jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think this childishness is the essential requirement of centralized power. Our current economic system rises from our (personal) taste for the conveniences of centralized power. For it we are willing to relinquish personal responsibility and individuality.

Many early people groups (nomads, pueblos, even manors and unfederated fifedoms), had optimized for small communities. Presumably they were not aware of the efficiency of centralized power, or capable of the centralization we can accomplish today. Some apparently were aware, and chose the benefits of small communities.

I believe we are now at a crossroads. We choose small communities and relinquish the convenience of centralized power, or we submit to the requirements of centralized power (lack of privacy, lack of individuality, etc).
You're right, I was being insensitive. I'm sorry about that. I'm still curious though, why don't you like eating real food and sharing it with people?
I wasn't addressing the problem of banning Tumblr users, but correcting the often mistaken and repeated claim that 4chan is an anonymous forum.

But seriously, if the mood stays "for real" it's not going to be hard to shutdown and ban tumblr users.
So how exactly does one raid a crapflood, anyhow?

> Raiding 4chan? Like one /b/ user says, "Isn't that like pissing into an ocean of piss? What's the point?"
Line item data tracking, integrated bill splitting, free peer-to-peer funds transfer, wallet consolidation, optional direct expensing to your employer with reimbursement forms, and much better security than handwriting verification and after-the-fact heuristics.
I recommend tweaking text-sizes, margins and floats through a dedicated CSS rather than forcing my user to view a totally new experience. Scaling the viewport means (for most sites) realigning a lot of things, especially menu's and padded content to fit in the frame.

Use this:

<link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)"
href="iPhone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
"Wouldn't there always be new jobs?" No there wouldn't. And even if there were, this article talks about when there will not be.
What? That's ridiculous. How is everyone on Hacker News so miseducated? This goes back to real inequity, even if the details are beyond the folks currently storming the capitol building.
Calling election officials to ask if the elections that they ran had fraud is a pretty low bar for investigative journalism. Most wouldn’t want to make themselves look bad. Some might look the other way for the sake of their party. Hell, theoretically some could be in on some fraud, though I very much doubt it’s the case.

Either way it’s about the laziest route they could possibly take while still claiming they looked in to it.
> This isn't even the case. Last season in my country fruits were rotting in the fields cause nobody was there to pick them up. Did farmers increase salaries in order to get more fruit pickers? No.

Sad that this is one of the plot points of The Grapes Of Wrath and is still happening today.
I promise I did a search. Sorry.

In my 50+ years of watching, I've come to the conclusion that an organization's culture is the same as its leadership. They're the same thing. This, I don't believe you can _fundamentally_ change an organization's culture without changing its leaders.
The L1 size is yet another place where the x86 legacy hinders things. To avoid aliasing in a virtually indexed L1 cache (which is what you want for performance in a L1 cache, since a physically indexed cache would have to wait for the TLB lookup), the size of each way is limited to the page size, which on x86 is 4096 bytes. To get a 64 KiB L1 cache, it would have to be a 16-way cache, and increasing that too much makes the cache slower and more power-hungry. It's no wonder Apple decided to use a 16 KiB page size instead of a 4 KiB page size; a 64 KiB VIPT L1 cache with 16 KiB page size needs only 4 ways.

For the L1 instruction cache, aliasing shouldn't be a problem (since it's never written to), but this is once again another place where the x86 legacy hinders things: instead of requiring an explicit instruction to invalidate a virtual address in the instruction cache, it's implicitly invalidated when writing to that address.
Because they’re a dime a dozen? When a 15 year old can do your job and has access to the same tools the outcome is predictable.

A friend of mine runs a motion graphics studio. He does work for big names. He said his number one fear is a teenager in his mothers basement with Adobe After Effects.
If you're on Android I recommend Frost: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.pitchedapps.frost/
It's an old "ends justify the means" argument. By stealing your kidneys we can give them to starving orphans.
The thing is, in China, government can create that demand, by moving government jobs to that city (thus bootstrapping the employment market as a primary employer), or having a state-owned enterprise open a branch office there (again, bootstrapping the employment market.)

Once there's a reason for people to live there, other services and businesses organically move in, to serve those people's market needs.

It's not just a matter of risk tolerance - it's also the ability to coordinate between employers and landlords, to optimize city planning.
https://www.aleris.no/en/cancer-center/cancer/

"Aleris’s Cancer Centre (Aleris Kreftsenter) provides a complete range of diagnostic tests and therapies for most types of cancer.

We offer the latest cancer drugs and innovative treatments, such as immunotherapy, before they are available in public hospitals."
Where you got very lucky was that the plc or other weird industrial system was controlled over rs232, and not from a manufacturer proprietary 8 or 16-bit ISA interface card that comes with device drivers to load in config.sys, and requires direct memory access. Can only run on bare metal. Yes there's vendors for industrial motherboards you can buy brand new with ISA buses on them...

And that's before you deal with the rarity of an interface card that's literally impossible to purchase at any price today, so you better hope someone has saved spares.
It's right in the sense that the units are the same size. IE if something increases 10 deg K it also increases 10 deg C. But it's obvious to humans that that isn't what you where asking.

Compare:

You have: 1 degF
You want: degcelsius
* 0.55555556
/ 1.8
That's even better than the furlongs per fortnight example, which gave me a good laugh already :)
"I'm sorry, I don't have a Google account (anymore?). Could you share it in a different way?"

I have seen this work more than once.
Using GPT-3 to 'write' the books instead of obvious gibberish would lead to an additional layer of evasion.
US healthcare culture is very different from that of many countries with "free" universal healthcare.

In many such countries, there's no such thing as a yearly / annual checkup. People go to the doctor when they feel sick - or if they actually get checkups, it's in the light of some illness like cancer.

Usually, there's nor any "full" check, meaning that doctors will run every test known to man on you, just to be sure. Tests are done in a holistic way, as they start getting an idea of what's wrong with you.

And unless you have something really pressing, you won't get an appointment (or even treatment) STRAIGHT AWAY.

I guess my point is that a lot of Americans would probably feel that they were receiving vastly inferior treatment, but maybe they're used to getting overtreatment?

In any case - doing all that extra stuff adds up.
That would be nice in a way but then we couldn't have complicated products like laptops or iPhones. Abstraction barriers aren't optional when managing sufficiently complex processes.
Now I'm confused :) Are you arguing for better security than OTPs, or against?

My claim is that OTPs aren't secure enough; the skimmer example was to illustrate that thievery in India can also employ technical sophistication, and hence that "secure technology" isn't much of a barrier against a sufficiently motivated set of actors.
> I'll trust my common sense

Good heuristic. I've started to only trust research results that have very high confidence in their results and which is peer-reviewed, e.g. nut consumption cause towards life span [1].

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1307352
I clicked on this link hoping it might be about the toughest exam students ever take in Higher Education, instead of yet another article on the 'bubble'.

I was baited.
The difference though, is that usually the moderates have the pulpit and the radicals are ever marginalized. That hasn't happened to a great degree here. Stallman is still the front man for the movement.
Two things to add:

- Service businesses in the tech sector have grown into multibillion-dollar valuations, but often take decades to do so. Infosys and some of the other large Indian outsourcing companies spring to mind.

- There is a well-established pattern of enterprise software product companies turning into services businesses (IBM), or at least deriving a majority of their income from services revenue as margins on software products/licenses decline (Oracle, starting in the late 90s).
The uneven distribution of contributions doesn't matter so much on Github, since when an employer goes to scout out someone on Github, they're typically looking at the code itself, rather than the quantity of it.
Anyone have a Perl script to get all my saved stories, with URL, title, and date?
This reminds me of a similarly unethical behaviour I've encountered recently: I tried to buy a certain rare electronics component, and found it listed by a bunch of people. There were lots of bait-and-switchers in the Google results, who only had the part listed for the googlebot to pick up, but as soon as I actually tried to order the part, their site told me they didn't actually have it and suggested I buy something else from them.

It gets worse: When I finally did find a seller who allowed me to order the part, they accepted my order -- and then came back later saying that, oh no, actually they didn't have it either, but would I like to convert my order into an order for something else? (Fuck off.)

I still don't have the part.
Webpack is one of my absolute favorite tools. It's easy to reason about and a pleasure to use. It absolutely checks the "navigable" box in my book.

However, it got constant flack (esp. here on HN) for being too complicated. Apparently asking a dev to spend a day learning the tool before getting started on a new project was too much to ask. Now the best practice is to use a meta-tool like vue-cli or react-scripts to abstract away Webpack, trading navigability for simplicity. Simplifying complex tasks requires magic and good luck debugging when your magic incantations don't work as expected.

I totally agree that navigability is super important and I wish I knew how to better emphasize it in my projects over the "batteries included" approach that has the best marketing.
Link to paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/05/scie...
> I find very little of substance in this entire rant. Also the KGB doesn't exist anymore, I don't know if the author doesn't know that or decides to keep using it for stylistic reasons but real life is not an 80s American B movie.

I agree with you; not sure why the HN community finds this interesting.
We always use interns to do security critical work -- the less experience, the better. We also have exacting security standards, and a Critical Password Policy, since there are no non-critical passwords.

Critical Password Policy

Rule 1: All critical passwords must contain the company name, lower case, with no special characters or spaces.

Rule 2: All critical passwords must have between 3 and 1024 randomly selected sequential integers appended, each of no less than 1 and no greater than 3.

When you are creating your critical passwords, it is critical that you follow the rules in the exact sequence as stated above, and that you do not introduce any external sources of randomness or entropy.

Failing to follow this Critical Password Policy may result in your dismissal and later blame before a Congressional committee.
Why wouldn’t they? Creating a multi-billion dollar global commodity out of thin air is quite a feat. I would want to know what the authors of Bitcoin are up to after they moved on.
Why joke, merchandising is good business. Look at the Star Wars franchise, over 30 years it's earned an estimated $22B of which $6.68B was generated at the box office. The largest chunk comes from merchandise ($9B). [1]

Granted, kiddies might be less interested in a plush fail whale than a plastic light saber.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/24/star-wars-revenues-tech-cx_...
Need a refill on that Kool-Aid?
My take is: This is what some people (particularly in those groups) want them to be, so that they can continue to parlay wealth into exclusive access to all kinds of things even in a digital world where all scarcity is artificial.

However, as sibling comments note, they're actually very bad at it, because despite all the ballyhoo about decentralization, making that kind of thing work requires cooperation from centralized authorities.
Namespaces and PSR are the reason I suspect. For anyone not aware, the PHP community has a set of standards that outline some behaviours around modularity that aren't stricly language structures, just best practices. The defactor package manager, composer, also follows these standards, and life is sweet.

Namespaces is pretty much what this article ends up landing on also, if I understand. There is no material difference between `\App\MyClass::myFunc()` or putting at the top of your file, `use App\MyClass` then latter, `myFunc()`

Autoloading:
https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/
Like the article says: Better the devil you know, than the one you don't.
I think this article fails to understand a fundamental trend that has been going on from 2000 to 2010 and wasn't going on in 1998. Increased market penetration of web based devices. Having a business in 1999, when the potential population of internet users is roughly 1/10th what it is now, when you do not have such a large population of non-tech people using very sophisticated devices and the web constantly. Of course, even in such a favorable environment, it is possible to have a bubble, however the numbers even they themselves use are both statistically insignificant and not telling the whole story.
Something else really useful:
mkdir stuff
cd !$

!$ takes the last argument from the previous command, instead of the whole thing.

chmod 664 site/* - changes the permissions for all the files in the site directory. * is a wildcard in bash for specifying directories.

Another useful feature of bash is brace expansion:
mv site{,-old} => mv site site-old
The brace expansion expands the argument with the values in a comma separated list: college pic_00{1,4,3}.jpeg college.jpeg yields pic_001 pic_004, pic_003
Inflation is not a constant. The single most destructive force in a crash is deflationary pressure which can quickly feed on its self and spiral out of control.

PS: When people start buying T-Bills with negative interest rates you know you have a problem. (This has happened on a few occations over the last few years.)
The problem is it is not an all or nothing situation most of the time. Usually you get paid part of it and they have some convincing explanation of why they can't pay the rest. Suppose they paid all your wages but not your travel expenses - pending verification of some receipt or something. They paid all your regular time, but not your overtime charges, claiming that payment had to be approved by someone higher-up. I've had both of these happen to me (both were legitimate situations and I did eventually get paid hassle-free) - but how do you know it is legitimate until after you are paid? You can stop working until you get paid entirely, but if you have bills due, it can be better to get some money than none at all. There is also the whole issue of the relationship - if it is just a legitimate hiccup you might not want to sour a good long-term opportunity, so you make a judgement call - he's a good guy and would never screw me - and next thing you know you next months check is missing too and you are down thousands of dollars.

It is always easy in hindsight to say it should never have happened but that does not make it anyone's fault other than the people who agreed to pay them and didn't.
PHP is NOT in any sense a framework. A framework is an abstraction built up USING a programming language, like PHP.

In what way does PHP's standard library fall short that Python overcomes?
I can say that I had my share of boltbus, megabus and the chinatown bus companies and although most of the time the wifi works, when it doesn't it's mostly useless to complain. They even have a sign saying that "the driver doesn't know how to fix it".

In spite of this, it's my favorite way of traveling between cities, right after the train system, although I rarely use the latter, since the prices are outrageously high in the US.
The easy interface to map-data editing is quite nice.
Exactly. The biggest innovations in education will come not from new technologies, but from new processes -- ways to improve and/or work around the existing legacy infrastructure.

I think in the next 5 years we'll see the "groupon" model applied to more and more social/political/cultural problems. This will carry some risks (we should all re-read the lessons of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, for example), but it could be a nice corrective to the current "two parties, one system" model.
I agree with you on the graph--very poorly constructed, and the time interval is too short. But:

Calling internet startups a bubble in the same breath as the housing market bubble is doing a disservice to the readers. ... All sorts of people were borrowing 100k against their new found home equity to "invest" in their home, despite the fact that homes have no revenue, while the majority internet companies do.

I wouldn't go as far as saying this comparison is a "disservice." Sure, the article is judgmental and poorly researched. But when Patricof says there is "probably a bubble in the number of start-ups," well, that's supported by what we've heard recently.

Don't we see Ask HNs from failed founders who took out a large amount of savings to start their companies? And don't we keep hearing about how more people are starting businesses while their opportunity cost is low during the recession? These are traits we share with the housing bubble, and they shouldn't be ignored.
To the best of my knowledge, it's not. Instead they've hired Thomas P. Brown at Paul Hastings LLP/UC Berkeley as well as the former DFI Commissioner, Bill Haraf, to lobby on their behalf for forgiveness while they perpetually violate the California Money Transmission Act. Both have done quite well. Brown met with Robert Venchiarutti at DBO on October 25, 2013 at the very least, and also filed documents with the CA Office of Administrative Law, which he revoked when the DBO promised to be nice to him over the phone.

https://archive.org/stream/california-dbo-emails-ii/Producti...

For his part, Venchiarutti got his current job with the then-DFI 12 days after settling a legal malpractice claim in Los Angeles, which he lied about under oath in 2010. In the same deposition where he lied about having been sued, he also admitted to having no qualifications at all for his work.

https://archive.org/details/robert-venchiarutti-letter

This is the guy responsible for letting money disappear at Mt. Gox (via Dwolla, with a San Francisco office) and most recently Xoom, where $31 million vanished overnight. But don't worry, his assistant Julio Prada literally has a blood pressure cuff in his office for when he gets too stressed and angry. (We know this because a former DFI employee sued them both.)

Just can't make this stuff up.
Looks straightforward enough.

They note that your trading 'bots should be running on Amazon AWS East for minimum latency. They're encouraging high frequency trading. Since they're coming up with zero fees, they may have huge 'bot volume. Then they can announce they are the biggest exchange.
The samurai were noted horse archers so they seem to have adoped the move and shoot approach for actual combat as well.
>I'd much, much rather live in a world in which a laptop was a huge expense that I could only literally afford once every few years, but to be able to afford to put a roof over my head without hustling 8 hours a day.

I'd rather have the opposite, to be honest. Houses are affordable because there are mortgages; most people need lots of hardware in their life and only one house.
Unless there was something horribly wrong with their setup, akamai would have prevented that from happening.
I'm an engineer but my social circle is mostly made up of people who are not in web/tech, and from all kinds of industries (marketing, finance, medical, real-estate, business owners, etc). So this definitely does not (just) apply to the tech industry.
Taiwan was super authoritarian in recent memory [1], so it's understandable that someone would think it's still true (of course, it's not). Maybe the confusion is because some of their disease mitigation strategies were authoritarian, but that's pretty common in war/disaster scenarios. Every country turns authoritarian when they need people to shelter in place or need to force factories to retool to build war equipment or medical essentials.

[1] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the ROC transitioned from a one-party military dictatorship to a multi-party democracy with a semi-presidential system.
Well, there is no silver bullet here is it? If we're to solve this we'll probably need to tackle it from all sides - isolation, vaccine and treatment.
http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p...
We can take the age profile of Venezuela[1] and the estimated hospital rates and general virus profile from the Imperial College report[2].

Assume 80% infection, and assuming that 100% of people who would have needed hospitalization die.

This is 720,000 people, or 2.5% of the population. However, if we just take the working-age population (65 and lower), and assume 50% survival rate instead of 0%, the deaths are just 0.79% of the total population.

So decimation is absolutely inaccurate and the higher-up poster is correct. Developing countries like Venezuela cannot afford to and should not shutdown their economies or societies.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/venezuela-bolivarian-repub...

[2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
300m seems like a very conservative estimate for an airburst nuke.
Much less confident in our leaders in Washington.
FDR seems almost biblical in comparison.
Because, there are multiple teams of companies and scientists around the globe, that all report that they'll have candidates ready in the very near future, i.e. 3-4 weeks. Which means they are convinced the vaccines work. But since vaccines are given to a large number of people, you have to make sure that there is a very low number of adverse effects. And that takes most of the time. But the vaccine candidates are almost ready.
The kind of civil liberties they like are the rather limited kind, or only for the right kind of people (their voters). During the debate on the November lockdown, the word 'arbitrary' was used a lot, yet they are quiet on the arbitrary nature of the classification of Cannabis, no civil liberties for users of Cannabis (wrong kind of people).
The aim of this isn't to raise legitimate concerns, it's to produce distrust. Lots of people will have heard about Dominion via dodgy Facebook news or endlessly-forwarded stuff on WhatsApp or whatever; fewer will have read about, or understood, the recounts.
OAG aggregate timetable data from airlines and distribute that aggregated feed.

You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed to however many people took the flight.