jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For those who don't know, Wikimedia's donations are used to fund some nefarious things, since their endowment is run by the Tides Foundation[1], one of the most politically active and heavily biased organizations in the US[2]. And since the Tides Foundation is a Donor Advised Fund, it is able to act as a dark money vehicle used to fund causes indirectly, hiding the source of the funds.

Here is how it works. Let's say (hypothetically) that Wikimedia wanted to use our donations to fund the eradication of Palestinians from Israel. If they fund something like that directly, people would know about it, and many donors might stop giving money to Wikimedia. Most people making donations expect that money to be used for the maintenance of Wikipedia. However, Wikimedia can give some of that money to the Tides Foundation with instructions on how to disburse it. Tides doesn't have to disclose who's money is used for what.

Your donation --> Wikimedia Foundation --> Tides Foundation --> Bad things that only Tides knows about, and which Wikimedia doesn't have to disclose

Ta-da! Dark money charities.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Wikimedia_Fou...

[2]https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/225-tides-founda...
The misinformation that the election was stolen, despite the courts having determined that this was not the case.
I just stopped sending stuff to friends and family who want to keep using whatsapp.

So I just use email.
I also feel like your own reply to me shows that not even you can rise above it. I’ve never seen you leave comments like this before. I’ve definitely seen quite a few people who deserve it. I’m disappointed.

You’re just like the rest of them.
Did you miss the young woman who was shot and killed?
If by century you mean past 50 years, then yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Death
Telegram is fantastic! Frankly I think it has a better ux then Whatsapp, especially considering the desktop apps.
Sorry but this is not true. DoD has been loosing spectrum but they have their needs ;)
Even this isn’t enough to be reproducible for complex numeric code as switching CPU can make a big difference with small differences being amplified. Hopefully none of those cases matter but it’s hard to definitively prove that.
That's because one of the co-founders, Moisey, drilled into us the importance of being genuinely kind and showing love and gratitude for each-other and the customer. Interestingly, this was also drilled into the early community team at DeviantART by one of the co-founders, and, it seems, what dang and co do here at HN. Kindness goes a long way.
Internet or population?
> The research, later published in the journal Brain and Language, is now widely used to show why wine tasting is total BS.

BS? Or simply subjective? Sure people are influenced by "experts", as humans when isn't that true? Fashion? Music? The list is endless.

We want to believe we are autonomous and independent but more often we naturally conform to the norm around us. Third-party insights and guidance are why we survived.

I like wine. But I drink what I like. My senses aren't necessarily the same as someone else's. I'm sure if I tasted enough wine I could become an "expert." But that doesn't appeal to me. It takes the enjoyment out of it. I don't think that makes experience and expertise BS. Merely subjective.
Pattern recognition leads me to believe that this will not serve its intended purpose, but will instead be misused as a bludgeon.
Please. Don't. PyPy is not mature and still suffers from many deficiencies in python itself and the community.

I'm not a huge fan of Ruby, but Ruby, its community, and rubinius are doing it much better.
We never injected ads in publisher pages; we proposed doing this but only with publisher as partner and user opt-in. Brave Rewards are opt-in and put ads in the user's inventory, not the publisher's.

Gerard lies about us "hijacking links", which I'm sure he knows has a well-defined meaning: changing the URL of a link the user clicks on in a page. We've never done any such thing, either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841456

If you want to believe we did these things, you're believing misinformation. If you can't verify these claims are false, I can help; many neutral third parties can help too. But it seems to me you want to believe such misinformation. Why?
It adds a new layer of cubes of the specified colour.

I agree this game is a bit hard because the “type” of each element passed through the functions isn’t documented (is it a cube? A column? How is a 2D shape’s cubes iterated? Does order matter?)
I don't understand. If we are discussing two remote positions why am I competing with less people of its in San Francisco?
The net cost would be very small. There would be a planned period of increased activity prior and a period of make up after. And then you'd have 5 years of the economy running without a pandemic to make up any loss.

Substitute some other plan of coordinated action for the five weeks if you want. I don't care to argue about it, it's clear from New Zealand and Taiwan and so on that coordinated action works very well, if it is made to happen. It's also reasonably clear that it's cheaper than dealing with a raging pandemic.
> just because something is legal (and rightly so in this case) does not mean it is moral.

This is a strawman. I never said it was, and I don't think naming someone who generates a large following is immoral at all.
When I go through my YouTube favorites playlist, about a third of them are now removed. I’ve been adding things to it for over a decade. If there’s something you might possibly want to watch again in the future, download it. Bit rot is a real thing.

But at least YouTube tells you something was removed, although I do wish they would tell you what it was which was removed. I was an active google music user for the life of the service (RIP) and sometimes I would have a vague thought that it felt like my playlist was missing something but they never actually told you. It was infuriating.

The cloud is ephemeral, do not rely on it.
The specific people he was condemning in that essay really were pretty bad. Mostly a few women trying to advance a political agenda on an uncharitable reading of the other Scott and then a lot of men piling on in case it got them laid.
No such thing as a cop that hasn't looked the other way. Even for the ones that don't like It's just 'too risky'.
Pissing off your supplier is something everyone has to be careful of. If you're drawing little swastikas on your cakes while telling everyone how great "Phil's flour" is then don't be surprised when Phil doesn't want to associate himself with you any longer.

The sibling comment pointed out that vendor lock in can be a problem which I agree with, but I think for most of the industry that's a problem of protecting yourself from predatory price hikes/services being deprecated rather than the problem of actively pissing off people you need.
I recommend the book "Wrong", which talks about a number of failings in our current research system, why invalid results persist, and how people game the system to get the results they want.

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons...
Plenty of adults are desperate to go back to their offices, which I can't understand at all, so in that case it doesn't seem strange that lots of kids really want to go back to school.
The relevant metric is distance driven.
Building and application doesn't automatically mean discarding accessibility, SEO or sane URLs. Modern JS-frameworks like React handle them quite easily.
Exactly this

Restaurants probably put the most popular dishes in the top and/or bottom as well.

(Not to mention when the page is divided by sections, so you would have the main dished in the middle, so the point is moot)

Also how you define top/bottom? Divide the page into 2 parts? 3 parts?
I work on a team of three that has a project slightly larger than you 100k-110K LOC (and growing by about 5k LOC a week), we've managed to keep test coverage at about 95%, and have found it's worth the investment upfront, as it makes refactoring so much easier.

Looking back, I don't think even for a personal project, I would ever do something that wasn't a one-off without good test coverage. It's essentially taking on technical debt, as it makes you much more afraid of fixing anything.
I have a number of questions that I've never been able to find satisfactory answers to, and if I got them I could be convinced.

But first, let me say, that this may well be moot. I think solar energy is the way to go. I think the sooner human beings stop burning things they find in the ground for energy, the better. I'll happily give my vote or my money to an elegant solution to make this happen.

Next, my nutshell understanding of global warming:

Temperature and carbon-based greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are closely correlated. For as far back as we can measure (many millennia when using ice cores), atmospheric temperate has been stable along with CO2 concentrations (about 280ppm). Sometime in mid 18th century, CO2 concentrations started to uptick, which caused a rise in temperatures, which in turn caused a rise in CO2 concentrations, compounding continuously to present day levels (1.5 degree temperature increase, ~400 ppm CO2 concentrations). The best explanation for the shift in the balance of the carbon cycle is the additional gases that humans add by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, and making concrete.

My questions:

1. Every carbon-temperature hockey stick chart I've seen starts in 1750, when humans were a negligible atmospheric carbon source. Even today, human beings are a minor source of carbon-based gases in the fast carbon cycle. While I can certainly accept that it would only take a minor addition to throw the whole system out of balance, the timing seems strange to me. How do we know that humans are responsible for the initial rise in CO2 concentrations above 280ppm that started 250 years ago when emissions paled in comparison to what they are today?

2. I've seen lots of charts that correlate greenhouse gas concentrations with temperature, but the charts I've seen (like this one: http://bit.ly/18UFLMA) that correlate greenhouse gas concentrations and emissions don't seem to correlate as strongly until the blade of the hockey stick, and even then the correlation usually flips, with the proportion of human emissions surpassing the proportion of CO2 concentrations. If humans are directly responsible for present day greenhouse gas concentrations, shouldn't emissions and CO2 concentrations more closely correlate? It seems like greenhouse gas concentrations don't meaningfully rise until temperature meaningfully rises first as a result of increased greenhouse gas concentrations.

3. Water vapor is a much more abundant greenhouse gas than any gases emitted by human activity. While I understand that other greenhouse gases simply have a higher capacity for trapping heat, what I don't understand is how significantly humans could impact the greenhouse effect when they don't substantially alter the most quantitatively significant greenhouse gas.

4. The most convincing argument for anthropomorphic climate change, to me, is the lack of a viable alternative. Solar forcing seems to be the best alternative offered. Do the climate models used to support anthropomorphic climate change account for variability in solar output? Is there variability in solar output? How is this measured?
Isn’t the reason that, for quick JS execution, the JS executing process needs to be given access to low level system resources (ie a security risk), so Apple limits JS execution to just the code (WebKit) that they control?

(I don’t know a lot about this subject...but that’s what I always understood).
"My" accounting is derived entirely from what I read in that New York Times article. I'm not clear if you're criticizing my read of the article, or the article itself. If the latter, do you have any other accounts that provide further detail? The vehemence of your responses suggests you might live in the area?

when, again, he had virtually no formal oversight over nuclear regulation

Elected members of a representative democracy are charged with producing the legislation that defines "formal oversight", and with using feedback from their constituents to do so. Who else should his aggrieved constituents have turned to in this case?

go-along get-along energy-insider-pol "bad guy"

Not really. His behavior is typical of politicians across the board (except the ones who don't get elected). I agree with you that his legislation might be characterized as "a sop to his constituents". This doesn't make him one of the bad guys, it just means he is not the leftist demagogue/messiah some make him out to be.

attempts to read tea leaves about Obama's mentality

Sure, I think this is fair game. He (like his predecessor) is a bit of a cipher.

Anyway, this thread started because you asked me what I saw in common between the two articles. That's what I saw in common. YMMV.
TL;DR: I think people in general succumb to false economies when thinking about small prices that could possibly greatly enhance the experience of using various devices.

Agreed. I'm not sure I'd call it "irrational" though; defaulting to not buying is a reasonable way of avoiding the annoying mental transaction costs when you're faced with a huge number of small potential purchases. Clay Shirky's piece on micropayments 10 years ago is relevant here: http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html
I would suggest not posting a Google doc - we can't access these without google asking for a sign-in (afaik)
Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean.
Engagement is driven by conflict. Amplifying of center voices produces more conflict and provides more revenue.
The big problem with the nightingale hospitals is that there were no staff to run them, and hospitals are understaffed as it is with people of sick or isolating due to the governments approach of vaccinating their voters first ahead of medical staff.

Even if they were used in the first wave it was in the expectation that any hospitals sending patients there would also send staff to look after them, which was never realistic.

You can hire a hall and stick a bed in it, but if there’s no one to look after the sick person in it they don’t have much of a chance.
That videos shows people being let in to where a bunch of people already are.

I’m not sure I see anything wrong here?

Is this just crowd flow control in action?
You can't let their threats of violence prevent continued function of the US government
Just has to be delivered to those officials. Where ever they are.
What makes you unsure of the risk was worth it?
I look forward to Windows 8.1 Professional Compute Stick Edition
50% fees regularly charged. http://i3.minus.com/i0tJucuLy5zPB.jpg

Btw, thank you for your kind "adult like" response. It really makes HN better.

Also, YES you can sell hand made items on Amazon. Just get a UPC code.
That's a really interesting insight. Wirth, et al, spent a lot of time delivering on really deep libs that solved CompSciIsh problems (lot's of ADTs) and not so much doing stuff people really needed to do in the real world.
It looks like he's found a way to avoid using the broken symlinks hack. The blog has been updated and now advises how to make changes to the sshd_config file to disable old authentication methods.
"Companies we monitor: Hashicorp, Datadog, Auth0 and Github" or how to be deceptive in marketing material.
Personally, I prefer electric steering because it takes so little torque input. My Mercedes cabrio was heavy and tiring to steer, but I can steer the Mirage with my fingertips. As a bonus, the steering is tuned to "tighten up" at speed, which effectively makes the car snappier without actually changing the alignment.
Presumably advertising for the ddos service; "pay us and we'll knock your target offline! Remember, we're the ones who killed stackoverflow, we can help you"
The efforts are to reduce the degree of change. Full on stop is not likely at point. Adaptation will be even more expensive, but we still get people complaining that efforts to head off climate change are too expensive.
> Style guides are a notorious time-sink where people will spend enormous amounts of time debating various conventions without that being linked to measurable benefits.

It feels like we're trying to justify the continued employment of uncooperative, contrarian egoists. Pick a style and use it or they can go find another job to waste time debating nonsense.
They're hosted on SoftLayer http://leanstack.io/cloud-stacks/whatsapp. Source: http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/whatsapp.com
"The body can convert ALA to EPA and DHA, but the conversion process is extremely inefficient (something like only 5% get converted."

Interesting. I wonder if that would be practical to do synthetically.
Thanks.

Speed was originally marked's top priority. I would say marked's approach takes advantage of the fact that v8 generates _extremely_ fast machine code for regexes. This is just something I discovered through many endless nights of benchmarking the entire markdown test suite.

Using complex regexes for the lexemes seems like a stupid idea to most people, but it allowed me to optimize marked like crazy, so much so that it beat discount(written in c) in benchmark times (It might be a little bit slower now due to the latest features. I decided to ignore speed for a while to focus on features - will get back to optimization eventually).

The downside of all of this: marked loses some extensibility, however, we implement as much extensibility as possible by exposing the token stream and renderer.

Accuracy and sanity quickly became marked's next top priority. There's a certain threshold of accuracy you want in a markdown engine (you don't want it to be too accurate because markdown.pl had a lot of bizarre behavior). That's a different story.
It's the 'Dynamic Dictionary' [0]. It's usually called 'parameters' but it's idiomatic in dotnet to name lambda input parameter '_' if don't use it in your expression.

[0] https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy/wiki/Taking-a-look-at-the-D...
> minimal

> cargo.lock has 1100 lines
As soon as the respective agencies analysed it and get to it. This doesn't happen over night, but is a more complex process which will quite certainly happen.
Still waiting for Expedia to own up to their breach, since way before 2019. (source: ex-employee)
afaik Wire works on MLS like many others do - but according to Wikipedia Wire uses the Signal Protocol.
Your "source" does not back up your claim
I am labour voter myself so have only stated objective truth because and I don't have any interest in relativism.
> Which part of the world has "natural immunity" to Covid?

I didn't say that a part of the world has natural immunity, just said that nobody has natural immunity in NZ, which is where we were a year ago.

Besides that, negligible in which context? Many countries have already had double digit % of their population having had a COVID infection which might not be enough, but it's also not entirely negligible, since it means that any new wave would be less steep than the wave beforehand.
Great opportunity for a business here: add wheels to the Peloton. /s

Sarcasm aside, congrats to OP for the achievement. Using my own bike inside on a turbo-trainer helped a lot during the first lockdown.
beside the historycal antropological value, and all the associated hilarity, there is very little content worth saving
That's because VCs got to use it, and nobody has a larger ego or desire for other people to hear them talk than a VC who's just been paid a lot to spend other people's money.
Has anyone (Mozilla, Yahoo, SUSE, Netflix, Facebook, Github) filed a counter-notice yet? That's the next step in the DMCA dance; if you file a counter notice, and the accuser does not then file a lawsuit, Google can put back the content.
A lot of the material on archive.org doesn't have permission to be archived. They did not seek out each copyright holder of GeoCities when they made their archive, available from https://archive.org/web/geocities.php . Are you going to say that that was stolen? Or was it saved?

And, sorry to break this to you, but we never really cared about copyright and permissions in the first place. Look at the uproar over TRAC when Mooers couldn't get copyright for it at all, so tried to enforce trademark protection over it. Look at the Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists in the 1970s. Look at the sheer joy of people using the original Napster in 1999.

The games industry of the 1970s and early 1980s didn't even really pay attention to trademarks, which is how we ended up with the classic BASIC game "Star Trek".
It makes me wonder - is there a good hill-climbing algorithm that takes account of uncertainty - where the hills can go up and down over time as you're climbing them? I suspect the naive algo might perform better in those conditions - maxima that are closer to you would be favored.
Are you arguing that it was difficult to find the responsible party, and that posting their address somehow helped that?

What possible outcome are you hoping to achieve by doing this?

Isn't this little more than a low level case of "dox"-ing someone you disagree with?
Ah. Thanks for the link.
The 149$ version comes with Windows 8.1 Preloaded. The linux version is 89$.
Thank god for Minitube [1] and youtube-dl [2] . youtube-dl can download videos from not only YouTube, but over 500 different services.

[1] http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube

[2] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
You misunderstood the GP.
Instead of using Twilio, you can send an email directly to the phone number, and it works the same as SMS (more or less).
Yes and no. I absolutely get where you're coming from; I'm an extreme introvert living in London, and the anonymity is about the only thing that makes it bearable. The flip side here, and in many (but not all) metropoles, is the near-impossibility of finding quiet, either at work (expensive commercial property pushing employers toward open-plan bedlam hell) or at home (expensive residential property pushing people into tiny thin-walled apartments).

I think the small-talk-with-everyone-you-meet thing is a characteristic of very small towns and villages. I've lived in medium-sized places that didn't have it. The introvert ideal of a blissful hermitage miles from anywhere is probably impractical, for many reasons, but I still have some faint hope of finding a liveable middle ground someday.
I am just surprised that it is apparently still going. I last listened to a Mixergy interview in 2011 I think. A big life change at the end of that years makes me reasonably confident that 2011 was the last time I heard Andrew Warner's name.

I can't say that I really thought about him in the intervening years but I am surprised that he is still interviewing away.
How do you reconcile patenting (effectively closing off a solution to everyone else) with your goal of minimizing human error?
As someone familiar (and generally quite happy with) reactive programming, what does Erlang/Elixir do that makes it a more general, better solution? And to what types of problems, specifically?

I think the reason that I picked up Rx is that it was a natural extension of LINQ, both literally and figuratively. What made Rx really click for me was thinking of it in terms of IEnumerable that explicitly acknowledged of the time domain. Since then I've come to understand some of the concepts that underlay both of them (monads, mostly), but I wouldn't have made the leap to Rx if it wasn't so easy to get there from existing knowledge. I haven't encountered anything where the next step would be "learn Erlang." You can make the argument that we should all learn about things that are unfamiliar, but there are lot of things that are unfamiliar and I haven't seen a lot of reasons why Erlang should rise to the top.