jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>You know that feeling you get when a news story hits all the right notes and confirms everything you thought to be true about the evil of the other side?

Honestly your first line kinda describes your theory here...

I don't have much reason to think that story is fake, but if a few sentences are enough for you to just write it off I'm not sure it matters what I say. There are other stories on that issue.
> But they're not allowed to use user data from Microsoft to market those services? How else would that data even be useful for Canonical's "implementation and technical support" services?

The data on who was doing what would be useful for providing implementation and technical support to people who has already contracted with Canonical for those services, both for providing the service and, depending on price structure, possibly for billing.
Anonymously targeting neighboorhoods is OK, no one's name is involved in that, just a list of addresses.

This is different than surveilling people's private and intimate communications, building a profile from those, then targeting against those built profiles.
The CMA in the UK did an investigation into this, and targeting is worth a 30% bump in price. It is very effective for all parties.

That being said, it is possible to get around this. The trade-off is: the privacy cost versus efficiency of advertising. I don't think there are any easy solutions short of coming down definitively on privacy. All the pop-ups are very annoying, and introduce friction to just using the website (I go onto Google, I search, I click result, stuff starts leaping on my screen...Agree to this...ad blocker on? Do this please...what a mess).
You could always offer stalking as a service a la William Gibson's "Followr". Police are sick of streamers, hire someone via app to stream the streamer!
Last time I tested (literally seconds ago) this works.

All of \q, quit, and exit work fine starting psql 11?
The modelers always have the same excuse: oh there was this variable we were unaware we needed to track.

Sorry cod fish, thats on me!
In the UK the Monarchy was stripped of powers by other nobles, not regular citizens. I'm not sure about other places, but I wouldn't assume it was always a popular revolution of some sort. I would guess in many cases it was slowly ceded to other parts of the government.
I think he dislike the direction Lua was moving and he doesn't intend to implement any of those newer Lua features. So he stopped working on it.

I am wondering what is Mike Pall working on now.
Do you think it is wrong for a person to believe OJ was guilty of the murder he was accused of? If a person decides to keep their distance from their new neighbour OJ and not treat them with neighbourly kindness and open arms because of that murder, would you admonish them for treating OJ differently for something he was never found guilty of in the court of law?
I think chromatic has more than earned the right to call himself a "real programmer". He may not be a real business person...but, he's demonstrably a real programmer.
One simple thing we can all do to help:

Call them "porno scanners". It's a sticky, effective, accurate label that offends the sensibilities of the sort of people who make public policy. Who wants to be in support of something called a porno scanner, after all?

credit: http://vimeo.com/16710243
No, Seinfield was unfunny to me even when it first aired, and it's not because of what it says.

I can watch 20 other sitcoms from 10 and 15 years before Seinfield (from MASH to Mork and Mindy to Taxi), that I wasn't even adult when they first run, and they are still funny, even when their styles and jokes have been copied....
Here's a big hairy recap of 2014 venture capital:

http://blog.pitchbook.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-vc-in-2014/

Nothing on here is alarming at all - look at fundraising, look at how much money was invested in venture companies, look at valuations, look at capital exited; all really healthy.

Sure, maybe the "spray and pray" style of seed investment has stopped as VCs are pickier about early stage companies or prefer to focus on later stage companies with their portfolios, but that's not necessarily a terrifying sign of some big bubble popping. It might be harder for a business plan and a website to get a few hundred thousand dollars circa 1998, but a lot of promising companies are still getting the money they need to grow.
I think this idea that the Boomers were somehow special or more damaging that newer generations is BS.
Funny you should mention the schools grading themselves. I'm a student at an AcadeMedia school, and they gave us a form to rate our education experience, along with this instruction on how to rate. For non-English speakers, they are basically asking us to rate outside of a linear 1-10 scale an instead follow theirs (which is biased towards higher ratings) presumably to look good on internal reviews. If this is somehow shown to their investors, I think the media should take this up.

https://imgur.com/a/XlyDudM
Dumb question: can I play this using assets from the PS2, it does it have to be the PC version?
I've heard about SSC's racism for years, but no one has ever been able to pinpoint anything written that's racist.

Instead it's about a feeling. It has to do with with the general gist of what's written and not written.

If you say you support freedom, the radical left says that's a dogwhistle for racism, since you really mean 'freedom to be racist'.

If you advocate or discuss any problem other than racism, the radical left would say that you're really saying that racism is not the foremost issue in the world, and that's racist.

If you appeal to mostly white men, the radical left says you're racist because you do not have outreach, or you don't represent minority voices.

If you support free speech, you're racist since you're just dogwhistling support for racist speech.

They will never say this of course, but it really has a lot more to do with image than concrete words or actions.

Joe Rogan never did anything racist and has even endorsed Sanders--but he seems* like he could be racist at a glance (muscular, interested in hyper masculine activities, probably drives a pick-up truck) so therefore he is.

I'm willing to consider that there is some racism in the blog, but after years of accusations and no proof, I am skeptical.
Century of Self is pretty self-contained and portable as far as having takeaways go.
Good idea but I was able to solve most of the puzzles without ever thinking about what my program was actually doing, especially in the "math" levels. In the sense that I knew what was going on, I got the concepts but I never "evaluated" the program in my head. I just made some educated guesses based on what I thought the patterns might turn into. Maybe that's deliberate here but I thought that's usually not what puzzle games want.
I also think the following take is interesting, and hasn't been mentioned in any of the comments so far (to the extent that I've been able to keep up with them):

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/understanding-middlebrow/

The gist of it is:

> Any time a powerful middlebrow entity (which wrongly thinks it’s highbrow) evaluates an actual highbrow entity, you will end up with a mixture of resentment and incomprehension.

More specifically:

> The NYT has 7.5 million subscribers, mostly progressives in the 90-99% range. These people feel very smart, and they are in fact smarter than 90% of the population. So there’s no point bemoaning the fact that the NYT is not about to tell it’s readers that, “Actually, we provide middlebrow news analysis, and if you want brilliant inspired analysis you need to read blogs like SlateStarCodex.”
(1) I have used Julia packages for connecting to PostgreSQL, mongoDB, and SQLite. It has been extremely solid. I still wish for the GIS components to be more feature extensive (e.g., writing multilayers features directly).

(2) The HTTP package (HTTP.jl) is great. You also have you HTML and CSS selectors (Gumbo/Cascadia). Some of the the best JSON parsers across languages too. I also developed WebDriver.jl (you can use it with Selenium). Diana.jl is a solid GraphQL client/server package. Genie.jl is a comprehensive web framework.

(3) Those packages have been stable for years. Web and databases are quite straightforward. The least matured one would be the web framework which published its current major version last summer.

Those two ecosystems might be the most matured ones in all of Julia and in most programming languages. I use have been using them extensively in Julia for several years.
My son who is finishing up HS this year is doing amazing. His curriculum is exactly the same as it would have been had he attended class room lessons, nothing has changed. He told me that there is no/less disruption during his lessons. The usual classroom bullshit is not a factor, allowing for a better learning environment. It would be great if schools in the future could offer remote learning as a choice. I suppose this would run counter to what the teacher unions want and would certainly affect the school districts ability in building their empire. Those 8 million dollar stadiums (Texas), constant school reno's, never ending technology upgrades, teacher pay increases, buying land for future expansion, replacing all their playing fields with artificial turf (about 2 million per field), batting cages, swimming pools, tennis courts, to the tune of 3 bonds in the last 3 years worth a billion dollars plus (latest one is for 750 Million) wouldn't be needed. It's insane but it's all presented to the Dumb Tax Payer (who doesn't understand the cost to him/her) as "It's for the children".

The sooner the US Education System (it's a big business) is disrupted the better.
Rationalist communities were fun when they were more about exploring ideas from different angles and less about identifying as a group with superior thoughts and beliefs.

It’s ironic that rationalists spend so much energy criticizing people who won’t tolerate the out group, while simultaneously being intolerant of what they define as the out group.
See also:

https://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/threads/open-ez-te...

https://web.archive.org/web/20121106003227/http://opencanard...

https://github.com/cobelu/Long-EZ
I watched a few of Louis' videos when I was trying to repair my old Mac and some just because it was fun to hear him talking about the repairs by Cettified Apple Technicians.

This man deserves to win and humanity deserves the right to repair thier stuff.
They violated their internal policy of not talking publicly about working conditions.
Does anyone use clubhouse for anything other than self promotion?
> Putting 12oz of Oatly into your latte and adjusting for the higher GI of maltose means adding almost a tablespoon of table sugar to your drink.

That’s not a latte; that’s a glass of milk.

> Oatly compares their sugar to the sugar in cow’s milk, but they’re not the same sugar.

This was insightful, though, as it’s a rationalization I’ve made when choosing oat milk but it’s now clear that it was a misguided one.
The US and Russia have been successfully not having a war since 1945, why would that stop now?
That’s the API? You can’t clean room that without having a different API.
>Giants can clone the entire product with a small team

Giants are more likely to buy the entire project with a small amount of shares

Neither option is likely to turn out well, but at least the founders could be rewarded
It’s far cheaper - because they mostly have an order of magnitude fewer prisoners per capita.
I wish this were true. Getting cmake to do something off the wall like building static executable binaries is...frustrating.

I had high hopes for scons, but that turned into a quagmire. Any build system that's going to unseat autotools will need to obviate the need for almost all custom scripts. AKA, specify the 'what', and let the user apply a 'recipe' for the 'how'. Or something...if I knew what it was supposed to look like I'd build it.
Great questions!

I'm not sure interest is immoral really. I just think it make more sense for it to be low. In the specific instance of a first time home buyer, this person is typically young and has a lot of earning ahead of them. They can get a lower rate because the banker is thinking more like a VC now and will issue a low interest rate loan to bet that this person will have a significant amount of cash go through their account over the next 80 years that will add up to a nice profit for the banker.

The banker's interest in the well being of the person also extends far beyond the repayment of the principle. Win-win for everyone other than the vampire bankers out there.
"Likelihood" can refer to both p(param|data) and p(data|param). See [1] for an example of the first, and [2] for the second.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Events
> Monarchy is superior to democracy in a very important way. When a monarch sends you off to die in war, the monarch is spending their own resources: you. And therefore the monarch's own wealth and power is at stake. In a democracy the president sends you off to die at no cost to themselves and only really strands to gain from the kickbacks.

This understanding is completely outside of actual reality. The statement "Monarchy is superior to democracy in a very important way" goes on to explain why you believe the monarch has a greater incentive to avoid wasting the lives of his citizens. This isn't even close to true. A monarch who loses 1% of his "wealth" in the form of dead people still has the other 99%. A President can lose his job, his wealth, and his personal power for less.

A president is incentivized not to put upon the people more than they can bear with the understanding that all they have to do to be rid of him is check a different box next go round. A monarch faces the same risk but only if the anguish of the people is enough for them to spend copious amounts of their own blood in violent revolution.

This difference in resistance is the dominant difference in motivation NOT a proprietary feeling towards a kings subjects. This is well born out by an ocean of blood spilled foolishly by monarchies through history. I don't misunderstand you. I don't think you have properly understood history.
Clickable links:

Link with some examples: https://viewi.net/

Documentation https://viewi.net/docs

Architecture design and idea https://viewi.net/docs/architecture

and here https://viewi.net/docs/introduction

GitHub project https://github.com/viewi/viewi
it would still need to be approved by regulators.
The fact that those in power think that 'infiltration' and 'manipulation' only happens downstream shows how well it's working on the upstream... They're not even aware of it.
Tor is used for shady practices, just like proxies of old. SE has a lot of measures in place already to prevent shady practices. If 90% of traffic from Tor exit nodes is shady, why shouldn't they block Tor entirely?

If you access any website through Tor (or proxies) you're already more suspicious than the average user. If enough people cause trouble through Tor exit node IPs, it's only natural they get blocked.
I won’t say someone is good at programming if he/she cannot learn JavaScript in two weeks
I believe that generative models are changing how content and art are created. Inspiration and judgement are becoming more important than skill:
In music, a good artist needed years of learning in theory and practice to become skilled at playing the instrument and creating harmonies. In the futures, the best artist are the ones that can be explore the input space of the AI. They can produce the most inspired prompts and judge best which results are good and how they can be changed.

The same can be said for painting (we are already seeing it now) and with writing.
I think back-compatibility is the problem http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2455703 But, truthfully, I haven't looked at the details of the Atom. It seems to have won the netbook market; but helped enormously by existing x86/windows applications. (sadly, there aren't any ARM netbooks.)

These applications don't really run usefully on a smart-phone form-factor (ie. they could run, but without a mouse nor keyboard...) - nor on a tablet.... so this change of UI requires applications to be replaced, which enables a platform to be replaced. This is what Apple and Android and ARM are doing.

Maybe Intel engineers could create a killer low-power consumption CPU if they were freed from back-compatibilty; but (1) they lack ARM's decades of experience in the space; (2) they didn't do great with Itanium. To be fair, that's probably partly because they were competing with compatibility with their own x86 design - that's what AMD did; but at the same time, they had lots of purely technical problems with it too.

Sorry, I haven't answered your questions, just danced around it with looking at Intel's capabilities. What do you think about their efforts with Atom?
Also unlikely because if your phone had not been in the "off position" then your plane would have undoubtedly crashed.
Node is a network library and you can easily create a TCP server. That s all. On the other hand ruby is great for writing scripts and nice DSLs so the whole concept is implemented very nicely.
Good article, especially #4 -- offer a concrete skill.

A good friend is applying for fashion retail jobs, and I've told her that showing your passion isn't enough. Everyone is passionate about fashion--the goal is to shape your experience so teams can understand why you're better than everyone else.

Related to #4: what are some good books on online analytics?
> bootable support is coming very soon

What's your source for this?
Hitler also wrote Mein Kampf.
The latter feature is a pretty big deal, imo.

Working independently on a project or projects with distinct clients who either need or want to give input/feedback on feature development can be greatly alleviated: work up a quick prototype, show off from my local dev machine (never have to touch a server), call/IM my-name.showoff.io, and they get to see it right away, in the same medium they will eventually be using it. This is so much nicer than sending a wireframe or design of a feature.

The long-term benefit is that the my-name.showoff.io URL can be pretty easy to recall & reuse for any number of clients & features.
Oh good. That's exactly what I was hoping someone who knows would say.

Edit: I'm not talking about trolls, though, but about respected members of a community acting this way. If bullying is confined to trolls, along with all the other bad things trolls do, that's a healthy sign.
They're not all bad, at least. I bought a Sony X900H (2020) and I don't have those issues. Heck, it's fast enough that I put my Shield TV away.

Also -- you can restart by holding the power button on the remote, then choosing "Restart".
There’s no way of knowing it won’t decide to connect to an unsecured network without asking, and some have done just that.
Yes, but it is still running an OS (rather than, for instance, an RTOS) there’s more that can go wrong, and bugs may require updates, which require network access.

That said, I’ve got many friends who do exactly as you have said and never connect it. IIRC, there is some talk about including 5G modems in near term models to further encourage connection. The data is valuable enough to merit the inclusion.
It was on the long list of product categories we explored from a distance for our roadmap. It's not a category we're going to enter any time soon, but we did at least get a blog post out of it!

In addition to not having the ecosystem network effects from modules and upgrades that notebooks (our first category) have, TVs are extremely difficult logistically. You need to be able to get really great financing terms and freight rates to be able to have huge thousand dollar objects sitting on boats, trains, and trucks for weeks at a time.
I've been doing the exact same thing except with one drive. I don't trust Google.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that all the power players on Clubhouse have shared their contacts with Clubhouse?

If they did, maybe I need to lower my privacy guards? I’m confused.
> The truth is an ideal and when we pursue that ideal, things go well. When we stop pursuing it, we get "post-journalism".

My response to that is that this idea is subterfuge for resolving complicating political problems with propaganda rather than by proper system design. We are in this situation, because propaganda has lost its power over the masses after 100 years. We need better ways to resolve problems that appealing to ideals while a select elite push their agenda on the people who accept it unquestioningly. In many ways our methods of dealing with this has been akin to religion, which also appeals to religious ideals to gloss over real issues and silence them.
Does anyone know how Fall Guy's net code was implemented? It's very smooth with 100 participants.
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Okay, but my original point is that nobody in the West has gone through something like what we’re going through. You’re actually making my point even stronger: not only has no one in the West ever actually lived through a pandemic that took a bunch of lives and requires societal level sacrifice, we’ve all had false alarms that have made us less likely to take potential pandemics seriously.
Usually if it's Amazon-shipped they will "take responsibility for this fulfillment experience" and nullify the 1-star review while immediately refunding you, from what I recall.
People skills & Frustration tolerance

1-2% of society are always on the verge of depression, as that is just how gauss distributions work. But chances are, it'll soon be 10%. Google therapeutic shopping and you know that people are willing to spend a lot of money to feel better.

So if you can handle hearing the whining of depressed people without it dragging you down too much, offer to do free video chat with lonely people now. Your goal isn't to change their situation in any way, but by telling you about it and feeling heard, you can help them change their feelings about their situation. So you mostly just listen, reveal related facts about yourself, and ask caring questions.

Once the crisis is over, your newfound ability to stay cheerful in the presence of adversity and your ability to get along well with different kinds of people will be a very valuable asset for romance and work.

Add cooking and laundry and those 4 traits are what I believe most HN readers will be lacking in comparison to the normal population.
>>Since it hasn't been mentioned let's just put it on the table here that Amazon Prime, a service with a fairly steep annual fee, supposedly came with a promise of two-day shipping, in exchange for that fee.

You really got them. You should request a refund and call it a day if you can't wait for non-essentials. The entire world is either on lock-down or it will be and someone is trying to get cute. No company can scale that quickly, given the amount they move and risks employees take (one virus case and the entire warehouse shuts down).

CoronaVirus will hit US like a ton of bricks in 7-14 days, then page 44 of Amazon Terms & Conditions will seem like a joke.
It's really the bandwidth that'll cost you :-)