jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
" ... a symptom of the unsound economic decisions being made by the authorities in China."

I would caution you to be careful about how you define 'soundness'. If China is doing these things, then it would be unsound to apply modelling weights to those events that were similar to the weights you would apply in a free market. Whereas the appropriateness, or inappropriateness, of the actions the Chinese government has taken with respect to its economy can only be evaluated in terms of the goals of the government with respect to its economy.

If the goal is full unemployment as a means of satisfying citizens desire to work, spending GDP on works projects can certainly achieve that goal. It would be unsound on the other hand to sit on the capital and allow unrest to foment in the general population. Economics is simply about the allocation of resources, it doesn't really judge those decisions until you have all of the decisions, the goals, and the results.

For example, many argued that it was 'unsound' to for the Federal Government to create TARP at the time it was created. However, the US economy has bumped and creaked but it has kept operating which was the goal. So now a couple of years past the decision, and knowing the goal, and evaluating the result, the decisions seem if not sound at least reasonable.

Presumably the Chinese have studied the Soviet handling of the economy and won't make the exact same mistakes they did. One notable difference is that the Soviet economy had a tremendous difficulty making competitive products for export on the world market, that does not seem to be the case for China so far.
This. This a thousand times. If you could travel back in time about 4-5 years ago and drill that into my amateur starting-out self instead of leaving me to learn it the hard way, that'd be great. Thanks. I'll pay you generously out of the net increase in proceeds arising from adoption of the advice.
Most of the problems that people experience are self-inflicted. If we use "you should have known better" as the only criterion to determine if sympathy is deserved, we'd be really unsympathetic. The OP should have been more careful and Google should have been more accommodating.
For older clients they could require upload of the full file (same as if the file has never been uploaded). For new clients you could use the challenge/response scheme.

I believe they've already implemented the former. If the de-dup benefits were significant they could implement the latter.
I'm fairly amused that the blogpost itself doesn't feature a send button, just a "Like" button!
> they define a three-dimensional space with the CAP theorem (especially in Gilbert and Lynch's formal proof) . . .

That's weird because I've read the proof and they speak only of boolean instances of C, A, and P in the proof. They give no examples of systems where any of the three variables have values other than zero or one.
Yes, Under the law, H1B workers must be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or the actual wage.

This gets messy because for H1Bs it is difficult to move between jobs, so it is harder for them to get raises, etc, but thats another whole story.
THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)

By William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

1794
Actually, it would be career suicide to say that there are no benefits to immigration.

Let's say that you're a "leading economist". You answer the question "Is immigration a net benefit or a net detriment to <first world country x>" with the carefully-chosen response "Well, immigration comes with benefits and downsides, and they more or less balance one another out. Of course, some people, most notably women and minorities already existing in the country, will be hardest hit".

By the law of the excluded middle, claiming to be ambivalent on immigration would mean that you are either for or against immigration. And since if you were for immigration, you'd just come out and say it, you must be against immigration. And by the law of headlines always choosing to word things in the most sensationalist way, that would mean that you are racist.
Thanks for your feedback! We will definitely make it our goal to provide a better explanation of how a project will be built start to finish, and how long it will take to build it, from the onset.

About the target audience. We actually built Zyring for people like me. I was a PM at Microsoft who wanted to transition to a developer role. I learned programming through self-learning (didn't follow traditional CS path) but always found myself building things that were either insignificant or I was handheld through the entire process so I couldn't recreate my work. As I talked to more people, I realized that there are a lot more people like me. I completely agree with you that we need to find that "sweet spot" where the user (like your gf) can build a project on her own but still get the right guidance so she doesn't get overwhelmed and lost.

I would really love to talk with you and/or your girlfriend to get your feedback on how we can help and improve Zyring. My email is zaryafaraj@zyring.com. Thanks!
True; I forgot about those (post edited to add footnote).

I would say that if a project goes out of its way to eliminate GNU components, it is only fair to refrain from calling it “GNU”. But it isn’t “Linux” either – that’s still the kernel. There is not, in fact, a name for such distributions. Maybe “Anti-GNU” could work, since to remove the GNU components, you would have to have a rather large anti-GNU zeal. These are rather rare, so I guess the need for a special name has been small.
But they place Common Lisp in 1984, probably because of the publication of the first edition of Common Lisp: The Language. CLOS came much later. And as the Common Lisp standard never included a full meta-object protocol, I think it's fair to list CLOS seperately.
I can't think of many (any?) programmers who were better at 20 than 30, even among people famed for their youth prodigy. Torvalds wrote the initial version of the Linux kernel when he was 21, but the by the late 90s he had become a much better programmer and software engineer than the 1991 version.

Or, say, Ritchie & Thompson: famously young, but they didn't do anything of note younger than 25, and their big burst of output was around age 30 (when they wrote the first "real" version of Unix in C).
I think http://lesswrong.com/lw/hr/universal_law/ can clear up some confusion. The key paragraph is this:

Sometimes - very rarely - we observe an apparent violation of our models of the fundamental laws. Though our scientific models may last for a generation or two, they are not stable over the course of centuries... but do not fancy that this makes the universe itself whimsical. That is mixing up the map with the territory. For when the dust subsides and the old theory is overthrown, it turns out that the universe always was acting according to the new generalization we have discovered, which once again is absolutely universal as far as humanity's knowledge extends. When it was discovered that Newtonian gravitation was a special case of General Relativity, it was seen that General Relativity had been governing the orbit of Mercury for decades before any human being knew about it; and it would later become apparent that General Relativity had been governing the collapse of stars for billions of years before humanity. It is only our model that was mistaken - the Law itself was always absolutely constant - or so our new model tells us.
That's quite a generalization. Not everyone needs money to be happy. Some of us just like to code.
How is it trolling to point out that the Israeli government has made economic development in Palestine very difficult?

I'm pretty neutral on the conflict as a whole (I'd need to know way more to have a real opinion), but I'm pretty certain I'm against the Israeli blockade of Gaza[1].

It's pretty hard to build stuff when you can't import cement, steel, or glass. And the food restrictions have contributed to malnutrition in Gaza.

They did finally ease the restrictions in June (after 3 years), so I think it's a lot better now. I can't find a list of what's still not allowed.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932010_blockade_of_t...
You don't learn new things quite as fast, but you hone your skill. The best statues are not done by fresh, inexperienced people.
€2 million may not seem like a lot in western nations, but typically third world countries have a much more favorable exchange rate of dollars/euros into local currency. All those charity ads on TV that talk about people surviving on less than $2 a day tend not to mention that $2 a day can buy you a lot of more stuff in other countries than in the US.
Kittens will always improve conversion rates.
Wow. Sincerely thank you for that video. I honestly can't recommend it enough. I gave you my upvote for posting it.

It was really instructive. Now I understand how you came to your opinions.
> No one is willing to pay for unbiased news

I think a lot of people are willing to pay for mostly-unbiased business news. WSJ, FT, Economist, Nikkei et al seem to be doing alright.

But that leaves a lot of the world unreported by serious news organizations. I’d love to see a better answer to that than “support flawed organizations that do some good reporting.” But so far I don’t.
Why did everyone brush over the Italians finding it in blood samples from September 19, 2 months before the outbreak in Wuhan?

Certain actors have a narrative they would like to push.
You have no idea? Missing the news?

Google lets Android Java stagnate on purpose on Java 8 subset, with cherry picked APIs from newer OpenJDK versions, uses this language subset to sell Kotlin features over Java features on code samples comparisasions.

Nowadays, all Android developer channels, regardless on which form, are all inundated with Kotlin material and how great it is over "Java" (actually Android Java).

As for JVM being flexible enough to support Kotlin, doesn't seem to be appreciated by the Kotlin community that spits on the hand that has made the language possible to exist in first place.

Language wars don't have a place when languages share the same platform, as such I have zero tolerance for communities that cargo cult otherwise.

When Kotlin is so great and doesn't need Java for anything, they should port everything into Kotlin/Native and succeed on its own merits.
Yes, it is a great appetizer. However, that there are no navigation buttons quickly becomes an annyoance. I once pressed a wrong key and had to select ProfStef next. 10 times to get back to where I was :(
One page (21?) seems to have a parsing bug.
That joke is truly, laugh-out-loud funny.
Incidentally, the "excommunication by implication" technique is used by none other than ISIS and their ilk. Quite the irony to see that the extremes on both sides are not really that different after all.
are you saying Twitter is the only website on the internet?
A more cynical viewer would see how Twitter's decision to become tougher on Trump's tweets only came after Trump lost the election.
They had. The problem is taking an agnostic approach to someone stirring up violent hatred means violence still happens.
The 1st amendment is about government censorship. Censorship is about practical censorship. Mutually exclusive arguments.
Does Facebook really care about hate speech? Hell no. I have reported at least 10 content containing hate speech and violence. The only reaction to them was “they don’t seem to violate our community rules...”
Mostly because that attracts more people and is more catchy.
What part of "protests that violate the curfew" is not clear?
Yes. They were smashing windows and doors in the Capitol. They destroyed press cameras and other recording equipment. I didn't see any reports of molotov cocktails explicitly but they were using pepper spray and other similar sprays against the police.
Well a woman died.
In this case the “revolution” is an attempt at the violent overthrow of an elected government because they don’t like that they lost.
I've heard he drank water, we should look into banning water. It's the only way!
I don't think he meant communication as in the specific technology, but as in the language being used. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
> it feels like the president has a really hard time getting things done as well.

Yes and no.

He's the commander in chief and the top manager of the administration. Executive orders and simple orders. He could stop the drones. Basically any military unit. (As far as I know. Though probably while honoring the chain of command, so not directly. But disobeying a direct order is grounds for court martial, etc.)

But other than those, he could have done a lot more, on paper.

The question is do we know why he picked the people he did during his terms? Why he waited with the equal pay order? Why is he not pushing more on transparency?

And why is his team so incompetent that they botched the fucking healthcare.gov site? ACA was the big thing he pushed through Congress. And no one was keeping an eye on it?
yes for sure -- but software can measure & respond 1000s of times more than a human within a given time frame.

This is what control systems get very good at and apparently the traction control firmware in many cars that controls anti-lock brakes can include code that detects incorrect steering in icy scenarios and compensate for it.
(sorry no reference - I heard this on NPR a while back)
Unrealistic parables teach unrealistic lessons

That a thing is a parable does not render it immune to disagreement on realism grounds

Indeed if the defense is to point out that it's not meant to be realistic then it's probably not just valueless, but of negative value

Parables are not a good way to learn in my opinion
Black ice will be an interesting challenge for autonomous cars. As will dirt roads, deer, slush, worn-out road markings, packed snow, drifting snow...

My current car has a lot of automation, and all of that automation falls apart in the winter. The automatic windshield wipers don't know how to handle snow or freezing rain, the automatic brights try to go bright when it's snowing heavily, I would never dare try to use the automatic cruise control on anything but bone-dry roads... even the rear-view camera doesn't work without frequent cleaning due to the aerodynamics of the tail of the car coating it with sand and snow in almost any conditions.

The only two automated parts which work as intended during the winter are the anti-lock brakes and automatic four wheel drive.
They are stating that just as concepts and themes from classic books resurface in more modern books, gameplay concepts and themes from DF can be found in modern videogames.

That isn't to say DF does not contain themes from previous videogames, or that it is the progenitor for modern games; just an influence.
There is ample history of what happens when it's increased, and I don't think there were massive layoffs every time it was increased in the past.

You have to remember than increasing the minimum wages won't necessarily have an impact if current wages are already higher than the new minimum wage.

I remember reading that the new $15/hr minimum wage in Seattle (which is being phased in) will have almost no impact at first since very few folks are paid less than the new minimum.
Learning what's possible for an attacker informs us about what we must defend against. And in information security, sometimes its just smarter to use simple insights (like these) by looking at what's worked in the past.

In this blog post for AlienVault, Data Scientist, Michael Roytman, suggests a new model for thinking about threat intelligence and security data.
> The problem with SRP is it's hard to define what that "one reason" is exactly

Sure it's hard to automate it. It's one of those subjective, experience-based factors that keep humans like me in a job. I never thought that it was a rule that can be mechanically applied.
I'm not policing anything. But the term "rice rocket", shortened to "ricer", is indeed derogatory towards Asians. Language matters.
> That even this behavior doesn’t lead to censure from Substack is a sign of how little the service cares to protect people from abuse. It indicated the complete failure of the moderation policy they’ve put to paper, but never into practice.

I would disagree with the meaning of "abuse" the author is intending here. I think it's more harmful to prevent opposing (even potentially incorrect) point of views from reaching either side. That's the point here. It's just speech. Why can't people who find it reprehensible just skip it?
"I feel like AI is pointed AT us rather than working FOR / WITH us more often than not."

It's all perspective. It's working for someone. It's just that someone doesn't share your same goals or concerns, like corporations or the government.
I build Android almost every day, and now it takes forever on a dedicated build machine with SSDs and 32GB RAM.

I hope this doesn't increment build time, otherwise it'll be a true pain.

>For complex C/C++ code bases, often there are only a handful of people capable of developing and reviewing the fix

I don't see why the Rust alternative would make solving bugs easier. It's ugly and hard to read, hard to parse and hard to follow (IMHO). If before there was "only a handful of people capable", now it will be less.
> Admitting that I may be self-consciously afraid that I lack the education to “get” Ulysses, I also wonder whether works of art should be considered greater on account of the complexity of their allusions.

I’ve read Ulysses twice - painstakingly, once on my own, and once in a course in college from a well known Joyce scholar. It was tremendous having help from an expert. In the end I don’t know if I enjoyed the book so much because of the amount of effort it took, or because of the merits of the artist behind it, but I’ve definitely concluded that Finnegans Wake just isn’t worth it.

Either way, I hadn’t seen this website and I’ve been thinking about reading it again, so maybe I will with this as my guide.
usajobs.gov

Use your experience to negotiate a higher leave rate.
Consider also taking a data entry job. These can be automated a huge chunk of the time. Depending on the gig these can feel like free money. Doing a tricky bit of automation can be fun too.
But their retail presence is often at the expense of SMEs

Look how the small ecommerce companies have all become FBA companies
The competing letter in support of RMS can be found here: https://rms-support-letter.github.io. The original letter denouncing RMS can be found here: https://rms-open-letter.github.io. At this point in time there are 5,871 signatories in support of RMS, and 3,012 signatories denouncing RMS. Not sure what that means, if anything, but it does lead me to conclude that RMS may not be the pariah of free software that he's made out to be.
That's only if you use all cores 24x7 and all ALUs within those cores (vectorized workloads), which is very unlikely unless you're doing straight up linear algebra on the CPU.

In CA there's also the issue of not having electricity in the first place sometimes though. So power _consumption_ seems kind of secondary.
> "Galileo and Darwin are famous examples of this phenomenon, but it's probably always an ingredient in the resistance to new ideas."

The problem with this logic is that for every Galileo and Darwin, there are thousands of crackpots out there. Every month or so I see some news about engines that run on water as fuel.

As Walter Kotschnig said: "Let us keep our minds open, by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out!"
We ran out of IPv4 addresses again. How many times has this happened this past decade?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174992 9y

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480532 7y

Looking forward to the next time we run out of IPv4 addresses.
It's different, but if you're not the kind of person who enjoys going to bars then it is an alternative.
I work part-time stocking shelves at a Walmart, and I can say from first-hand experience that while there is talk of cutting hours, the reality is that it won't happen at this time.

Shelves don't stock themselves. Robots are a long way away, no matter what you hear, as the current process is inefficient enough to make it difficult for automation. Robots won't clean poop out of the urinals, or off the floors (yes, people do take a shit where they are not supposed to).

I can also guarantee you that Walmart is not hurting by paying people 11 bucks an hour, and they still won't be hurting if they raise it by a couple of bucks. The CEO of Walmart even advised the feds that they should raise the minimum wage.

Employees are necessary, and will be for a while.
Hi Remy! Thanks for your support! :-)
I think you're wrong there.

Counterpoint: Google Docs. Its OOXML compatibility is for shit. Its adoption is HUGE.

Not one person mentions how amazingly shit its OOXML compatibility is, even for quite simple DOCX.

Almost nobody in an office uses the fancy bits of Excel. Spreadsheets are mostly used as flat-file data stores.

And Office is notoriously incompatible between different versions of itself.

In practice, I don't think the file compatibility objection to LibreOffice is real. It's just an excuse.

The actual competition is Google Docs, which is a shitty word processor and a shitty spreadsheet and a shitty presentation app, but absolutely brilliant at quick and convenient collaboration. That's why LibreOffice is working super-hard on the web-based online version.
Even if this does end in inevitable train wrecks, this concept would make an incredible TV show pitch.
Bummer, iOS and MacOS only.
35 minutes or less? I've never managed to make the trek in less than an hour, regardless of what means of transit I employ.
That's... not what that means.