jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think your theory is extremely implausible based on how elections are administered and ballots counted. I sincerely think you would benefit from being a part of the process next time around -- it's kind of fun and you learn a lot.

This is kind of like when footage of Wilder-Fury came out and Fury "appeared" to have something wrong with his gloves that would have been a violation of the rules. The internet was abuzz with theories about whether he had "cheated." Teddy Atlas went on a podcast and said "its impossible" for him to have cheated or had gloves that were out of regulation. Why did he say this so confidently when he wasn't even there? He generalized from other fights he had participated in, and assumed that things must have occurred the same way in Wilder-Fury because that's what he expected. This is what you're doing. You have no way of knowing that the process was respected in this case, which is why its interesting that you're so confident that it must have been respected. If we have reasons to be that confident, we should probably share them. But the quality of evidence used to dismiss concerns here is worse than the quality of the evidence that created those concerns.

> An observer says she was ordered to leave the room even though some counting continued. Other people in the room (including other Republicans) describe it differently.

Yeah, there are different accounts of what happened. Thats a red flag, it indicates that someone may be trying to hide something. Thats another reason to investigate.

> Investigators who watched the tape say it doesn't look like anyone was told to leave, but there's no audio on the tape.

Interesting how easily they draw conclusions based on no evidence.

> I'm not sure you're going to get much more of a definitive answer than that.

Then there's a problem with election integrity that hasn't been addressed.

> But there's just a massive gap between "ballots were briefly recounted on video without Republican observers" and any sort of fraud.

The gap is actually not that large, and if we presume that people who want to compromise an election are not idiots, we can easily understand that this is pretty much exactly what ballot stuffing would look like if we had a video of it.

> The tape shows the ballot boxes involved were supposed to be there.

That hasn't been supported with evidence, the investigator's report, or the chain of custody. It's just an assertion of fact by a person who wasn't there. If the ballot boxes were supposed to be there then it probably was a terrible idea to hide them under a table since it creates the appearance of impropriety and they are apparently unable to relieve that appearance by presenting evidence.

> And it would require a truly impressive conspiracy to manifest thousands of bogus ballots into the process at this point.

Not at all, it would merely require a few motivated participants to corrupt the process by introducing fraudulent/illegal ballots and running them through the machine. It would be even easier if they did it in the middle of the night, when (R) observers had left.
It has been a while since I rebuilt the XNU kernel, a few years perhaps, but it is possible, and it works.

These instructions are a lot better than the ones that I had to follow a few years back - I might try it, just need to find a guinea pig :-)
I think most people prefer tools that are convenient to use. Centralized code hosting services are super convenient. They offer many useful social features that make it tasking and unappealing to use git as intended. Even with tools like Gitea, we still flock to GitHub.
Invite dlafuente@gmail.com
Yeah, I would like a nice one-piece aluminium thing instead of a cut-in-half loo roll!
If nobody ever takes a stand then this is how it will continue as well.
Thanks! Exactly what I'm looking for.

Interesting- most people don't say to go w/ a lawyer to start. Cooley has been great so far in consults. I thought Clerkly had tools for post-raise though?

What did you end up going with?
I think the main reason is that, especially if used in general text (e.g. a general description field, not something specifically reserved for this), it makes it a bit easier to recognize as pronoun information by always following a distinctive pattern.
I was suggesting using cryptocurrency (such as Ethereum or PolkaDOT) to implement the centrally-controlled functions of the Federal Reserve currently being handled by simplistic queues or whatever it is.

But more fundamentally, currency and money IS a technology. It's use is to distribute power and express trust. But fundamentally it is a technology used for that purpose.

Cryptocurrency is ultimately about putting power in the hands of the people and trust in mathematics rather than central authorities.

Eventually the central banks and banking institutions as they exist now will be phased out and replaced with different paradigms that have some similar functions but more sophisticated technology.
Does Facebook host news content or just provide links to it?
Happens to me at Comic con, but not concerts before the band goes on. Not sure what triggers it. I’ve been to busy cities with lots of neon too.
Why not find a new CEO to run the day to day, while you switch to more of a chairman/advisory role? You could then create enough incentives in place to grow everything towards a meaningful exit.

I worked at a company that used this exact strategy. Took a few years to play out, but it allowed the founder to take some money off the table through a private equity round, and finally get a meaningful acquisition spearheaded by the new CEO.
I would assume that the number of people that would honor it would be lower, though not nonexistent.
I recommend “Data Smart” to anyone who wants to break into data science.
In 2019 Mozilla got 789 million dollars in revenue. That's half the estimated cost of the Linux kernel.

Do they really need more money? Do they?
I don't think this is for an actual product launch. They are going to help SpaceX launch their satellites...
Absolutely. And if we conducted driving tests like we conduct technical interviews, it would be something like:

- Please sketch out a diagram of a typical family sedan, be sure to mark and explain all major components.

- Do you drive stick? No? Well, please draw out the full mechanical diagram of a manual transmission.

- You are going down the street and an old lady steps suddenly off the sidewalk. Please sketch on this whiteboard what you would do.

- Please play 5 rounds of Need For Speed: Underground. You are required to come in 2nd or 1st in all rounds.

etc, etc. It definitely won't entail actual driving.
Governments of some kind are needed as soon as you have a large enough population. Our ability to cooperate and peacefully resolve our problems breaks down when there are too many people involved. At the very least we need courts and agreed upon laws, or else we will just splinter off into little gangs that start killing each other whenever there is a disagreement.

The problem here is not the existence of a government, but the specific government that we have. Here in the USA we have soldiers enforcing our laws, and a legal code that can and frequently does turn a routine traffic stop into a multiyear prison sentence. The major political parties in this country are united in their support for this tyranny. In addition, we have spent decades ceding more and more power to the executive branch and creating a government that operates behind a veil of secrecy.

For the Americans here, I propose the following: be brave, vote third party and risk "the other guy" winning. In exchange for a few years with the wrong lizard in power, you will have sent a strong message to the major party that thought it could count on your vote. If the major parties do not learn, eventually the third parties will have so many people voting for them that they will replace the major parties. Either way we will have made progress towards repairing our government.
Are there any more cringe-worthy than Songsmith? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
What I really hate about that is that the keyboard isn't centered on my laptop, which means I'm either slightly lopsided on my screen or I'm bending my right wrist at a weird angle
How do you square this with the observation that other fiat-backed stablecoins like USDC, which are obviously legitimate, are also printing massively?

It would seem to me that if transparent stablecoins with utility are going up, the simplest explanation for tether going up is that it serves the same role for people who have either become accustomed to it from its earlier availability, or have it as their only option due to jurisdiction. Not anything nefarious.

There seems to be little actual evidence to support conspiracy theories that Bitcoin's price movements are due to mismanagement of tether.
One of them is not like the rest.
It's a big problem for large corporate sites with lots of sub-brands. A million little sites get launched and then no one ever cleans them up. It would be fine except that they're ticking time bombs of WP ownage etc. It's my firm belief that any site which isn't an on-going concern should be changed to a static site in a cloud bucket just to defuse all these time bombs.
Yes, in this position you'd best find a way to diversify some of them or move them to, say, a Proxmox instance.
At the time, if you had a powerful system, it felt so much faster than Windows. OS/2 Warp had much better multi-tasking support at the time as well and it felt much more crisp. Windows was the default, but it was also really mediocre at the time.
If Lizardman's Constant is really 4%, that would be the safe minimum safe bet.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
> I'm willing to give the Signal devs the benefit of the doubt

How many "benefit of the doubt" cards do they have left by now?
Eventual consistency in databases is fully described by "make your merge operation the join of a semilattice." I once watched a whole keynote at Strange Loop which slowly recapitulated that idea over the course of an hour when with lattice theory it's just one obvious sentence.

I haven't written it up, but I used lattices as the starting point for an algebra of genome annotations that I personally found useful. I had to replace one of the two operations with a different one, but guiding it as close to a lattice as possible was a useful heuristic.

The tree of life is usually described as a tree of species. Defining a species is a problem, though, especially for microbes, and there are places where it's not a tree and things hybridize, especially for plants and microbes, so I spent some time trying to define it in terms of individual organisms. I'm still not satisfied with where I had pushed it, but the structure when I had left it took the form of a chain complete partial order.
Cannot speak to Baremetrics but ChartMogul has a useful feature for connecting the subscriptions. If you are creating a new subscription with that invoice, then you can merge subscriptions and avoid false churn.

https://help.chartmogul.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005750705-M...

2nd option is if you are not creating a new subscription is to have the invoice service date start before cancelling the credit card - that would result in expansion (by invoice amount) and contraction (by credit card amount) and ultimately your MRR would be ok with no churn.
This sucks, but telling your visitors to click on ads indirectly is a clear violation of the ToS.

I too got fired by Google's algorithm and didn't do anything whatsoever wrong. They are heartless.

Worse of all, this article does not mention the monopoly they have. They own the online ad market. No one else exists that is anywhere as good.

It's straight-up monopoly, and if you get on their black list, you're out.
I am very disturbed by the idea that prioritizing classes of application is an okay thing to do.

First, it's impossible in the long run: if for instance you slow down everything but the web and e-mail, you'll see more and more application using HTTP as a transport layer. This can quickly degenerate into an arms race. Second, it requires the ISP to effectively wiretap their users.

Really, if there's not enough bandwidth, just limit the bandwidth. Users will prioritize their traffic themselves.
I don't see why not...the TI-82 had a pretty robust programming language. I programmed a helicopter game on mine back in high school, as well as the obligatory blackjack and poker games.
Revenue isn't lost, merely not gained. If you convinced all those people to stay home, you wouldn't see more money in the till.

Theft-of-service isn't really theft. It's a newer problem that required a separate body of law because the laws against theft don't apply to it. It only has the name it does because someone wanted to manipulate you into thinking of it in a certain way. They wanted to connect to your stone-age "MINE!" survival instinct rather than having to win the economic debate about the relative merits of making this economic good excludable.
Its funny that they are targeting end users vs content creators. As a content creator I assume you would enjoy having subtitles for your content.
Do you think the one-strike and you're out policy, with little chance of direct human-contact in resolving disputes is reasonable? For Google, they get to have their cake and eat it too - to them it probably doesn't matter if they lose a small revenue stream like this (yet they're still putting ads on his YouTube videos and search results), but the little guy gets hammered.
You are completely right- I think the general feeling is that Google needs to do a better job of communicating that to content creators. This guy clearly didn't realize the extent of the damage, and said he would return adsense revenue from the website. They could fairly disable adsense on the website, but knocking the YouTube revenue just seems unnecessary after giving a very stern warning. People find it troubling that a monolithic algorithmic arbiter makes these decision that change people's lives
Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more reliable. Wow!

But it doesn't. It makes your engine slower and more complicated. The reason is because of the CPU cache.

The author tries to brush this under the rug:

When traversing objects stored on an intrusive linked list, it only takes one pointer indirection to get to the object, compared to two pointer indirections for std::list. This causes less memory-cache thrashing so your program runs faster — particularly on modern processors which have huge delays for memory stalls.

They assert the importance of avoiding memory stalls, but then proceed to recommend a technique that will directly cause them: lists.

Particularly troublesome is his recommendation that ZeroMQ should adopt such a strategy. That would mean any app that uses ZeroMQ will inherently suffer from memory fragmentation and cache misses due to this technique.

Here's a conversation about the technical details of why lists are a bad idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8939737

An explanation of how CPU caching works, and why lists will ruin your cache performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940270

Lists made sense before CPU pipelines became so deep. Nowadays, once you eliminate algorithmic bottlenecks, the only other bottleneck you can attack is cache performance. And the overall pipeline speedups are sometimes as much as a factor of 2x-5x when you layout your memory allocations to take advantage of caching.
So is that cup of coffee you're drinking, and basically everything you do. Everyone is constantly changing. I don't understand what your point is?
No, not TBR. I was referring to the fact that you can +2 your own CL, which allows it to be merged. Officially this is an "emergency" feature, as you say, but a dirty secret is that it's used routinely. I encountered it in both Android and Chrome.

I've seen lots of self-+2s under the following circumstances:

1. You are the only engineer on your team, or all other engineers on your team are out for an extended period of time.

2. All other engineers have very different skillsets, and are not capable of doing effective review. Think Rails engineer attempting to review a touchpad firmware fix.

3. You have a hard deadline (e.g. product demo or factory build) and you're desperately trying to get as much working as you can. You may even be in a location where coordination is difficult and Internet access is poor.

For SWEs working on, say, web services, you probably have at least a medium-sized team (4+ engineers) and a week's slip is no big deal. But not all software is like that at Google.
You mentioned that this person was a classmate of yours. Did you know him personally? Is there an article or some kind or obituary that you can link to?

I hate to play devil's advocate, but this story has been told time and time again in different settings. sometimes it's a girl, sometimes its a college student, etc. but it always ends up with the person jumping out of a window/rooftop because they've convinced themselves that they can fly. I'm not saying that this particular story isn't true, but it's become the classic anti-LSD urban myth.
They are changing the rules so you do not need to physically be there. I believe that is already in place.
If you need advanced animations for things like interactive experiences of very complex scenarios, then a fully fledged animation lib is the right tool for the job, and GSAP is an excellent choice.

If you need fairly simple things like sliding panels, off-canvas menus, fades, and other common flourishments, CSS is always going to be the winner in terms of performance and lower overhead.

Look at it this way: No matter how good JS-driven animation libs get at tweening, syncing frames, and playing in the DOM, they'll never be able to beat the browser itself in the long term.

JS performance in V8 and SpiderMonkey is so good that we get to be competitive with the browser itself when it comes to things like animating. That's awesome! However, no matter how many tricks or strategies libs exploit and leverage, the browser will always have the upper hand. You're running inside of it and abiding by its rules, after all.

Thanks for the article. The video was interesting and the comment section has some good discussion.

I didn't see mention of mobile in the article, which I think is where the performance characteristics of both approaches will really become apparent. I'd be very interested in seeing these benchmarks on iOS and Android devices.
If the state pays then the companies are paying anyway, and it is still a spread cost as long as anti-discrimination law is being enforced. The continued existence of the species through childbirth is something that organizations should really factor into their budgets. Is not exactly a difficult cost to foresee as people have been doing it for quite a while now.
> In a company the size of Amazon, I'd think they could afford to hire at least one person who had all the knowledge of a programmer, but who did no coding of his/her own

You're assuming such a person could actually produce any answers. I think the big problem in situations like this is that internally they actually don't know for sure what is going wrong. You could probably talk to 5 different engineers and get 5 answers with viable theories. They have ideas, good ideas, but they aren't 100%, the answers are being determined by experiments. I think having a person running around communicating lots of possibly incorrect ideas about what is going on could easily make things worse.

One big issue, I think, is that Amazon's own status page appears to have been incorrect - it's had a lot of green ticks against things that people have reported as being completely down. There's going to need to be some follow up on this sub-issue down the track on top of everything else.

I really don't envy Amazon at all in this situation. In many ways they are doing things with AWS that nobody has ever done before, and they are probably hitting classes of problem that nobody ever anticipated. Of course, they promised more than they could deliver so it's their fault in the end, but I still think the nature of what they are doing is under appreciated.
I have long ago switched to ddg but was curious about it as a past google user
If anyone doubts whether they should read this article, let me quote:

"Team members began to affect loud maniacal laughter whenever they discovered software defects. Some individuals even grew long mustaches which they would twirl with melodramatic flair as they savaged a programmer's code."
That's a great idea, can't wait to check it out when it's back.
Yes, mine. Even if I upload from my phone I'd want to back every image up to my NAS, see?

I guess I'll sign up next time I would have uploaded to Imgur. Thanks.
Yes, but I'm waiting until after July 20th.
Blog Post - Monitoring Elasticsearch RESTful search engine with Opsview
http://www.opsview.com/whats-new/blog/monitoring-elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open source distributed RESTful search engine built on top of Apache Lucene.

In this brief blog post we’ll look at how we can monitor elasticsearch using Opsview and one of the many Nagios plugins available.
Noticeable Hacker news I read at 2011/06 | beyondlinux
http://www.beyondlinux.com/blog/2011/07/01/noticeable-hacker-news-i-read201106/
Noticeable Hacker news I read 2011/06
Twtquiz - Twitter Quizzing
http://twtquiz.com
This is a project created that will allow people on Twitter to get quizzy, so check it out if you're a frequent Twitter user.
Endless Scroll
http://endlessscroll.com
Build a Pinterest clone social network site.
Poka-Yoke for Drugs
http://www.shmula.com/1424/poka-yoke-pharmaceuticals
Mistake-Proofing Drugs, Lean Thinking
High performance webserver for PHP on Windows
http://appserver.io
Is there a need for a high performance webserver written in PHP running PHP applications like Magento. The server is delivered with easy installation/setup, drag-n-drop deployment and speed is at least on nginx/PHP-FPM level, even higher! Actually there are versions vor Linux, Mac + since some day for Windows also ... what do you think?
Windows Phone - Will history repeat itseft?
http://tumblr.com/ZXvicwE12pX-
Thinking about how things happened in technology over last 3 decades with Microsoft playing around, I decided to share my thoughts about Windows Phone's penetration to the market.
Petition for Blizzard and major movie studios to develop a Starcraft movie
https://www.change.org/petitions/blizzard-major-movie-studios-develop-a-starcraft-movie
Needs supporters!
Honeywell Introduces Attune(tm) Advisory Services, Connects Cloud Computing
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5737144/honeywell-introduces-attune-tm-advisory-services-connects-cloud-computing-and-facility-know-how-to-cut-energy-and-operating-costs
Honeywell Introduces Attune(tm) Advisory Services, Connects Cloud Computing
Show HN: YouTube Chapters in Player
https://github.com/ris58h/youtube-chapters-in-player
Web-extension that shows YouTube chapters right in the player.

Just click on chapters button at the bottom of YouTube video player to show chapters list right in the player.

Key features:
- Shows chapters right in the player.
- Works in Fullscreen and Theater modes.
- Works for embedded videos.
- Previous/Next chapter buttons.
- Key Moments support.
- Open Source.
Data-storage concept from Russian Schoolkids
http://www.digital-sandwich.com/
more info http://www.siliconrus.com/2013/07/digital-sandwich/
How to prevent your boss and coworkers from seeing WIP projects
http://faceindirvideo.gen.tr/must-watch-854.html
Hide everything on your monitor from others. Only you can see using special glasses. DIY for any LCD monitor and hacker