jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, as the cost of actions/methods/waste/materials of production aren’t always captured, the driving down of costs through competition actually encourages the discovery of externalities (ways to externalise the cost/impact onto others/environment/public good), “efficiencies” aren’t always net wins but a movement of negative impacts away from the production of a good/service.
> So this is the new fact checking, after the outrage machine is in full swing?

No, like I legit don't have any idea what you're talking about, or if you're even responding to the right article.

The claim:

Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot in Mac Pro Plant in Austin

The fact check:

The first line of the linked article is to the video tweeted out by Trump: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/11973161062364815...

Beyond that, I have no idea where you're going with this.
Those were also bad. If voters want someone who behaves like the law doesn't apply to them then there is definitely something much bigger wrong. But sometimes it seems they do.
So uh, there are attractive girls on Fiverr that will pretend to be your girlfriend on Facebook for a month (friending, n posts/likes on your posts per month, etc) for five dollars. I paid two of them to "fight" over me just to troll my friends. It turns out this piques interest in other women :-P

This is why I don't use my real name on HN.
"Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway."

Maybe Microsoft is coming back from the dead the same way Apple did?

Also April 2007, 2 months before the first iPhone was released, PG couldn't have predicted the impact of the iPhone in the mobile world. The only mention of it is : "of course Apple has Microsoft on the run in music too, with TV and phones on the way."

But in the desktop world, Windows is still 90% of the operating system share[1] , (or at least 80% according to [2]) It's not surprising that every developer in the SV uses a MacBook: it's the best working tool for them. But if you look out in the rest of the world, people are not buying >$2000 laptops/desktops when they are perfectly fine with a Windows laptop to do their work&play.

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/
[2] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Look back farther...

http://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality-profiles/vpl-research....
Hadoop streaming is definitely a great way to use Hadoop and actually provided a lot of the early inspiration for Pachyderm. The thing that I always found difficult when using it was dependency management. If I wanted to use libraries it was a pain to get them distributed across all of the machines in the cluster and invariably I'd get one machine with a different version of something that would mess things up. This problem was the impetus for using Docker to do MapReduce.
linode or slicehost - both are good value, nice to deal with and historically very reliable.

Also, there is prgmr - but it's really designed for people who would rather fix their own problems instead of get help from a hosting company.
One of the reasons Apple fails at social is it's fanboys/gals. If you're walking around telling people to "Get a Mac" when your friends run into minor issues, chances are your social recommendations are not going down well either.
This sort of thing happens a lot when people learn jQuery but not Javascript. This fascinating "jQuery feature" is just a wrapper for JavaScript's built-in functions call and/or it's brother apply.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
I don't think the difference will be quite as dramatic though. Apple has been outgrowing PC sales with their premium products for many quarters now I believe. They even managed this during a deep recession in most of the world. That suggests to me there's a pretty big market for premium devices. Bigger than the current 90/10 Windows/Mac market share would suggest on the surface. Historically Apple did as much, if not more, damage to themselves than Microsoft did to get themselves into a marketshare hole. With a fresh start in SmartPhones I would expect to see them maintain a much larger niche this time around.
5. Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?

No. This data is sent to Apple in an anonymous and encrypted form. Apple cannot identify the source of this data

I hate it when companies use 'encrypted' like it would somehow make your data more secure in their hands. They mean here they use something like SSL so snooping the traffic is impossible, but of course they can still read what you're sending, otherwise the information would be useless to them.

The claim that apple can't identify the source of the data is also highly dubious. If they wanted to, they could probably correlate your IP with the IP used to access your iTunes account. That they don't do this is one thing, but claiming that they can't is something else.

EDIT: come on HN, since when did we start downvoting stuff you don't want to hear? This is a valid point, if you have critizism just leave a comment. If you want to downvote something, do it on the summary comments. Sheesh.
Which is kind of strange given that Norway's an oil producer...
To put this into perspective, the reason your gas costs so much is that Sweden/Germany/other European countries have incredibly high gas taxes.

The supply of oil and gas is pretty smooth - Nearly every country pays the same price (with some obvious exceptions - islands, etc.) The reason prices vary so much across US States and Euro countries are taxes placed on the government. If the production costs are really $5 a gallon, the expect to pay $12-$13 at the pump, if Sweden decides to level the same amount of gas taxes.
So much for intellectual curiosity and finding answers to open questions in academia.

This is a sad turn of events where asking for evidence is evidence of maliciousness rather than revealing fraud or vacuousness on the side of the person making the claims. If someone makes a claim they certainly should be capable of response. And the institution using outrageously euphemistic language when calling for discipline. What fragile institutions.

This is terrible and taking us to nowhere fast.

Even victims of rape and assault are called as witnesses and aren’t spared, but here, questioning a poor argument is grounds for discipline because it called into question the basis for an ideology with weak underpinnings.
These billionaires weren't complaining about their citizenship while they were earning their billions. Saying they didn't choose it in hindsight is pretty convenient. I don't buy it.
At the time they threatened me to not tell anyone they spoke with me or unspecified bad things would happen.

I am older and have spent a lot more time researching law now, and no longer choose to let strongarm chilling effects like this work.

There are tons of good people in law enforcement and three letter agencies that actually protect people. I know some of them.

I also know some overstep and abuse their power and it is on all of us to call it out when it happens.
> a lack of generational wealth, de facto segregation, racial profiling in policing and so on.

That's what's always bugged me about people saying "systemic racism". They never could tell me what it is. You are the first person I have read who can actually say something concrete, something I can actually understand.

I had assumed that, because nobody could actually say what it is, that it was just a nebulous term being tossed around to make whites feel guilty. Now I'm going to have to re-think that.

So, congratulations. You made me think. That's about the highest compliment possible on HN...
It's not just you. This whole group of (Hungarian) scientists is known as "The Martians" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
People in general should at least have an attorney they plan to contact if necessary, but I say that without having one myself.
> In that subgroup

True. But hold on: in my country (France), as of yesterday, 45 635 people have died in hospital (having access to a ventilator with few exceptions) and 19 780 outside (no ventilator). So in my country, the majority of covid19 victims had access to a ventilator. And given that a large part of the deaths took place in western countries, that subgroup is big.
I meant a variety of different corona viruses that have not yet the ability to replicate in humans. Corona virus is a family of viruses. SARS-2 one that made it he jump from animals to humans.
Their debt was forgiven after the doctor realized he couldn't squeeze blood from a stone.
Or they could, I don't know, help Linux OEMs reach that level.
> But it’s part of the answer isn’t it?

Before: One flaky wifi connection between AP and client.

After: Two wifi connections, both of which must work. Using a combination of operating conditions, AP and client that have proved unreliable in the past.

Now with no visible status for the middle link, and a second DHCP server on the repeater, handing out conflicting addresses when the middle link is down.
Unfortunately trying to get something useful from a viral infection is almost like trying to get bitten by a radioactive spider in order to get superpowers. The problem is that as useful as those new "features" may be, they always need many generations and many more mutations to be integrated and turn into something practically useful. In the meantime you would at best have to live with a painful spider bite and some radiation poisoning.
Many of these devices are indeed bad and your choice is to replace them with another one that’s exactly as bad.
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Some other people have been having the same problem as well. If you can email your robot id to bh@brandonhsiao.com, I'll try to see what the matter is.
Helps me take a hi resolution print-out without worrying about unreadable text.
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Is there any good reason to be using inches instead of characters to calculate the length of an essay submitted digitally?
There is a big difference between using the same techniques and making a clone. This is repainting someone else's painting (badly) and passing it off as your original creative endevour. I have no problem with everyone using menus and palettes, but cloning does not advance anything.
Similarities between this essay and an episode of CSI - both rely on cardboard cutout characters, simple binary motivations, cleat cut good/bad guys and almost completely no basis in reality. The more you understand how the things they portray actually work, the more your enjoyment diminishes (I'm more of an NCIS fan :)

Differences between this essay and an episode of CSI - CSI knows full well its entire purpose in life is to be mildly entertaining. It never pretends to be a reflection of what real life CSI is like. It's entertainment, nothing more, and it knows it. Unlike the author of this essay, who for some reason thinks he has a deep understanding of "Hacker culture" and the entire saga, and needs about 3000 patronising words to explain his great insights to us.

oh, and if I ever see/hear the word 'cypherpunk' again I think I shall probably vomit.
>examples from which they learn would be shorter. As a result they would become less verboten very quickly.

I'm definitely going to use this definition of 'verboten' from now on. I like your style. Fuck the dictionary!
Agreed, that isn't the type of thing I'd tell the NYT. Everyone's company/startup has technical issues, but this really could be fixed by a post on StackOverflow if they needed free advice.
The reason is that even though a bunch of people would do 10 cents times ten, many, many people wouldn't do 10 cents times a thousand.

Adsense is a poor model because the website owner doesn't actually need to continually do stuff, he can just hope that the traffic comes in over the next 2 years.
Someone make software to turn these podcasts into lovely readable texts for me. /hearingimpairmentsucks
He has a point. If you are willing to take some constructive criticism: When writing an essay, consider every instance of "I", "my" and "you" as you would a global variable in code: it needs to be there only when that's the cleanest and most efficient way to express that thought. It has very little to do with being busy, and a lot to do with wanting to read stuff that's readable.
But why did a "large umber of supernodes" today get "taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype"?

Synchronized bug in that software – some sort of clock overflow, or update from Skype gone awry?

Or a flaw in that software discovered and exploited by others?

There must be a lot more to this story.
Use GMP (well, mpfr really)? Or I guess you could combine that with interval arithmetic.
I’m old enough to remember Intel throwing billions at getting x86 into smartphones.

Just because there is a port available doesn’t mean the hardware and ecosystem will follow.
> Similarly it doesn't make sense to criticize 538 for being less accurate with their early projections when they had less information

It must be a good feeling, then, that I have not criticized them.

> to be clear I didn't call your comment misinformation

Earlier:

> Is this "misinformation" meant to smear 538?
The unlimited space of the cloud is a lie. I don't even trust apps that promise free X documents these days.
Well, in absolute numbers, recently heterosexual people are more prevalently diagnosed with HIV. Likely because they don’t know about PrEP in the first place, and then decided whether or not it’s for you. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Federal lawyers are expensive, especially if the defendant is innocent. Being accused is already a punishment.
Usually its just basic understanding of history, but there is a specific faction heavily in power in that area that chooses to pretend that things like this are unpredictable because it gains them influence and money.
I would love to drive a diesel, but the choice is limited to mostly VW. There are no minivans in US market that run on Diesel and SUVs that run on diesel are marked about 4k+ compared to their gasoline cousins. The other thing is cost, Diesel costs more and if you factor the mileage/cost in most cases gasoline comes ahead. The beauty of Diesel engines is ability to run on Biodiesel, which is better than ethanol/gasoline flex-fuel engines which for whatever reason are popular (in terms of availability). All in all Europeans have tremendous choice with their Diesel vehicles, Americans do not. It is egg and chicken problem. I think on top of it there is some Diesel pollution related regulation, which is stringent in US than in Europe, preventing car manufacturers simply moving around European Diesel models to US.

edit: mostly german manufacturers VW, MB are trying to bring diesel, where as Japanese and American manufacturers are barely testing waters, actually FIAT-Chrysler is the one testing waters.
Disclaimer: I think his essays are strong.

There’s a lot of selection bias in his upvoting: a large number of people know/knew about HN because they liked PG’s writing.
Based on traffic to the site over a period of time, like pretty much every other 'Most Popular' algo.
>Private transporting is not sustainable

Says who? Just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Private transporting has been with humanity since ancient times. It's not going away and it's sustainable.

> and it is not something that has to be affordable for everyone, even less by lowering workers wages or playing with the tariffs by demand.

It's nice that you aren't price conscious when taking 'private transport'. And you're right, uber opened up the market to people that could not afford (or could not justify) taking a taxi before. You see that as a detriment, because you have money but others may disagree. That was certainly me in Uni when I walked home in the middle of night, through sketchy neighbourhoods, because my city's public transport ended at 2am, and I wasn't about to pay $40-$60 for a cab ride (assuming it showed up at all).

I actually started using Uber when during a trip to Chicago I got shafted by several taxi companies who simply wouldn't pick me up from (I guess) the neighbourhood I was in .. in the middle of November. That was the reality of taxis pre-uber. Everybody hated them. They were openly discriminating by geogrpahy and ethnicity. They were expensive. They were also unreliable. And you had no options.

>Taxi regulations gives us passengers safety and fair prices.

Tax regulations, especially in cities like New York, protected taxi cab companies (and the private equity firms that owned the medallions) and created a medalion bubble which made running an independent taxi almost impossible and benefited only the medallion owners.

It's also a false choice. Muncipalities can (and do) certainly set safety standards on Uber and Lyft.

And by the way, many of the regulations that Taxis operate under came as a result of taxis scamming and cheating people (especially tourists and forgeiners) out of money. And it still happens if you travel abroad ... speaking of which, when I'm abroad and Uber is available, it really does remove the language barrier and is immensely helpful in navigating a non-english speaking city.

>We have to promote governments that support affordable and good quality public transport,

'Private transport' is public transport. It is part of the mix of public transportation. Every option you provide that disincentives car ownership is a benefit.
Yeah, this would totally have been a better / more nuanced way to put it.
If you don't want to deal with stupid bug reports then you'll have a big problem developing any software that a large group of people interact with.
There are various levels of testing, at an early stage you can write only integration and functional tests, later on when you get time you can write unit tests as well
i totally have the same problem. i can't afford the wages that employees ask for. but that doesn't give me an excuse to hire people who are willing to work for less. yes, off-shoring is an option, and financially that would work, and is certainly a better option than underpaying locals who need more to pay their rent.

i do not believe that underpaying locals is a better option than off-shoring. even if the unemployment is high enough that people are willing to work for scraps, then i still believe that it is better for changes that allow me to actually pay local employees instead of taking the money out of employees pockets by paying them less.

the question should not be: how can we lower employment income so that you can hire more people. but how can we lower other costs so that small businesses can afford to pay people what they need for life.

so yes, i am trying for some years now, and i remain as idealistic as ever.
I wonder what conditions would be necessary for a culture that is more tolerant of heretical ideas, compared to the present environment, in order to be more conductive to new discoveries?
That is one solution, and one that would effectively kill off Deliveroo and its breed.
> I've never been certain what this law was for. Most religious food practices stem from food hygiene laws;

This is a made up explanation by people trying to fit religion into their worldview.

But actually the kosher laws have no reason, God simply said to do them, and that's it. We keep them because God asked up to.

There are some laws God gave reasons for, but Kosher is not one of them.
Not her superior. A colleague. An affair with her superior would have been much more problematic for the firm.
I have written my fair share of code in the Android realm and that line gave my an aneurysm as well.
To be fair, I think that Bitmap handling is one of Android's weaknesses and that it is far too easy to fragment or overflow your heap with Bitmaps.
I liked the poster on the left
"The articles that have been published by others criticizing Pono for lauding the virtues of the small differences between file resolution or between a Pono Player and an iPod are ignoring the importance of subtlety in an art form."

TL;DR - Don't you bring your SCIENCE in here, I like being conned with audiophool nonsense!
I flip this on its head. Would you hold some apple stock anonymously? Probably not. You want the dividend. We move value transfer to a 'no cash without capital' so that you really aren't interested in being anonymous anymore...or if you are you are forfeiting a significant future benefit. (I do propose a system of privacy pools for transactions that need to be private, but in general this isn't necessary.)
> something must be done!

There's a mentality that's never backfired.
1 bag is 1 day (2000 kcal).
It's hard and it has rather old interface (not a bad one, just old).

Recently I've switched to patool (http://wummel.github.io/patool/) and quite happy with it.
"Inside the CPU, the results always appear as if the processor executed everything in-order, but outside the CPU, things happen in strange order."

I think the words 'outside' and 'inside' have been swaped
Such as food subsidies that make high calorie/low value foods cheaper than they otherwise would be? Or the over-availability to the most at-risk populations of these high calorie/low value foods? I'm not sure how lowering the caloric density of a food is going to lower the incentive to eating too much food. In fact, I could easily see it doing the opposite.
I'm currently building an app and had the need to backup the database and store it in the cloud. This is the result of that. It's very simple given that I didn't need a lot of features. But it works.

Any feedback is appreciated :)
It's not a trump thing. And its already happening. People are seceding from the media, corporations, monetary system, education system, and government (but not provacatively).
It is really nice when the easy way is also the fast way. I have a pet peeve about this for languages that have “iterators”. they should be fast! like rust and c++ and java streams manage to make then. then you don’t have to worry about this stuff.
"zero-carb" may be true, but that does not mean that you have eaten only proteins. If that would have been true, you would have been dead.

The meat of most domestic animals is fatty, most cheese & other dairy is fatty, eggs have a lot of fat in the yolk.

Even if you did not eat any carbs, your food must have included enough fat to provide more calories than the protein content. Otherwise you would have had quickly severe health problems.
The market does not return 10% of 20 years, you may be referring to some period of U.S. returns, and many experts do not expect it to return so well over the next 20 years.