jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
By issuing a new release with updated defaults via the standard distribution channels. Remotely applied preference change implies a more direct intervention - it means you can't vet firefox to have certain behavior, as they may whimsically change your preferences.

Good for most consumers. Not necessarily so, if you are managing it.
PR reasons, probably. It gave a big, visible, livestreamed 24/7 impression of progress towards doing something against the disease in a way that other countries wouldn't be able to match.
You can already do that with a Chrome plugin, like Google Search Filter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...
like I said: what is your point other than to mislead? you still have not made any positive claims
>We don't halt the world for "bad colds".

No we typically don't. But in this case we may have. The science is beginning to point to the fact that this virus is not particularly lethal, but it is extremely contagious with an R0 of at least 2. That's where the danger lies -- if this was the plague and more than half of people who got it died our response should be what China did or perhaps significantly stronger than that. But there may be better options that don't doom an entire generation to an economic depression and its manifold consequences (which in and of themselves, in the long run, could kill more people than this disease ever will.)
in the case where the disease itself is not particularly lethal.

The lockdown stuff that has economic consequences is speculated to need to last as long as 18 months! Even two months will cause untold damage that will have knock on effects for years, perhaps decades. We didn't even recover from 2007 before this latest downturn and the effects have rippled through our society touching everything, including suicides.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. Especially not now.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Manipulation of comments and fake reviews isn't libel.

To the extent the comment is atrributed to the author whose words were altered it can be.

An published, attributed comment is a published fact claim about what the author has expressed, and if it is false and damaging can be libel.
That's a fictional drama.

There are better resources for learning about the American prison system, just like you probably shouldn't learn about MI6 from James Bond.
It is tricky for sure. It's a fantasy, I admit.

I would truly like to see prosecutors have to take all cases to trial.

The flagrant disregard for prosecutorial ethics is just appalling.
Also add back in electrolytes
That Ada roots doe.
Haven't tried them in awhile - I must say the ui/results are much better than all my previous experiences - is it wrong that I really miss the estimated results at the top of searches?

Also, they need to disregard the Wolfram result when it's useless:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=population+of+nyc+in+2020
That's pretty cool that you guys negotiated this and they were reasonable.
this is our general landing page, there's an email collection point at the top right http://hello.blank-label.com/hi-5/
It's not that the poker sites failed to block countries where online gambling is illegal, it is that they allegedly committed bank fraud (and money laundering) by masking payments from gamblers in the US as non-gambling related items so as to avoid the attention of the banks and authorities.

So for example, instead of a credit card statement showing a $100 payment to PokerStarts.net, it showed a $100 purchase of a teddy bear from a shell company.

They were not passively enabling US based people to break local laws, they were actively assisting.
Indirectly, everything is 'described' by Newton's Third Law. However, it doesn't provide a very satisfying answer: it's a description, not an explanation[1]. Knowing the wing goes 'up' because it reacts to the action of the air pushing against it from below, does not explain why that force is larger than the reaction to the action of the air pushing it down from above.

Bernoulli's principle is basically a statement about what happens when you apply Newton's laws to a macroscopic amount of fluid and allows you to determine what happens when an asymmetrical object is placed in the flow of such a fluid: when the speed goes up, the pressure goes down. Pressure is nothing but the amount of Newtonian action exerted on a surface, which brings us back to the third law.

Then you find that Bernoulli's principle doesn't quite cut it, because it doesn't take into account that fluids don't actually behave like the naive application of Newton's laws would lead you to believe. However, in the end, the Coanda effect is again a description of the behavior of fluids under certain circumstances, describing the macroscopic effect of Newton's laws applied to all individual particles.

[1] The exact difference between the two is subject of much philosophical debate, but most would agree that something like Bernoulli's principle has more explanatory power than Newton's law, because, for instance, it allows you to understand why a wing would lift.
I wonder how the electronics in the control systems of the plant hold up to a major leak.
Why not just have an escalating fee system? Make it cheap for the first few submissions and increase to above the actual cost as the number of submissions for a single entity increases. (And put provisions in to avoid ownership by proxy submissions, or at least to make those approaches comparably expensive.)
More interesting than just looking at the numbers, is considering the high value of files in terms of productivity usefulness, and the relatively lower (average) value of tweets. (Especially considering productivity.)
Actually, I have the feeling that, just by listing the number of technologies/languages/protocols that you now need to understand before coding any non-trivial application, you're arguing for me :)
No, you're confusing the difference between payroll tax and income tax. Payroll tax (as he is using it in the article) is not the amount of federal income tax you pay from your paycheck, but Social Security and Medicare. It's written confusingly -- but you can search around and find better write-ups, like in the New York Times, if you'd like to know more.
There's something about this that makes me slightly uncomfortable. It seems to me that there's a very fine line between perseverance and mediocrity (probably the same fine line between self-belief and self-delusion). I can, for instance, think of a number of startups that 'languished in mediocrity' ... until they got acquired. Blogger and Gravatar, for instance.[1]

Has anyone a better measurement for knowing when it is mediocrity and when it is perseverance?

[1] Funnily enough, both acquisitions freed up the respective founders to do bigger, better things: Evan Williams to Twitter, and Tom Preston-Werner to Github.
There is work being done on this, actually, although it will take a few years to bear fruit. Gmail me, or http://www.robotandhwang.com/?page_id=189
no. and the likelihood of someone building a friendly AI first when that is harder than building an unfriendly AI seems minuscule. cya humanity, sucked while it lasted anyway.
It's the tendency of these markets to "naturally" form monopolies.
> In contemporary international law the crime of genocide is part of the broader category of “crimes against humanity,” which were defined by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nürnberg Charter). The charter granted the tribunal jurisdiction to indict and try the leaders of the Nazi (Nazi Party) regime for inhumane acts committed against civilians, as well as for acts of persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds; in so doing, it also contributed to the international criminalization of other forms of abusive conduct. The momentum created by the Nürnberg trials and the ensuing revelations of Nazi atrocities led to the passage by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of Resolution 96-I (December 1946), which made the crime of genocide punishable under international law, and of Resolution 260-III (December 1948), which approved the text of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the first UN human rights treaty. The convention, which entered into force in 1951, has been ratified by more than 130 countries. Although the United States played a major role in drafting the convention and was an original signatory, the U.S. Senate did not ratify it until 1988.

> Article 2 of the convention defines genocide as

> any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (a) Killing members of the group;

> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

This is from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2010
This is good - but I unfortunately don't have the space, time or money to dedicate to building an office at home - any more than I have to build a gym or pool.
Holy shit, I knew from anecdotal evidences that young people from Spain and Italy were "fleeing" their country but the demographics are frankly scary !

I don't know how what the retirement scheme is implemented over there, but if it is generational (young gens pays for older gens) they willy have a BIG problem in 15/20 years ...
I don't quite get what I search for with keywords.

"drinks" and "museum" worked

"I love you" so-so

"smart", "smug", "slick" all didn't
I have a 4” Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. I bring it out whenever there’s something of interest in the sky. Every time I do my neighbors & their kids swarm me to look.

The images aren’t like NASA’s but that’s not the point. Seeing—-suspended in space—-planets, comets, nebulas, galaxies with your own eyes is a joyful experience. Personally knowing the sky intimately is a joy.
I think we might be talking about different things. The article is quite specific:

"The datastore is the largest pool of patient data in UK history."
Even if you are posting a fake review as a third person?
In some locations bus drivers go "on strike" by refusing to take fares for a set period of time. The service is provided, they are paid their usual salary, but magically it seems no one caught the bus that day when we look at the figures!

Work to rule is another way to do it. I personally find the concept hilarious.
I found my light-background-music-for-coding website! :)
> Piracy may never go away, but Crunchyroll is out to prove that "competing with free" is possible by treating piracy like a business problem.

> the site has grown into profitability, trying to take away every advantage that piracy has—including price.

I think the above two lines are very telling. It's very interesting and very encouraging to see how they are competing against a business problem like infringing sharing by providing free versions supported by advertisements as well as paid versions without advertising. It's essentially similar to many of the freemium models being used but is being applied to media. I wonder if something like this would work with books?
True, but Open/Libre Office is freely available and can save to Word formats.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/4989003051
Check out any standard AI work for a detailed explanation. Here's some inspiration on what's been done with them (back in the day anyway...if you check out this company their product is used in blockbuster games like GTAIV):
http://bit.ly/k30h02
Actually, they are competing on price -- they offer advertisement supported downloads for free 1 week after initial release and TV airing. This does mean they are not competing on timeliness with the free/ad version, but it's a reasonable trade-off.
Interesting application. But it begs the question : how comfortable would you be handing over your credit card to a small business like a hot dog stand or a farmer's market vendor ? My credit card was "cloned" once and since then I never use my credit card with small shops and restaurants.

Will this service ever take off when there is a perfectly good substitute -- petty cash ? The bigger shops already have a cash register.
Specific examples? It seems pretty good to me. Which shopping site has a better search, and what makes it better?

Exact keyword match is obviously fine. "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone" gives me various options for buying that book and a bunch of other harry potter related books, and i can sort by some useful options like reviews or bestselling.

Harder problems, Google shopping vs amazon:
Misspellings: Hairy Potter - Amazon suggests 'did you mean Harry Potter?', but does not initially put that book in front of me. When I check again later they are now providing a second list, "Results for "harry potter" (corrected from "hairy potter")"

Google shopping shows me the Did you Mean question, search results are the lego sets and one movie.

Concepts/descriptions instead of exact thing: "Boy Wizard Series" - both fail to suggest harry potter to me, but they do start with "Harry, a History" which might be enough to jog my memory. Still, no real points here, but this is a hard problem, and I don't know any shopping site that does it well. Even Google's regular web search is not fantastic at this, hitting mostly news articles and not reading my mind and popping out with "I bet you want to see information about Harry Potter..."

So where's the trouble?
Certainly, with web applications you would want the least amount of latency possible. This is a normal UX scenario -- as you indicated, there are factors which can simply be out of the hands of the application such as network connectivity.

In cases like that, indicating to the user that something is happening makes for a better experience than not doing anything, or in the worst case (which certainly shouldn't happen these days) blocking the user's browser.
Airfares aren't priced on a cost-plus basis, they're priced based on what the markets will bear. For instance, MKE-BOS has no non-stop options, so lots of airlines compete for one-stop business funneling passengers through their hubs. This drives down prices.

Compare this to ORD-BOS, which only has a few non-stop options. Those non-stop carriers (United, American and JetBlue) can charge a premium compared to, say, Delta, which can only offer one-stop options.

Passengers in captive hubs looking at monopoly routes (Houston, Detroit, Atlanta) have it even worse when looking for non-stop routes.

So a traveler looking to buy ORD-BOS will see high prices on the non-stops. I frankly don't see the problem here—almost every product is priced based on what the market will bear rather than cost+margin.
> often illegal

I think a citation is needed here. It _may_ be a contract violation, but I struggle to think of many jurisdictions where this would be illegal.

Could you share some examples of when this would violate a law?
Since the article does not link to the actual publication, as is frustratingly common, here is what I believe is referenced:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
The big advantage of tailwind for me is that it solves responsive design better than any system I've used before. I'm not amazing at frontend styling (I get by), but I feel like a superhero with tailwind css and UI (worth the money)
I totally sympathize with younger workers, but coincidentally, I have an opposite experience as an older worker.

I stopped building my social life through work `n` companies ago; I'm way more productive at home and my setup is way nicer; I have onboarded many engineers in person and remotely and find onboarding remotely to be much easier and less of a drain.

This only confirms the line that my coworkers and I are noticing as folks make their decisions as to return to the office or not. The older (married and (some) with children) engineers are staunchly in the WFH camp, while the greener hands are enthused about working from the office.
I think that works up to a certain scale but it's insufficient if you're Facebook or Twitter.

Now - is Twitch more like those or is it more like "Bob's Forum"?
They both seem like useful control groups - can you explain the difference to an amateur on statistics?
In group chat constantly there are members who you cannot decrypt.
If you're the only person who knows something it can also mean you end up in a rut. You can't tackle interesting new stuff because you're stuck looking after the old stuff that no-one else understands.
It’s not just some site when you have no credible alternative because it killed all the competition years ago. The network effects are too strong
>> Squint a bit and Canada's carbon dividend looks like UBI.

As an Albertan I'm not super-happy about paying for the country's party over the past 20 years and now being kicked out of the house when we're out of beer.
mask wearing and mask guidance is 100% different in asia - a big emphasis of their control strategies as well.
This was mid to late 90s. I don't know if execution would apply today. But the notions of designing the organization are evergreen.

I riffed on a notion from Ford's idea of quality circles, where engr, mfg, and QA made decisions jointly. And the USA Constitution's notion of balance of powers (trilemma).

My company was engineering driven. Our releases were always late. Way too many defects. QA/Test were demoralized. Sales and marketing weren't even part of the convo.

So I split responsibilities into three roles. Marketing determined feature set and price point. Engineering determined how and schedule. QA/Test controlled the release.

The first release cycle was VERY HARD. People hate change. I was an asshole and burned a lot of goodwill. Thereafter, our releases were always on time, we hit our P&L numbers, reduced our costs (eg tech support burden), and were given ever increasing amount of responsibility.

Later, I expanded the organizational triangle into a star by adding tech support, sales, and writing roles, each with their own responsibilities and authority.

We survived Y2K just fine. But 9/11 crashed our industry and we didn't survive not having customers.
I assumed the color difference is just that they are actually cooler, so yeah, they cool down quicker. And not just "quicker": the difference must be huge in order for it to be completely safe to grab the corners and actually dangerous to grab the faces. But why?
> What kind of pandemic was the government preparing for? One that did not need n95 masks and disposable gloves? One that wouldn't see a shortage of PPE?

Some "bioterrorism" spectacle that would be localized to a small area, requiring only a small supply sold by a politically-connected middleman, who could mark up the price 30x while having no difficulty sourcing the modest quantity from a commercial supplier.
Thanks for the link, I appreciate it. I also find it very disappointing that I was fooled into believing this and I have a hard time understanding the motives behind the OP of the canal pictures.
I guess I was blinded by my really wanting to see something positive comming from this crisis, it is illogical but realizing this story was not true is making my eyes water right now.
Got a link? That sounds like interesting reading. (The explanation of how leaking a database of every voter's info helps exploit a loophole in campaign finance law, I mean, not the data.)
Thanks! This HN thread has definitely provided me a major boost in confidence that this is a worthwhile problem to solve.
Propeller looks very interesting. Judging from the number of commits, the project has been around a long while. Does anyone know its history?
ICBMs travel 30 times faster than a bullet and 7 times faster than a hypersonic scramjet cruise missile. If we're talking MIRVs that can randomly dodge before they hit their targets, that is a stupidly hard problem. Better to try to cure cancer and just not get into a nuclear war.
In this case the shop is full of security cameras and they've been watched by members of both parties as well as third parties.

Once again if fraud had taken place there has been enough scrutiny to turn up more than a single dodgy mail man and a counting station in georgia where no one who knows how the counting process works has challenged the explanation given.

Trump lost, he didn't like it and immediately denied he lost with zero evidence to the contrary. It was only afterwards that he went searching for any evidence that fit his narrative, fabricating it where there was none and catastrophising the cases where illegitimate votes were cast.
> I think an MBA will help you be a better manager if you want to be, because at least there's some clue about what a "good" manager should look like.

I think even that part is disputed; we really don't know what a good manager looks like. Some of what's taught in MBA classes now is the opposite of what was previously taught, and there seem to be as many failure stories as success stories. I do take your point that maybe just thinking about anything other than the authoritarian mode is enough to raise a manager above the average, which is distressingly plausible.
The vandalized office you linked is... weird. Judging by the dirt on the carpet a sizeable horde stampeded through the office, some of them stayed long enough to put cigarettes out on a picture frame or something, and yet the destruction seems pretty limited.

I would have expected way worse, including fires.
All of that is also mostly irrelevant, the capitol is plastered with cameras anyways.
This is why the solution is (and always has been):

1. Electrify everything.

2. Lots of nuclear (fission), with fusion sooner rather than later.

3. Carbon capture.
The allegation is that he gets a cut of every business in Russia, or else.
No, i'ts not a nasty comment, but you've interpreted it that way since you've made the same folly. I get that, that's human nature.

Yes, a RaspberryPI is a "Computer" or "Universal Machine". So literally every ACTUAL SMARTPHONE (regardless of price or ability) is a "Better Solution" than this.

a RaspberryPI for this purpose is such a waste!

"But Think Of The Children!" you cry!?

So now we're teaching the kids that the way to build a house is to buy a skyscraper and burn down the top floors?
Seems like this has been goin on since the "S.T.E.M." fad and its pretty easy to see the effects if you stand back far enough.

you can run a RaspberryPI off a 9v battery too, just not for very long.