jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> So the feds did get busted planting bombs to blame it on some terror organization. Just, not right away. That kinda makes what happened before they got busted suspicious doesn't it.

Not really, unless you're the sort of person who believes that, say, the FBI's fake terror plots in the wake of 9/11 are proof that Bush did 9/11. Which you might be, I guess.

> Weren’t they famously not even able to rule out a suicide and convict someone not even in the room when he died?

No, it was certainly not a suicide; there's some who think that it might've been an accident instead of a deliberate murder, but there's little case for that. Paul Rose was one of the terrorists convicted of murder and there's some question of whether he was actually present when he died (a government report ten years after the fact believes that he wasn't; a recorded confession from a wiretapped conversation suggests he was), but there's ultimately no question that known Québécois separatist terrorists were responsible for the kidnapping and death. The FLQ took responsibility for the kidnapping and made demands for his safe return; several of the convicted, to their death beds, refused to repent for their actions.

In order to believe that this was some kind of False Flag, you'd have to imagine that people were willing to pretend to be terrorists, ardently support a cause in the public eye for the better part of decade, go to prison for several years, and maintain the act for their rest of their lives, so that...Trudeau could invoke the War Measures act for a brief period of time.

> Wow so there was not even a constitution to suspend? And didn't like, a third of the population just not sign it? Honestly the more I hear about it the more it sounds surreal. I don’t think this would fly in America.

Well, no, it wouldn't fly in America, because (this is a bugbear of mine) Canada is a different country than America, with different laws, values, systems of government, and, yes, constitutional rights, which Canada did not even have at the time. The Canadian system of government was modelled after the UK, and the UK still doesn't have any notion of constitutional rights - nor do most other countries, even first-world democratic nations like Australia or New Zealand. Canada continues to have a Queen, which also wouldn't fly in America.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a third of the population [didn't] sign it". They didn't go door-to-door and ask everyone if they wanted to sign up for constitutional rights. Quebec hasn't endorsed the Canada Act, but that very well may have nothing to do with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that's a part of it; it very well may just be an attempt to stonewall the federal government or fight its legitimacy if they feel it's needed. Quebec's relationship to the rest of Canada is complicated, as the phrase "Québécois separatist terrorists" might imply.
I used to love tiling. But then I started to use apps that needed more than half of the screen: web browser, IDE. Now I put my IDE full screen and the browser about the top right 70% of the screen so that the console output in the IDE peeks out below the browser so that I can see what output is generated when I use the app I’m developing in the browser.
How do you mean "pretending"?
I'd be interested in learning more about it. Do you know an authoritative source?
I've used OS X daily through every public release (including the public beta). I actually wrote a column about OS X during its early days. All of these articles are anecdotal, and I agree with other commenters here who say it's all about perception. The fact of the matter is that Apple has had some high profile "quality scandals" the last year (some would argue 2/3 were not deserved):

- iOS point release that bricked phones and was pulled

- Bendgate

- iCloud hacking scandal

None of them actually were OS X bugs, but you couple that with some minor OS X bugs and everything goes into a whirlwind of negative perception. What are the major OS X bugs that everyone is referring to though? I haven't experienced them, but that's anecdotal, so that opinion is just as worthless as everyone else's. I heard people are having some Wifi issues - that sucks - but where is the showstopper that's affecting everyone?

On the other hand, I do feel that iOS and Swift have been buggy enough for developers the last couple of years that its hurt Apple's rep in a legitimate way amongst the intelligentsia - programmers who have a pedestal to preach from. But let's be real - in terms of day to day problems, things are much much better than they were during Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.2, and yes, they're still better than Windows/Linux (which will always be plagued by the huge number of hardware configurations they must support).
Upset? This is a very accurate and sober analysis.
Isn't the general theory about zebra stripes is they are designed to confuse and nauseate predators? :D (Poking fun, with love)
I like the direction this is going.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves of "modern" websites. I've installed github.com/Fushko/font-contrast, and I've noticed myself clicking it on more and more in recent times.

You don't need a pure white background, but for gods sake PLEASE stop making the text light grey! Having to squint to read a website is headache-inducing.
Heh, as I've posted above, I've had the reverse. All kinds of weird broken behavior on Windows, everything works perfectly on Linux.

And those are mostly highly-integrated, full-intel computers.

I have a small HP with a thunderbolt / usb-c port. Thunderbolt kinda sorta works. Sometimes. But even if the display goes to sleep, it's game over.

I also have a usb-c monitor. I've only ever seen it work one (1) time in windows. On linux it mostly works. Sometimes it doesn't detect the correct refresh rate for some reason. But in the BIOS it always works. I could actually even install Windows with it. And it sometimes gets to the login page. But once the session launches, it turns off.
How many of those were in markets you could actually sell in? (i.e. where Google Play is available)
On the Renault Clio, you can already choose the kind of engine noise you want from a menu.
I'm a little confused why we expect people to be hostile to friendly requests in the absence of back-room dealing... what's the harm in saying "sure" and including that footnote? And don't we expect enough human decency for them to mention if there were financial considerations in the reporting?
>>they hate us cause they ain't us

He is still making tons of money
Ok! All of this is my gut-feel with no data behind it. Caveat emptor. Here goes nothing Yippeekayay

The single device strategy is to keep the whatsapp network a network of people - no bots and no spam.

They are still trying to destroy Kik, Line and Viber. The war is not over (http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/how-many-people-use-c...) Bots and spam would be just the reason for people to switch. As it is, spam might be the only thing that can kills Tinder - and people are watching that.

Line and Viber are more fun and more full featured than whatsapp. The only thing keeping people on whatsapp is that people are annoyed by having too many messaging apps on their phone. If people get sick of whatsapp they will nag their friends to install Line. Once those friends are nagged a few times they will install it. How about when they hear that the voice calls higher quality (subjective of course)?
You need at least 10,000 reputation points before you need to worry about that.
> In 1962, physicist and historian Thomas Kuhn proposed that science makes progress not just through the gradual accumulation and analysis of knowledge, but also through periodic revolutions in perspective.

Kuhn is almost always referred to as a philosopher because he left physics to be a "philosopher of science".

In a nutshell I see an article about a scientist who worships a philosopher, believes she's the leader of the third major revolution in understanding human illness, and has a theory that's plausible yet difficult to test. Doesn't make the idea wrong, but these are not good signs.

In her defense she's published a few times on the subject* still something about the article's rubbing me the wrong way.

* - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=claudia+miller
Because OSX workflow is bad? I use a MBA2013, as I'm wanting to work with iOS, and my desktop 99% of the time is Ubuntu with XFCE with works great (I don't use the webcam, and the ethernet doesn't hotplug, but I've used ethernet once in the time I've owned this device).

Not everyone likes Mac, Linux or Windows - why can't they just use what they want to use?
Many of these clients are from all over the world. It's probably going to be impossible to enforce a claim on the liability. By keeping the clients at least they keep their ongoing business, which is going to be necessary to repay this loan - maybe they could charge clients a % of their monthly profits for the privilege of not having their accounts closed? It will be very interesting to see what happens.
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Your situation is just what I am trying to solve: http://siscia.github.io/open-hire/

There is a nice company in our list, maybe it can be helpful.
I see similar complaints about risk to health and personal safety from emergency services personnel, but their life expectancies suggest otherwise.

What I would really like to see is an estimation of the life-expectancy of the workers in these industries. Is it actually lower than average, or does it appear that the exposure has a minimal effect on health?

Do the benefits of working in the industry out-weigh the risks (e.g. good health insurance benefits for treating other diseases out-weigh harms from exposure)?

Are life insurance companies requiring higher premiums?
It’s amusing how quickly and often someone can emerge with FUD from the woodwork, ready to create a hellthread.
And lord help you if you accidentally click on some drivel that's suggested. It'll take years of ignoring it before it and similar videos are no longer suggested.
I’m close to finishing migrating a site off of Wix to a static site generator. The actual Wix product is horrifically bad.

Unending JS, basic functionality implemented with custom elements and CSS custom variables (wanna support IE users at all? you’re SOL).

The “site editor” is somehow worse than DreamWeaver ever was. At least DW always had a consistent concept of flow content. On wix everything is positioned to the pixel???? Edit: except it’s not. Want to add a border to something? Get ready for mouse precision that would make Minesweeper nerds like me weep.

Want to change font size for something that looks the same in two places? Congratulations! You’re fixing layout on every single thing on every page.

Want to find out what an element’s font weight is? Lol obfuscated for no good reason. Everything is 400.

Oh by the way someone probably did the easiest thing imaginable and copied and pasted text, then made some changes. Now all your text is an h2. Screen readers can go to hell!

Want something on every page but slightly different on one? You can either duplicate the global thing and hide it on some pages or duplicate it on every page manually. Good luck making changes!

Do you have a device or browser window between handheld and “nerdstation”? You’re not in luck, hope you’re into scrolling horizontally.

This is just random stuff off the top of my head from two days making small quality of life improvements on the wix site before the project to migrate off.

I’d mostly kept this experience relatively quiet because I don’t like shitting on other people’s work. But then I saw that ad, which is shameful and disgusting, and decided wix doesn’t deserve that consideration.
It was the first Unix I encountered. This was on a 32-processor 80286 Intel iPSC that was obsolete, but one of the university professors either knew someone, or wrote a good enough proposal that they were grateful to unload it on him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iPSC

The processor cards were arranged in a hypercube configuration, and you had a manager computer that would load operating system images onto them at boot time. They had libraries that gave you messaging capabilities, and I somehow managed to get it to sort strings in parallel across them. Badly, I'm sure. But hey, college student.
That's what I mean; because AF_UNIX sockets are in the file namespace, the 14 is filename-sized.
I'm not sure how to respond to somebody so confidently asserting something so obviously false, but maybe photographic evidence will help?

https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/cyclists-frozen-out-of-bike-la...
The issue is that mRNA is only a tiny fraction of the vaccine by weight. The rest is made up of the lipids that hold it, plus stabilizers and such. The ratio of those to the mRNA core varies between the two vaccines. So comparing their weights is meaningless. The fact that Moderna's dose is several times larger doesn't mean you're getting several times as much mRNA. Hence, it's like comparing the weights of two different foods with different calorie densities - ie, apples and cheese.
The funny thing is that most creators experience this, if they put their work out there: What they think is their greatest piece often isn't really perceived as such and some random thing of theirs might struck a nerve in others. This applies to a lot of things: blog posts, Tweets, videos, music, paintings, and obviously games.
Exactly. I don't understand why it is so unpopular to ask this obvious question?

The numbers are falling all over the western world; probably because the policy response is largely same and maybe also because the virus' natural cycle is at the same stage.

Given how much further Israel is, one would have expected it to stick much more out in the statistics.

But it does not?
I. C++ (related) forums from Germany and Japan that I've found (so far):

- https://www.c-plusplus.net/

- https://dixq.net/

II. Quality YouTube channels from Germany:

- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos

Explains societal/political/historical topics (in a neutral manner) to laypeople.

- https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos

Explains science topics (chemistry, biology, studies) to laypeople.

III. Quality YouTube channels from Japan:

- https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos

Math professor teaching linear algebra, analysis etc.

IV. Services from Germany

- https://www.mindfactory.de/

Computer hardware etc.

- web.de

For me the best European Dropbox alternative so far (Online-Speicher).

V. Services from Japan

- https://fc2.com/

Website hosting etc.

- https://www.nicovideo.jp/

The Japanese YouTube basically.

- https://www.rakuten.co.jp/

The Japanese Amazon.

VI. Concluding Remarks & Miscellaneous

- Arte, Phoenix make good documentaries. (But these were already mentioned by others.)

- https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/
- https://www.xmg.gg/en/

Laptops made/assembled in Germany.

- https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/

Some smartphones are made in Germany.

- https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos

By Genki Sudo (須藤 元気) former MMA fighter. He's now a politician.

- Hiroshi Abe (阿部 寛)

The Japanese Clint Eastwood.

- Kim Ki-duk

A Korean movie director that I happen to like.

PS: If I find/remember more interesting stuff from Japan and Germany, I will update this post. :)
Crude natural gas is usually saturated with water downhole at warm temperatures and high pressures, some of which condenses as it is produced at the surface.

At many points in a pipeline further water removal can be essential too.

Even when not liquefied like LPG, when passing through a restriction valve or orifice, there is still additional cooling due to the product acting a bit like a refigerant.

The water content may be small but the quantity of cold gas passing through a narrow point which is well below 0C eventually can build up kilos of ice and block the flow until the ambient temperature rises enough to open it back up.
They should have put a trigger warning in there for mentioning Windows Genuine Advantage. Can’t count how many times I had to tell customers to call MS to be issued a new Product Key because WGA decided to blacklist theirs for whatever reason, having the temerity to reinstall the OS etc...
There is no argument for censorship, suspension or banning, based on our 1st amendment—- on any of the multiple platforms doing so.

I came on here just to check what the “young intellectual tech” community thinks— I consider myself part of it. I’m a 20-something female, born in the heart of Silicon Valley, and have been heavily involved in tech during my short career.

Heads up: This isn’t animal farm, this is 1984!

I never post on here and stopped reading awhile ago due to the one-minded propaganda I consistently find on the site these days (i was a lurker a longtime before i made this account) but I feel compelled to share my opinion because these times matter, and us young (and old) folks matter.

Amen and a-women? Welcome to the best addition to New Speak. Please look that up if you don’t know what it is. Have you zoomed out on how Big (and Little) Tech had subtle involvement here? And how they may be affecting how you’re thinking? I can personally say after having deleted social media for almost 2 years, and combing through different sources (time consuming)- I feel very differently now than I did four years, or eight years ago. See my links below.

“I don’t like Trump” and “not being a Trump supporter,” standing behind Big Tech — the badges of honor on Hacker News. But here’s my practical advice: be very careful who you’re choosing. Everything in life is a trade off— even who’s in the White House, who’s in office, who you’re casting your votes for, the apps you use, and the companies you give your money and support to.

Another piece of advice: for some laughs, and practical news these days, check out AwakenwithJP and Brett Pella :-) (seriously all their videos are pretty good, especially JP!)

Another piece: Hear other perspectives “i was wrong about the Democratic Party,” Georgia H.

Finally, I’ll close with this recommendation: “when the plague arrives,” NTD.

Hope you hackers open your big brains, put your thinking caps on and leave confirmation bias in the past.
That's exactly it. Nobody else can duplicate the part, and it turns a brick into something valuable. People will pay up to $WhatTheNonBrickIsWorth to make that happen.
That sounds intentional. The only reason to use novichok as the weapon is precisely so everyone knows who did it. It's meant to be an example to others so they don't cross the Russian government.
Thank you for your hard work, Dan.
If that’s all you’re looking for, then just check the responses section of the tweets you linked...

https://twitter.com/EthanKrue/status/1347374487117946888

(Re-)Storming the whitehouse on Jan 20, planning on twitter.
Disclosures... Because of NPR CEO John Lansing's prior role as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, no senior news executive or corporate executive at NPR reviewed this story before it was published. Additionally, former NPR CEO Kevin Klose was twice president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a signatory of the letter to President-elect Biden.

Well, that's complicated. Why is there a revolving door between external propaganda and internal propaganda?
Slightly pink pork is generally considered safe in most countries now, and preferred for some leaner styles (like pork chops/medallions). I've tried it and it benefits just like a beef steak.
HN: "Yes, but other than that stuff..."
I almost never mind as long as they are well-behaved. Just like kids. If your dog or your kid is making noise and stinking up the place, I don't much like it. Otherwise, why would I care? They're cute and funny (dogs moreso than kids), and they have shared human spaces for thousands of years.

I purposely live in places that are pretty lax about stuff like that, and one of the things I liked least about Silicon Valley is how horribly dog-hostile the housing market there is, though once you've got housing, there are, at least a few patio-equipped restaurants and coffee shops that are dog-friendly (not on par with an actual dog-friendly city like Austin, but liveable).
There are very few unnecessary jobs in today's economically-rationalised world. Fire the cleaning staff, and see how long your other staff hang around with piling-up garbage and a lack of toilet cleaning/stocking. Fire the receptionists and watch as a ton of work moves elsewhere because you're too hard to get hold of.
If so many animal companions visit places where they weren't allowed before, and the fabric of the society shows no signs of collapse, maybe the problem is not "cheating" but overabundance of restrictions? Maybe people are afraid of other people's pets out of ignorance and lifting the veil of ignorance is a good thing? There are, of course, bad apples - as there are among people. In a restaurant I'd be more worried about a waiter not washing their hands after visiting bathroom (the fact that there are placards saying they ABSOLUTELY MUST DO IT everywhere is kind of unnerving - if they insist on it so much is it the case that one reminder at the start of the employment is not enough?) than about the quiet dog under the table on the other end of the room.
There are also things like poorly trained dog doing "what the dogs do" in the airplane, and the owner not thinking about dog's needs on a 5-hour flight. There are also sanitary and other concerns - e.g. in some places, it is clearly not appropriate to come with animals (most of these places, though, are not exactly open to public either). But I see no problem for a well-behaved dog (or other like animal, of course bengal tigers require an exception here) to accompany its owner to a restaurant or similar establishment - provided they don't smell offensively, shed, make loud noise or otherwise disturb people. Of course, the responsibility should be on the owner and if the companion pet misbehaves or makes trouble, they both should be out, but as a consequence of a problem, not as a pre-determined conclusion.

Our family has pets and I have witnessed how many establishments view pets negatively - e.g. renting with a pet is a constant problem since many landlords, both private and corporate, want nothing to do with it. I understand why it may be (bad apples) but in my case it was just ignorance and refusal to consider even the possibility that it would be OK.

So, I personally take an issue with the author conclusion that the only sensible thing for a person with a pet is to "get lost". I think most people she encountered actually did the sensible thing and accommodated their fellow human being and her companion, however weird it may seem. And I'm sure it didn't require any extraordinary effort, extraordinary cost or major inconvenience - just being ready to tolerate something that is a bit unusual.
If you are addressing the "non-programmers" who intend to be "programmers" step [2] is not really the way to become that.
Another observation is that humans only add value for their pattern matching ability. Computers have worse heuristics, but make up for it by being able to explore many moves into the future.

But now deep neural networks have been catching on. They've shown good results on Go, being able to predict the move an expert would make 44% of the time.
Actually, mmapping the file should Just Work (tm)?
SSH authentication works fine.
You might have a point if you apply those arguments to actual censorship rather than expressed disagreement or disinterest. Even there though, to say that censorship should be seen as violence obscures more than illuminates.
... this is just sad to abuse it like this. I feel sad for people who _really_ needs their animals for this particular reason.

Some people are allergic to some type of animals though, how do you handle that?

If I happen to sit next to a pet owner, can I claim that I'm allergic to it and this is a threat to my well being?
It wouldn't let me create an account directly and there's not enough information up front to convince me to sign in with Facebook or Google+.