jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My understanding of why (the iPhone app store) is supposed to be good for society is that (it provides customers with many useful applications and games). It has the nice side effect of (putting money in the pockets of many small developers). I fail to understand how (1,000 different bodily-function simulation applications) forwards either of these goals. Maybe someone can explain why this is a good thing to me, but this really seems like a perversion of what (the app store) is supposed to be good for.

Markets exist because people want to be able to buy and sell things efficiently, in one place, and make money. They are not out to serve a charitable goal. Buy-and-hold investment is not somehow "better" or more moral than fast trading, both are just choices made by individuals, companies, or computer algorithms operating on their behalf.

Think of it this way -- there is a buyer or seller on each side of every transaction this algorithm does, who is willingly (even urgently) entering into that transaction.
Theoretically, if there was unnecessary and harmful stuff in there, either someone would have complained and already gotten it removed

Practically though, there are many contexts where people complain and are ignored.

I think you're over-complicating it; the paper presents easy problems where Chesterton's fence would not be an issue, but upon observing the results they titled it 'People systematically overlook subtractive changes.'
It’s innumerate I would argue. There are a lot of “ought to be” aspects to life but it’s not a very useful layer of thought. I prefer thinking about “what is” and from there think about changing things for the better. By “what is” I’m referring to empiricism, collecting data and using numbers to facilitate reason. The two modes, what ought to be vs what is, needn’t be incompatible, though acceptance is a difficult first step for many. In any case, if there is solid empirical evidence for the yimby-topian fantasies I hear, about how mixed used shopping plazas will solve the worlds ills, literally, I’ve yet to be convinced by any of it but I’d love to read any studies you might provide.
Yes, but is it actually all that difficult to switch between two vendors? Mac and Windows? Windows and Linux? Android and iPhone?

It’s some work, it isn’t that much work. You would be surprised at all the things people don’t care if they lose.
So it’s based on a crap premise? No wonder I’ve not heard of it, and for that I make no apologies.
One possible explanation for why America thinks giving a 17 year old a vote is more dangerous than giving them an M16.

Not the only possible explanation, obviously.
But they will pay for said weapon via the net economic extraction some boomer provided paying $300 instead of $400 for his lawn mower
No, but maybe more in prison for victimless crimes and those prisoners are disproportional of minority ethnicity.
Sure, one little hobby horse, e.g. "inversion of control" can run amok to negative effect (looking at you, Java projects with object traces 75 layers deep) but that doesn't make idempotency or inversion of control into bad ideas.

A bit of pragmatism goes a long way, like Python's odd

x = (some_tuple,)

. . .syntax amidst its generally clean approach.

Inflexibility itself is the bugaboo.
As this address is associated with a mobile, I would not rely on the New York location. Several reasons for this. First, it could be where the person is at that given time. Second, many mobile companies route through centralized locations, meaning that the IP is only being assigned from New York, and the person could actually be in North Carolina or somewhere else.

With that said, the domain is registered to mycingular.net meaning it is an AT&T domain. The easiest way to track it down is to call/email the following:

Administrative Contact:
AT&T Services, Inc.
Domain Administrator
240 N Meridian St. Room 280
Indianapolis, IN 46204
US
Phone: +1.3172652859
Email: jn4238@att.com

Technical Contact:
Cingular Wireless II, LLC
DNS Administration
12550 Cingular Way Data Center
Alpharetta, GA 30004
US
Phone: +1.8889003674
Email: cingulardns@cingular.com
30 million kronor is around 4.2 mil USD. I'm guessing that's not going to happen.

I lost track of the story shortly after they were found guilty. Did they get scooped up by the police or are they in refuge somewhere?

I applaud these gents for standing so tall against their attackers, even against the threat of a judgment like this.

It's just a shame that the music industry is still wasting time on issues like these. Thank god I wasn't arrested for sharing cassette tapes in my early teens.
I'm not sure if you can buy refurbished, but I've only ever bought brand new stuff - I think he imports en masse from other countries. He's quite good at replying to questions too if you have detailed questions. The savings are really good eh?
Yeah, alert boxes aren't great I admit. I was aiming for the bare minimum of functionality but I could perhaps add nicer popups using script. It detects changes in browser window size and tries to redraw the button pad accordingly; and so should work well on mobile screens too though there are some width issues on iPod Touch.
Should be a relatively good fit, with both languages having prototypal oo. I wonder how he would implement the metaprogramming parts of Io.
Can't you just use the downloader and download all your data?

Edit: go to https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php and then click the "learn more" link, then download. I think they email you when the download is compiled.
Should have thought about that 5 years ago ;)
"people who doesn't know" is funny also, I wonder if it is intentional.
Thanks :)

I don't mind critique at all, but it's frustrating if people call it untrustworthy when we spend hours every day checking facts and gathering sources.
Pretty sure whatsapp is on that platform.
great! how about C/C++, eg mixed mode debugging from R <-> C the way PTVS does?
People will continue dying, but young in their 100s, or in their 20s like today

Not for long. Years from now living without a backup of yourself will be as abhorrent as currently operating a database with no backup.
Original blog post: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/false-sense-security

Notable bit:

> We had a group of 35 expert AV/Production team that were isolated in one corner of the office running the live Broadcast. 100% of that team wore masks throughout the production. There were NO COVID Cases amongst this group. Bottom line again: Masks Work.
MIT policy on sexual harassment was found to be violated.

https://news.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208
This was explained in the Twitter thread[1].

https://twitter.com/NiklasAstrand/status/1358321916369592321
Honestly the only thing I could ask you to do, would be perhaps make it more clear that you have to actually run the app to get it to work. I thought it was just a matter of switching the driver. Since I plan to tell all my music minded friends about this I hope they get it clearly :D

And a nitpick: The uninstall dialogs act as if I'm installing something, it was a bit confusing (10.9.2)

I'm really loving this though. I plan to buy it the very day I get my online banking sorted, and I'll be grateful for the opportunity.
I love Edgar Allen Poe, but one particular reason is because of his essay "The Philosophy of Composition".[1] It's a long piece basically describing the methodical and mathematical way he developed The Raven. It's a really cool look at his process for creation.

Plus it pisses off your run-of-the-mill literary types.

1: http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/philcomp.htm
There's a backstory here; the TLS working group asked the IETF crypto review board to recommend a standard for DJB's Curve25519. The effort seems to be running aground on bikeshedding concerns.

The jab about NSA continuing to influence CFRG is weird, though. Bernstein doesn't really believe that NSA influences Kenny Paterson.
Wow, this would be awesome...
...and the case where DNS servers are not configured by DHCP, not configured statically in NetworkManager or resolve.conf, and not explicitly configured in systemd's own DNS config files, is not an edge case? I am not asking that systemd developer "prioritize" anything -- I am asking that they not introduce some new, counterintuitive logic that unexpectedly breaks things.
They are in california. They can give the finger to the gpdr. It's irrelevant to most people in the world

People tend to forget that it is not applicable. For instance nothing I build will ever comply to it regardless of users that might be in europe

Clubhouse has no duty to obey european law

The question is: why do you think the need to be compliant?
A lot of baked brain cells between then and now....I don't deny my memory is fuzzy.
It is all pretty good, but why there is update of "static bool" variables from signal handlers?
In old-style C it must be "volatile int" (and only int), in new-style moder C it must be atomic-anything (bool is ok). But access to plain "static bool" from signal handlers & main thread is race and UB.
In some ways it's quite conceptual about the best way to use vim. Inside the cover there's a quote "I thought I knew vim, but practical vim has massively improved my code-wrangling productivity".
The real poignancy is the shift in hacker political views. Call it post-software-is-sexy world. Those usenet sigs were by hackers who lived in a world where software engineer or programmer were social reject code words. That world changed after geeks came into money. Suddenly but soon thereafter, paranoia about privacy was rewarded by tinfoil hats. (And then yes, years later, came along this guy called Snowden.)
No, but I'm going to grumble about the redesign every chance I get.
Why do you have the authority to dismiss many's experience of a feature? Because you can think of a way you would handle it and you've read some things?
I think the second sentence is opinion, not something that could be objectively tested. Last sentence is mostly true. Sick people are much less happy than when they are healthy.
mildly sensational conclusion. his real lesson should be "this is how i learned how to use github."
Your hypothesis is interesting but it doesn’t fit the data. The flattened trend for this age group began suddenly during the Great Recession of 2008.

I think it’s more likely that a lot of women in this age group suddenly lost their jobs in the Great Recession and never recovered.
As a corollary, they are likely spending a lot of their free time as unpaid babysitters for relatives and their own children.

This is typically the age when women become grandmothers, and, unless they were highly paid in their professional life, the babysitting will typically be more valuable too.

This range is also Special in another way, because 401k and IRAs don't kick in until exactly 59.5 years, at which the LIUR of this cohort likely drops dramatically and may account for muddying up the data or not adhering to the trend.
I am in the same boat. Strength has increased significantly and I have also lost some fat. However, I wonder if that will continue. From what I've read, it's difficult to gain muscle and loose fat at the same time.
Your probably not familiar with all the langauges of Western Europe, and, in any case, a white man living in Western Europe need not be a native speaker or any language of Western Europe (they could, e.g., be a native of Eastern Europe now living in Western Europe.)
Given that he concluded with the focus on saving the republic specifically rather than Roman civilization it seemed obvious to me.
Possibly controversial opinion: The best debugger I ever used was VB3-6, and same-era VBA.
I’m not sure if the lack of universal healthcare is a cause or a symptom of the problem.

As the article points out, people are engaging in more self destructive behaviors. These behaviors are much more influenced by social and cultural support systems than anything else.
A lot of people want to judge investors who passed on Google. They shouldn't. In VC you hit or miss, you win some you lose some. People judge investors who passed saying it was a "poor" decision. That's only because you have hindsight and hindsight is 20/20.

I am sure there were many other search plays at the time and picking from one was just like picking a crab from a barrel.

I doubt investors, who do this everyday and win some and lose some, worry all the time about why they passed on Google.
She is pretty terrible at describing whats happening to her.
Not sure how "they taste worse" personifies the chicken, nor how pointing out that in fact chickens can suffer personifies the chicken either (well, I guess only people can suffer...).
What would it take to do something like this?
does it not go bad? I live in a mold prone house, and in my standard rice cooker, it multicolored after a day or 2 (and starts to smell off after a day)
The chickens you describe are the only ones I find acceptable for soups and stocks. Mass produced broilers just don't have enough flavor for these uses.
You don't have to use SPARQL. For example, you could download a data dump and run Cypher queries using the Knowledge Graph Toolkit: https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/kgtk
American cars get safety(and emissions) inspections too and the second part is just not true. I think there's more to it than just casually dismissing americans as too "unregulated" and dumb to handle high speed roads. In the case of Germany's autobahn, after the reunification, road accidents initially increased in former East Germany so it's not like Germans are inherently superior drivers.
I don't honestly know how you'd make a phone targeting left-leaning folks, but I wouldn't have actually thought how to make one targeting right-leaning folks, either, because to me both of those use cases are covered by, well, phones. :) If I was trying to follow the scam playbook, I guess I'd probably install Mastodon, Signal (or its weird broken fork that started this conversation, I dunno), and maybe a few leftist news apps, but even that's actually a bit tough -- there's multiple surveys over the last few years suggesting that conservatives get news from markedly fewer news sources than liberals do. As much as MSNBC may desperately wish otherwise, there is no liberal equivalent to Fox in terms of audience loyalty. (Although, the FreedomPhone specifically calls out NewsMax and OANN, which suggests they're going for people who think Fox may be a little too liberal!)

As for whether Twitter, Tumblr and friends are canted to the left, here's why I'm doubtful of that. (Also doubtful of the inverse, to be clear.) It's fairly trivial to create a Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc., follow list which is curated to your favored sociopolitical bubbles -- that's basically going to happen if you use the sites as designed. The more you interact with those bubbles (e.g., what you like and what you retweet/reblog), the more focused they become.

Okay, so, that's all probably pretty obvious, but here's the thing. Once you're in your favorite bubbles, the problems you see on, say, Twitter are going to be the problems that bubble experiences. If most of the people you follow are deeply invested, either directly or indirectly, with far right activism, you're going to see and hear about far right activists that Twitter has flagged or suspended or banned. If most of the people you follow are deeply invested, either directly or indirectly, with LGBTQ activism, you're going to see and hear about LGBTQ activists that Twitter has flagged or suspended or banned. But those two streams are very, very rarely going to cross. And that makes it very easy to think it's your particular in-group that's bearing the brunt of Twitter's evil machinations.
A challenge with Mesos is that Mesos was a piece of technology, a framework at most, instead of a product. When I was using Mesos, the selling point was flexible and efficient resource scheduling. Unfortunately, resource/machine efficiency alone does not sell well, as most of the companies and individuals have betters things to worry about, say, productivity.
I suppose insisting on both “most”s is a bit pedantic, but I also think it’s nice rhetoric -- reminds me of “you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time.”
Sorry for what might be an obvious answer, but when you say

>because the standard clojurescript library has everything+

do you mean bc it has all those libraries incorporated, or bc it's able to emit the equivalent to native javascript?
True. As the major corporate sponsor though they didn’t give it the best chance.

I ran one of the first Docker partners and saw first hand how both Mesos and Docker Inc had considerable mindset and interest from large enterprises for a year or so before Kubernetes matured.

They both spectacularly failed to deliver through arrogance and bad execution.
I have a few small spider veins, but I've had them for 10 years already. And since I work from home, I can play James Brown any time I want. You can imagine I get down; I'm not static.

Slightly more seriously, there is no one answer. But in terms of total human history, sitting isn't something we spent a lot of time doing. Sleeping, lying flat, we obviously spend about 1/4 to 1/3 of our time doing. Standing or walking or running surely must be a big portion of the rest. Sitting would only be reserved for when you have the time to "do nothing". That's kind of a new concept. Thusly, I'm not afraid.

For a 50 year old nerd who hasn't exercised in a year, I'm still well above the health and capabilities of a lot of same age people. And when I'm in a good environment with outdoor play areas (mountain biking) or indoor gyms, I'm fit. Aesthetically, losing hair and gaining less elastic skin is much more a concern to me than some tiny purple lines in my ankles or knees :/
Looks like .gz is basically a free lunch in terms of CPU/memory impact with a decent size savings.
IMO Tesla tries to get around China currency controls and lets people in China buy Teslas with bitcoin. I guess that is part of the reason why Tesla was hauled in front of the Chinese government recently. It is a good idea if it works out.
It almost certainly wasn't Wayfair. FTA:

> In addition to working parents seeking legal counsel, employers have been trying to figure out their legal obligation to employees with school-age children during the pandemic. One employer was reportedly considering cutting caregivers’ salaries by 20 percent to compensate for an anticipated drop in productivity, according to a Boston employment lawyer.
>Secure messaging should be free for everyone. Displaying ads alongside your private communication seems out of place, even immoral

I completely agree. In this ideal situation, who pays for it? The article seems to have left this small detail out. How do you plan on getting this service to work without someone footing the bill?
For what you describe, perhaps an Excel spreadsheet would be best.

Although if you're just looking at learning how to CRUD, then it's a good learning exercise.
Or mine bitcoins for them on the attacking user's machine, to pay for the increased bandwidth.

(Probably hard to do it in a way that wouldn't backfire in some way or another, but the idea still makes me smile).
If you're going the PHP route, I recommend Laravel. It's easy to pick up, there's a ton of interest and plenty of places to teach you. They even have a neat little Vagrant box to help you with the initial set up.
I heartily recommend the notebooks published in this course as excellent applied reference material to estimation and optimization.

I love it how code and coursework are intermingled, reminiscing me of Knuth's Literate Programming [1]

My beef with many other courses offered (including Coursera) is that they use Matlab when it's clearly advantageous to use IPython Notebook as a better experimenting environment. For example, Daphne Koeller's PGM course[2] is still in Matlab and no matter what you do the code looks extremely clumsy and hard to read. N.B. I wrote tens of thousands of lines of Matlab code, including GUI programs, but that does not mean it's a good language to use especially in cases like this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm
"Riding a bike vs driving actually causes more pollution (because farms make lots of pollution) [unless you replace exercise you anyway do with bike riding]."

This is a very interesting point, do you have some numbers to back that claim? Food production costs, car production, oil production etc.?
A simple sheet of clear plastic (even cling wrap) sealed across the window will keep air from circulating.

Used this on a house with single-pane windows growing up.

Works amazing, simple and cheap.
This is a false dichotomy. You can have a dynamic language that isn't as insane to optimize for as Javascript (or Python).

Do you really need to be able to override the valueOf method on an integer?

Lua manages to be both dynamic, and to play with the big compiled boys on the Compiler Shootout with its JIT. I don't know the details but I suspect it is because its dynamicity is carefully designed with an eye to the cost/benefit tradeoffs, instead of always choosing to make things dynamic regardless of the costs. How much time does a straightforward implementation of a conformant Javascript interpreter actually need to spend looking up and executing "valueOf", anyhow? The vast bulk of those will be wasted.

With the nature of Javascript even "optional type declarations" are easier said than done; you not just to specify "an int", but "an int that you have not mucked with the prototype of, or any of the prototypes of the parent objects", and that's actually a declaration that intrinsically fights against the nature of the language. Actually propagating such things out will eventually create an implicit dichotomy matching the much-maligned Java difference between objects and primitive types, only in a language where it was bolted on a decade after the fact instead of at least being in there since day one (of public release).

It's an interesting enough language but it's not really suitable for use as the base level of a tech stack. Nevertheless, it will be forced into that role. (It's not like there's actually a choice of a really well-designed tech stack out there that can replace the web, it's all various incoherent pieces bashed on by monkeys until it mostly works most of the time. Not really trying to be sarcastic here, this is a realistic assessment, IMHO.)
I love the "long options start with two dashes" convention. It means that you can chose short options that are easily combined (in cases where the command and its options are often used), or you can use long options that are much easier to understand (because they are full words). More command line tools should support them.
Once when my daughter was 2 years old she needed an MRI. She was given Benadryl beforehand on the advice of the doctor to allow her to sleep through the procedure.
No need to be abstract and think of “theory”. Vim for example has undo.
No kidding. I laughed at this part:
"STOP DOUBLE CLICKING ON A FILE "
"Instead type '$ xdg-open file'"

Yeah, because that's way faster and more convenient than double clicking on an icon.

This one is great too:
Don't open the file explorer! Instead you should type
"find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'"

Seriously?
I don’t think anyone can “reform” capitalism.

Think about it, it’s at the root of how dominant humans behaved since the beginning of time.

It’s literally the 80/20 rule in practice.

20% of humans want to create things (generally). And capitalism is the most efficient way to do it at scale.

Look back in human history to see signs of this in every country, city, town and village.

There is always that “rich” person in your town that owns a lot of land and businesses. Always.

Why do we think we can stop or change this feature or humans?
So would you boot the CD, google the question you want to google, write answer down to paper notebook or make photo, and then restart to resume installation?