jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And antitrust laws are designed precisely to prevent corporations from monopolizing and abusing market position. Freedom of speech means I have the right to hear from people I choose to assemble with. Monopolies dominating the market for speech and then dictating the terms of speech is an antitrust situation. Not least of which because by the same mechanisms they can use to silence political opponents they can use to silence and squeeze out competition or mentions of competitors.

This isn't crazy or unprecedented. We don't give unlimited contractual rights to landlords. You'd end up with a virtual serfdom otherwise. So we grant tenant rights exclusive of any contractual terms. Past time to do the same for social media participants.
"HN doesn't make that much traffic"
Cite your sources, that claim sounds made up. Your inference that if somebody doesn't use a CDN or have acceptable load times for you, that they don't care about user experience, and so their opinion on self hosting is not worth listening to is absurd.
This really doesn't match my experience about what the interesting parts of "culture" are.

How much do we value doing the work vs. talking about it? Are the highest-status people the most skilled practitioners, or something else? Are policies and processes designed with empathy for practitioner workflows, do they make any intuitive sense to practitioners, or are they decrees from clueless faraway box-tickers?

Are people on top of their shit and constantly improving it, or do they not even realize what's wrong with it until you tell them? When you file bug reports and feature requests are they responded to promptly and taken seriously?

How much do we value consistency, reliability, stability - both in our work product and in our interactions with each other? Are APIs stable? How are migrations handled? Do platform teams provide nice off-ramps? Do they continue providing adequate support for the old thing until you're actually off, or just shrug and say you should have been using the shiny new? When you get a "monthly newsletter" - was there an issue last month? Will there be next month? If you come across a 2-year-old "approved" design doc in unfamiliar territory, what are the chances it was actually executed?

I have seen all these things vary quite a bit between teams and over time.
Exactly my experience, haters gonna hate... For CSS, I'd argue it _is_ the best thing since sliced bread
It concentrates a lot of time on a single customer which means I may have to say 'no' to my other, repeat customers for shorter jobs. My line of business is normally technical due diligence (helping investors to make savvy decisions about where to invest and where definitely not to invest). That work is usually very short term (typically a week) and there is no guessing ahead of time when a job will come up. So when one of my customers calls I'm supposed to be up and running within a day or so.

Another risk is that when I call my friends in to assist I assume their risk of not getting paid, in other words, if the company would not be able to meet its obligations I would make sure my friends and colleagues would be made whole (those relationships are worth more to me than any job ever would be).
At some point a website stops being just a website and becomes a social institution in itself. And with great power comes great responsibility.
This is pretty weird. Most sources that he uses for what BB:ers think are threads from bodybuilding.com (not a lot of pros spend a lot of time writing posts on there) and some place called outlift.com (never heard of that in my lifting life). This is like listening in on 1st year CS students to figure out what professional software engineers think.

If you really wanted to know what BB:ers think about rest time, why not see what they've said themselves? It's not like BB:ers don't talk about what they do and why they do it.

Just as an aside: strongerbyscience.com has pretty good articles (owner has MSc in exercise science and at least one guy has a Phd in this stuff, sources are extensively cited).
After using Runnaroo as my default search engine for the last ~9 months, I gotta say this is a huge bummer. The results were great 99.9% of the time and everything worked wonderfully or gave me a way to quickly get to a better service (such as image search -> Google image search). Quite a shock getting a "Not sure if it will be back" message when trying to do a quick search.

RIP
> Facebook even had a little red handbook

Have they stopped handing that out? I just found one the other day when I knocked some stuff off a shelf. It's tied together with string, and kind of useless.
The problem is that epistemology is still its own thing, regardless of what you're doing.

If your thing is lifting weights, you need well designed, large n, unbiased studies about that. If your thing is cooking, you need studies about cooking.

Metis seems to boil down to interest and culture. Those are certainly things that might give you some sensible priors, but in the end you know things because the mechanics of discovery are what they are.

Note that noise is a big issue. Any given bodybuilder can only follow one program at a time, and can only change so often. So someone who happens upon a working concept might never really know why it worked.
Sure, there are exceptions but the general principle stands. Those without blood families find them in close friends and charities and churches.
>kneejerk HN "crypto bad" reflex

You make it sound as if that's a bad thing. Reflexes are beneficial when the treats are real. And the crypto“currency” multi-level marketing pyramid schemes are very real. They do nothing but induce greed, gambling, spam, and all-around toxic behavior. It's a digital cancer that needs to end.
IMO companies should pay less people like you as your preferences incur more costs. Alternatively you could hire a co-working hub if you prefer that, but such costs shouldn't be passed onto people who ARE able to control their emotions and work/life balance.
> I find that I use them once or twice periodically, and then don't touch them for so long, so I forget much of what I have learned.

This is why I "write". I started a decade ago capturing short notes for myself about the technologies I use. Writing it down helps me remember it in two ways. First, the act of writing (primarily by pen) is proven to increase your memory of a thing. Second, I can open my notes for step-by-step reminders.

You don't have to blog publicly. Checkout the Zettelkasten method if you want to use Index cards. Keep a set of Markdown files in a private repo. Whatever floats your boat.

If you keep notes in a notebook I found that labeling mine as "Stray Thoughts" was one of the best things for me. That prevents me from moving away for that notebook trying to categorize my thoughts. If they are just stray thoughts, I can put any random thought in that same notebook. The same thing works in a set of text files or a Zettel.
This story seems like a SJW or alt right set up to get normal people to argue about "Pronouns", with a heap of fat shaming thrown in for good measure.

If load weight is such an issue, why wouldn't they just have scales at the gates or somewhere alone the taxi route that weighs the entire loaded plane. In the trucking industry there are even certain trailers with scales built-in and portable enforcement units that the highway enforcement use to catch and fine overweight loads.

I have heard stories of helicopter passengers needed to be seated according to their weight to balance a load but would hope the margin of error in a 737 covers atleast 2X passenger weight, they made everything else double redundant on them.
"I'll admit it's somewhat shocking to me as well."

Me too... I actually registered an account on HN just to reply. Society depends on honesty even in the face of complicating factors -- and if an intellectual community like HN doesn't stand up for honesty, that greatly disturbs me.

"There is a (probably minority) group here that seems anti-higher education"

I think most of it is more like a contrarian attitude. Some very smart people tend to pull in a lot of interesting -- though tangential -- perspectives and observations and then end up getting distracted from the fundamentals.

Cheating is cheating. Maybe the teacher or his teaching strategy was flawed. Maybe the students, at one point before test day, had honest intentions. Maybe some students were partially (or wholly) honest after the fact by alerting the teacher. But the rest of the students, who proceeded with the test even though they knew the test was compromised, were dishonest.
I would imagine it has to do with variable penetration and/or a form of constructive interference or resonance, due to factors I couldn't specifically identify offhand.
It is available in "App Engine for Business" which is currently in preview.
http://code.google.com/appengine/business/
None of these reasons is a Technical Explanation.
I take it you think it's false. And that false statements about emotions are harmful to upset people. Would that be a fair way of putting your complaint that doesn't assume without argument that it's false?

I put it to you that some people think it is true, and that if it is true it will help. Let him judge for himself what advice he deems true, instead of you trying to tell everyone who thinks differently than you to withhold advice!
Well, the reality of having Greeks / Clubs that maintain a library makes this difficult

I was the president of a fraternity at this university. There has been no decent test bank for quite some time. However, I've heard that some of the archives from the international clubs are quite robust.
How do you define pornographic content? It's not easy, and this thing doesn't even do it well or cleverly. It just looks for large amounts of flesh. We've had systems that do this since the 90s. This doesn't seem to solve any of the flaws that were present in those older systems, it's only news because somebody coded it up in a popular language.

I would wager it would be rather easy to make a system that detects bloody gore at a higher accuracy rate than this crap. Of course I have little interest in aiding any sort of censorship, so you won't see me attempting it.
This was posted 2 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920287
threewiki.com is very tastefully done - good job!
That article lacked any semblance of content.

Instagram got huge because it let's you find friends through your phone/facebook contacts, and it let's you upload existing photos?

Dear tech blogs, please stop writing for the sake of putting words on a page.
not extremely so, but probably also not terrible. (major cities in Germany, so likely mostly fast ADSL. You don't really get below 25ms on DSL due to the last mile, but if the connections and peering from there are good also not much more)
One of my kids has special needs. This means he rides a certain bus and goes to a certain school. It would be trivial to uniquely identify him for the rest of his LIFE with only the information contained in my contacts list.

So now, without consent, this "private" "friends and family"-based app I installed on my phone, plus it's company, plus any other company they choose to do business with, or any entity that acquires them in perpetuity, or any data mining, social profiling, credit bureau, can start building far-reaching and long-lasting profiles of a four year old little boy that needs a extra help.

What part of that confuses you?

p.s. this could have been avoided with a dozen lines of code via a dialog box.
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(...but it probably helps)
They are probably put on antibiotics when they are intubated, to prevent:

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation breathing machines in hospitals. ... Between 8 and 28% of patients receiving mechanical ventilation are affected by VAP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator-associated_pneumoni...
> Loss or profit only happens when you sell your assets.

This is a meme phrase; losses absolutely do happen before you sell your assets. (If I bought Enron at $90 and never sold, I didn't lose any money, right?)

> "American Airlines spent $13 billion on share buybacks for 10 years through 2019". They should have used that money more wisely. Why should the taxpayers give money away

You have two misunderstandings here. The Fed is not bailing out American Airlines by giving money away. That has to go through Congress. (I have no claims about whether bailing out AA is a good decision or not). Bailouts also generally are not free giveaways; the government often takes equity stakes.

> or lent money at close to zero interest

The Fed is lending everyone money at 0% to avoid a recession. Regardless of whether AA previously bought back their stock, they could still borrow at 0%. The Fed is doing this because the alternative (letting everything crash) is much worse.

> when the companies had the money and dedicated it to artificially increase share prices?

Share buybacks do not "manipulate the market" (not your words, but common phrasing among anti-buyback advocates) and artificially increase share prices. They return capital to shareholders. The share price goes up because the stock now represents a better return on investment (when AA buys back stock, it no longer a bunch of market cap tied up in money uselessly sitting around in a money market account).

When times get tough, AA can sell equity for more money, which is a stock buyback but in reverse. That's what could happen here. This ebb and flow (raising capital by issuing shares when you need it, returning capital when you don't) is the whole point of equity markets.

See https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go... for a more comprehensive argument about why share buybacks for airlines are more rational than holding money for a rainy day.
I can appreciate the simplicity and utility of having x identical ports on my laptop and they are all capable of doing everything. That is a worthwhile trade-off in my book, even if I personally would still prefer the option to use MagSafe.

Other manufacturers have figured out how to replicate the experience without infringing on Apple's patents, their solutions just aren't as commonly used as I wish they were.
Thanks chias, that makes me happy!!
You might be on Firefox. I just fixed this!
> He missed the core point that the freedom to protest is important in and of itself.

I agree wholeheartedly. Also, I was a bit surprised that he didn't refute the claim that you need a permit to peacefully assemble in the US. Is that really so?

Where I am (Sweden) you can "apply for a permit weeks and months in advance", but you don't have to. There's nothing illegal about the peaceful assembly of a large number of people, in fact it's a right ensured by "basic law" (similar to a constitution).
I must admit to being a bit puzzled as to what his point is.

Yeah, there are a lot of dependencies if you want to compile an entire linux distro from source. But it's just exposed because everything is right there. If you actually tried to figure out how to compile all the software on your Windows machine, would it be any better?

And to say that libtool, bloated and complex as it is, came about because someone was incompetent seems quite a bit insulting. It seems that confronted with a compatibility problem between different Unix-like systems, one has two choices:

(1) Coordinate changes to all Unix-like systems so the compatibility problem is removed, or

(2) Work around the problem with some sort of wrapper.

Now, in a perfect world, (1) is obviously the better alternative (but even that wouldn't help existing installations.) But the world is not perfect, and my chances of accomplishing (1) are practically zero, even if it's "just a single flag to the ld(1) command". Hence, anyone who actually wants to get something working on all those systems would have to do whatever it takes.
cool! awesome video as well i recommend watching it,
It's been done already. Someone hacked a street billboard in Russia once to play pornography.
The gitignore.io site is OSS as well as the gitignore template list maintained by GitHub. If you want to collaborate that would be cool, although there isn't much the site does :). All I've been doing recently is merging pull requests and updating submodule.
I also have dream exactly like yours working as full stack developer and along side product and carrying it to my startup
A middle ground seems reasonable. The naturals probably correspond to a physical phenomenon—it seems to be possible to have, say, 1 proton—but I have deep doubts about the existence of the reals.
I've been using this on/off since early 2019. Much better than stock honda LKAS / cruise control in terms of detecting lanes, lower speeds, etc.

The driver monitoring has gotten a lot better as well. If you are inattentive (based on your gaze) and don't respond the the prompts quickly, it plays a loud alarm and disables the system (until the car restarts) to prevent something like the videos of people sleeping in Teslas you see online.
I for one wonder if they had sex in there. And if they didn't, I totally don't get it.
We might have no choice at some point (like the choice will be made for us, by the planet), at the rate we're going.

But that being said, I think there are bigger fish to fry than bitcoin in that department right now.

And besides, if Proof-of-Stake becomes viable and desirable enough, they'll adopt it into Bitcoin's protocol, or some other Proof-of-Stake coin will eventually take over. Maybe it'll be Ethereum once it switches. Or something else. And then this will be a non-issue.
Why is it everyone else's problem to accommodate you?

>I'm not the one who decided to not build enough new housing for 30 years.

California's population has increased 4x since 1950 vs 2x for the country as a whole, more so in SF. To say there is no new housing is just ignoring the (finally waning) population boom.
I might be wrong, but what, a watch, and different size iPhones and iPads?
A main reason that it is hard or impractical to refactor a part of an OO system is that you cannot reason about its side-effects on the rest of the system without scouring all of its source.

When you are guaranteed that a subsystem has no side effects, you can gut its internals and as long as the interface behaves the same - your system will behave the same.

edit: a _stateful_ OO system anyway.
Personally I learn best from others.Two heads are always better than one, and it keeps me engaged with the material.

Ask your senior co-workers for help, or even your peers. I've learned a lot over code-reviews, whether its a sit down formal affair or a 5 minute, let-me-run-this-past-you sanity check.
A pet theory of mine is that those with low self-awareness and lowered inhibitions are the fastest learners.

The positive way of saying this is that those who are not afraid of making mistakes will learn the most. By their willingness or indifference to being wrong in a conversation they overcome the problems of accumulating unknown unknowns. Meanwhile others who fear embarrassment accept a higher level of ignorance.

The negative way of saying this is that the loudmouth in class is actually doing everyone a favor.

It ties well into this article, as in the study alcohol is being used as a medium to decrease self-awareness. There could be more to this theory. For instance it possible that alcohol is accelerating the formation of new neural connections. But it wouldn't be needed to show a benefit towards learning.
This is kind of old...version 2.0 of raphael is currently in development at https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/tree/2.0 and the current stable version is 1.5.2.
Do one well, and follow it through to a level of completion that you are happy with. Afterward, decide if you want to iterate and if not move to the next.

As for your work, contract, and other ideas you need to prioritize. If you need to build up a social circle that you trust to have a co-founder, then begin actively looking. Hackathons, former classmates, people at work. In the meantime, maybe some of your ideas will be taken by others. But there's little point in worrying about that.
What is "well-roundedness" and why is it a good thing?

A serious question: Have you ever, since you graduated, wished you knew more about a topic outside the field you got your degree in? Why? Ever wish you had more background in economics, history, politics, or science so you could have more informed opinions on the news or make better choices in your life or at the voting booth?

Now, imagine you could go back and take a good intro course in some of those fields of interest, instead of the "worthless" ones you had. Would that kind of "well-rounded" be more satisfying?
Do I understand right that these troubles you are experiencing are due to the GD, on multiple levels?
> That this does not happen is simply a form of corruption...

That's what property taxes are, to the tune of ~$500 billion per year in the US! The market price of a dwelling is inversely proportional to the tax rate, so it IS priced into the sale.
Mac OS 9 had MP tasks, but the amount of things you can do from them was pretty limited.
Middle and upper class people are always desperately trying to figure out ways to keep people with anti-social tendencies out of their neighborhoods and away from their kids. As it stands in America there's no legal mechanism to banish annoying people, as was the historical way to handle this. Lower income is a very flawed but still useful proxy for criminal or otherwise annoying tendencies. So you get folks everywhere consistently trying to erect cost barriers to housing, because affordability excludes lower income residents. This is in reality one of the main reasons for the original suburban flight. The cost of car ownership necessary for suburban residency excluded social elements the new suburbanites were trying to evade.

If somehow there were a legal mechanism where people on a block could collectively say "No, these people aren't allowed to move in. Go away." Then housing would be way, way cheaper. Nobody would have nearly so strong an interest in driving up prices with artificial scarcity.
With this argumentation you could also say it's wasted effort to implement a BSD kernel because Linux exists.

Thanks for the pointer to libgit2.
I guess we get to the point where the content blockers load the scripts, and run heuristics on them before loading them, and perhaps running an adaptive real-time blacklist?
Does this mean these accounts would be hidden from Five Eyes? I wonder if this also means the CLOUD Act wouldn’t apply to these accounts? Since technically, it’s not Apple hosting iCloud in China but a separate local company.
I believe there was a pizza startup that cooked the pizza in a wheeled oven, as it was delivered. You could do the same with fries.
Conspiracy aside, that doesn't make it easy to predict.

It is like saying that wars are easy to predict because they are (obviously) the result of governments declaring war.

Same thing for companies, even if a layoff is planned, no one knows exactly when it will happen, not even the people who planned it. It may be earlier than expected, or later, or not at all depending on the results, the whims of the market, the legal framework...
> never thought that watching someone play a game would become a form of entertainment.

Then what the hell are NFL, NBA, etc? People have been watching others play a game as a form of entertainment for as long as society can remember: