jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Totally different, were it not for the fact the president is also the Chief of State: The chief public representative of a country.

It’s kind of a stretch to frame it that way. The president quite literally represents the states, not the people. The US does not require that states assign electors by popular vote, states have chosen to do that. And in the past, they have chosen to do it other ways. Before the civil war, there were states that selected electors without conducting a popular vote.

The way the US government is architected, the legislature is the extent of federal representative government.

6 of the 13 original states held a popular vote for president Washington.

But to respond to the bulk of your statement: it was like airport security back when I was a kid, and I don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t also be appropriate on any other typical (i.e. not a special event) day. Angry mobs should never make it to the building in the first place. Crowd control happens outside of the building.
Red Business Hats?
I'm reminded that for quite a while, the Library of Congress archived all published tweets.
This doesn't explain or excuse anything.

Brussels: "Every time a 50-euro shelf goes from the EU to England, customers will need to pay 30 euros above the purchase price to the EU, or we have No Deal."

London: "We can't agree to that. We want a tariff free Deal."

Brussels: "Okay, we'll call the 30 euros a Vat Handling Fee instead of a tariff."

London: "Deal."

It has exactly the same economic effect as a deal with a tariff. They just changed the name from "tariff" to "Vat Handling Fee", so they'd be able to say "Tariff free deal."

Thought experiment: Some politician promises people if you elect him, people will be able to mail letters without paying for a stamp.

Then once he's elected, he quickly shouts from the rooftops that, indeed, you can now mail letters without a stamp.

But when people actually try to do it, they find out that in order to mail letters without a stamp, you have to go down to their local post office and buy a postmark instead, which costs exactly the same as a stamp and is less convenient.

The politician was technically not lying about fulfilling his promise. But he's certainly using specific technical vocabulary of the postal system in a super deceptive way.

People thought "no stamps" describes a world where anyone can send letters without payment, but "no stamps" actually describes a world where there's still a payment, but the payment's now called a "postmark" instead of a "stamp."

Likewise with tariffs, people think "tariff free deal" means a world where anyone can send goods across the border without payment, but "no tariffs" actually describes a world where there's still a payment, but the payment's now called a "Vat Customs Declaration Handling Fee" instead of a "tariff." It's using specific technical vocabulary of the international trade system in a super deceptive way.

Reviewer: "This code shouldn't be calling function f"

Developer: Renames function from f to g. Submit for re-review with commit message "Code no longer calls function f."

Reviewer: Facepalm
I'm a bit of a hard liner against banning anyone. I may not care much for some of the stupid or horrific crap people say, but I'll put my life on the line for their right to say it unimpeded.

What other people do with that, and what happens in return is above my paygrade... I'm also generally pretty careful about what I do say as a result.

Sometimes at least. I have my asshat moments, I'm sad to say.
Mali's economy is mostly cash-crop agriculture and mining. Increasing tech manufacture in the economy is exceedingly likely to be less damaging and have better working conditions than what is currently available.
This is generally pretty awful.

The first point about default allow is moot today since nearly all protocols encapsulate all others. HTTP for instance can do anything via web sockets.

In addition, most malware is now "pulled" in via email or web rather than "pushed" via remote attacks. Firewalls are almost obsolescent.
And what are labor standards like there?

What are waste disposal standards like there?

Is this one of those projects that, twenty years from now, we'll be reading about someone taking heroic efforts to solve the problems of?
Well, Palmanova at least isn't really imaginary.

http://www.turismofvg.it/ProxyVFS.axd/popup/r11207/file-jpg?...
I don't think any of these boot camps promise 0 to N anymore; most require weeks or months of prep work and strong demonstrated interest.
Slack is a turnkey solution. And 90% of people don't care about the custom clients (I still haven't found a good IRC client for Windows that doesn't look like it belongs on Windows 95).
The use of the present tense to refer to Shuttle launches is a bit odd at first - it looks like this article actually dates from 1996. Was surprised to find out that Fast Company was that old, but there you go - apparently they launched November 1995.
I've also been meaning to try out LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang). Basically Erlang with a lisp front-end (originally started by Robert Virding).
This "run it profitably" thing.. it might have something to do with the macroeconomic climate perhaps.
I like how I could't get anything out of this guy's personal website while drunk. Start to get your own stuff together before selling advices for other.
Absolutely agreed! There’s some great APIs out there already if you use an ORM. We try to offer an API that is simple (including across threads), while offering performance that’s better than using raw SQLite.
I had success at least moving my parents and sister to chat with me on Telegram. I was having weird issues with Telegram video call (very low sound on my parent's phones), so I still had to call them on Whatsapp. Also, didn't find any audio call option on Telegram, only video call.
I purposely used the word "perceive". I think people, even with their real names on the account, view themselves as more "anonymous" online.
You’re asking someone to prove something that can’t be proven by design.

No identification requirements, same-day registration, no signature verification, no chain of custody requirements, completely irreversible and unauditable ballots... Partisans have created a system designed for abuse and now are incredulous that anyone question the results.

You’ve effectively deleted the server logs, claimed your system is perfect and impenetrable, and are now asking anyone with questions to prove otherwise.
Uninstalled. Signal is better.
There was an shooting attack in the Capitol in 1954 that injured 5 members of congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_sho...
When both extremes are saying that the other side should face death or life imprisonment as well as anyone that defends that extremist, what those groups actually stand for becomes irrelevant.
I am sure they can convene in a bunker somewhere
I've read that Japanese zoning regulations are federal laws, and based on population density. As the population in an area increases the building heights are allowed to increase. Also it is allowable to convert industrial to commercial, and commercial to residential, etc.
https://www.arkera.ai/2019/11/economist-machine-learning/
I worked temp jobs without benefits for more years than I care to think about.

Here are some additional costs you haven't mentioned.

Medical insurance

Elder/child care

Student loan payments

Life doesn't always proceed exactly as you planned.
Here are some situations that have happened to friends and acquaintances.

Husband became addicted to Oxycontin, sold most family assets to pay for it.

Wife moved to the opposite end of the country before the husband. She was told that she wouldn't have to work and to buy everything she needed on credit cards. He left the country with no forwarding address.
Job skills to learn for people who can't get a minimum wage job can be

- Getting to work on time and every day.

- Functioning in a workplace without getting in fights.

- Sobriety.

- A basic knowledge of English.

Once you've mastered those, McDonalds will be happy to hire you.
Thank you, I'm leaving.
I searched for OpenTeams' OSS license, but all I'm seeing is

* © 2019 OpenTeams. All rights reserved.

* https://openteams.com/terms-of-service

Why isn't a project who wants to change the economics of open source, open-source itself?
Can you reconsider your licensing choices?
The common-across-many-applications parts of android are open source, and "Google docs" isn't common-across-many-applications. Arguably, the google drive storage backend could be open source, but that wouldn't need to be open source, it would make more sense as an api.
>That's not cherry picking.

Picking the highest of the highs over 80 years is the definition of cherry picking. Why not simply pick the average over time? Or any other peak if you desire peaks?

Picking 1970, before many women entered the workforce and competition was more global, is likely not a good value to pick. It's probably better to let states, which have vastly different costs of living, set state or local wages to account for those disparities. Forcing a mom and pop in the middle of nowhere to pay what a worker in NY or SF gets by law will hurt many.
It looks like it uses the same format. At the end of first video[1], he shells out to an emacs server to format the .org file as html.

[1] http://vimeo.com/16543959
2 projects taking up most of my spare time and hoping to launch by February. Another long running one which I'm happy to to look at every couple of months or so. It takes a while to get back into the context but very enjoyable.

And (checks Google Docs) about 12 unstarted ideas in various levels of detail that I would love to have the time to look at. Alas I'm spreading myself too thin as it is.

Edit: Project details: a) A sports tipping calculator, b) A curated directory / recommendation engine for learning new tech, c) A game that I'm coding for fun.
Look at my comment with -4 at the very bottom, already being ridiculed right now :)
I've tested it, and in portrait it locks into portrait mode, in landscape it locks into landscape mode.
It's stuff like this that makes me lean towards getting a windows 7 or possibly linux tablet instead of one of the newer 'mobile' OSs.
What seems interesting to me as a European is that this type of reactions happened mostly in the US. Terror attacks have happened for a long time in Europe (red brigades, IRA, algerian terror cells, etc...), and the reaction has been quite different to say the least. Granted, the amount of damages has been different (nothing near 9/11 has ever happened on European soil), but I don't think that explains it.

This is even more incomprehensible to me because I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europens.
> The human brain operates at a measly 30 Hz. Still the human brain outperforms almost every computer. It has been calculated that the human brain has a processing power of 6 peta flops. That is six million billion calculations per second. Which compares favorably to the worlds fastest super computer

This caught my eye. It seems entirely too simplistic to claim the brain has a "hz" value/directly compare to traditional computing, doing some research, but anyone more knowledgeable on this?
So we should all defer to the superior rationality of who exactly?
Not even close!

An easy way to make upper boundary estimate: let’s say you use Falcon Heavy to deliver your kinetic weapon. Falcon Heavy burns around 500 tons of fuel. This is upper boundary for energy of your payload (since most of the energy goes to lifting rocket itself and air resistance). So even ultra-heavy payload of 64 tons will have way less then 0.5 kilotons of energy (TNT equivalent used for nukes). Any nuke is way beyond that.

Of course, another way to estimate is to not to be lazy and actually multiply mv^2/2. Truly massive 64 ton kinetic weapon reaching target at 7 km/s will have energy of 1.6x10^12 J. Modest 20 kiloton nuke has energy of 8.4x10^13 J. I.e. 50 times more.
Wasn't BLM throwing molotovs and trying to overtake a federal court a few months ago, for like a week straight? I didn't see a single media outlet call that a coup. Weird.
Where did you look for finding that your idea was already patented ?
iOS Safari does have this feature, in the top row of settings when you tap the “AA” button in the URL bar. You can tap the larger A on the right to make UI elements larger. HN works well at 125%.
Sounds like a winning trading strategy to me then.
99% of days you are.
I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not your lawyer, but allow me to play one on the Internet.

Looking at two parts of the law:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

> The term “information content provider” means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.

I think employing people to create or develop information under your direction would likely cause you to "lose 230 protection," but paying them for content they created or developed independently probably doesn't. If you contract them to independently create something new, it might be your responsibility in part; I dunno.

Edit: reviewing the article linked by conistonwater's sibling comment, it seems pretty clear from Blumenthal v. Drudge that a contractor's work is not the site's responsibility. I imagine there could be circumstances where the site specifically sanctionable content, and they might be held responsible.
It wasn't successful or nearly successful, but I saw some potential for creating a drawn out process that could create the space for more support for them (but they failed). I am well aware of the hideous things the US does around the world and organize to try to stop further interventions.

This was not on the same level, but I don't think it's helpful to deny that the objective of these guys was to overturn the election and they had institutional support from the President, legislators, and it appears the Capitol Police. Off duty cops and military were in the crowd. It just wasn't sufficient or well enough planned.

In my opinion, what we witnessed is the farce part of the classic quote: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
You are comfortable with giving up your own inalienable human rights upon starting a shift, that's fine. But it seems a little absurd to demand that others do the same.
UC Berkeley is apparently looking into it: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2273390-robot-guide-dog... .
Great post Callum!
I'm liking my cowboy coffee right now. Made with whole beans, crank grinder, and camping pot. Boil water, dump in the grounds, cover and remove from heat, sit for ~ 5 min.
Then you're asking the wrong question. If you want to test a theory, you try to disprove it, not look for evidence to support it.

To avoid false positives you should ask, "Have you hired people who did interview well and weren't great at the work?"
Agreed, but I found watching this video that I felt more like I did while at the game than the standard "god view" that you usually see. It wasn't fully as good, but it was closer.

I believe they experimented with the refs wearing GoPro cameras for a couple of games. You rarely saw them live, but when they were helpful or interesting or worth watching for novelty they were included in the replays.
I don't mean to offend, but it sounds to me like you've just internalized the limitations of web layout.

For example, look at email clients. The native mail apps on my Mac and iPad can show me all of my inbox in one big list. I can scroll through tens of thousands of messages naturally, easily jump to the bottom or top of the list, etc.

Web pages cannot support this. Yahoo mail attempts to present the messages in one big list, but the experience is pretty bad. The scroll bar looks fake and feels wrong, find doesn't work like you'd expect, the scroll thumb changes size and jumps around as you scroll, scrolling to the bottom is Sisyphean, etc. And Yahoo mail is one of the better webmail clients.

Gmail didn't even try. Instead it refuses to show more than 100 messages at a time, with buttons to paginate.

When I work on web pages, I don't get a feeling of freedom or flexibility. Instead I find myself forced to compromise on the user experience over and over again, just like Google and Yahoo did with their webmail clients.
See also Dual Contouring as implemented in the libfive library.
Because what matters is what comes on the SDK and AAA game engines, regardless of what AMD supports.

I can call Epic, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Google when something doesn't work as expected, free codecs dumped on github, who knows.
This is a nightmare no doubt, but the IT security angle is so far down the list of concerns it's not even visible. If every machine, piece of infrastructure and password has to be changed, every log audited by a hundred people for a year?

Tiny damage in comparison in context.
I think your comment is probably the most deceptive I've ever seen on HN :(

"It's just a youtube video of voting officials talking at a desk or something."

The discussion they're having at the desk is about fraud. It's a vote counting operation. The counting volunteers say they found a pile of ballots with identical signatures and the woman running the vote is telling them to ignore it because it's not their role to flag this or investigate it. In a vote audit.

The video description text has a transcript of what's going on.

The female counter asks, “So when we’re done with the audit, there’s still the opportunity to challenge the fact that we have multiple ballots with the very same signature?” she asks. “I don’t know if ‘challenge’ is the right word,” the SOS official says ... “And again, we know that you have a concern with this precinct,” she tells them, explaining, “That’s not your role at this very moment,”

A video of counting volunteers discussing fraud they detected and being explicitly told to drop it is very far from "just talking at a desk or something".
Why does medium have an official coronavirus blog which they use to badmouth right wing governments?
This assumes that humans will still be at a higher level though. If the music produced by the AI of the time will be more interesting/addictive, if the plot written by the AI will be more engaging, what a human will be able to contribute? It would be a golden age for AI creativity and a totally dark age for human creativity. Also human could grow a taste for AI generated content (because it will be optimized for engagement) and lose interest for everything else.
And why more creative and intelligent machines should obey to desires and orders of more fragile and stupida beings? They could want well behaved pets though.
People have also recommended http://pinboard.in/ - Havent tried it myself.
The only downside that I've come across is when you do something like:

"%s %s" % blah

If a bug causes `blah` to be a string (rather than a tuple or a list), it will attempt to expand the string, possibly giving a confusing error.
the point of this kind of thing is that it can allow super fast performance for critical endpoints:

Suppose your app consumes a JSON api and it turns out that one or two endpoints constitute most of the server load.

Rewriting one or two endpoints using a lightweight, fast framework can be a great solution, so long as you are already being smart about caching and there aren't other bottlenecks in your architecture.
If that was "the" problem, why would past versions of IDEA be fast?

Java and JVM are very fast. I know, because I used to do cutting edge algorithmic trading in C with premise that Java is slow and then I was asked to rewrite it to Java with the result being only about 10-30% slower. In this case we are talking receiving messages from network, performing complex processing and sending responses (on another connection) within 5-10 microseconds.

And that was a decade ago, my understanding Java only got better in the meantime, but I am working on more mundane backend/reactive systems and don't require really low latency.
> Then she got fixated on makeup videos and they couldn’t stop her from watching those.

If the kid has the last word on what she watches, the parents have their own problems. A family is more like a monarchy than a democracy, children can't outvote parents.
And yet a lot of environmental activisism is against other left wing environmental activism. This case for example where mines are harmful for the immediate area, but allow extracting the minerals that make a cleaner future possible.
Most offices/businesses have nothing to do with software development. Most IT shop are in basements, or at least on lower levels near the core servers and other infrastructure they manage. "The IT Crowd" was a stereotype but was still based on the reality of most businesses. I have never seen or even heard of an IT shop with a skylight. Even windows are rare.
Fermilab has a channel as well describing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjnK5exNhZ0
On a tangent, the headline that NPR went with is "Greenlanders Vote Leftists Into Power, Putting Fate Of Rare-Earth Mine In Doubt" [0]

The usage of the term leftist is very intriguing to me. It was once exclusively used to describe violent communist rebels in a far away jungle. The most common phrase was "leftist guerrillas." It is a very loaded term historically.

Then, some time in the last couple years, unabashedly conservative news sources and personalities began to use it to describe anyone that doesn't vote GOP.

Today the word was used by NPR in the "speakable" tag which is what appears as the headline in Google News.

Based on the NPR article's content "Leftist" comes out of nowhere to me. Many other words could have been used like and each of those words is less loaded and likely more accurate than "leftist."

I see the term used regularly all of a sudden, even by reddit commentors to describe themselves.
The term has been very successfully normalized in a very short time.

I am truly in awe of how conservative messaging is so successful. I would love to understand the mechanisms for use in business. Does anyone have any thoughts or insights on this?

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/985046099/opposition-wins-ele...
The most surprising element of this article is that the writer was surprised at the outcome. It's 2021--who still doesn't think Google will act like any other large corporate entity? I know the general aesthetic of the Google offices gives the impression of a fun, futuristic, elementary school, but the MBA's managing Human Resources went to the same schools as the ones in every other major corporation. The principals of self-preservation are still the same. No one you work with anywhere is "family". Everyone who has the position of employee, is an expendable expense attempting to secure their fickle, fleeting position. This may be a little dramatic, but do not depend on the initiative of mercenaries. Most people are scared of everything and will avoid whatever confrontation comes out of supporting you (even when you're in the right).