jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Individual humans are smart. Groups of humans are dumb.

Actually, you have that exactly wrong[1].

"Behavioural economists and sociologists have gone beyond the anecdotic and systematically studied the issues, and have come up with surprising answers.

Capturing the ‘collective’ wisdom best solves cognitive problems. Four conditions apply. There must be: (a) true diversity of opinions; (b) independence of opinion (so there is no correlation between them); (c) decentralisation of experience; (d) suitable mechanisms of aggregation."

[1] http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/books/reviews/wisdom-crow...
I thought you were going the other way around. There's no reason that we can't have both: Uber could charge us and still show us ads. It works for Comcast.
Ted Kooser.

http://tedkooser.net/

He was the US Poet Laureate for a few years. He is from Nebraska, and writes about Midwestern life, among other things. His most recent volume just came out, and I thought it was great.

http://www.amazon.com/Splitting-Order-Ted-Kooser/dp/15565946...

From "Splitting an Order":

I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half
… and then to see him lift half
onto the extra plate that he asked the server to bring,
and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
while she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,
her knife and her fork in their proper places,
then smoothes the starched white napkin over her knees
and meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him.
To be clear Obama is not a member of the Republican party. You mention Obama specifically and then dumping "this political baggage" and follow it up with the "Republican Party".
The thing with Keycloak is: when you know what you are looking for, it's all self descriptive. Server administration documentation is awesome: https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html

I've written more about Authorization Services: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2020-09-05-introduction-to-keyc...

And can recommend these resources: https://www.janua.fr/tag/technical-blog/
Interesting quote from the article: "The top 0.05 per cent of earners — just 1,786 filers — accounted for 16 per cent of its income tax revenues in 2018"
> zero-cost interventions like “wear a mask”

At the beginning of the pandemic (and even now), many countries were PPE-constrained, particularly on masks.

The messaging was "no need to wear a mask", but the reasoning was that the supply we did have should go to front-line healthcare workers.

In other words, the Opportunity Cost was high.
For the not so wealthy.
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Sow

You wanna tell people they're what's wrong with the world fine but don't be surprised when they don't wanna give you their resources, distance themselves from you and support your enemies. I do not feel bad at all for the people who are lamenting this. They should have picked up a history book.
The US dollar inherits a mixed base-8 and base-10 system.
Murdoch is Australian, therefore a subject of the British Crown, no? Not a "foreigner" per-se.
Imagine tying your identity to a consumer product...

That said, is Tesla responsible for some fans being jerks?
My understanding is that all numbers in the dump correspond with Facebook accounts, so this shouldn't be the reason.

Another option would be that someone else has that number listed for their account. Has Facebook always required confirmation that a number is valid? I saw one my friends' numbers in the data except the account had a different name.
128GB minimum storage? You'd have to be installing like a lot of software then? Even my main development machines (2 Visual Studio versions, 2 Matlab versions, 2 Labview versions, Office and utilities) only take 70-80GB. I think a more typical user like my mom who only uses a browser, office and some utilities would be just fine with 64GB for Windows and software. Also a bare Windows 10 install uses about 1 GB of ram after startup so there is some room to play with. Not that I'd ever buy something running full Windows and only has 2GB of ram, nor ever recommend it, just pointing out that depending on who is going to use it this machine might effectively do the trick.
If you want something to be 'thought provoking' then make it as close to reality as you can, that's good SF. The only thoughts this provokes in me is 'ouch'.
Ha ha, this reminds me of the days I had sudo access to `vi` but not a lot of other commands, on a box that IT didn't really want to support. . . .
To answer my own question:

The 2014 research of 40 countries actually shows that Americans estimate a relatively high inequality of CEO to unskilled worker pay (a ratio of 29.6 compared to an average estimate of 10.0). However, the actual pay ratio for American CEOs is much much higher than in any other country's (354 - as mentioned in the article. The next highest actual pay ratio is in Switzerland at 150 times while most countries have a ratio below 100). The research states:

"American respondents (n =
1,581) in our data estimated the ratio of estimated
incomes of CEOs to unskilled workers to be 29.6, demonstrating
that Americans drastically underestimated the
gap in actual incomes between CEOs and unskilled
workers."

So, yes there is a significance in the figures for America both in terms of estimated inequality and actual inequality that shows that American CEO pay is significantly less egalitarian than other countries and Americans in general significantly less aware of this than other countries.
> That's after the worst performers have been let go

Better to look at the situation including such bad performers...

It's often difficult for 3x programmers to make it at first because the 1x programmers will often gang up on the 3x programmer to protect their own jobs, although the behavior is often unspoken about between them. Many places will thus hire 3x programmers in bulk as a separate team, but many -0.5x programmers will slip in as well. A group of such 3x programmers will often put one of their own number to watch over, say, four of the -0.5x programmers, who will thus appear to be a 1x programmer, 3 + (4 * -0.5) == 1. 10x programmers can be groomed from a 3x programmer over time, but it's difficult for a business to pull off because the other 3x programmers will gang up on them, similarly fearful for their own jobs. And only big Silicon Valley names can hire 10x programmers in bulk.
Good read but it may be nice to add the word "yet" to the end. The author clearly says at the end that 'So, if it's going to happen, it will be because they will have knocked on our door, not me knocking on 50 of their doors"

I have a very small web based business that has the potential to be a $50MM business as well but I am always worried about the same thing if investors even care to blink unless we promise a $1B return/exit ?
Those figures include people who had a lucky year. I'd like to see data showing what percentage of people who start out in the bottom 99%, and end up at any point in their lives spending at least 10 consecutive years (or until their death) in the top 1%.

When we talk about "the 1%" we are not talking about that one hit wonder salesman or small business owner who cashes out and technically has >$1M income in one particular year. We are talking about year-after-year sustained income.

EDIT:

There's no question that there are problems with the phrase "among the top 1% of earners". It's not well defined. I think, though, it's safe to say that when the Average American talks about "the 1%" as a class, he's not talking about the person who had a single good year and went on to have a normal income for the rest of his life. He's talking about the class of people whose income is high and sustained. When the average person says, "I'll be among the top 1% of earners" he's imagining himself as attaining continuing membership in an economic class, not predicting a single-year windfall.
I use https://github.com/bordaigorl/rmview to good effect, though it just occasionally stops working and I need to restart it to get it going again (I think it’s from brief USB connection blips, which can happen on the Surface Book for reasons I won’t go into but which won’t apply to almost any other hardware).
I don't see why microsoft, playstation, or nintendo need the middleman of gamestop when they all each have their own digital storefronts directly under their own control. If you are gamestop, this is the line you have to tow and tell shareholders, because there isn't a viable route otherwise. that doesn't necessarily mean what they say they are working on is going to work, or that they even believe it will work for much longer than it takes for the C-level team to have one good quarter under their belt and find a new job before the thumbs they put in the dam can no longer keep it from bursting.
which is the result of policies that make construction extremely expensive or straight up prohibited.
I don't want my TV to run any platform/OS that would be the main source of content. Mainly because when I buy a TV it generally lasts for 10 years or so. My current Sony TV (around 10 years old) came with some "apps", none of which now work. Which I'm fine with. But what happens when that's the main OS for the TV? I'd much rather buy a new chromecast or firetv every few years to get the latest experience.
> For all the non-TSLA holders on HN (there are many) - is there a price at which you will admit TSLA is successful? And if not, what is the reasoning behind why you will forever see TSLA as unsuccessful? Thank you
Direct link: https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/ Yes, this is what first implicated Grayson. I'd say its primary purpose was to get people to avoid her, but any interested parties can read the whole thing.
Slow news day for sure - VW didn't even have a Phaeton at NAIAS.
Exactly: no scandal.
By the way, the hypothetical reflux store in your gist is basically this: https://github.com/omniscientjs/immstruct

Thus, you can simplify to something like this: https://gist.github.com/Dashed/707664be1319bb222c7c

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Omniscient is still useful in that you can make your own `component` shim using their `shouldComponentUpdate()`.

I think the reflux model doesn't too synergize well with immutable-js's cursors.
I found out that reflux with omniscient/immstruct ended up being one more level of indirection. Plus, I didn't need all the features that reflux provided. I even tried a super-light version of reflux.

So I replaced reflux with an augmentation upon immstruct with more useful features (a library I've yet to release). I'm still experimenting with it while investigating a nice isomorphic architecture.
Given how much I dislike DRM etc. from Big Copyright, I was surprised how often I found myself nodding agreeably to this editorial.

I wonder how much this ties into conceptions (dare I say, prejudices?) some non-technical leaders have, where their technology-side is seen more as a cost-center rather than an ongoing investment.
Every time an AI system beats a human at a task that was previously thought hard (chess, jeopardy, face recognition, etc) many people immediately dismiss it as not reflecting real intelligence any longer.
Macbook and XCode.
Every single case got struck down by judges. People were pissed about a lack of election transparency that wasn't actually there. If the opinion of judges wasn't enough to convince them, what makes you think that of an auditor would make a difference?
By nearly every conventional metric, TSLA is overvalued even in comparison to a market that may or may not be also overvalued.

Although, Elon's net worth is the highest, it's nearly all in TSLA stock of which Elon has about ~20% of all shares. If he sold or made this asset liquid, it would decrease his power in his own company. Considering Elon's methods and behavior can be unconventional to say the least, he probably needs to keep as much power as possible.
As far as I know Nintendo hasn't ever sold hardware at a loss. That is not the way they do business. Of course there wont be a source from MS or Sony on the matter.

https://www.cinemablend.com/games/1644500/how-much-money-nin...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/10/xbox-series-x-and-xbox-series...

PS Nothing really wrong with a loss leader to draw customers. The problem with the console being a loss leader is MS and Sony have to perpetually build consoles that are loss leaders to show "advancement" that keeps customers. It also makes them reliant on subscriptions and software sales to maintain profitability. So, they are incentivized to lock customers in or they will lose profitability.
Perhaps westerners could learn a thing or two from this attitude.
Brain-breaking social media platforms have polarized and radicalized us. Zuckerberg's attempts to play both sides and pre-empt a legislative response ring hollow, but that does not make this a bad business nor political decision, in the moment.
Sure they can. The first $107,600 of earnings, can be excluded from Federal Income Taxes. If you live in a foreign country. Look up the foreign earned income exclusion.
it was an attempted coup
its stupidity and lack of success don't change that
Much less popular than it was a year ago, but still pretty popular:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=chatroulette.com%2Cnews....
Well, somebody has to say it: URL shorteners are so 2010.

Now it's mostly cleaning up after failed shorteners.
Nope. He's kind of funny.
If I find that the brakes are working only on one side of a car, I don't consider the fact that some of the brakes are working, to be an indicator that the car is probably in good condition.
I've thought about starting my own company, but I don't want to start a startup. I want to start a company without investors that actually makes money from the beginning.

Although it is something I think about from time to time, I am sticking to the job I have for a while. I learn a lot on the job and it's a nice place to work.
Sounds pretty useful. Has nostradam.us been registered?
I like to look at weekly sales numbers, so in my SQL query I just group by iso week and iso year.
So you think it's a problem on how specific apps are coded? (please see my comment above).
Nintendo has, since the Wii, shied away from bleeding-edge or custom components, preferring to use cheaper, proven tech that they can more easily maintain but is still strong enough for their needs. Just look at the Switch -- it uses the Tegra X1 in a device that launched in March of 2017, despite the X2 having been available for more than a year.

Apple, on the other hand, has been running rings around Qualcomm and other ARM vendors for a while now, and sharing tech makes it all the more important that they continue to be competitive.
This could almost be done (on Linux at least) with a copy of rsync, git (for the revision control) and a shell script.

Er, well, yeah, but you'd be polling almost constantly if you're trying to emulate what Dropbox does. I don't know exactly how Dropbox knows when I add or change a file -- I assume it ties in to the kernel. Also, rsync wouldn't work over HTTP, which is a big disadvantage in some of the environments I've been working in lately.

My big question, though: why isn't someone doing this for headless servers? Why do they always assume people just want this for desktops? At least you can hack a headless version of Dropbox on Linux.
Check out TechnicallyPhilly.com - they occasionally post some jobs and cover the startup scene - you should be able to find some additional startups linked to from there.

You also should get connected with Philly Startup Leaders (phillystartupleaders.org) - seems like there are always startups on the listserv that are looking for technology folks.

Actually, speaking of that, one startup just mentioned to me yesterday that they are looking for someone. Send me an email at the address in my profile and provide some details around your programming experience and I can introduce you.
"You may not care about SEO, but here's what I noticed..."
As an astrophysics grad I am quite confident in saying that this guy's claims are nonsense.
I know anecdote isn't the singular of data, but of the MANY teachers I know (I'm married to one, so I sort of meet a bunch of them), none of them work less than 50 hours per week. Not a single individual. Sure, they may be AT work for less than 50 hours, but everybody has to grade test/homework, write lesson plans, etc. outside of their normal classroom time. My wife works approx. 55-60 hours per week from late august to late june, for less than 45k/yr. While the long time off in the summer is great, it's not paid either (many people don't realize that).
Teachers also have to provide virtually everything in their classroom - educational posters/implements, paper, pens, pencils, etc.; the local schools provide books and desks, and that's it. Each teacher gets $200/yr stipend, which isn't even enough for paper and glue for an elementary school classroom for the year. Only $500 of that stuff is tax deductible for a year (we routinely spend close to $2k/yr).

tl;dr: it's not thankless, but it's not exactly an awesomely compensated profession either - there's lots of hidden shit teachers have to do/provide that should count against their compensation.
focus is overrated early on, but yes once you find the one project that is an obvious success, you should try to focus on that 100% full time
It is hosted in US and winners could be outside the country. Either way it seems scary. May be just dump this feature. But again there are mixed responses.
That doesn't make sense to me, the article clearly says "pre-rendered". Maybe they don't render the middle of the ocean tiles beforehand but there would be no reason not to save a tile once it has been rendered.
i guess most of their ads are displayed on their own properties , so the more the eyeballs, more the money AND most of the eyeballs are in asia and africa ... so focusing on world demography and their needs will serve the purpose in the long run.
See my reply below. I seldom do it in a terminal and when I do only on my home machines. The command above is for explanation. If I showed you my app without that explanation, it wouldn't be the same.
Or is it? I can see someone doing this just to screw with people. Well played who ever uploaded it ;p
So are you saying that the idea that pitbulls type dogs are the most dangerous kind of dog is bullshit? The statistics don't agree with your personal experience.
Bruce Schneier isn't some random academic. He's extremely highly respected, and is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT Communications. He has tons of experience with securing systems in the real world, and to say he "obviously [doesn't] know that much about OpenBSD security culture and history" is crazy.
I feel bad but I'm interested in seeing if it works, whether or not people take notice or if they assume it was someone being a dick. Seems to have lasted 2 mins so far.
He clearly used them.
The price was just a shot in the dark really. It's in line with similar shink-wrap products, but once I get off the ground I plan to do some A/B testing on price.

Thanks for the feedback!
You are correct:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > def something; "hey" end
=> nil
ruby-1.9.2-p0 > something
=> "hey"

Adding the do makes it not work. def doesn't have a do.
What is wrong with these people, just fix twitter so url's don't count to the count.

Morons.

There's no better user experience to a shortened url, it's like having unprotected sex with a random in a nightclub, you've no idea what you could end up with.

Repeat after me, shortened urls break the web and are inherently evil.
This stuff is mirrored all over the place precisely so that it remains available. And that is how it should be, imo.
Exactly.

While they'll "wrap" other shortening services, what's the point now? People won't use them and they'll fall by the wayside. Not really a bad thing in my opinion (people use them now when they don't even need to) but still a bit of a smack in the face to services that essentially helped Twitter in their early days.
If you're only interested in having fun, you run the risk of building something really cool that nobody needs.
http://That.will.probably.lead.to.abuse.as.I.can.send.a.long...
It's been said one hundred million times, but the reason is for SMS.
I'm just glad my phone is still on iOS 12. I'll hope for the best and wait for iOS 14 to ship. And not updating at all is still an option.

It has been this way with macOS for several years now, and iOS has gotten just as bad: You cannot, under any circumstances, update a device that you depend upon to the newest OS version available. It will take at least 6 months to iron out the worst bugs, and sometimes you need to skip the whole release and hope that the next one will be bearable.
You don't necessarily login to Twitter on the phone (I don't for instance). Even if you did, your login credentials are considered more sensitive data than the session cookie you get after you're signed in. As with the Twitter app, the window of time in which your login creds are in memory is short. With a TOTP app holding your private key around, you basically have half the credential available at all times (unless of course the TOTP app makes use of the mobile platform's hardware chip to encrypt the private key when app is not in use).
So the obvious question then is should we be allowed place trackers in police cars, so we can track them on Waze (for example), and it would be a crime for them to remove it.

Equivalencies of Powers/Rights is a good thought experiment that would keep the powers of the enforcers from multiplying without limits.
This is not really how things work.

We are talking about single particles of light having energies between ~ 50 GeV and up to 10 TeV (for this GRB, other sources go even higher).

At these energies, the atmosphere is completely opaque and the gamma rays are absorbed at around 20 km height.

However, the process kicks of a cascade of particles, the gamma ray is absorbed by creating an electron-positron pair, each with half the energy. These particles then create new gamma rays via bremsstrahlung and those gamma rays again are absorbed via pair production creating a cascade of high energy particles.

The charged part of this cascade (electrons and positrons) are moving faster than the speed of light in air and are thus producing Cherenkov radiation, which is in the UV to the visible range.

It is this light our telescopes detect and from this light we reconstruct the original properties of the first gamma ray that entered the atmosphere.
fulafel is not advocating catching the vulnerability, fulafel is advocating a more secure design. One possibility is Rust.
I'd see this turning up on some construction sites and in other industrial applications. As it is, it won't appeal to the crowd of people who buy trucks to show off. But, looking at the specs, it just might appeal to people who actually use trucks for work.
How does it work to use with your phone? Last I checked there were very limited options for NFC compared to USB.
Put a faraday cage around the tracker instead
And the Rivian has a lot of smart features truck owners like.

To me it looks like the Tesla is for people who want that truck and the Rivian for people who need a truck.

And yeah imho the Cybertruck is very ugly. It looks like a copy of the Maserati Boomerang (1971) which was futuristic back then.

But maybe Shirley Bassey was right: it's all history repeating.
It's just a different approach - sometimes understanding top-down is easier than bottom-up. The git code is pretty clean and simple, but pedagogically speaking it's not super easy to get an understanding of everything without reading most of it.

It's like reading a math paper where they define all the variables they use first before even getting to the main ideas. It's more rigorous, but not necessarily the most straightforward way to convey something.

Also, you don't necessarily always care that something is a struct or a union or that it's implemented as a custom variant of a B+tree that does xyz or that there's this quirk on Solaris that causes filenames to be written on disk backwards or something.