jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I plan on writing a long blog post once I get it all nailed.

It will probably go something like this: the linux environment is like running an operating system at the same time while you're coding it -- little pieces of code and scripts here and there. That makes linking, compiling, and installing the primary chores. Although there is an awesome package manager, it doesn't have the coverage you'll probably need. So lots of different pieces to plug in, lots of advice on the net, some of it bad or incomplete, and instead of just googling you end up doing quite a bit of thinking as you assemble your development environment and OS. Nothing at all like the VS2010 pnp stuff.

But I'm specifically referring to F#, which is a PITA on mono right now. I understand it's going to become part of the standard distro. Can't wait for that to happen. The default Monodevelop c# environment looks easier, but even then I'm having to do things like figure out where the gac is, find sql drivers and install them, bludgeon my way through mono dll linkage problems (Hey mono -- it's in the gac, it's in the directory, and you can compile it. Why the frack can't you find it when you run the program? I have to statically link my mysql driver, making my 2K executable into 1.5MB. That's hosed.)

Example #2: I have some generic type magic that works fine in Windows. Basically I throw an object at a function and it generates an SQL INSERT for me. Works and tested and being used in Win. Over in mono, however, for the type name all I'm getting is "System.Object" which, of course, is the correct base type, but not the real type name the caller is using. Can Mono handle this type-fu? Or am I stepping into some area the Mono guys just haven't developed yet? Don't know. Could be a while trying to track that down. Just like all these other snags.

It just seems like every little thing is more painful than it should be. Like debugging. Still haven't figured out how to get the interactive debugger to work on F#. I'm sure after an hour or two I'll figure it out -- or not. And there's 20 things like that. Because I'm new to the entire thing, each little step hurts.

I think it's doable, I think it's worthwhile, but if I were taking a team through this I would definitely want somebody onboard who has already been there, done that (and could mentor). Quite frankly doing it on my own gets a bit discouraging at times.
It doesn't work for me. I successfully authorized and accepted, but do not see the new drop-down arrow.

I've uninstalled all Chrome extensions (I had a few that interacted with GMail) and still no way to switch accounts.

Hari Nidumolu, if you're by chance reading this: anything I can look for in Firebug/ChromeInspect to try to debug?
I don't comment much out here but have been an "active" HN user from a long time. By active I mean I religiously check all the links shared on HN everyday, it makes me smarter(I was pretty sure I was dumb until HN happened to me!). I did not write anything offending. I guess being critical is just not me. I liked what I saw and I had some time on my hands so figured could write something good about a script that's been so nicely done.

I guess you guys are allowed to downvote, my karma was 3 and you've now made it -1. That's ok, I only do good things in life, pretty confident good things would happen to me too :)

You can find me on twitter - http://twitter.com/NischalShetty

I have a twitter app http://justunfollow.com which has 150,000 users, I guess fake accounts can't do that :)

P.S. Do you really think a guy who's done such a wonderful javascript plugin would try to leave fake comments? I refuse to believe that!
Right before Christmas, CLASSY.
It's war, I tell ya!

The video should play the first 10 minutes and then display a dialog box prompting for a credit card in order to update to "Premium" (which would just make the dialog box go away).

The hairdresser should color her hair purple, but once she paid the bill, it would magically turn blond at 3 a.m. via Microcolor Automatic Update.

The chef should electronically disable the steak-embedded Exlax dispenser once the bill was paid in full.

oops, just in case... </sarcasm>
yeah, I don't see this in the enumerated powers.

I heard an excellent discussion of the rights of the people and the powers of the government. One was meant to be expanded and the other only further constrained. And of course the government is confused about which is which.
Doesn't matter. 5 seconds or 0.1 seconds per test means that you cannot brute-force. Even for 5-letter English lowercase letters your search space is 11,881,376 combinations. At 0.1 sec/try it will take you 6.8 days on average to find just one password.
I took Danish, and part of our course involved writing essays on things that were in the newspapers, and then discussing it in class.

Can you imagine the sort of words that would be in my vocab list if it had been done in the last few weeks ?
I see where you're coming from, but if you take your emotions out of it you won't feel as bad. Think of it as a game, one where both sides are trying to see just how low (or high) the other party will get. Negotiation is a mental game of chicken. You may have to say things like "Sounds like a good price, but I'll have to check with my partner" even if your partner is your loyal German Shepard. But the bottom line is that the final result is open and agreeable.
This is an amazingly detailed preso with great insights. The only thing is that the conclusions could be more clear cut.
"If you join a project with no version control, don't convince yourself that everything will be ok. Refuse to do any work until you version control it." Embargo on.
For a while I was convinced that a distinct mustache (vs general unshavenness, etc) was a very strong indicator. It's amusing to watch yourself try to develop heuristics.

(Edit: grammar.)
You can now build MSIs for Windows and DMGs for Macs with AIR that will bootstrap the runtime. That said, I haven't used that option.

Up until Craig's lawyers killed my app, I was using the flash installer that was seamless. Same sort of installation process can be seen on TweetDeck which uses AIR.
There are portable cutters available now that can go through all of these in seconds. They are meant for rescue/construction workers to cut the bars in reinforced concrete beams (rebar).

So none of these locks stand a chance if it's a pro-thief, you are only stopping the amateurs.
I love the Winston Churchill quote:

> Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
> Or isn‘t code generation the problem, rather the reading/modifying legacy code?

Its this. If someone is doing greenfield z/OS development, I would assume they are probably using a more modern language (IBM highlights Java and C/C++ support on z/OS), not COBOL. But there is tons of legacy code in COBOL – much of it that was never well-documented. Sure, there’s fewer available COBOL programmers, but in many cases the orgs with these systems have also lost most of the people that were serving as living documentation, which is not great when the system is operating in near-steady-state, but becomes a critical problem when it needs new changes. So, the COBOL programmers they tend to need are for code archeology, temporally-displaced mind-reading to understand the original intent of code and diff it with emergent requirements, and maintenance on legacy systems.
Wouldn't those three mile or less trips usually be for transporting cargo that wouldn't fit on a bike?
Doesn't it worry you to live in a city whose infrastructure is not compatible with global emission goals? Within the next decades either of too scenarios will realize: a) your home will loose most of its market value as nobody will be able to live there, OR b) we are all royally f*ked. Neither sounds too good.
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The snow was one thing that was better about analog TV. A very weak signal would show up as snow with some hints of picture. You could reposition your antenna and see if you were making progress or not.

With digital, at least on my Samsung, you don't get anything unless you have a fairly decent signal. This makes positioning an antenna a lot harder.

In theory, this can be addressed by going to the signal information screen in the diagnostics. But on my Samsung it will only show signal information for channels that it has found via its "scan for channels" function.

If you tell it to tune to a channel by number, it will do so even if that channel has never been found via a scan, but then the signal information option is greyed out on the menu.

You can change channels while on the signal information screen, but only via the channel up/down buttons on the remote, and they only step through the scanned channels.

How did it not occur to Samsung that customers might want to see the signal strength for a channel that was manually tuned to?

Further increasing my annoyance with Samsung, I have a Samsung monitor (SyncMaster T240) as my second monitor on my iMac, in the same room as the TV. If the Samsung monitor is on, I cannot get upper VHF or lower UHF channels on the TV. That's because the Samsung monitor spews a lot of strong radio interference in the low to mid 200 MHz range and in the 400-500 MHz range. On an SDR spectrum analyzer this takes the form of a bunch of narrow tall spikes evenly spread across the band, close enough together than dozens of them stomp on any TV channel in those frequency ranges.
And Amazon has “customer obsession” as a core value. I just don’t see that at Facebook or Google.
> Quarantine violators can be fined up to T$1 million ($32,955).

Today Taiwan fined a guy $33k USD for breaking quarantine by going to a nightclub (not a positive COVID case just a mandatory isolation due to travelling):

https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/heavy-fine-for-taiwan-man-for-...

They aren't joking about the fines.
Oh, thanks for that. Main Street is a US program, not Canadian. Chambers of Commerce may also be a US-centric thing.
I think Iceland pop 300,000 tested everyone. The result is 50% of the cases are asymptomatic. That's terrible in two ways, one is potentially it's spreading undetected. And two natural herd immunity comes at an enormous cost.
because nothing is known to work yet for covid-19, doctors are doing the best they can with limited data. this means using unproven drugs for which, to the best of our knowledge, the risk-beneift is favorable. HCQ for covid-19 is an exampel of this: we dont know if it works, but it might, and it seems safe enough

the goal of studies like this are to strengthen the evidence base and remove those unknowns, so physicians can make evidence-based decisions. if the study is sufficiently poorly designed, it does not accomplish this goal, and can even lead to misinformation
I don’t think this is reliable enough if you like to stay safe while being out, although it seems better than nothing.

Considering that aerosols are a plausible infection vector, it becomes necessary to introduce air flow models that include building ventilations for a reliable outcome of location based monitoring. Honestly, I consider this a major, and quite risky undertaking. Already a retrospective analysis of who-infected-whom based on location will turn out quite incomplete.

As a side note while being quarantined at home: please consider closing building ventilations, talk to your neighbor to coordinate asynchronous window opening procedures, and ensure closed sewage systems.

Why do I come to these conclusions?

1. It is plausible that SARS-CoV-2 behaves like SARS-CoV-1 in aerosol transmission. https://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

2. It took quite an effort to find out how SARS-CoV-1 spreaded from one single flat to other flats and to nearby buildings that were located in the direction of wind. Indeed, it is assumed that sewage ventilation played a role here.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa032867
Leaked with high specs and low price to build hype.

Actual announcement will be a lot lower spec.

Common tactic.
The basic problem comes down to the sample similarity fallacy. Human intuition is that sampling is "fair" and random samples will be similar. If sports-ball-player-A has a 40% lifetime average at shooting shots for goal points then most people expect that out of, say, 10 shots they'll hit 4 and out of 30 shots they'll hit 12, plus or minus some small delta. The fact that statistics doesn't work this way is quite frustrating to the human mind.
They had great military strength, grounded in their technological edge, despite being poorer in natural resources than India and the Congo.

India and the Congo weren't really countries when the Europeans showed up: what we now think of as those countries had vast collections of tribes more than anything else. They hadn't (and to some extent still haven't) undergone the unification that many European countries were undergoing or had undergone when colonization started.

Even England had problems with Scotland and Wales up until relatively recently, and problems with Ireland up until about ten years ago.
It's a legal (or pseudo-legal) tic, based on a formal grammatical rule that "people" refers to a large mass (such as the "people of the United States"), and "persons" refers to a finite body of, er, people.

Technically, the plural of "person" is "persons," not "people," as the two terms share distinct Latin roots: persona vs. populus, the former referring to a physical person, and the latter to a sociocultural grouping (e.g., SPQR -- Senatus Populusque Romanus, "the Senate and People of Rome"). But we are more likely these days to use "people" as the proper plural of "person," and generally only encounter "persons" in more formal contexts.
Thieves, milking the naive for all they're worth as fast as they can, before they're inevitably outlawed.
The differences are that, 1) the music distributors supplying Walmart were already distributing "clean" versions for radio play, so Walmart simply chose those versions over the explicit ones, and 2) you can buy CDs from any other retailer than Walmart and get the explicit versions if you want. You can only get iPhone software from the App Store.
Perhaps HN should block links to articles behind paywalls?
Nat Geo has a series, crowd control:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crowd-control/
Because Google, Apple, and Microsoft decided profit was better than true choice and freedom. Their products are almost malware at this point.
I must say i am really surprised about the presented features of the language. It seems to take a lot of the nice things of more dynamic languages and puts them into a fast, compiled system language. I will have to try Rust, now!
This is exactly what happened to the Phusion Passenger application server (available as an addon for Nginx). Since the release of our (paid) Enterprise version we have a lot more resources at our disposal, and development of the open source version is now faster than ever before. Before releasing Enterprise we would make our living by doing consultancy but that slows down development even further. I'm very glad we decided to release an Enterprise version.
> The author isn't perfect, she and her husband did make some poor choices

Unless I missed something, I don't see where the author and her husband made any poor choices. Keeping the paid-off vehicle is prudent[0]. They were making a combined income of $120k, according to her, when they chose to have a child. Only after the pregnancy was her husband laid off and they couldn't have easily foreseen that the babies would have health problems. They bought a house but the timing wasn't their fault and it's almost impossible for a layperson to predict. In short, they discovered the true meaning of "shit happens."

0 - That's one thing people might want to keep in mind when they see someone talking on an iPhone while paying with food stamps. It's far easier to keep what you have than to sell it--usually at "fire sale" prices for quick cash--and try to replace it with something cheaper. If I ever lost my job, two of the last things to go would be my paid-off vehicle and my dirt-cheap unlimited data mobile plan with smartphone.
For those who value the combined experience and advice of the HN community, here is an earlier discussion from 56 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8979820

Contributions there are closed, of course, so if you have anything extra to add, this is the place.
As someone who somewhat regularly walks two miles, and has personal metrics on such, I know it would still take me most of an hour even at my fastest pace to walk two miles. Cars give a weird sense of geography and people both drastically under- ("It takes only five minutes to drive, it must be 'close'") and over-estimate ("I always drive between these places, they must be too far apart to walk") walking time of even just a couple miles.
It’s not particularly western. East Asian countries have been doing it for decades.
I bounced off the documentation for STUN/TURN servers about a month ago when I was trying to make a chrome addon to stream a tab to a group of people who click a link.

I also got hung up on trying to use WebRTC with Next.js

Might be time to simplify my stack a little and try again.
Logically speaking, it makes sense that any executive shareholders should be excluded from such lawsuit payouts. But I have no idea how it actually works.
> My biggest gripe here is that I find it incredibly distracting when videos of string players do not sync to the video to the sound they produced. You can easily notice it when a single violinist changes bow direction and the sound doesn't change. In a study and art piece about synchronization, syncing video to audio is pretty crucial!

Could this have to do with the structure of the experiment? Since they’re playing “together” (physically) but are hearing each other play on a delay I would imagine only one player in the video could sync with the audio?
I didn't say it outright but I picked this guy as an example as ... hey ABSOLUTELY did not want to lead anyone / should not lead anyone.

Very much the high performer type who SHOULD NOT 'progress' to management or supervisor or ... reviewer of any sort.

He was professional, but "prickly". I found the keys to get along with him but a lot of folks didn't have the patience.
There is an Amazon distribution center a mile from my house. Every morning it's like bees leaving the hive with all the Sprinters leaving the lot.
> I've at least never seen a scaling issue where the root cause is not some form of API latency.

I guess we all come at this with our own assumptions. When I think about testing, I'm also thinking about the base experience, not just adding resources and adding load.
That trivializes a difficult issue.

When a company is recruited into a program like Prism, that doesn't necessarily happen through the CEO. Certainly, the company doesn't announce such a deal at an all-hands meeting, and omits it from their financial and regulatory filings.

The vast majority of a company's employees might be legitimately offended at the suggestion they are collaborating in such a program.

And yet, such a company can lose their customers and reputation, and may deserve that fate. It's a form of corruption. It's a hazard for customers. Those companies listed as participating in Prism have to bear the responsibility, whether or not most of the employees and even most of the company leadership can correctly claim to be victims.
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Well, we know they don't eat like a pig, stocking their mouth with burgers and fries and deep fried mars bars. That's something...
I think this would be more aking to banning drinking and drunkenness altogether. I don't think that went so well the last time we tried it.
This is really interesting, and I appreciate the opposing argument! I wasn't aware that Mozilla checked for stuff like this.
Interestingly Navalny and Bellingcat used the leaky Russian data systems (leaky because corrupt employees/police offer access to data for money) to trace his poisoners and who they communicated with. A fascinating case of exploiting a corrupt system against itself.. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...
Yeah, it's hard to see Stross as libertarian at all.

Pertinently, he just wrote about Neptune's Brood and medium money recently:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/02/central...
> don't think many people would argue that if you hand people a bunch of free money it improves their lives

Anecdotally, I’ve heard lots of people argue that poor people are only poor because they have poor financial skills (and in the case of homeless people, that they spend all their money on drugs) and giving them more money is trying to fill in a bottomless pit.
possibly, yes. after noticing their first bill in 2022 or 2023.

different advertisers would fill in the gap for sure, efficient market
As someone in line for a Ryzen process what issues are you seeing? I haven't heard of many issues.
Cholesterol is is not the problem. HDL and LDL differences not withstanding.

Cholesterol is used by the body to patch damaged arterial walls which can cause clogging if the there is excessive damage to the arteries.

The problem is high sugar levels in the blood by eating high sugar content foods and high glycemic index foods like highly processed carbohydrates which turn to sugar quickly raising blood suggar levels.

High sugar levels cause damage to the arterial walls and bodies response is to patch the damage.

https://www.adwdiabetes.com/articles/repeated-sugar-spikes-d...

Other issues interfere with the ability of lipids entering the wall properly in the repair process and cause the atherosclerosis exaserbated by ldl presence also caused by high sugar levels amongst others

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.f gov/1222702/

Unfortunately all these issues get conflated together to produce misunderstanding and alot of misunderstanding
While I love the ecosystem that Solidity language provides, I'm not that sure about ETH2. I'm still invested only in Bitcoin _because_ it is boring. At the same time watching DeFi mature while people YOLOing millions of dollars is a lot of fun.
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The QT code could encode JSON which describes the parking rules at that location.
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