structure of the page and should be able to save it out as html/css.
Thanks X-Istence, was typing on my mobile with swype, got the wrong character. Corrected in the original.
I hope that an exception to that rule would be basic education.
I'll be happy to. I'm at home now, and my texts are at my office, but I can email some references to you tomorrow, if your contact details are on your HN profile.

In the mean-time, the Wikipedia page on the Patimokkha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patimokkha) lists the monastic precepts for the Theravada tradition; even in schematic form, you can see that they are quite detailed. When you add on Buddhaghosa's commentary in the Kankhavitarani, things get quite detailed indeed.
http://theunitedpersons.org/constitution
If the number is not going to be useful to the consumer, then there's no reason to mandate it be on the sticker.

Having some sort of number there is useful; as electric cars become more common we'll need some way of comparing their efficiency. Right now you can find out that the Volt at 93 "mpge" is slightly less efficient than the Nissan Leaf at 99 "mpge". I'd still much rather have it in the less ambiguous units of miles per kilowatt hour.

(Or if they really want to appeal to physicists, they should give it in units of inverse force. 1 mile per kilowatt hour = 447.04 inverse MegaNewtons.)
twitter's leverage is limited by structural constraints in maintaining a good developer ecosystem.
Useful social situations for artificially raising yous status:

1. Attracting a good looking girl.

2. Communicating to your boss that you will not be pushed around without resorting to words. I used this a lot (maybe a bit too much). But I never had to do shit work that I didnt want to do.

3. Communicating to others who are not in your reporting hierarchy, but still senior to you, that you "get it". IF this is coupled with actual execution capability then you'll gain a lot of credibility pretty fast.

And yes I do agree that if you want to learn something from someone then you do have to assume a slightly lower status.

But the most interesting insight is that status is something that you give to someone else and not something a person can create on their own. Ie, someone elses status requires your active participation.
Singularity should not ben pattentable. Like 15 years ago i described how myspace future phone would be like: no physical buttons taking space, a gps, runs linux, and a thinnier form than my current ipaq. So, after a decade after the first ipaqs the samsung galaxy from where i am typing finally arrives.
i'm reading the second link now, and it almost seems to contradict the first:

"Once Android determines that it needs to remove a process, it does this brutally, simply force-killing it. The kernel can then immediately reclaim all resources needed by the process, without relying on that application being well written and responsive to a polite request to exit. Allowing the kernel to immediately reclaim application resources makes it a lot easier to avoid serious out of memory situations."
"Yes, we backdoor all of our products," an Oracle spokesperson said, "it's company policy".
But the point of libtool or autoconf is not to make it easier to build various programs on Ubuntu, it is to make it easier to build the same program not just on Ubuntu and RedHat, but also on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, Solaris, SunOS, Tru64, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and god knows what other systems. Even if Linux turned into a perfectly polished and neatly organized cathedral, you'd still need to get it to work on all those other systems. And most of those systems predate "the cathedral and the bazaar" anyway, don't they?
In my opinion, the HTTP server’s Request.Body’s io.Reader should return an error on read when the request body ends unexpectedly, rather than having every use of the request body try to sanity check the length which seems cumbersome and error prone.
By controlling the amount of loans made to banks, the Fed controls the money supply. Money is created out of thin air (without a printing press) by issuing new loans, which is what the Fed does.
Targeted advertising allows you to deliver specific messages to specific audiences, and by specific audiences I mean a narrow cluster of people that has the potential to have an interest in your brand.

This allows you - the brand - to reduce wastage. And in theory, it should reduce Ad Fatigue in the audience.

Wastage because every time you miss a potential audience member, or you reach a wrong person, you paid to deliver a message that won't be heard/read/seen. If you think about it, this adds up - even with targeted advertising.

Ad Fatigue comes from you being shown advertising you have no interested in (why are you seeing bunions cream if you don't have bunions), or you see too many times the same ad you start to notice it for the wrong reasons (imagine you see a re targeted ad from amazon for a product you bought 3 weeks ago, and for 3 weeks you're seeing daily the same product being recommended to you).

In theory, everyone should win with targeted ads, in reality, it's being abused and it's saturating consumers. Not only abused by brands, but also by a consumer behavior/culture that aims to spend more.

You can argue that one fuels the other, well, I'm not so sure about that, because cultural shifts are too big to be the agenda of anyone. In my opinion, they feed on each other.
a) The quality, or lack of quality, of other studies does not affect the quality of the discussed study.
b) The availability of another study with similar results, does not affect the quality of this study.
Most Americans are also somewhat-fat-to-very-fat, which is a very important rationing consideration.
> ...did this good thing too!

> email address from a 2- or 4-year non-profit semester based institution
> Only in America
> seven titles per user

Good for you, but that's significantly more asterixes than Cambridge's offer. I'm not sure I know anybody who's eligible.
Related page with another API about Coronavirus: https://covid19api.com/
I haven't tried it yet, but it looks well designed. Data is sourced from Johns Hopkins.
> The 2019 report showed elite companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments than low-performing teams and a 2,555 times faster lead time to move from code commit to deploy to support their initiatives to move faster.

> Yes, elite teams ship faster. But, their changes are 1/7 as likely to fail, and they recover from incidents 2,604 times faster than low-performing teams.

Since the report is behind a form, and the form is having trouble loading for me right now, I’ll just ask if anyone knows the context behind these numbers?

These numbers seem very large for any kind of average; are they choosing the most extreme cases? I feel like they also only make sense in units of seconds or minutes, otherwise we’re comparing hours to weeks or days to years.
Trial would take longer.