jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tons of such threads were flagged. Most were both heavily upvoted and heavily flagged, in some cases upvotes won out, in some cases flags won out, and in a few cases flags won out but moderators overrode the flags. This is the normal tug-of-war with divisive submissions on HN—where "divisive" has multiple values: people are divided politically, but also about what's on topic for the site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
But they didn't immediately start shooting them is my point
We got there with brazen falsehoods that don't get punished in the marketplace of ideas, or at the polls, or at the gallows.

As it turns out, truth is a thing beyond price - which is to say, it is worthless.
By all accounts the people in power were committed to certifying the election. We've got no reason to think they have changed their minds on this. The police were underprepared and overwhelmed by protesters (terrorist, coupists, whatever), they also chose not to fire on these protesters, so this happened. Let the police get it under control, let the election get certified (whenever and where that happens), and then we can begin to sort this mess out. That process may yet involve the National Guard, but their role and objective should be crystal clear.
At this point, I don't believe this story can be categorized as simply "politics." This is momentous historical event that's absolutely unprecedented in modern U.S. history.
It really isn’t just Fox. They don’t have a lot of shame about their partisanship or desire to hide it, but there is ideological distortion going on everywhere.
About what was I wrong?
Some kind of a miner fee: https://shapeshift.com/miner-fees I think to be able to execute the transaction.
As a former herder of dedicated servers purchased for this sort of thing, you'd be surprised how difficult it is telling people they need to pay to upgrade it. We had a client with an old supermicro P3 running red hat 7 (not RHEL) until last year. Genuinely surprised it lasted as long as it did.

Edit: it was RH7, not RH5. Just checked. Still bad.
Because human beings can be described in four bits.

Oh, four bits isn't enough? Four scales, then. That fixes it.
Apple does have a refund process for apps and other digital media[1] but the terms seem to differ depending on region. I’ve used it several times, and while it’s not obvious at first, a simple web search led me to the instructions and it’s worked fine the handful of times I’ve had to use it. I’ve had my money refunded within days, no questions asked, even if I’ve used the app. It even worked for subscriptions, though I think it only works if you cancel and ask for a refund before the first renewal.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084
They won’t because they don’t take 40+ minutes on a normal system and most people are going to start the morning with the “your Mac was restarted to install an update” message and no idea how long it took.
I use a sit-stand desk at work that allows me to switch between standing and sitting at will. I couldn't imagine having to choose between either setup. It's a little more expensive than a traditional desk but the flexibility that it offers is worth it.

I've also found that a big factor in how much I stand (and enjoy standing) is what I'm standing on. Comfortable shoes and a padded mat make the all the difference and stop my legs from getting sore as quickly. At first, my experiences were pretty similar to this authors, but I've since warmed up to it a bit more.
Ha, A fork bomb of Agent Smith crossed with Nancy in Program Outreach.

The accretion or calcification model of bureaucratic formation is compelling, something like how a coral reef grows. The randomized surface provides eddies and pockets of protection for other life to flourish, RFPs and SBIRs can nestle in a protected arena with low local competition.

I just realized that large, messy codebases also follow the reef model of bureaucracy. Hadoop is like that coral reef, providing nooks and crannies for optimizations and integrations to take hold. I used to imagine Hadoop as Whale fall [0], but it is more of a mandlebulb. Had Hadoop not provided such a rich environment the secondary ecosystem wouldn't be as vibrant. Fail to Win?

I find management structures fascinating. Whenever I interact with one I probe it to see how much autonomy each individual in it has, what rules they can bend or not follow. Once the agents participating in the bureaucracy cannot bend the rules I think it will tend towards dystopia. Maybe 1984 isn't a warning against fascism, but the natural tendency of all bureaucracies to only support them selves.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall

note: I might sound like the stereo type of a hackernews-bitcoin-libertarian, but I assure you my politics are much more nuanced than that. I don't think that bureaucracy as a structure is bad, but it needs to be managed with something akin to the voting logic in a triple redundant control circuit [1] [2]. Most bureaucracies exist within a positive feedback loop, which rewards them for growth instead of efficiency. It is like getting paid by LOC instead of 1/LOC or 1/runtime.

[1] ftp://ftp.unicauca.edu.co/Facultades/FIET/DEIC/Materias/Instrumentacion%20Industrial/Instrument_Engineers__Handbook_-_Process_Measurement_and_Analysis/Instrument%20Engineers'%20Handbook%20-%20Process%20Measurement%20and%20Analysis/1083ch1_10.pdf

[2] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1985002...
Find a company like Ansys or Abaqus, where you can work on FEM software. This way you can use your training in mechanics while still programming.

The big advantage here is that:
a) Most engineers suck at programming.
b) Most CS majors don't understand the mechanics.

By having skills in both mechanics and programming, you can be an extremely valuable asset to companies that make high-performance computational mechanics software.
I bought that desk in 2013 and have been using it ever since, would not be able to go back to a normal desk.

The secret is definitely that it should be adjustable, that is you should be able to vary between sitting and standing. I switch about 4 to 5 times per day.

It's glaringly obvious that you're not supposed to stand and work the whole day. I don't understand how the author of the linked post (and many other "standing desks suck" articles) didn't realize this.
Thank you. I'm glad to know there are others that feel the same way. :)
Does anyone know when the first test flight will be and if it will be recorded by the rover?
Trying to avoid self in Python is just no good idea. You just break one basic convention of Python just because you don't like one thing in Python.

I would recommend to the author of the article one of those things:

(a) either find a programming language, where you like everything (I guess, unlikely)

(b) or write your own programming language

After some years in the business, I have learnt, that every programming language has its own "hell".

Some hells are hotter, some are relatively mild. When you try to avoid every hell, you will end up writing your own programming language ... and be very lonely for the rest of your computer-life.

Pythons oddities are one of the mildest I have found yet, IMHO.
Try not USA/Canada and you quickly find out WhatsApp is a Big Deal (tm). It has a 600 million user count.
We all agree about what taxes are. Some just attach more libertarian sensibilities/fears/paranoia to that word.
> Grammar that is mandatory in English is optional in ASL.

You can't relate the two languages like this. Sorry, this doesn't make sense. For example, ASL doesn't have articles, English doesn't have location dependent pronouns for people.
OpenOffice/LibreOffice suck for what I do with Office: Write scripts that exchange data with other applications, in particular, operations research software. It is a pity, because Python is a superior scripting language than VBA, but for the most part, developers of optimization and simulation packages have voted with their feet to make it easier for their programs to exchange data with Excel and Access, not with OO/LO Calc.

Admittedly, my use case is not terribly common.
Apple computers can never run older versions of OS X than whatever was the latest when the model was released. If you are tied to a specific version of OS X you are sitting on a ticking bomb because if your hardware fails there will be no way to downgrade a new Macintosh.
See the last sentence in my comment. I was attempting to address two points:

1) the designs highlighted on their page do not take advantage of the reasons why 3D printing might be chosen for this application (designs which cannot be manufactured using any other technique). In the examples provided, all could be injection molded _for example_.
2) it would seem that there are cheaper ways to get the customized designs they are building and offering customers by using a reduction process without sacrificing any of the customizability or time to market.
One could counter-argue by claiming that these are not true democracies.
To me the bigger news here is that this bug has been in the wild for at least 5 years.
Speaking as a former NASA engineer who had a hand in its design, the shuttle was supposed to be a bus that went into space, then return by gliding to a landing, and be reusable, and be economical to operate. It failed in nearly all its goals, some of them spectacularly.

Your comparison with Orion has no basis in reality. Orion is not reusable, it doesn't have wings, it doesn't land, and in other respects it bears no comparison to the shuttle, remotely, at all.
That's how the article is titled on Time's website "Obama's Trauma Team"
When I'm depressed/sad/whining and people ask "what's wrong" or "how am I doing". They laugh when I reply with variation of "Good, I'm not being genocided". But that is my serious reply. Like this article states, no matter how "crappy" I imagine my (MUC, white, male, american) life to be, If I rationally examine it It is magnitudes better than 90+% of the people on the planet. Thinking about the people struggling to find drinking water or not be killed by their neighbors puts things in perspective.
http://www.yearloop.com/

Each day it sends me an email with pictures from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!
Any answer that a nutritionist would give you be couched in a whole list of qualifiers (if you have low cholesterol, if you're over the age of 65, etc) since you're asking questions about the interactions between very complicated systems like any good scientist should. If someone did give a binary answer to any of the questions you asked, they're probably wrong or trying to sell you something. Don't interpret that as lack of understanding, there is quite a bit known about human nutrition in the modern era.
He's not about talking about bug fix updates (the more the better), he's talking about major releases that introduce more features.
> yet the streets are as ghostly and empty as ever.

This probably has a lot to do with transit. Unless you are making a very short hop, the primary reason to be on the sidewalk is that you are walking to or from a train.
How do you get the textarea, or any other element, into a canvas?
I'm not sure how it's related. If anything, many "red" officials today seem to pretend they hate stronger ISP competition and like monopolistic stagnation.
So, you just told me to buy a Windows machine. Kind of funny because our little subthread started because the Microsoft F# developer didn't want to be told to buy a Linux or Mac.

The world we're all looking for is one where we'd all like to mix and match our software as much as possible, and not be told to buy a different computer.
It seems kinda weird to me to portray them as greedy. Even if the root of this decision is because they want money, don't they need to fund the content somehow?

Khan Academy seems to have really raised the bar for this kind of content. I'm inclined to trust their decision on how to maintain quality and balance that with accessibility. Maybe I'm just naive?

At the same time, it does seem like having the content easily available offline could help people out. I wonder if they've ever explained their rationale?
In my particular case I get paid around $90/hr ($135/hr for overtime, plus paid major holidays). Which comes to around $180K/yr. The full time position I was offered is $130K/yr. There's no way in the world vacation + health insurance is worth $50K.

So if I take a month off, I lose $14.4K ($90 * 160 hours). A decent insurance PPO plan is $1100/month for me any my wife. So that's another $13.2K. So the total is $27.6K. And I don't think that many FTEs have a month of paid vacation.
Yeah better stop with the haggling for stale donuts ;)

What are "white/brown goods"?
Once again, I'm not convinced the specialists are actually filtering usefully instead of juat defining the boundaries of their niche.

You've assumed that the non-reviewed content I'm reading is in the form of papers. It isn't; it's blog posts and code.
For the rest of us.

spruiker:

(Australian) One who promotes his own cause; one who toots their own horn.

(figurative) A person standing outside a place of business trying to persuade patrons to enter, or vigourously trying to persuade customers to purchase a their wares (ie. a fruiterer calling out the price of bananas)
>I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand your criteria. Who cares if famous person X answers your question? I just want to get my work done, not become a celebrity or hang out with the cool kids.

If something is broken in Clojure, I can either fix it myself or notify Hickey about it personally on IRC.

> instead of making big generalizations about the state of microsoft, .net, and the community

You just got done accusing me of caring about celebrity and hanging out with the cool kids.

The shift in quality of people I worked with when I switched from .NET to Python was stark. It's a fact that several of my friends who still work in .NET moan about.

I'm not "wasting time trying to find the perfect language".

Oh I see what you're doing here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Nice try. I'm out of this conversation.

Parting example of what I'm talking about:

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2006838
I'm thinking that 10,000 bananas in your stomach at the same time would be an even GREATER concern.
> How does this work in C++ with operator overloading.

you can't overload int::operator[](...)
This is an interesting grouping. I wonder if there's a name for this class of "paradox".
I try to do this for the last week of every month. I don't turn off the router because I'm not going to exclude myself from things like Discord with friends, facetime with my Mom, or paying bills with my laptop instead of my phone. But anything non-essential is off limits.

It was certainly hard to keep this up in 2020 though, I pretty much dropped the habit from April to December
Grocery chains that were more vertically integrated would handily outcompete independent grocers who had more intermediate steps in their supply chain, each of which was taxed on their B2B revenue.

Whole Foods could conceivably become the equivalent of a discount grocery by virtue of such integration, after Amazon bought up farms and distribution channels.
For 19 years of career I've never met this unicorn scrum master you are describing.

Not a counter-argument, just sharing an anecdote.
I prefer re-frame over rum, but Reagent is amazing. So little churn over the life of the library is a great accomplishment.
That was my assumption, though nothing on TFA seems to show that that's the case. So I'm unsure.
From my anecdotal observation this is true. Gun sales are also growing among demographics not typically associated with gun ownership (non-white, non-conservative.)
Modern day? The pressure of sales jobs never went away. Ask your local bank teller. Their jobs exist in this day and age, not to help Grampy who prefers interacting one-on-one, but to sell her credit cards, expensive chequing accounts and loans she doesn't need.
can't please everybody :)
I don't know about this data specifically, but the best thing you can do is lobby for better open data laws. The UK, to be fair, passed laws like this maybe 20 years ago, and as a result there's an amazing amount of free data available for England and Wales (Scotland is normally different).

There's an EU directive supposed to solve this, but it's a slow, slow process.
No surprises there. There were maybe a total of 5 people excited about adding automatic differentiation to Swift. Too bad they didn't try improving Julia instead.
Targeted advertising has always existed and always will, the difference is micro targeting. Google originally made all its revenue from targeted advertising. You search for books? Get sponsored ads for Amazon and Barnes and Noble. A big thing is that this kind of advertising isn't invasive on user privacy. I don't feel like my privacy is invaded when I see ads for NordVPN when watching YouTube videos nor Rocket Mortgage when listening to podcasts.
I love Swift and it's potential for use cases beyond just iOS ecosystem, but I think Apple never fostered or encouraged the open source community to involve in its development.

It's another classic example where it's simply not enough to open source something, you have to really allow and encourage the developers to contribute to increase the adoption.
Is this what you mean by groups?

"The <g> SVG element is a container used to group other SVG elements.

Transformations applied to the <g> element are performed on its child elements, and its attributes are inherited by its children. It can also group multiple elements to be referenced later with the <use> element."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/g
It's a hell of a lot more than an 'unfortunate side effect.' When 30-40% of your product's sales go through WalMart, you will toe their party line when you write and edit the content you're selling.

Any sufficiently dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government. Eventually people are going to understand that.
I've never heard human learning expressed this way. Can you please write up more of your thoughts about this?

Brief State Machine anecdote: Any automated door that swings out has a FSM or circuit equivalent that blocks swinging out if someone is standing on the pressure pad of the outside portion. We used to have fun blocking in friends this way...
Defiantly feasible, check out Chuck Moore's GreenArrays, and his ArrayForth to program them.

http://greenarraychips.com/
Anyone able to locate the original source for this claim? The link in the article ends up at shacknews with a 'bad id' message and I've been unable to locate the source on that site

Interestingly all the sites I've looked at trying to find the source, and there's been a few, all link back to this article in electronista (except sites like apple.findtechnews.net which rip off the entire story, pic and all and then remove the source link)

I guess I'm looking for a blog post or even a forum post/comment, but so far I've drawn a blank.
Laptop thieves have lost cases trying to claim an expectation of privacy on stolen laptops, but "not because of a bright line rule that thieves never have a reasonable expectation of privacy in stolen property" (Florida Second District Court of Appeals). That case was the police looking at the laptop itself; presumably, if you lifted a cookie out of the browser config on your stolen laptop and sidejacked the thief's email account, her cause of action against you would not get weaker.
As far as I know, we're all just waiting for a state prosecutor to be dumb enough to bring an adultery case so these statutes can be struck down by the Supreme Court nationwide once and for all. It's (apparently) been years since the last case was filed; the ACLU had the guy's back, but he let it go in exchange for 20 hours community service and no record.
I don't see why it's such a trouble to charge the phone every night

It isn't a problem ... mostly. But it's the edge cases that will get you.

e.g. Sometimes I stay the night at my SO's house. Or I go from work to drinks to a club. Any break in the routine and the phone's remaining charge is now an issue. These are also the times when you are more likely to need to send and receive texts, use maps or other helpful smartphone apps. What are you going to do, say "I can't; I have to go home and charge my phone"? These devices are supposed to liberate us from rigid schedules (and they did, if you remember that far back).

So I keep a charging cable in my desk at work, it solves a lot of things. Office-wide emails that go "does anyone have a charger for a..." happen regularly in any office.
I'm also struggling with anhedonia and amotivation for years. I don't have the much of the sadness, hopelessness and other common symptoms so I've discounted the depression hypothesis. Maybe I should reconsider and see a psych.
I'm not trying to be a dick, but I think you mean CSS3. HTML5 and CSS3 aren't the same thing.
How are you meant to know about this a priori unless you've read an article about it on an obscure tech website?
I am also a Hugo user - and I love it - but also find the documentation pretty bad. Not only hard to find stuff I need but also pretty basic sometimes.
Um, excuse me? They shattered windows, climbed walls, forced open doors and intimidated people — the very things conservatives told us for months were deserving of vicious police crackdowns.

There are pictures of literal Nazis — like, literal literal — holding up nameplates broken off walls [1]. They broke into offices, left threatening messages [2], made it out safely and proudly showed off stolen items [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/1346971421134741505

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporters-leave-threa...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ks29bj/the_man_shown_...
Not really. I read it when it came out and remembered liking it (we were all on kind of a buzz about open source and Linux at the time) and then again much more recently for a thread on HN, and I found it to be mostly a rehash of other, better material --- Brooks and Kernighan, in particular. That, plus the modern context that what he was writing about was Fetchmail, and Fetchmail as it turns out is hot garbage, to me makes the whole thing very skippable.

It's also responsible for hatching one of the great canards of open source, "Linus's Law" (I'm sure Linus is thrilled with having his name attached to that), "many eyes make all bugs shallow", which has in the last 10 years become one of the great jokes of computer science.
They should've humoured them just to shut up the people saying those things then.

I think the partisanship is what's really driving people like this. The Trump/Russia stuff was investigated, why not investigate election fraud too?
This would require your phone to be connected to the internet at the moment you press Enter on the desktop, otherwise it could be hours until the SMS goes out. For those on prepaid plans, it would also require that you have enough credit on that phone to send SMS. Perhaps the developers felt that there were too many uncertainties to implement this feature; users might have reacted negatively if it didn’t work for them.

Plus, Signal plans to eventually allow multiple phones to be connected to one’s account. Then, the question becomes: if you sent a SMS from your desktop, which of those phones sends the SMS and gets billed by the mobile provider for doing so? You might say that a setting could be made for that, but any new setting requires changes to the UI, too.