jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
sounds like an amazing tool. i'm definitely using it next time i need to create a resume. any leg up on the competition helps.
I think one of the main service missing in this project is e-mail. It is very easy to setup your own mail server nowadays...
AFAIK it's admins not mods.
It's very common for multiple version of these videos to be uploaded with only aesthetic differences, presumably for the next round of engagement optimization.
Very true. You can say if you work for a rich person, you are protecting / enriching child molesters as well.

Many wealthy business owners have been convicted of all kinds of illegal activities, including child molestation.

What a crap straw man argument.
"Terrorist activities" could simply
mean publishing propaganda articles in support of terrorist groups.

That's entirely legal in the US and A.
I always thought of CI to be a build server that pushes code directly to production automatically. I never liked how CI does away with the concept of a 'release' with a specific version. To me CI is synonymous with SaaS products, specifically products whose job is to serve individual client requests via a front end. I've never understood how CI is supposed to work with different types of software that isn't so transactional, or when the transactions are much longer running than a single HTTP request.
When I first started at Google long ago, I came through an acquisition. As part of that we were all given a relocation package to move closer to the office if we needed to. When I was discussing the details with the HR/recruiter person on the phone I mentioned that I had been talking to my coworkers about the details and I had a logistical question that we couldn't figure out... and they stopped me dead in my tracks and told me point blank and very seriously: "you are not to compare or discuss any aspect of your offer with your coworkers", like I'd committed a cardinal sin. I was a bit shocked.

EDIT: FWIW the relocation package terms were all the same between everyone, so it was a bit ridiculous.
As soon as I saw it I was like "this looks like a Bret Victor project."

Bingo.
Could you point me to an example of a case dealing with election fraud or mishandling that was decided on its merits?

I’ve not seen one. Every one I’ve seen was dismissed procedurally before evidence was ever heard.
>It is only recently

If by 1946 you mean "only recently", then sure (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama).

The concept that no company be allowed to enclose the commons has existed ever since the concept of the commons existed; and the Supreme Court has ruled both this and other times that if a private citizen or company encloses the commons they're bound by the same First Amendment that the government is, for the same reasons.
Parler is an app many of the American Conservatives go to now that their speech is restricted on Facebook and Twitter. But Apple (and Google) don't like how Parler was used to organize the protests/riots at The Capitol.
Here's my OS X vs Linux experience circa 2014.

I have a new OS X MBP. 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA Something (650?), SSD, Yosemite, i7. I have an older i7 Sager, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia 550m, HDD.

The Sager for years has been a terrible computer due to the WIFI support. It was crappy in Windows and worse in Linux. I actually looked forward to getting the MBP. Recently, however, I found a guy's opensource driver for the RealTek WIFI. This is more stable than the actual official driver. His blog post was great about how to install it. Now I've got two computer to compare.

OSX is apparently terrible at memory management. Running Eclipse and like 10 tabs in FF can cause the system to swap. On the SSD I loath the very concept. Some of my comments on HN about Light Table stem from the fact that LT uses .5 GB of memory when everything is said and done (node helpers, etc). LT on OS X ran great, but OS X would swap. Running multiple VirtualBox instances made it worse. I tend to run about 260-350 MB of swap if not more for a few small programs.

Cut to Ubuntu. Once I got use to Unity I liked Ubuntu. The OS is smooth, use-able and well-supported both at a community level and from a system update perspective. I can run a 2 GB Arango VM, and 3 Hadoop VMs at once all nicely networked to each other via host-only. FF with the same 10-ish tabs running with lein REPL and Counterclockwise (Eclipse IDE for Clojure) and still only use 76 KB of swap.

Now aside from following a few steps about getting the WIFI to work, I've not really done much Ubuntu customization. I haven't had to. I installed it, it worked, I worked.

OS X had some nice ideas, but, IMHO, Linux caught up. The terminals available with Linux are better than the default terminal with OS X. They are more memory efficient than Console 2. Unity works well. I actually have muscle memory trying to work with OS X as I do Unity.

I will grant that the OS X laptop is light years ahead of my Linux box's battery. Even when the battery was new, the Linux laptop was lucky to get 2.5 hours. The OS X laptop gets 5 hrs or so under my daily load.

Interestingly, the only laptop of the 5 or so I've owned to have a dead pixel is the MBP. Under white backgrounds it's easy to miss. On dark backgrounds I'm annoyed.
> Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X

Put two minutes into understanding this[1] and then come back and tell me I'm a hipster douchebag because I needed my damned second screen.

[1] OSX lion 10.7 full screen apps disables second monitor. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204004 (and hundreds, if not thousands, of duplicate threads for 10.7 and 10.8)
Daily repeat traffic.
Is it? Python is exactly the same. It has no language spec (defined by its implementatation), and it has a BDFL who hasn't pushed for one.
Freedom Mail.
Name-checking terrorists is so thin it's transparent.

Also, the SourceForge link was for pastebin source code[0] and not an actual pastebin.

IMHO it was a lazy request from the copyright lobby, which is seeking to criminalize anonymous text and links. They don't care that it's insane, the world isn't changed by being reasonable; at worst they'd have shifted the Overton window and made the other wing of the lobby look sane. The politicians barely care, and another level of jaded drones didn't bother to contact anybody[1], put up a DNS block and went home.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8820591

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8820289
I'm in the same situation and very surprised. I've sat here wondering if I'm entering my numbers wrong, or if I'm really not in it. I've read the blog post and I'm entering the 1 in front of my 10 digits, because I'm in the USA.

My wife's number isn't in there, either. I'm just really surprised, because I checked facebook the other day and it said I was searchable by email and phone number.

I even searched my email address, and a lot of other breaches show, but not Facebook.

I guess I got lucky?
i have had an idea. The last time i deleted my facebook account, it had been a 6-7 year old legacy thing and i ended up with manually deleting stuff, photos videos, contacts, calender entries. then waiting for months. I had an idea. This was back when "shadow profiles" had appeared on the news. i figured if i outright delete the account, maybe it would keep it in a "deleted because not coming back" DB. instead if i deleted stuff, maybe the idea would be "okay.. routine stuff.. delete"

apparently both my ideas were wrong but good thing i don't use any facebook property, don't use whatsapp or isntagram and am a hermit. I had telegram since 2015 but since signal whatsapp thing happened, i stopped using it.
:-/
http://tweet-a-lot.com - #tweet-a-lot is a great way to start your own contest to encourage twitter users to post with your hashtag. The service uses gamification to reward behaviour that helps you promote your brand to the most followers.
I feel like these are all reasonably obvious gigantic landmarks taught to anyone with a stats or pattern recognition background. It's sort of just the lay of the land with statistics, modeling, optimization.

That doesn't mean at all that more people shouldn't be aware of them and think critically about them. It also doesn't mean at all that the implications of these features of ML are understood by the entirety of the organization which is affected by them.

But I sort of feel like it's the (perhaps unstated) primary job of a data scientist/modeler/mathematician/statistician/what-have-you employed at any company investing in this kind of technology. It feels about akin to a company building their software without using version control. Sure some people do that, but... c'mon!

If you're failing to do it then you're probably not listening to your experts enough. If they're not screaming it's because they're wrapping blankets around their head trying to block out the noise.
I'd also like to know about this. The only way Stripe can provide the functionality needed by Kickstarter is to change the capture period to 90 days (campaign length), which was something that Amazon did as a one-off change for Kickstarter.
My guess: In addition to the general notion that Google relies on their largely good public opinion that they are good at privacy and safety, I'm willing to bet Google may be very uncomfortable admitting their data usage on legally-sensitive products like Google Classroom, which include usage by users under 13.

Facebook is, at the end of the day, a single social network app. Google operates a lot of platforms which are fundamental to people of all ages and for various businesses who all may have legal concerns with their data abuses if they were aware of their full extent.
TLDR;

Go -> Gopherjs -> Javascript running like any other Chrome extension. Go isn't running in Chrome extensions as "native client" here.
Anyone still using Prototype for new projects? I have a few legacy rails apps (over 3 yrs old) that use it, but like most people I've have moved on to jQuery.
It does sound like a lot of impact. As long as there's no developer impact and the API remains stable, however, I'm a-okay with the devs pushing something like that into a bugfix release.
It doesn't matter if you reframe it that way. You can never dispose of mental things how you choose. The mind doesn't work the same way as physical things, which is why pretending that "intellectual property" is the same thing as physical property is a non-starter.
Hence why I'd like to move to America where there are no crazy politicians.
Polling shows ~50% of Rs say that it was rigged. So not all, but that’s a big number.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/half-of...
Where is the evidence behind your concerns?
> there's an exceedingly healthy culture of blocking sites which themselves advocate oppressive practices

Oppressive, but defined by whom? I've seen arbitrary blocks of instances simply because they run Pleroma or Soapbox. In fact, my own instance was briefly on fediblock.org's list because my bio says "I care about freedom—both in software, and in speech"; the reason stated was "free-speech". That's absurd!

As is often said on the fediverse, some switched over from Twitter due to too much censorship, others due to to little.
At that point, if you have the laptop and are willing to admit it you can just make a conspiracy document and say you found it on it.
Your point is valid and well argued, but I have to highlight that it would be more compelling if Trump had won a majority of the 2016 vote, and if the turnout were closer to 100% (or even if every eligible voter was equally able to cast their ballot).

Let's just say, if you think that 51% of Americans banning discussion of climate change is bad, wait until you imagine about what Twitter's electoral college would ban discussion of.
Here I thought helping Mozilla by using their browsers was any good.

So long! Glad to see your tiny market share approach 0 a bit quicker.
Just wanna add that the left seems to believe what institutions and the legacy media tell them, at face value.

Many on the right use critical thinking, however they seem to believe that numbers and “science” can be spun into any narrative the gatekeepers want (whoever they may be).

Most of the schism really seems to be based on trust. Left trusts by default, the right does not. The left trusts that the government knows best, the right does not. The right believes in personal responsibility for running your life (not trusting it to any other party), the left does not, requiring collectivism and social programs.
> Trump-appointed CEO

That pretty much says everything. Is there any Trump appointee not using their office for personal gain or to allow/enforce illegal orders?
> First, There's a study I linked to earlier, suggesting the 1st dose antibodies aren't good against the variants.

It suggested the neutralization titers were worse, not that they were ineffective.

> so should we keep people with such a low protection for another 20 days?

We compare the ratio between people delayed and not delayed.

If a delayed person keeps, say, 50% efficacy, and the person with the second dose has 95% efficacy, giving two people 50% efficacy is better than giving one person 95% efficacy. That's why I suggested the specific figure of merit that I did.

(That is, imagine you produce 1 dose per 21 days, and there's two people in the world. You could give, in successive 21 day periods:

A 50% protection, B 50% protection, A 95% protection, B 95% protection.... (population efficacy 25%, 50%, 72.5%, 95%)

or you could give A 50% protection, A 95% protection, B 50% protection, C 95% protection). (population efficacy 25%, 47.5%, 72.5%, 95%).
Comparing oneself with Neo Einstein to start with led me to write a rather scathing reply here. A moment of reflection led me to delete it.

I think I genuinely lack context. I do not know the author, nor any of his games.

I know that in the wider context of the game industry, they are not defining moments - games that people consider milestones.

We also know that today's games feature much more "realistic" and complex systems than the affine or multiplicative equation the author gives us. After all, interdependent agents on different levels produce results that can rarely be described by such simple measures. Getting a well-defined, realistic, complex yet FUN game system from such agent-based approaches is hard, but ultimately the goal of most game designers.

It seems to me that the author may have had some initial insight, and got snubbed in the mid-eighties by other designers or successes. It further seems that he has since then not reevaluated the state of the game industry. Or, perhaps, he lacks the ability to describe his unique insights in terms the reader can understand?
The incentive comes during an EEA 3 when they simply cut power to your house for 30-45 minutes.
Yes you can do that but it's still worse than a proper stack trace that goes back to where the message is generated.
>Plus, last I heard, he's still stuck on an evo-psychological model of society that is quite out of fashion these days, which doesn't exactly help matters.

>quite out of fashion

Yeah I don't get the impression this guy is into intellectual fads. If anything he's a contrarian and will deliberately take the opposing position to the mainstream.

Evo Psych is out because a bunch of idiots (and self proclaimed non intellectuals) use it to justify and explain everything and anything with stories and no evidence. Meanwhile real research continues but is sidelined due to this bad reputation.

Understandably contrarians see this happening and immediately take the position of Evo psych because it allows them to do a lot of hypothesis generation (their favourite pass-time) and because it flies in direct opposition to current political and academic movements.
In the UK it could be technically counted as fraud by false representation. The legal hurdles for this are:

* The patreon page was misleading (this post shows it was, including the use of old links and imagery to show association to a YouTube channel which was false)

* The person making it knows it might be misleading (they did - they said so in this post)

* The intention was to make a gain in money for themselves, others or to cause a loss to someone else. This includes situations where the gain in money is only temporary (again, technically yes.)

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/pdfs/ukpga_2006...

I'm not saying they should be charged with it as clearly they didn't mean to cause harm and were doing it to raise awareness, but it does seem to fit the definition.
> So far so usual, but the worst problem were the Eastern European countries - they insisted on also keeping AstraZeneca with their 1.78€ a dose

I thought AZ was €5 a dose.

Well, as for EE countries, the largest by population size (EE country that is in EU) is Poland and they (we, I live here) ordered from multiple sources, and AZ isn't the largest one (J&J is, followed closely by Pfizer):

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV / Johnson&Johnson 16,98 mln
Pfizer / BioNTec 16,74 mln
Astra Zeneca 16 mln
CureVac 5,65 mln
Moderna 6,69 mln

Source: http://urpl.gov.pl/sites/default/files/OFICJALNY%20DOKUMENT%...

The biggest issue for me is that I don't think I'll be able to select which vaccine I want to use, I don't like the AZ inferior efficacy compared to mRNA vaccines, not to mention how it handles the SA version of COVID-19 virus.
THere is no EEA 4 but I assume as demand continues to increase and supply can't keep up they just have to keep shedding more and more loads. I expect a state of emergency to be declared if it hasn't already.

Luckily today is a bit of a holiday.
It selects all columns. Why/when wouldn't this be bad for performance is a more interesting question, no?

(to be clear, I still enjoyed reading this.)
Bitcoin is essentially unique in that you cannot double spend it.
It's not blocking youtube ads for me, weird.
> I don't see any reason to use Julia over Go for backend webservers. Rust or C++ for systems programming. And frankly, I prefer Python for scientific computing.

Sure, I would never claim Julia is being the best language for webservers or systems programming. If someone came to me saying they wanted to do this in Julia, I'd probably tell them "if this is important, I'd probably look at a more established language for this purpose unless you have a good reason to want to use julia for this"

That doesn't make julia not a general purpose programming language. It just means it's not the best language for every imaginable purpose (no language is).

I personally prefer Julia very strongly for scientific computing to it's competitors, and because of the amount of time I've invested in it for that, I also do many other things in it and I find it quite nice for this.

It's totally fair that you prefer Python for scientific computing. Python has a great ecosystem and huge community with tonnes of investment! It's an incredibly stiff competitor. I prefer Julia, and think I have strong reasons to do so, but everyone's needs and desires and different.

> No one wants to just complain

This is an empirical claim about human psychology and it's false. But regardless, yes there are a lot of totally valid criticisms of julia in this thread! Just because these criticisms exist and some of them have good points doesn't make julia a bad language though.

Please consider the fact that not everybody has the same needs, desires and temperament as you. Every language has major probelms with it, but different people feel these problems differently.

For many people (for example, me), Julia is a gigantic breath of fresh air! For others, it's painful and clunky. I think there's a lot of good here that people should see and check out and think about, even if they decide it's not for them. Especially because these things improve every day.

___________________________________________________

Just a disclaimer in case anyone is suspicious about my affiliations: I have absolutely zero financial stake in Julia's success. I am not employed by anyone who would benefit from more people switching to julia. I'm a physics PhD student. I simply find julia very useful and pleasant to use and want to share that with others.
I wish I had printed versions of those for my office. They might not be useful for day to day development, but it serves as a warning (of my nerdiness) to others when they visit.
I found it odd that he used Dropbox as the argument for the death of files. While Dropbox does enable apps to sync data relatively seamlessly, the vast majority of Dropbox users I've encountered use it to store individual files or folders of individual files.
But by the time they go to the ER it's too late. People with insurance go for regular checkups that will catch things early. Those without will only go to the ER when their situation is desperate.
I think the major difference, which I mention in my edit, is the risks that we're suggesting are dangerous to a programmer aren't a direct result of the occupation. In the general case, I don't believe that anything about being a programmer stops someone from exercising on a regular basis (edit: or maintaining a healthy diet).
What about saving the present time (the datetime when the information is recorded) and the time offset as calculated at that moment? In theory then it doesn't matter what happens, you're still able to adjust. The only ambiguity I can think of is if leap (seconds|hours|days) are introduced, but surely you just add them on to the delta too?

Of course, this system fails when you suddenly travel anything approaching relativistic speeds, but I guess you could save your time delta as a velocity-time delta :)

Edit: I'm not actually advocating this as a solution, I just found it an interesting thought experiment.
There's a pricing link at the top of the page right where it belongs...
This looks similar* to replication w/GTIDs + transactional replication (both MySQL 5.6 features).

* MySQL replication works a little different by using binary logs.
This just seems kinda boring - visually and technically. Do we really need another CSS toolkit with an almost replicated feature set.

Every year, I think github is going to somehow release a long awaited product that blows me away with all the talent they have. Every year, I'm surprised at how little they change, and how all the opportunities that seem obvious slip to the wayside.
It's very doable, but Sass or similar is necessary.

For example: http://neat.bourbon.io/
The algorithms that ban Muslim terrorist propaganda also routinely ban non-terrorist Muslim content. They have essentially the exact same failure modes as anti-Nazi algorithms that also ban some politicians.

Why are you tolerant of these problems in one case, but extremely bothered by them in the other?
You may; I have not. As I understand it, however, the bulk of the book comprises a historical documentation of and theoretical explanation for inequality. In conclusion he proposes various taxes and other transfers to reduce inequality. Although the history and theory seems plausible, I'm not completely sold on the effectiveness of the inequality measures, although I'm sure that you and Piketty have your reasons to disagree with me. I doubt much more that those measures would reduce the occurrence of M&Z&B, rather than just taxing them a bit more once they've done really well for themselves.

EDIT: It's unfortunate that the downvotes have chased 'logicallee from the arena. I have found that unwarranted downvotes have a way of correcting themselves, given a few hours on a lively thread.
Fun little game. I'm also looking to start a side project in Godot.

What was the most time consuming piece of this game? Art? Physics?

What did Godot make easy-peasy?
I agree with your first two sentences, not the last one though. I didn't even mention ads in my comment :)
We can't even figure this out in dry landlocked areas. Like Jackson Hole, where people live in their cars while Harrison Ford privately owns half the land, and the other half is protected preserves.
In case of accident, those two things would happen much frequently.