jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
our dev group moved to Slack and chat increased noticeably (plenty of our devs would either ignore IRC and not connect to it, or connect to it and forget about it)

it's not just non-technical people that care about polish.
The article alludes to Guy Kawasaki's 'evanga-list' back in the 1990s which seems to be the source of the "Everyone thinks Apple is doomed" meme. I don't know if anyone has written up the whole story, but it's been discussed on various Mac fora over the years.
I disagree. Sure, it's susceptible to groupthink, but one comment by someone pointing this out is enough to turn the scales. I have never seen a single "don't downvote this guy, he's making a good point" not reverse the downvotes and lead to the person being upvoted (unless he wasn't making a good argument, but I've never seen that).
more likely they don't want to be behind F-Secure who did the first widely-discussed Stuxnet write-up.
IAmSpartacus
A lot of the classic Unix security advice is pretty outdated. For example the idea that someone getting "root" access is worse than someone gaining "ssp" access. Everything interesting is already readable and writable by ssp. The only new thing root can do is destroy stuff that can pretty easily be recreated.

The root account is still useful to prevent ssp from accidentally screwing things up, but as a security measure it's pointless in many cases.
For years I held a similar philosophy, then I decided, "Screw it, I can just copy .vimrc and .bashrc to whatever system I need, and if that's not possible, I can adapt to the defaults." I haven't done too much customization yet, but after seeing some example .vimrc and .bashrc files online, there's a lot of potential for improving productivity.
I use the "P.T. Barnum was right." quote all the time... Sometimes I even mis-attribute it to Wirth.
Finally, a compelling reason to become wealthy.
I know right?! Female here just cracked up reading that. 2-3% is still 2-3% too low.
It's not a question of efficiency. My figures assume 100%, which is certainly too optimistic.

No, it's about the energy in any reasonably home-sized system is way too small. About one or two AAA batteries' worth.

Though industrial-sized systems can be much better, they too are under-powered, against our needs. Except pumped-hydro.
IIRC from a study in French hospitals, one in three people being ventilated died. Without ventilation, these people would have died with almost 100% certainty (that what “last resort” means BTW), so without ventilation we would have around 3 times more death. Furthermore, in the 19th century, they had no access to antibiotics, so a significant amount of the deaths has probably be caused by bacterial infection on top of the viral one (like what happened with the Spanish flu).

On the other hand, the world population was way younger at that time, so Covid19 would have caused fewer sever cases back then.
But it helps when running untrusted code, or code that has to be separated (like what you would use containers for)
Paywall, so I couldn’t read the whole thing. But this reminds me of rural areas in India, where they use dung for heating. Quite a lot less hygienic than urine, given that urine starts out sterile.

The usual concern with these alternative energy systems is whether they provide more energy than they use. There have been plenty of cases of businesses that sell expensive recycled products under the guise of being eco-friendly, but it turns out that the recycling process actually ends up being more harmful than just disposing of the materials.
Network lag?
I just got use it on Linux via Mono and gotta say, it is a pretty nice language. I used to dismiss it because of Microsoft's influence and its being tied to thier .NET. But recently due to Microsoft open sourcing part of it, hopefully Mono will pick up some more change, and I think there is some space for server side C# on Linux.
Sadly, the links to the manuals from this page http://inform7.com/learn/manuals/ are broken.
And it did load the title tag so it certainly received at least a couple of packets.
Being italian, I'm really curious about what you mean with "italian living standards".
I prefer the approach of mobile webapps, I just set my webapp http://www.gmbhnews.com , over native apps, I have a broader reach (all smartphones) , and I can still create native apps later, I can also SEO my mobile webapp and have less competition than on Android/Webos/iphone, + developp one time and update one time for all platforms.
I think that comes from a place of fear in a lot of people. Money is power, and protection. What does money ultimately buy us if not safety? Perhaps not always literal physical safety, but the safety of knowing you can live life as you see fit without restriction.

Basically, money buys contentedness, and those that remain bound to contentedness are often there through the avoidance of the things that cause them fear.
When I was a kid, my late uncle gave me and my cousins this big speech about what the N queens problem is and how it was applied in designing chips - I never really understood his verbal description. The link you just shared is so well written and gives such a great perspective on applications of N queens - thanks for sharing it.
I'm not sure there are Richard Feynmans in startups or similarly "soft" fields.

There are. Game recognize Game[1] is a thing for a reason.

[1] If you need this footnote then it doesn't apply to you.
I posted a negative review of a dentist on Yelp -- I stand by my feelings of having a VERY bad experience -- and the guy emailed me putting me "on notice" and demanding I remove it immediately, or else I'd be "dealing with [his] attorney." I never did remove it, and I never did hear from his attorney. But I felt outraged and scared (I was a few years out of college and had never received this sort of email before), and I will admit I didn't use Yelp much for several years, as I associated the site with risk of traumatic experiences.

It gives me a sick feeling in my stomach and a headache just to think of all this again.
Well, there are a lot more regulatory issues they have to deal with in regards to EMi and such. The certification process of those kinds of devices is long and expensive. Plus, airlines are not exactly cash cows, so its not like they can afford to put a $2k entertainment system in each seat.

So, what you're looking at is the 5 year old state-of-the-art-on-a-budget technology. With that in mind, the rest of it becomes more clear.
According to EFF analyst @evacide, they had about 3,000 nodes or 0.27% of the network. https://twitter.com/evacide/status/548640012925812736
Nobody is being “forcibly” silenced. They’re still free to exercise their first amendment rights on their own website, in public spaces, friendly private spaces, etc.

What they aren’t is entitled to force a private company to host and promote their content.
“To date, no court has tried evidence, nor have any administrations publicly committed to audits”

Trump’s team has notched up over 60 losses in court so far.[1]

“They are being told by the other side that there is no evidence, but this is the same other side they think have been lying to them for years, so of course these people will not believe the other side.”

Actually at this point they are being told that by senior leaders from their own side - see the statements from Republicans Brad Raffensperger and Mitch McConnell this week.

[1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-electi...
So, you're asking your opponents to prove a negative. That's not how election law (or common sense) works. You want to contest the result, it's up to you to provide the evidence strong enough to uphold your objections.
It also assumes a fairly-sized platform and counter-platform.

Everyone reads Trump's nonsense. There's an exponential dropoff in the count of people who read replies.
I'm afraid it is hardly a recent trend, it is just that social media is a new source of suppression since that's a thing now. Governments and various other interests have long funded research with the goal of promoting their agenda and attacking research that doesn't align with their message.
Media didn't exist in the public debate to begin with. The printing press opened that up. We're realizing with events like the one described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller how negatively impactful letting only a select few that are sponsored by the government to be part of the public debate.
Meh over a large population that is not actually true. Some people just don't make that much salvia for example and get dental problems way more than others, even with identical dental care behaviors and diet of someone with pretty much no dental problems.

Also it prevents bigger issues in the future that a socialized healthcare system would have to pay for. Cheap socialized dental care basics I think is a net positive for a society in general. The poor will be more productive and create more tax revenue than the amount of money put into it.
But there are some suspicious looking numbers and events that happened. I personally don't believe that they are true, but why not just investigate them? People distrust dominion voting systems; Just allow a bipartisan audit. People think certain votes were counted without both parties present; just recount those votes. Where is the harm in just being absolutely sure of things? If you just shut down people because there is no absolutely solid, undisputed evidence, they just think you are hiding something.
Sure, that's exactly my point, I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that Facebook is worthless because they won't or can't charge their users just like healthcare isn't worthless because many people don't directly pay for it.
Those are — I think, exclusively — examples of either unrelated or anti-blm perpetrators.
Wow, great!

I can only try to imagine how it would look on a oscilloscope with more MHz and a better soundcard.
I've always found it hard to do something like a structural discussion without having written some code first. At Google I found that I could request an informal code review in email rather than using the formal request mechanism ("g4 mail"). I could even provide a changelist number so the reviewer could look at it in Mondrian. But by having used email I could frame things so the reviewer would look at the high-level picture. That usually seemed to work.
For another middleware solution that's been around for more than a year, is modeled after Rack and WSGI, and follows the JSGI specification (which I believe is part of the CommonJS spec), be sure to check out tlrobinson's Jack - http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack . You can use Jack with Node by using node-jsgi (http://github.com/kriszyp/jsgi-node).
weekly planner. Any will do, really — seeing events/responsibilities on paper laid out for the whole week helps me clear my thoughts and organize my time.
You are indeed misunderstanding.

A game tree search is not defined by the available options for the very next move. It's about the total possible paths to the end. In this case, poker is a much larger tree. Read the intro section of Darse's PhD dissertation that I linked to above and you'll understand.
Not pumping however many extra decibels into your ear due to the extra blocking is pretty valuable

Absolutely true, but comparing the DAP volume setting doesn't tell you that. The Bose QC-x are relatively insensitive, so the DAP volume will be on a higher setting regardless of the amount of noise blocked/canceled.
The iPad isn't the only touchscreen device that will be coming out in the next 5 years, but it is the best example to use.
That was the whole point of the keynote today. Google is trying to lure developers by being free and open. Apple is try to lure developers with cold, hard cash that they are paying out.

The keynote mentioned that Apple has paid out $1 billion to developers through the App Store and advertisers have committed to $60 million dollars so far to iAds. Developers get 60% of this.

I see or hear no numbers from Google. Google hasn't even rolled out Google Checkout worldwide, yet. The Android devices that Google is selling are being given away by the carriers. A customer that received a free device and has not input their credit card into a payment processor is probably not the type of customer that I want.
While reading the article I read that part not like they were tracking the relationships but rather using the form as a survey to get a feel of how good different departments got along and knew each other. Basically, I felt like they were keeping the whole thing anonymous.

If they're not, in that case, yes, it is very creepy. But I really doubt it.
> You're ascribing all sorts of moral judgments to this world but don't make a case for why any of these things
are bad, if they manage to make people feel (truly)
content and happy.

Most probably sheep are perfectly happy in their pen. Being perfectly happy because you don't think about why you live and what you may be good for isn't in my opinion a good way to be happy. My opinion is that human being should aim higher than living an happy cattle life. These are personal values, but I think that some values are better than others, and that general relativism isn't good.

And about the intellectual snobbery : I am a proud intellectual snob. Intellectual snobs know better, that's why I chose to be one :)
Hoogle is pretty cool: http://haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=m+a+-%3E+(a+-%3E+b)+-%3E+m...
Cool-- since it has a kink to it, there is an "easy" side and a "hard" side...
And what I meant is that the word "morals" an empty node (http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/) in objective-definition-space, and needs to be broken down into its constituent definitions—which, in your case, means virtue-based ethics. There is no property of "morality" that you have that cannot be explained by your being a virtue ethicist; thus, you must dissolve the idea altogether.
I like to call this the post-industrial synchronization psychosis. Our societies irrational desire for order that inevitably leads to total chaos.
I'll deploy next week on a site and let you know my thoughts
What about the annoyance factor? "Hey why are these strangers contacting me and asking me to send you messages to contact them?! Do I look like your personal secretary??"
been checking some simple game development solutions in my spare time ... been looking into SlimDX, and then discovered pygame - http://www.pygame.org, works on linux and windows, it's a Python based lib, now i dunno python but it was really easy to start crating nice stuff in no time.
OK but...4-6 weeks is a very long time. Customers are used to Amazon-style shipping. If you aren't going to ship in < a week, you should auth and not capture or have a mailing/waiting list. (We don't capture till the moment they get a tracking number.) Taking customer money to finance the current manufacture is a fools' game - all it ends with is pissed customers

Note that Authorize/paypal (and google?) have a limit on how long you can wait to refund (~90 days), and LIKEWISE, paypal (and google?) have a limit on how long you can wait before filing a claim (45 days iirc). Guess when you should ship packages after capturing? -Well- before 45 days.

AND WHILE IM AT IT...While customer literacy is always a bit questionable, if you're finding a lot of confusion about your shipping policies - you should probably change them! YES even if you think you are right. For example, we used to (like everyone else) say that USPS packages were not insured. Guess what? They'll chargeback anyways. So now all packages are insured at a very reasonable rate. We get no complaints about the extra $ - but we DID get complaints when packages were lost.
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Google may always be a textbox and button company. If you read their message board for adwords you'll find seriously disgruntled people who've SPENT hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising and still can't get anyone on the phone. That's SPENT...as in less than one year, spend 100K+...no phone support.

You can't even BUY support from Google. Basically, go ahead and use their free stuff, but don't do business with Google if you can help it.

Obviously, their advertising scales so well, it's hard not to...
> Do you have any idea how many government documents are produced each year with similar sounding verbiage? If that's your criteria for being a trial balloon, then the government puts out millions of trial balloons every year.

Do you have any idea how many regulations are added each year and how many bills are introduced? Almost all of them are preceeded with one or more documents gauging public interest and there are also such documents for policies that don't make the cut.

> A key part of the dictionary definition is intent and you have absolutely no evidence - none whatsoever - indicating that this document was intended to test public reaction.

Oh really? As I quoted "Now, one year later, staff responsible for this project present this draft for discussion of 1) the tentative conclusions outlined here about the current and likely future environments for news gathering and reporting, and 2) potential policy recommendations to address the issues raised during this proceeding."

Maybe they weren't interested in public reaction, but they certainly are thinking of these policies.

> The Washington Times circulation numbers are pathetic so it is a terrible vehicle for leaking

The document wasn't "leaked". It was published.
Sigh. I was hoping for a list of commands that would be useful to someone how'd consider themselves an intermediate user. Instead -- as I should have expected from the title's style -- I got a survey of mostly basic commands, none of which have ever come close, I would wager, to saving anyone's day.

No mention of git-stash. It can save a lot of time, though perhaps not enough to make up someone's day. Nor of git-reflog, which was the command that I'd say came closest for me: early on when the function of the commands was alien to me, discovering git-reflog massively increased my confidence tinkering with git commands. Not even a mention of the -i option to rebase.

In short: if I could down-vote, I would. This comment is in lieu of that.
Or because one is based on how people present themselves, and one is based on how people approach their studies.
At the end he mentions "[In 5 years time,] when you buy a computer, you'll get this."

I think that's about 5 years too soon on that one. Incredible demonstrations though... awesome to see science fiction become reality.
before jumping into explanations, is the "falling salaries" part even true though? a citation would be nice.
haha ironically u/thesandlord is my cofounder
It is time to bury the term "fact checker" for good. Just call them what they are: partisan shills
> - people do not know what to associate amazon with (it's just a bookstore, right?)

Amazon is an online hypermarket, and I don't think that's even remotely a secret.

People understood the company mission of Sears, Roebuck, & Company, a hundred years ago, and they can certainly understand Amazon's today.
Sure, just as Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Paypal and several of the largest major banks just accepted its use and facilitation. And while companies such as Tesla, PornHub, etc accept it as payment. Its totally not going anywhere and will never make that transition.
Hmm, as he kind of points out, there is a difference between knowing your ability in something is poor and being willing to admit it to a stranger. The usual meme of Dunning-Kruger tends to refer to people who are oblivious to their own incompetence. But there are valid reasons for the perceived score compression. I'd wager the people in the bottom quartile of grammar performance are well aware that their grammar isn't very good, they just weren't willing to write 20 on the paper (out of shame) and went for 60 instead.
We'll see since the hype has died down. Then again, I wouldn't want to build my business on top of someone else's API.

OpenAI wins by default if they start to compete against you.
It really isn't (been there, done that). The hard part is to operate it. You're going to need quite a bit of hardware (figure about 10 large machines minimum to store an index of any appreciable size) and a ton of bandwidth to do the crawling. Then you're going to have to somehow get an audience large enough to earn enough money to pay for it all. Your runway will be in the 10's of millions of bucks at the size of todays internet.
It's anti-democratic to have some votes count for more than others, which is what the status quo is.

Also, blatant gerrymandering (Which is a far more anti-democratic version of this phenomena) has been heavily practiced in the US for many, many decades, and has, to my knowledge never resulted in bloody riots in the streets. [1]

[1] Most recently, the Supreme Court has ruled[2] that if you're not happy with how your government gerrymanders, you should vote it out. It's a wonderfully ironic non-solution...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_v._Whitford
Reading the RFC, this seems to make HTTP stateful:

"A subscription is different from a GET connection (e.g. a TCP connection, or HTTP/2 stream). If a client requests "Subscribe: keep-alive", then the subscription will be remembered even after the GET connection closes."

It also uses PUT to patch things, but then why not use PATCH ? You could say it's non standard, but at this point, everybody uses it. Plus their stuff apparently deviates from the HTTP standard as well by allowing headers after the first line of the payload and introducing the forGET command.

Or am I missing something ?

Interesting anyway, especially the way they create of graph of unique ID to solve the ordering problem. Feels like Git. The flow of patch reminds me of react-redux.

Plus it's great to have more geeky technical things on HN. I'm missing it, among all the news and start up things.

They also mention a really cool RFC on a JSON patch format: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902

I'm reading RFC and getting excited about it. Damn, that must be what they call growing old.
It doesn't actually mean that. Look at censorship that Facebook implements for an example of what you can expect. Sure, there might be some obscure stations that wouldn't have such rules... and nobody would know about them.
As a random bit of trivia, while George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention, this was the only issue on which he expressed an opinion, in favor of lowering the original ratio from 1:40k to 1:30k.
It's been corrupt for a long time and beholden to registry interests. The fox is watching the hen house and they don't even hide it.
That's a symptom of the system, not voters. Reddit doesn't exactly lend itself to informing people properly before asking their opinion on an issue, and it doesn't provide any way to vet or verify facts and information aside from crowdsourcing opinions via the up & down arrows (the "hive mind").
There are some terrible^squared assumptions baked into this.
The first bad assumption is that billionaires don't have any liquid assets. Nobody clever enough to earn that kind of money keeps 98% of it in an illiquid private investment.

Second bad assumption is that valuations would plummet because "everyone" would be trying to liquidate. The current proposals only apply to a small percentage of the population, and to a small percentage of their wealth, so obviously not "everyone" would be liquidating.

The third bad assumption is that this would lead to government takeover. By your own (contrived, alarmist) situation, the government would only be entitled to 2% of a persons holdings.

BTW, the IRS already does require private companies to perform regular valuations to track how much their shares are worth.
Why does your blog have so many ads? Is it really necessary?