jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow. Just...wow. Some things in the article just seemed right up satire;

the blonde dressed-up lawyer who left her job pursuing [buzzword]-[buzzword]ing ?

the drunk guy who now has a meaning in life by obtaining the latest [buzzword] ?

the crowd cheering crazy at the mention of the [buzzword] ?

it all seems too... weird and alien to me; I'm not a boomer, but I'm almost 40; I've cheered at the age of digitalization and I was publicly derided on my views of the internet in the mid-90s.

Now... is this how older people felt in the 80s-90s, when faced with news about the digital era? or the idea that internet will replace this-and-that?

How similar is this to the late-90s dot-com craze? I bet my ass off that at the time they had early-adopter parties like the one in the article.
I think what the article is trying to say is that almost all the torque turning the wheels is from the electric power steering, while your hands are just providing a small input that the torque sensors pick up. The fact that there is a mechanical connection doesn't really make much of a difference (except when power steering fails).
I would consider the Baywatch intro NSFW. Perhaps you don't consider it so because it's Baywatch, but if it was a random video of closeups of people in bathing costumes I bet you would. One thing I find really interesting with AI/Machine Learning is how it can cause you to re-evaluate your own biases. I say the AI is right here and you are wrong.
As much as people would like to see that, Facebook-Meta will not withdraw from the EU anyway. It's an empty threat. The EU has never been particularly impressed with such bluffing in the past.
All valid - thanks for the feedback!
Worse than that, the FBI has known for a decade and a half that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement was and would continue to be a huge problem. [1]

1. https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house....
Which at that point was probably the correct decision. What’s the other option? Get overwhelmed by the crowd or attacked from behind?
For the sake of our freedoms let’s hope Twitters right to decide who gets to use their property and distribution remains. Otherwise it’s a tragedy of the commons as every platform devolves into the lowest common denominator.
As someone who lives a few blocks from Cal Anderson and ate their regularly during the "occupation" (as is implied), I'll never stop appreciating when someone so quickly shows me that I can safely ignore them. It's not even in downtown, lmao. "killing and assaulting people". What a joke.

But yes, yes, we live in mis-information-hell, so predictably the days following a conservative-led coup were ALWAYS going to contain these elements:

- whataboutism with literally anything to distract and derail (in this case, BLM)

- false equivocation (protesting numerous statistically significant killings of black folks by cops, VS trying to violently overturn the results of a democratic election)

- more false equivocation (implying that storming the nation's capital with weapons, and posting up one block away from the SPD East Prescinct with pink umbrelllas, are the same thing)

- outright lies that enough of their base will pick up and repeat (I've already seen it in multiple threads here), like, "antifa false flag blah blah blah nonsense".
Civilized (and sometimes boorish) people today go to the Internet to communicate. That's what we're doing right now.

Maybe if you (or I) were banned from HN, no big deal, find some other corner of the Internet to shout from. FB and Twitter are the modern public fora however, they have through moats or whatever business tactics, made other fora far less significant, and in terms of discussion space they are a very big deal. You might be correctly repeating legal principles as they appear in last year's hornbook, however, the books will eventually change.

If Cloudflare and Google together delisted and deplatformed anyone repeating any words of the President or major conservative leaders -- that would undermine a core tenet of our democratic society. That would be an obvious affront to first principles. I'm not sure FB and Twitter are greatly removed from that hypothetical.
I figure its best to start a gold managment business during a gold rush, that is if gold is appreciating tremendously while the rush is going on.

Why sell shovels when you can make money selling services.

How do I become a crypto retirement advisor.
I don't think we could afford anything, but I could over a period of time build my own.
I have a somewhat modified view, in that articles like this (and ones regarding income inequality) need to be specific in exactly what they mean by comments like "nasty, brutish, and short", or inequal wealth distribution.

Do they mean decreases in life expectancy? Student debt? Homeownership? Disease prevalence? Violent crime?

It's continually stated as an axiom, but poor writing such as that really weakens their argument.
Naive bitcoiner here.

So what's the deal here? Would this essentially just require everyone to collectively agree that he owned the coins?
If you tried to feedback to the grid you would need a generator that can phase match the grid power. Don't imagine any residential grade generators that are rated to do that. Plugging a regular generator into your house grid with the power on would cause very bad things to happen as you have 2 high power electrical waves fight one another and would burn down your house in quick order.
So when all companies have substantial amounts invested in Bitcoin and therefore a non-trivial percentage of their performance is tied to Bitcoin, what will the world do to prop up Bitcoin when there's another 100 year catastrophe?

It's sad how little faith some of these companies have in humanity - surely a billion dollars could result in better performance by investing in their own labor?
Super awesome write up -- thank you! Honestly I have been thinking about this problem for a few years now but not as succinctly as you have described it here. That's really helpful to split it down the line like that. It's very hard to uncouple complex topics cleanly.

"Workflows" have been an area of focus for a product we've been building for a while now. A big part of that goal is to remove the "Turing completeness" from the system and keep each "block" of a workflow as a simple blackboxed data transformation. And "conditional transitions" are used to emulate business logic.

It's a bit clunky though and, after reading your text here, it makes me want to sit down and think for a few hours. Thank, internet stranger, you have made a material difference in my day over here! It's a nice feeling to hop out of bed early and excited :)
They paid an average of $52,765

So their new purchase has currently lost 7% but their stock is up 9% today. It all makes perfect sense!
People are probably getting angry at you because you are explicitly invoking a politicized definition of the word merit which basically boils down to "best at maintaining the political status quo." In other contexts the definition is different. (For example Elon Musk's business merits seem to be his track record of making a lot of money, or at least that's what they are on twitter anyway)

If you want other examples of people who are pissed off at the concept of merit for other reasons, talk to some PhDs (or other holders of high academic merit) that are struggling to find work.
Has Apple changed lives for the better though? I’m not sure anymore. A perusal of the literature on mental health effects of technology (specifically phone) addiction would say no. There are too many studies to post as a reference and they all say the same thing.
What other kind of distancing is there? Why not just call it "distancing"?
I didn't mean the population density. I meant the density of urban vs rural spread. Australia has the world's highest urban ratio (around 96%) and extremely well connected. India is more spread out.

I think the real reason why India has a low count (for now!) is because it's a world away from China in terms of people travelling to each other while Australia is very deeply connected to Australia (students + mining export).
It strikes me as odd that a company whose software facilitates distributed teams so well doesn't embrace a remote workforce. I'm a Notion user with a ton of ideas and would love to help improve the app but there's just no way I could move to SF to do that.
As an aside, hooking a hand bidet up to my water line beside the toilet has taught me how extremely cold cold water can be.
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Not a chance. In Canada, know a bunch of sick people. Our health authorities aren't testing all sick people; until a few days ago only sick people who travelled. Even now only those who are seriously ill.

Guarantee the amount of people with the virus is 10x or more the amount who've tested positive, which would push the death rate way down, but is also concerning in it's own way.
The point is that of all of the places where a kid could be socialized the public schools are at best sub-par and at worst counterproductive. It seems appropriate to you likely because it's a societal norm and it's what you've experienced, but it's not the best environment that you can give your child.

And I don't know why you're clutching your pearls about the prison comparison. It's a common topic of discussion, how the public schools are similar to prisons, employ similar methodologies, how the stakeholders have similar motivations, and even how the two systems are symbiotic with one another.

I'm not saying remote work will necessarily solve everyone's problems, but that if you're concerned about your child's socialization you should be concerned about what's happening to him in the public schools.
Been trained in 1968 by IBM where instructors nearly apologized because:

"In a few years from now computers will be able to program themselves and will directly respond to the end users requirements"

ROFLMAO

Bonus: They taught us COBOL...
Good to know
I'll look into that
Thanks
That's a brilliant idea, really.

I wonder how we could generate an economic incentive for Google to adopt it.
Mathematica programming language is somewhat symbolic, like Lisp; so you could just "rewrite" your expressions to use CUDAfft[] or whatever very easily.

Example:

Hold[Times[1,2]] /. (Times -> Plus)
I think he's got the right idea: most web surfing right now is a waste of time, the wave of the future will be getting practical benefits from the internet. (I kniw online shopping and email and stuff is really useful in theory, but I just mean most of the time normal people actually spend online is frittered away on Facebook etc)
See Jason? They ARE noticing. :-)
R has some basic visualization libraries. The graphs are overall very functional, but basic. Ex: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/images/splotm.png

Alternatives like Matlab, Maple, Stata all have basically the same 'look' to their default graphing packages.

Even though Mathematica would not be the right choice for statistical processing, the graphs it produces are a step above the rest.

So depends what you're use case is.. any of the above would look good enough for an academic paper. But if you're going to be publishing these in a magazine, they probably won't cut it.
So, what agreement did they actually offer?
Same here! I was on the fence about starting my app with RDS or moving to it later. This article puts me over the edge
In my mind a manager is not necessarily a leader or the leader. And certainly not a technical leader. Agreed though that a director/CTO is more of a management position, but I've seen coding CTO's, especially in the startup world.

I don't know what I want career-wise, vertically speaking, and that would be proprietary to every employer anyway. What I'm getting at is that I feel like I should be able to contribute more at this point, most simply expressed as helping the team and company make better technical decisions. How do I leverage myself better?

I'm kind of at this point where I feel like I've maxed out whatever my job title is now (NOT just speaking about my current employer - just speaking about my career in general), and feeling bored and stagnant. I don't really know where I want to go, because I'm not sure where I CAN go. I know there's a path to management which I've turned down repeatedly (I'm not interested in managing people, in having one on ones, as operating as an extension of HR in ranking employees, etc). And I see people who have made a quantum leap somehow to something well beyond a Sr. Engineer - say, Architect (kind of an out-moded term in my mind), or "Principal" which is a kind of nebulous guru-like position. Is there a third choice beyond just staying in place?

It's just really nagging me to feel like I'm not growing. I've done so many things - desktop applications, web, e-commerce, mobile, client, server, frontend, backend, enterprise, yada yada. I've run out of room to grow in that dimension, because I've been around the block and back.
It's undoubtedly an interesting book, but it's also beautifully written. Any reader would be hard pressed not to be interested simply because of the way in which the author engages the reader.

As well as the historical education, I took away some great techniques -- that I already use daily to my betterment -- and a philosophy of my own own that simply strives for tranquillity -- my preferred state.

This is absolutely not a religious book -- which would be wasted on me. It requires no belief in anything remotely metaphysical. It's wholly introspective in a very positive way. It's not explosive, more a series of gentle nudges, any of which you can ignore.
Ricardian scarcity really only applies to one of the categories, and even then, there are well-known mitigation strategies.
We still require a warrant in the UK which is the major issue.

I'd just about be willing to bet money that it will eventually come out that your GCHQ is doing all the same things as the NSA. So far it's already emerged that they are pretty solidly in bed with the NSA, so I don't even think that would be a surprising revelation. And consider that the UK has already been out in front of the USA in terms of openly advocating a "surveillance state". Isn't the statistic that the UK has more surveillance cameras, per capita, than any other country? Or something to that effect?

they won't let anyone in without a warrant and will inform us if anyone issues one immediately.

So far as you know right now.

Credit companies and banks in the UK do not share this data voluntarily.

So far as you know right now.
it is almost impossible to find a situation where there is a singular human cause.

But if you can focus in on a single technical decision that had such a large impact, you can at least focus attention on how that particular technical decision got made. Yes, many humans will have been involved even in that single technical decision; but it's still a lot more manageable to look into how it got made than to look at how the entire plant got designed.

We could do something silly to consolidate the guilt

I'm not talking about guilt; I said I wasn't advocating ritual suicide. I'm talking about how to prevent it from happening again. To do that, you need to be able to focus on something that can actually be changed. Take your bus driver example:

Do we punish the driver for his negligence, or his shift supervisor for threatening him into taking an extra-long shift, or someone even further up who knowingly encouraged a culture of overwork?

Depends on the facts. Was the driver negligent? Could he have reasonably predicted that he would fall asleep at the wheel? How could he have acted on such a prediction?

Did the supervisor actually threaten him into taking an extra-long shift? If so, how did he get away with it? Aren't there rules about preventing driver fatigue? (Certainly commercial airline crews have strict rules about how long they can fly before they have to rest.) If not, why not?

Is there a systemic culture of overwork, encouraged from higher up? Do bus drivers in this company routinely drive longer hours than the industry average? Than the average in other similar occupations?

The point is that if you can focus in on specific causal chains, you can direct efforts at changing them. In the case of Fukushima, if you can focus in on how the technical decision to site the backup generators that way got made, you can direct efforts at improving that process. Did the engineers just not realize that siting the backup generators that way was a bad idea? Was the question never even asked? Or did the engineers realize it, but management overruled them? Or did the original design have them sited differently, but time pressure during construction persuaded someone (not the engineers or managers who did the original design) to change the location in order to meet some deadline?

All this, btw, reinforces your point that ritual suicide doesn't help anything.
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but here's your reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6257452
it's about inmates being capable of continuing to run organized crime/drug rings from inside a jail cell.
Well I was going to give an example of a non-binary format with length prefixing but I've ended up entirely unsure what the definition of 'binary format' is.

Instead I'll say that length prefixing is good and useful but doesn't necessarily provide a correctness advantage over simple delimiters. It doesn't really shine until you've already decided to allow unrestricted binary data inside of strings.
You feel awful now, but what you've written is very encouraging. You're doing the right thing.

Coding can be put to good use too. Perhaps there's an open-source project you can contribute to that has a positive benefit to offer society? What social injustices are you most passionate about?

I also intend to leave Facebook (again) very soon. The only reason I haven't in the past is that I didn't want to lose contact with some people, but I figure if I share my email address as I leave anyone that wants to contact me can do. We don't have to employ a scorched earth policy every time we want to change, losing everything we got from something, we often have better alternatives.

I should move away from Gmail for similar reasons, does anyone have suggestions of a secure email service with webmail and Android app access?
> The short version is that is all about speed and security (by encrypting everything).

I'm not up to speed on certificate verification for HTTP2. Have the IETF suggested a mechanism? If so t must be outside the draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-16.
Other quirksmode articles, eg Introduction to JavaScript (front page, first article) do not take explicit positions on Microsoft technologies.
Compare to "where thousands of white people were killed" to see why some people may have issue with that. Also technicaly true.
surely not with flash.
If they don't know they're watching someone with an accuracy of 60% over hundreds of shots and instead have to judge on nothing but 10 consecutive hits, it's actually perfectly rational to overestimate his ability, though it should of course have a low confidence and be constrained to the known possible range.
The hyphen column is not PHP friendly when decoding to object.
The Chinese have Amish, too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
Already submitted with conversation:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895354
I think "I'm reaching out to Angel Investors" is intended to mean he/she's trying but thus far hasn't been able to raise money.
amazing Jedi mind tricks for twitter is, they figured out how the influentials matter the most for their platform. They collaborated with actors/musicians initially to take it off.

dailybooth is trying similar tricks
And if for some reason Amazon isn't suitable, you can get dedicated servers seriously cheaply these days too, e.g.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

(no affiliation, I'm just a happy customer)
Already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895354
Yep! A few points about this...

I have noticed that many "quality" brands tend to introduce lower quality lines as they grow in size. Perhaps as they hire more business folks and the founders becomes further and further removed from the operation of the company. At first glance the lower quality line can be hard to tell apart from the higher quality products.

Also, price does not necessarily determine quality so it pays to be learn some of the telltale signs of higher quality products such as the stitching and materials used.
The FDA has no role in creating this test – or any other. They've just dangled a threat of prosecution over companies, hospitals, research labs, and universities who wanted to develop & use a variety of tests – including tests that have proven very useful elsewhere.

When they "authorize" something, all they've really done is removed the prior threat of fines & imprisonment. This threat exists even if the thing they're holding up had little to no risk of harm or confusing anyone. (People, especially those in research labs and the medical profession, are not idiots! Even all sorts of long-approved diagnostic tests have significant errors associated that doctors & patients need to discuss & account for!

This administrative-law threat exists even if traditional product liability – as applies for all sorts of other product/service/info-product category – would be more than sufficient to ensure quality, & punish recklessness.

The FDA's delays have held back US testing capacity for months. The current economic disaster, & many deaths, are a direct outgrowth of both the legislation which gives them this veto-power, and their incompetent exercise of the various discretionary powers they have. They could have offered the same arbitrary waiver that they finally did, on February 29, back in last December!

Even now, urgently needed medical supplies are held up, waiting for FDA inspection/certification backlogs to clear:

A news story: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fda-inspections-c...

Testimony from a Google employee & philanthropic investor: https://twitter.com/mekkaokereke/status/1241151194812186624

The FDA shouldn't get to tout themselves as doing a good thing with this "authorization" – when the risk of harm of such vitally-necessary new testing options is so small that a delay of days, much less months, is unwarranted. Let scientists, doctors, & patients experiment!
Separating from other gasses, followed by sequestering.
If you mean a machine to automate medical tests, yes. But there are plenty of companies that already make such machines. If you mean a machine to run every possible test using only a few drops of blood, no.
Following your train of thought, could the synthesis be done in the same way that insulin is currently created? i.e. Have some germs synthesize the antibodies.