jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Trickle down economics is a lie. Quantitative easing is so far removed from salaries. It ends up just creating more capital for banks, which they invest into assets (companies and properties being two asset classes) or use as liquidity. Labor isn’t really in the picture at all except that companies which use less of it can be better assets to invest in.
> payment transfer application

Here is where things break long term. When Visa and Mastercard decide to not do business with you it is time to start your own payment system.
Yes, and that’s definitely shady. But what are the shenanigans one must go through to reserve a campsite?
This tool does a slightly different analysis than @RISK's — we use a different method under-the-hood that can account for interaction effects between variables, whereas I think @RISK performs one-way sensitivities. But it's essentially the same use-case, yes :)

@RISK is pretty cool and does a lot of important things that spreadsheets alone don't do, like working with distributions + monte carlo instead of single values, and sensitivity analysis. It has a pretty steep learning curve, though, and inherits all the issues of the spreadsheet paradigm.
Although the theoretical limit is higher I think 25 mbps ± a few is what you can expect in most of the world.

Here are some speed tests by country https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2018/02/state-of-lte
Today, Google even crawls, renders and indexes URLs sent from Chrome browsers via dial-up IPs using regular browser User-agents, so... no. Other than that, Googlebot seems to obey most of the time.

I don't blame them. Cloaking couldn't be detected otherwise.
> Not the point I was making. I do not know which option will lead to less death, neither do you,

What point were you making then? And yes, I think I do know which option will lead to less death, because I actually took the time to do some minimal research and the relevant information wasn't hard to find or terribly ambiguous. It's fine to have a contrarian opinion, based on some effort to ascertain facts and reason about them and we could then have a productive discussion on why our conclusions differ but from everything you said so far my current impression is that you made no such effort whatsoever.

> However, a full lockdown will lead to more economic loss at least in the short term than a voluntary lockdown. Long-term, as I said, I don't think any of us can say.

For some farcial definition of "short term" and "can't say" maybe, but for anything a sane person would care about (quarters or longer) we can just try to compare economic stats.

I mean to me it seems like the herd-immunity/corona-is-a-hoax/hands-off-response countries weren't doing that hot economically either:

https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/gdp

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp

https://tradingeconomics.com/brazil/gdp

vs

https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/gdp

https://tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/gdp

https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/gdp

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gdp

> You are in lockdown until you fill in some sort of form with the government, waiving your rights to hospital care in the case of catching Corona. This list is used to make decisions. This part at least is implementable.

Why would anyone in their right mind sign such a form, no matter whether they intend to flout lockdown or not? Not without massive penalities. How would you enforce them?
What attribute do you think is relevant in reality to be a board member of a bigger company?
Do you think it's skill related?
No, its arbitrary and based on nepotism.
So disrupting rigid structures inside existing balances of power via quotas is a good thing.
Lets start with women and not end there.
Exactly. I just tried shutting off mitigations on an old laptop running BOINC, triggering the benchmarks before and after shutting them off. It made no difference whatsoever - not surprising, since that's compute-bound and isn't likely to have lots of system calls. How much that translates to the running applications remains to be seen.
Everybody lies and blindly trusting anyone is hardly a good idea. But it's the political system in the US that makes things so much worse.

There are other systems that do a little better, though no one is ideal.
I can't help getting shocked by the fact that "the father of the Web" is a 55 year old guy.
I did basically the same with Schumer, and even though I live in NY, Leahy, just because his name is at the top of the bill. But both Franken and Feingold, who are probably two of the best people in the senate, are supporting this. This is just a case of the government hating its people. We have to stop giving money to these "content" producers.
feelin the love. i feel very privileged to be working with some exceptionally talented and generous mentors. so looking forward to 2011.
The subject line is the title of the the post at Posterous... though I suppose the could strip it out... i.e. "subj: Blog Post Title Goes here #sekretpassword".

Certainly not ideal. Typos would confuse matters and the idea of secret word authentication is not exactly common/obvious for the masses.
Sorry for the confusion. It's an 'artifact from a different time' in the sense that you'd use different words today. Not because the copy is sexist (which i still think it isn't) but because you'd try to avoid even the appearance of sexism.
I wonder if your users feel the same way.
Uh, at least among male internet users I am a small minority. I wouldn't worry about my collection, heh. Besides, they're still there and finding is half the fun.
and reactive programming
Great article.

Sounds like medical teams are missing build engineers. That vaccine should have been in their Makefile.
If someone steals your car, you're out many thousands of dollars and extremely inconvenienced.

If some random idiot posts a link to a Nigerian scam on your blog, you just delete it and get on with your life.
You are describing a project, not the world. We break the world up into projects so we can manage them. No one has be able to come up with a way to manage the world (so far.)

The next step in understanding "the cloud" is that it is actually "clouds." Some connected deeply, other's loosely, some held in jealous, secretive isolation. There are clouds within clouds, and some clouds are outside the light cones of other clouds.

I will describe a place known as "the pit." The pit has power wires going in, and that is only out of compelling necessity. (If they could make carrying in batteries work, they would.) Equipment, data and people go in, but only people come out. The pit is a crowded place. And there is much processing of the data; decisions are made, the world changes.

We all have our own personal pits. Or least we should.
It should be an either/or for travel within cities. I live in London and own a car, which I never use to travel around the city or at rush hour, only to leave on trips or for occasional movement of bulky items. The congestion charge (£10/day) and schemes such as local government closing off many residential streets to through traffic (which makes Islington wonderfully pleasant to walk/cycle around, it’s awesome!) help make this a no brainer, but I’d be happy for things to be taken much further with more restrictions and charges, as there are still far to many cars in London.

Cycling infrastructure still needs much more investment and we should be changing rules to massively encourage electric micromobility as well. The safety arguments against it are nonsensical when compared to the cars it replaces, and better provision on roads would make it even safer.
I see a lot of people saying that this is from 2019. In a sophomore in college right now most of my friends created accounts in early high school - well before 2019, yet none of us have found any of our information. The only explanation I’ve got so far is it may have been limited to those over 18 when the data was scraped - most of my friends would have been 17 then. Any other ideas?
Yasha has published rubbish trying to link the Open Tech Fund/Radio Free Asia to the CIA for years. It's not. To be honest he continues to be pushing such dangerous false conspiracy theories that risk real people, doing real work. I work on Umbrella (https://www.secfirst.org), a free open source project to help journalists and activists learn about and manage digital and physical security. It was initially funded by OTF.

I am from Ireland, i've worked my entire life in human rights, including campaigning against CIA black sites, Iraq, NSA/GCHQ spying etc (along with the global range of issues from China to migrants). Why would I or anyone of the other hundreds of projects, work with OTF if somehow it was a CIA front? In our case, the linking of projects like ours to stupid conspiracy theories like this has endangered myself and some team members. We've had doxing and death threats from people from countries as varied as Ireland to Vietnam trying to say we are CIA/US stooges because of this crap.
For an article with "Here are the cold hard facts" I wanted to put [citation needed] on quite a lot of claims. I also feel like mentioning to the author the Internet is also a government op if we go that way.
I don’t know what to believe anymore.

Whether it’s true or not, it makes me question what I’m using for conversations. I suppose it doesn’t matter anyway.

Is there something I can self-host for just my family? The issue of having them commit to another chat program isn’t a problem.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions. In this case, creating super-humans that lack any weakness, sickness and are just ideal of what can human being be without those is putting them already way above everybody else.

One doesn't need an x-ray vision or flying around to be to have superhuman status.

I understand your optimism because it sounds properly awesome. But we humans always, without exceptions, fuck up everything that is even theoretically fuckable and often even the rest. If you don't see potential for evil with this then I guess you lack a bit of imagination.

For every great discovery to help humanity there is always some powerful idiot thinking how it can we weaponized, used to gain advantage above others, the non-conforming, the unknown, or simply the weak.
Currently grid scale battery storage is often deployed in shipping containers, which has the advantage of providing some level of isolation between packs, and also means they can be spaced out over a bigger area.
This is an outrageous standard to hold over a person. So if any whackjob reads a politician's statement and subsequently commits a crime the politician should be held responsible by the media and removed from office. I've reviewed a transcript of Trump's 6th January speech and there is no incitement to commit crimes in it. I am not intimately familiar with Trump's tweeting history but my guess is there is no incitement to commit crimes in that body of text either.
> central Ministry of Information

And there is no ministry of information. The 1st amendment protects us from governmental interference, not a private party discriminating based on content.

Deplatforming is happening because of cultural pressure and values, people still have the ability to create organizations with different values. The history of 1st amendment lawsuits is filled with examples of speech that was really offensive at the time, lawsuits were won because the government tried to restrict it.

Diversity in beliefs is valuable, but private parties should be able to have standards. I find an argument that companies should be forced allow speech that violates their standards because it is political dangerous.
> Also, some things can be proven as untrue. Lies are bad.

We've also witnessed the fallacy of this argument. It assumes that there is an authority that we can all trust to be objective and not a vested interested that either ignores or skews evidence and narratives one way or the other out of self-interest. Who should be the ones determining what is "true"?
It’s slightly more complicated than that.

First, the position of the plaintiffs of those cases is that the actions of the “other half” have effectively disenfranchised them. If disenfranchisement is the issue at hand, it follows that one should investigate when someone claims to have been disenfranchised.

Second, every case that I’ve followed up on has been denied on the grounds of standing. My understanding is that this means that either the court believes that there was no harm or that the court believes that there is no reasonable way the outcome of the case could provide relief for harm that may have taken place. Either way, to my knowledge, none of the court cases have actually been heard. No evidence has been presented and no arguments have been made.
Here is my suggestion for Parler’s new moderation plan, which is what at least Apple is demanding:

1. Illegal content is not allowed.

That’s it.
Sure, but the threat of fascism in any given Western nation that I know of is far greater than the threat of communism, which is rather dead.
On the flip side, if the team from 37 Signals worked for a great technology company like Facebook, Google or Apple, they could have built products that tens or hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of developers use every day. They could have worked with some of the best engineers and designers on the planet and have had a huge impact on the products they've built and their company's success. They also could have also created popular open source software that runs on massive infrastructures, written their own blogs, and achieved industry fame.

I'm not trying to argue that entrepreneurship isn't a great path to pursue for many people, but I disagree with the simplistic picture that people sometime paint wherein entrepreneurship is always glamorous and employment is always dreary.

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook.
I believe you, but its major failure is not looking at the problem from the viewpoint of investors and risk. Sure, $500K for "several million dollars in dividends" sounds great, but how many $500K investments will you have to make to get such payouts and what's your opportunity cost in meantime?

A “lifestyle business” might be great for a lifestyle investor---and there are those, just not very many, especially ones who can put up $500K or 1/10th or 1/20th in a syndication.
I've personally run some recovery programs on a Samsung replacement drive I received (from Samsung, not Apple) and I was able to recover files that presumably belonged to a previous owner. I didn't bother checking if it contained any personal information (I was only interested in recovering a corrupted dotfile), but it seems possible that sensitive information could have been contained on said drive.
You're correct, Mongrel had predetermined number of instances.
Think of it like this. Zed is combining Apache's nonstandard configuration language with it's internal runtime representation of such. He's doing it in a way that's standard and manipulable at runtime. So changes to the runtime configuration are persistent. You can fix that. That's the beauty of it. It's an incredibly simple and flexible idea that builds upon existing, robust, and standard software. If you want to diff config files, then you could slap together an XML, JSON, or any other representation of your config data and write a loader for it.
You can download the code by logging in and visiting the 'timeline' http://mongrel2.com/info/2d2129a2db
Go ahead, shave the yak! (This should not take long at all, but I wanted to make the point about taking time to make tools to help save time.)
The author of this article backs up his argument with little substance. No decision-making process is perfect; pointing out the warts in Google's isn't much of an indictment. Really, to my mind the whole thing comes across as a bit whiny.
The average user doesn't care. The success or failure of twitter will be determined by what the average person feels about it. As the appstore shows, even if you piss the developers off, new developers are not going to stop with the platform just like that.
It'll be interesting to verify this as the trains pass me by here at home.
For getting a wordy essay or report done, voice transcription is far and away the best option. You can talk 150-170 wpm, but can only type 60-80 wpm. I have a friend who swears by Dragon, and has used it to crank out more papers in a shorter time.

I think the reason people haven't adopted voice transcription is because (1) they don't realize that some of the programs out there have reached the 99% accuracy level, (2) we all have developed the habit of working with a computer with our fingers - breaking habits is hard and (3) -related to 2- our brains have been trained to think as we type in ways that allow us to get certain work done, and if we moved over to getting our work done via voice, there are neural connections we'd have to re-create through training.
I'm going to travel the US later this year for a month. And I'm a little bit uncertain what kind of backpack I should buy. I've never traveled that long and previously I took a small trolley bag. However, I was always wondering if there's a better alternative. What kind of backpack do you recommend?
One cool thing about this is what it does to the marginal cost of travelling. Assuming the place he would travel to has rooms for about the same as what he's paying in SF, the marginal housing cost of traveling becomes 0, which would make it a lot more financially feasible to travel frequently, especially to places nearby enough that travel costs are low.

Now, he's a startup founder and probably doesn't have a whole lot of time to do so, but if someone with a less demanding life did it, they could travel a lot.
I think you miss the point. iOS is part of the Apple stack, and to Gilmore's point, development of the main OS X platform has been shifted towards iOS. The whole Apple set up assumes you use OS X + iOS + iPods, etc.

Sony have nothing to do with being part of the stack of any operating system, and while Microsoft owns XBOX it too has little-to-no integration with Windows. Your comparison therefore seems irrelevant.

Comparing the Apple App store as a 'better place to do business' than XBox or Sony PlayStation is also strange as the two are completely different in terms of proposition, customer demographic, development resource requirement and potential return on investment.
Share price is up ~6.5% haha.
I feel bad for ballmer. his legacy is going to be pretty terrible because the stock price was flat from when he took over until now. nobody seems to take into account that he took over in the middle of the tech bubble bursting and msft was hugely overvalued at the time. I think profit has tripled since he took over or something like that. following gates was already going to be one of the hardest tasks possible. getting handed an overvalued company in the middle of a bubble bursting makes it all but impossible.

while i don't actually think he was a good ceo, i think he is much better than he gets credit for. they say he missed mobile, but i think windows phone is pretty good and new take on it. it was just a year or 2 late. xbox has been pretty fantastic overall. windows 7 was good. i think windows 8 has potential. azure is pretty good as far as i can tell. sure vista sucked (though not as badly as everyone says), and there have been other failures (kin anyone?).

People act like other good ceo's don't ever fail. Jobs had plenty of failures. Ping, mobile me, etc... Jobs had the "benefit" of taking over an almost dead company. making it thrive meant stock went crazy and he gets to be awesome. Ballmer just got in on the wrong end of the market. Tim Cook might have this problem as well, but at least Apple wasn't wildly overvalued at the time.
It is a convenience vs value trade off. Selling to the dealership will get you less than market rate (since the dealership will ostensibly turn around and sell it at market rate.) You haggle at most once. The couple of cars I have sold to Carmax usually got me with in a few hundred of KBB.com's price so I sold to them.

Private sell feels like running your own private dealership for a few weeks. People call and want to come see it, take test drives and haggle. It has usually taken 5-6 inquiries for me to sell privately.

note: N for both carmax and private sell = 2 so your milage may vary.
I don't really worry what the next big thing is. I worry about what problems people want to solve, and what solution to implement.
Its nice to see other people who are bothering to understand the benefits of this rather than snarking away.

I once fell into the unfortunate position of having to program proprietary building control systems made by a company called Crestron. Its terrible, overpriced shit, but at the core is a neat little Flow Base Programming tool that is based on some proprietary C derived language. What amazed me about it was how quickly we could teach people with little to no programming experience how to reuse existing functions for new projects just be altering the flow between components and editing parameters in functions. It was crazy.

Naturally, every now and then custom code had to be written, but then you would just create a new function, and add it to the pile of other functions that could be wired together.

I'm very interested in NoFlo, and can't wait for this tool to come out.
The entirety of their strategy no, but this goes beyond just the kindle issue raised. Vendor lock in is a huge chunk of Apple's strategy.
In a year or two we are hopefully going to see a whole new Javascript (it's already happening now with ES6). For a language that was cobbled together in about a week, it's actually not the massive train-wreck people make it out to be. Sure it might not do things in a pure code way, but you could argue that about languages like PHP as well and at the end of the day it doesn't make them any less usable.

I think Javascript has reached a point where the good developers know of its weaknesses and limitations and thus, they hardly ever encounter them. I can't honestly remember the last time I ran into an issue that was a result of the way Javascript implemented something. In the right hands like anything, Javascript can be a decent language. Combined with something like ESLint and superset like TypeScript, you'll never write bad Javascript again (well it is very unlikely).
I've just become a fan of the Japanese amazon! that is amazing
>Bilder offers up one last bit of practical advice: Just get your ideas out there—on paper, on canvas, out of your head.

This is why a lot of creative keep a "brainjuice" file full of half-cooked ideas they can later dip into. When you have some creative energy, its easy to just dump it out and then, later, when you're in a more sober and productive mood, start implementing those ideas in an effective manner. Or as writers say: write drunk, edit sober.
In at least 1 case yes, possibly more.
How do you deal with flipping back and forth pages?

For math classes specifically (realistically the only classes that I used a book for), I would frequently flip all around the book, where I was flipping too and from varied per chapter of course. Often times it would be 2 or so locations in the book that had all formula's listed (for the well organized math books!), the n and n-1 chapters text, the page with the current problem set that I was working on, and an answer key in the back of the book.

I guess I could set all of those up as bookmarks, but it'd be a real pain to have to keep adjusting bookmarks every day.

The slow page turn speed is just a killer for e-readers IMHO.

Heck even for large PDFs on tablets I have issues. Right now laptop is about competitive with a paper book (and searching can help a lot, but PDF searching is abysmal in seeming 80% of PDFs), and last time I tried a tablet (about a year ago) they tended to just choke and die on RPG ebooks. (But hey, they are 2x as fast now so maybe things work...)
It would be a bright feature for space travel if Google and SpaceX team up. It would mean SpaceX would have viable contacts out side of NASA and it would mean Google gets their global internet.