jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The American factories are only producing for Americans. The European ones are producing for the whole world.
Ahh, yes, the center of Neoliberal logic. Widespread rip-off is acceptable if the individual has technically a choice to not get ripped-off and if the fineprint of the contract had a size of at least 0.000001pt.
In French you have a few interesting options, notably:

- LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising),

- LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance

- Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons,

- LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles

- Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference

- priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet

- danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun

- Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro)

- Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome
https://stallman.org/

So far he wrote about the riots in DC by Trump supporters. He hasn't mentioned the banning of Trump on social media or Parlor from the Apple and Google stores.
I honestly think just splitting the US off might be a better thing than marching blindly into worsening civil divide. We're at a point wherein either side winning the presidency is just riling up the other side. Biden literally represents only his 55% of voters and Trump his 45% and when one side ones the other strictly loses, there's no feeling of compromise anymore. This is going to end in one side subjugating the other, and the right is arguing right now that's exactly what the left is doing to them through the means that you mentioned in your post. I think, eventually they'll respond to their perceived subjugation and the recent riot was just the peak of an iceberg.

They don't want to live a certain way but politics in general has been increasingly moving towards a national level, away from local politics. I can understand the right's belief that big city liberals are forcing left-wing values onto them because the left has expressed the same opinion about the right forcing values onto the left. The sentiment is mutual. And to some degree both sides are correct, there are definitely value systems that are forced from the top down (government), some may be good and some may be bad but that also depends on who you ask. And in the end neither side is happy.

Now obviously, tech companies are in their right to ban whoever they want for whatever they want. That's how the US operates even though I don't like it, and the right was happy to give businesses that power. But at a societal level it's clear we have an America with more than one identity and it's acting like a dysfunctional mental illness because we're forcing people together that don't want to be together. If the middle east is any indication that's a recipe for inevitable conflict.
Well they have to be caught at it first, and I know many of them have but it seems likely some slipped through the net.
The name should've been changed regardless. The comments here seem misguided as there is clearly a lot of confusion between Facebook's prestodb and the fork called prestosql in the community.
That prompted me to imagine what a parody of a GNU-style Twitter would look like, and yes, the connection works from the opposite direction.
Seems to be gaining popularity all around the world. https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347699781326438404
Flying on 9/11/2001 was "mostly safe" because less than 96% of flights were hijacked. Also a true statement, but ridiculous.

The BLM riots resulted in 19 dead, and thousands of properties damaged. It's equivalently true to say "Trump protests/rallies are mostly non-violent", since the majority of them (probably rivalling the 96% in the article you mention) have had few issues with violence until the recent insurrection. But that would just be a vacuous talking point.
Am I reading the second paper correctly when I say this was conducted on a sample size of 11, and they found that the E484K mutation had saw no reduction in neutralization in some of those subjects? I’m trying to get a better sense of the numbers involved to figure out how much credence to lend to the dangers posed by the second mutation.
> nothing about how it works is built into the language

I think the state machine required to yield, async & await is baked into the language.

But yes, one can implement the Future trait to take finer control.
Why don't MRI developers use RubySpec?
The last time I tried F# it was definitely a Microsoft language, in spite of their invitation to Linux users. It was hard to get it to install, it didn't work right, not all libraries were available on Linux, and I couldn't even access videos explaining the language because they required Silverlight. When I posted my experience to Reddit in order to give them feedback, I definitely didn't find a friendly community.

Things may have changed. I wasn't turned off by the fact that Linux support was so far from where it needed to be. I expected that. It was the toxic response that turned me off.
There is a feeling among the modding community of maintaining complexity hoops to keep newbies out. It could just be a lack of patience.
Weird that the author would attack password post-its with passwords on them as some sort of terrible practice. If Nvidia's employees would've all have multiple passwords on post-it's on their monitors they would likely never have been hacked at all.

Better to have 5 passwords on a post-it on your monitor, safely within the guarded walls of your HQ office, than 1 password shared between your Playstation game account and your gmail.
Easier to learn doesn't quite mean "simple". I prefer Om not just because I took the time to learn it, but because it makes more sense once you do.
Drunk driving has become a huge social stigma in the UK over the past few decades. People will report drunk drivers, even their friends and relatives, as they see it is a social good. They still exist but the incidence of it has deceased rapidly.

Scotland has just reduced the drink drive alcohol limit even further to the point where you effectively can't have any alcohol all day if you're driving.

Given the mention of the Swedish rate between tests and positive results for breathalysers I imagine they have the same laws as the UK. The police in the UK can breathalyser anyone:
a) who has committed a moving traffic offence
b) involved in a road traffic collision
c) who the officer suspects of having alcohol (any) in their system

Most police forces require their officers to breath test if they have grounds, and while many police officers don't like dealing with traffic offences almost all of them will go out of their way to stop drink drivers. Given almost every driver commits a moving traffic offence every so often there is pretty much always grounds to test anyone (you don't have to actually prosecute for the offence, i.e. crossing a mini roundabout, just over the speed limit etc).
Yes, bad cable.
I don't think city centers are very prone to deadly accidents..

Edit: I'm talking about potential car-less city centers, which are limited to a very small section of most cities. City centers are generally less prone to deadly accidents anyway as shown for example here for the US: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/TeenDrivingDeaths/
This description of the problem is very susceptible to framing. i.e. how you ask this question will determine the response you receive.

A couple of reframes for example:

Would you rather drive a road where you gain 5 minutes and increase your chance of death by 4?

Would you rather drive a road where you lose 25% of your travel time to obstacles and change your chance of dying from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 30,000?

I believe the US government does have guidelines for how much a human life is 'worth' (~10M I had thought...) [0]. It's one of the 'objective' calculations taken into account when analyzing these types of projects.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
I just started using Google Cloud SQL – the allure of a managed Postgres service was strong. Can you share some of your experiences with it?
> What's the alternative? The minority of the population makes all of the decisions?

That some decisions are based on evidence and expert-knowledge. Of course, this can be gamed, but it's not clear at all that this risk is greater than the risk of damage by the short-term thinking or false reasoning of an uninformed majority.
Found a concise video explaining the concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETYmvjxc1h4
I've investigated this in some depth for my personal boxes with slow HDDs, in lieu of a more formal writeup, here is the best solution I've found. First:

echo "write through" > /sys/block/sda/queue/write_cache

This lies to the OS and tells it that drive writes don't need to be fsync'd. Replace "sda" with whatever your drive in question is, naturally. Note that this is not persistent, you'll need to configure your init system to do this on boot. You can verify it's working by looking at /sys/block/sda/stat (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/block/stat.html).

Next, in /etc/fstab configure your filesystem to be mounted with "barrier=0" (note that only some filesystems support this), which will often prevent data from getting written out to the disk at all, instead getting kept in cache.

You still need the first part because the filesystem layer won't cover all possible cases--for instance, LVM thin provisioning will issue a manual flush below the filesystem layer once per second, and there's no way to remove that.

One problem I haven't managed to solve is detection--in the unlikely event things don't shut down properly (e.g. a kernel panic), how do I find this out so that I can restore from a backup (rather than having something subtely corrupted somewhere)? This is conceptually easy with some global bit in a special sector used as a mutex, but I don't know of any existing off-the-shelf solution implementing this.
> Calling something what it is is an important part of addressing it.

I think this is the problem the article is addressing -- "calling something what it is" doesn't convince people that don't agree with you on what it is, especially when the terms you use are loaded with possible implicit interpretations. A lot of this is related to the implied worldview these words drag in.

> Whitewashing conflict just makes it less clear what your position is.

Which is to say that in a discussion or persuasive piece, it should be clear what you are arguing for or discussing without having to expose your whole worldview. Arguments about the distribution of chores between males and females in a household, doesn't need to use the word "patriarchy" to make its argument. In fact, it tends to make the argument weaker given that "patriarchy" hides a lot of things that would otherwise need to be unpacked.
For each of the `Accessibility` he listed, he suggests problems are external or just plain misleading.

Speech: use aria-hidden="true"

Stylesheet overrides: External to design & UI intention. Outside of control.

Cannot provide metadata: I can't think of a valid reason why this matters on a character..

> By themselves, these icons don't provide any semantical information about their contents; You cannot label them or describe them directly

Why would you ? Do you add context to individual strings in your content too ? No, you add to the container.

I'm all for other opinions, but demanding is just off-putting from the start.
Bit off topic. Anyone remember LiteStep? An amazing easy way to customize and skin your Windows OS.

http://litestep.net/
I met Mr. Aros himself at scale in LA a couple years ago.

Every now and then I meet people who do pretty remarkable things that are so humble that it genuinely surprises me.

Aros, VLC and Inkscape devs are the people that come to mind on this one.

The debian people are also remarkably sane and modest for the levels of responsibility and complexities they have to deal with

Edit: gosh, it was 10 years ago already (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/exhibitors/aros.html). I think I still have the disc he gave me
Alternate datapoint from outside YC:

We've had pushy account reps trying to upsell from both vendors (and not knowing that we already talked to another rep). We've also had reps get actual engineers on the calls early who advised us fairly on which of their products to avoid and how to exploit various savings options or soon to be released features. We are a consultancy and so these reps were sometimes interacting with us as a direct customer/potential customer and sometimes via our clients (both larger existing customers of AWS/GCP and totally noob unknown startups)

I'm my experience, there is no pattern other than some CS reps are good and some are aren't. Getting credits in both cases has always been a PITA at the start and than easy when the right person to make the call was reached.
Yeah, this is what I see over and over again. Cherry picking to support bias.
Members of the anti-GG and social justice crowds have carried out similarly stupid and counterproductive acts of aggression and bullying. They still all deserve a voice and home.

SWATing is horrible, but IMHO you should be placing more of the blame on our fucked up militarized police system that lets bored teenagers send an armored car full of soldiers, armed to the teeth and ready to kill to anyone's house with a single phone call. If it takes a few SWATings for the public to realize that this is completely unacceptable, so be it.
I agree with what you said, but that makes me rephrase my question to: so why isn't it on other companies DNA yet? I mean, it's not like the model isn't working at Cupertino. If you're going to imitate something, at least imitate the things that make people trust a device.

* no slowdowns
* consistent UI
* simplicity/flexibility
> To consume a local store's customer service resources with every intention "not" to purchase a product there is immoral.

I'd question why it's okay to consume a non-local store's resources?

I'd also question the concept that people go into local stores with every intention not to purchase. People go into the store with every intention to compare products and price, but that doesn't mean the local stores loses because of the person's intention.
I have a mother-in-law I'd like you to meet.

Granted, it wasn't Walmart. Rather, the Dollar Store. >_<
"The Ministry of Truth has been privatised."
Maybe I'm going insane and what's on my monitor is not what I'm reading inside my head, but I just spend a few minutes going through their compatibility checker and they don't list a single phone that it's compatible with. Just a whole bunch of unsupported phones.

http://wakemate.com/compatibility/
I don't notice any egregious problems on my HTC Incredible. Or, any scrolling problems at all actually.
http://xkcd.com/386/

Someone is wrong on the internet!
Yes, that's the story that working mathematicians use day to day, but glosses over the relevant question in this context - why do we believe in one set of axioms instead of another?

Do you think it's possible that we'll find a factorization of 17 tomorrow, and so will just need to refine our axioms?
I'm a fan of the way it exposes and emphasizes metadata. And it's smart playlists are awesome. Really, it's just a great organizational tool (for music). And it starts up pretty quickly on my mac (so it doesn't feel crufty).
"Unlike Shopify, there aren’t any bandwidth or storage limits, not even a setup fee; it’s just a simple way to sell your wares online"...."The premium version in a nutshell, allows you to post and sell up to 50 products at a time (10 in free)"

Saying there's no limits of one specific type, followed by another type of limit (a prohibitively small limit at that) seems a little disingenuous.
And ultimately, wouldn't this be even more "modern", even clearer? --

my $file_path = Path::Class::dir("some_path")->file("file_name");
my $fh = $file_path->openw();
$fh->print("my line\n");
$fh->close();

Or for reading the whole file quickly, instead of the @var = <FILE> idiom --

my @var = $file_path->slurp();
The Apple TV just isn't an attractive offering in the UK at the moment. No TV rentals, poor selection of Films, nothing like Netflix.

The UK clock has me in agreement with you. Making the Apple TV a value proposition in the UK.
<canadian-pedantic>A kayak is longer and thinner and lower to the water and is often covered. A kayak is typically paddled using a double ended paddle. In Canada, the boat in the article is a kayak; I don't think anyone here would call that a canoe. A canoe is deeper, wider and fatter (like some Canadians perhaps ;). A canoe can transport a lot of cargo but is also light enough to carry across portages. Many years ago native people and fur traders could travel entirely across Canada in a canoe. Some people still attempt this feat.

In other parts of the world the boat in the article might be considered a canoe, but I would say not in Canada.
</canadian-pedantic>
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Electric_Guitars.html

Some of you may find this fun to read. (from the textbook for Music 420 at Stanford... I guess they've now split it into two classes since I took it...)
@mdo is one of the maintainers. Is this a spiritual successor to Bootstrap?
This site doesn't work on the browser.

It's kind of distorted.
A newer one from them I really liked is Rove:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oTQd93eRI
LoL's author has a collection of references at http://letoverlambda.com/references.lisp

Many of the references are not for learning CL, but are interesting reads (such as Henry Baker's papers).

Also there are references to particular pages of books (noting something important, interesting or funny):

(cltl2 :a guy-steele :y 1990
:n "Common Lisp the Language 2nd Ed.")
(cltl2-p153 :i "Chevrolet!")
(cltl2-p260
:i "Can't define compiler macros over CL forms")

etc.
Related blog post: http://markdotto.com/2015/03/23/introducing-primer/
Police enforcement efforts of drug possession laws were never scaled down. They still have to see if users are carrying less than the 10 days consumption max. quantity to decide if they charge them as dealers or send them to psych evaluation.
I am moving away from voicepulse, in part because in the past six months I've paid $396 in DID fees, $20 in non-enumerated fees, $56 in non-enumerated adjustments, and $62.92 in usage.

The fact that we were unsatisfied with the ease of programming voice apps in Asterisk and FreeSwitch compared to Twilio also factored into the decision.

There's a little risk associated with dealing with a startup, but I'm willing to eat that. We don't have a vanity 1-800-#, so we can change the customer-facing numbers in a day if Twilio disappeared overnight.
Yeah, but if you do it wrong, then it just feels as though the program talks down to you.

I agree that designing the architecture to be easy to explore and learn is a great idea, to me it seems that the best application to a help interact was if one added the option to play with things before the instructions for how to do them. Not if one removed the instructions entirely.

You don't want to be doing something, and then be distracted by the help screen and come back to the initial thing an hour later forgetting what it was you wanted to do.

Sometimes less engaging functionality has a greater capacity to engage.
A lot more diverse than that at my university. The professors basically had a four by four grid: strongly typed and object oriented (Java, covered in the introductory programming classes), strongly typed and functional (Standard ML or Haskell, depending on what quarter you sit the class), weakly typed and functional (Scheme), and weakly typed yet object oriented (Ruby).

Once recursion was sufficiently beaten into you, it was not particularly new material. The Stanford curriculum here seems a bit better designed: most people will not implement a language of their own or use more than one or two languages to any great extent (and a fairly small percentage will actually touch Standard ML or Scheme), and this class is better targeted to those two: it lets them see what the ideas were behind the language and how they can choose the right tool for a lot more jobs.

In other words, the Stanford course is a bit better at showing the range of ideas and higher level languages to people who were up to that point Blub programmers (see http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html , of course).
Go to Columbia. Two degrees in five years is a bargain. You'll only be paying two years of Columbia tuition, while studying there in the later phase of your college life, which hopefully means more focus and insight into how to access the resources a college can provide.

Start looking into summer internships. Good way to establish contacts, find mentors, and get a guided introduction to the field.

Take a look at Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial. The book is free, online, and walks you through the stages of building a simple twitter-like client. It's amazing the things you can do with high-level tools these days. There are some good books on Python as well. I recommend O'Reilly's Head First series to my friends who are considering getting into programming.

Start small, bang out code, even if it's just following a book. The act of writing code seeps into your muscle memory and it gets easier and easier, until you start expanding your skills and then it gets easier and harder both at the same time.

Your first efforts are going to seem amateurish and trivial. Don't let that discourage you. With practice you'll only get better and the feeling of creating something with your own mind and hands is awesome.
Cool...thank you very much!
I guess I just wonder why laying on a one-note horn for 2 hours is fun.
Also, how long until mold growth sets in with no air circulation for that tub.
Peter Lynch, the investor who used to run Fidelity's Magellan fund used to have a saying that he wanted to invest in businesses that even his dumb nephew could run.

The idea being, businesses that have great fundamental economics and competitive advantages are going to be much more sustainable and thus more likely to compound wealth over time.

If you look at the lists, a lot of these are businesses that are fundamental and cater towards basic human needs/wants. For example, note all the hotels on the list. Maybe they have a fantastic really critical location in a country that has good property laws. That means you can keep transferring it through your bloodline and as long as nobody does anything too stupid (e.g.: take on crazy amounts of debt, go wild and de-worsify) the hotel should continue to exist.
Didn't Gabe (the Duck Duck Go guy) basically say that if you call yourself a one person startup, then you are still going to depend on community (even online community, like Stack Overflow or HN) to replace the role that a second and/or third person would fill?
So, I can assume the ok-google voice recordings are by now taking up too much costly storage space...?